Fr. Tony’s Mid-week Message
April 22, 2015
Things get Broken
I have a lot of small tasks mounting up
on my to-do list at home: in addition to the garden, most are repair of small
things that have gotten broken or are showing signs of wear. This cabinet door hinge needs to be
rehung; that clothes hanging rack needs to be reattached to the wall. Things were all great, but now they seem
with increased rapidity to get broken and need fixing. And they must be fixed properly, just
making it look fixed while not addressing the broken part (stripped screws,
broken wood base) will only make the matter worse in a few days. I guess it is a day-to-day example of the
scientific principle of entropy: things tend toward disorder and
dispersion of energy.
In our relationships, and in our
spiritual life, we also need to fight entropy. Things get broken, and they need to be
fixed. This might be a bit more time
just listening to each other, or maybe letting someone else have her way, or
perhaps more meditation and prayer. Since today is Earth Day, I might note that repairing
the atmosphere or the biosphere is one of the great challenges and callings of
our day.
Leonard Bernstein’s Mass
has as its fraction anthem (the hymn sung when the Eucharist Host is broken) a
song “How Easily Things get Broken.”
Healing and reconciliation is the
message of Easter and of the Holy Eucharist. It starts with small repair jobs, done
properly.
Grace and peace, Fr. Tony+
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