The call the disciples received in our Gospel
today to leave the boat and the fishing is remarkable. Can you imagine what
Zebedee said on the day when his two sons went home and said they were packing
it all up to join Jesus of Nazareth? We are not all called in a similar fashion
but I would like to see our Gospel today as a reminder to us to make room for
God in our lives, to work for his kingdom. Even though you don’t give up your
livelihoods, you are called to be disciples. I have heard some people say that
they spent the first half of their lives building up their careers and it was
only during the second half of their lives that they made room for God. Some
people receive the grace to realize that there is more to life than career,
that God also needs time in our lives. It could even happen in the life of a
priest. The call in today’s Gospel to leave the boat and the fishing is a
reminder to make room for God every day, to build up God’s kingdom instead of
building up our own kingdom. When we do then we are the better for it. Then the
prophecy in our first reading and Gospel is fulfilled in our lives also:
The people that lived in darkness
Has seen a great light;
On those who dwell in the land and shadow of
death
A light has dawned[1].
When we leave the boat and the fishing every
day to make room for God, to build up his kingdom in whatever way we do it,
then those who live in darkness see a great light, and light dawns on us. Our
Gospel reminds us that every day we are called to build up God’s kingdom, not
just our own. When we do, to use the words of our first reading, then those who
live in darkness will see a great light, the yoke weighing on them, the bar
across their shoulders and the rod of their oppressors will be broken. A light
will dawn on us also • AE
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