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[Emoke Greschik]

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Your daily Gospel reflection...
*Wednesday, August 8, 2018*
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Memorial of Saint Dominic

Matthew 15:21-28






*Friends, a long tradition stresses the perseverance of the Canaanite woman
we meet in today’s Gospel. Augustine says that we pray in order to expand
our will to accept what God is going to give us. Another reading shows how
the woman exemplifies the proper attitude toward God, a combination of
humility and boldness, of deference and defiance. We are creatures and God
is God; nevertheless, God invites us into intimacy with him. But I want to
emphasize the reading conditioned by the "other." The Old Testament speaks
insistently of the "stranger, the widow, and the orphan." The ethical life,
in a biblical framework, is about the press of these people upon us. They
press upon us even when we would greatly prefer them just to go away. We
the Church are the Body of Christ. And so people come to us demanding food,
sustenance, friendship, love, shelter, or liberation. Often we are tempted
to do what Jesus does initially and what the disciples do: tell them to
back off. We are overloaded, busy, and preoccupied. We can’t be bothered.
But the whole of the Christian life consists in remembering the suffering
and need of the annoying other.*
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