Next Sunday's Gospel from Matthew speaks about 'your virtue' going 'deeper than that of the Scribes and Pharisees.' This is prompted a very interesting reflection just a while ago, as Sisters in our Community shared a little, the words of this Gospel with which they have been praying during this week.
You will remember that in Luke's Gospel, when the sisters Martha and Mary welcomed the Lord to their home, Mary sat at his feet and listened to Him (cf Lk 10:38-42).
Well, the connection in my head and in my reflection was that Jesus is our virtue - God is our virtue. We believe and we know that the source of all goodness is in God ... in fact is God working in us, with our free desire to be and to do good. We are not by any means puppets or marionettes! But the thought that came to me was simply that Goodness, and consequently virtue and wisdom, along with all that we associate with God ... is a Person: is personified in God Himself.
How amazing! Jesus, then, is telling us that He is our virtue and more .. He who is God wants us to possess this virtue - to possess Him. Almost as though He would like to be a marionette for us, 'our puppet.' He wants to dwell very deeply within us, within YOU ... you are as essential as that to Him.
Why?
LOVE. The love of the Lord is utterly mind-boggling, that He would make Himself small enough to fit inside us.
It is a very amazing gift to have been called like Mary, to sit at His feet and listen to Him. And when we listen, sometimes what we hear is overwhelming.
Maybe it would be worth giving Him a little extra thought ... who knows? He might whisper that He loves you; and from where we are here, in the monastery, it seems as though there are not enough of us giving Him the chance to do just that: and very very very many of us need to hear it.
Who doesn't like hearing how precious they are?
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