How much time for this virus vs. eternity with God?: 5th Sunday in Easter Season

5th Sunday in Easter

Happy Mothers’ Day

Fascinating story of time

• There was a bird that lived in a nest on the bottom of the Mount Everest
• He flew up to the top of Mount Everest and chiseled a rock on the summit for 30 seconds
• The bird flew back to the nest and stayed there for 10,000 years
• It then went back up to that rock again, thirty seconds to chisel it again, for another 10,000 years again
• If this bird had enough time, Mount Everest would be flattened
• Think about that one, which, at least, fascinates my brain
• Now, let’s bring this story back into the Scriptures
• Remember where St. Peter was called “the Rock”?  (No, not the nickname “the Rock” by Dwayne Johnson!)
• Matthew 16:18

  -   “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church…”

• And then St. Peter, who was called the Rock, that Jesus built his Church wrote in our 2nd reading:

  -   “Come to him, a living stone, rejected by human beings
but chosen and precious in the sight of God,
and, like living stones,
let yourselves be built into a spiritual house
to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”

§  “Therefore, its value is for you who have faith…”
  -   “…but for those without faith
  -   “The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,
and

A stone that will make people stumble,
and a rock that will make them fall.

They stumble by disobeying the word, as is their destiny.”
Finally, that analogy with that bird…

• ·      That story was certainly not perfect, especially that one bird simply could not be alive for billions of years and decimate Mount Everest
• ·      But let’s move that, not from that story, but the reality, of the Rock that Jesus Christ built his Church…and not just in our time and space, but for eternity