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Daily Mass - 01/12/2022 - Searching for Jesus - Fr. Mitch
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Homily for the Wednesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
What happens when we awaken to find ourselves in the nighttime of life? When life seems to get hard, or things happen that we never wanted to happen, it's difficult to keep the faith sometimes. In those times it seems as if there is only darkness and Jesus is nowhere to be seen. Some will assume he has forsaken them, so they will abandon their faith. They will give up on the Church and Jesus himself. So what do we do when Jesus sneaks off and we feel all alone just like Peter did?
We learn that this is not about Jesus escaping or getting away, but it’s about prayer; his and ours. It’s no longer about what is happening around us or to us but what is happening within us. Regardless of how dark it may seem, Jesus never leaves us. He may withdraw but that does not mean he is absent. His withdrawing is in reality an invitation for us to move to a new place, to the deserted place. He calls us out of the comfort of the house into the vulnerability of the wilderness. It is a deserted and desolate place; a place where there is only prayer. There, we are alone with the Alone.
Jesus doesn't let us sit in comfortability; oftentimes, He moves us to the uncomfortable. Our hearts either searches for the Lord diligently, or we go back to what we're used to doing. Today, let your hearts be as stretched as Peter's heart was in wanting to be with Jesus so you can encounter and receive Him.
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