Decide Today Whom You Will Serve

Many murmur, "This saying is hard; who can accept it it?" If we approach Christianity from our own presuppositions we completely miss the fact, as Pope Benedict XVI writes, that, "being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which give life a new horizon and a decisive direction." We are to look beyond the "saying" to the Say-er. This is what it means to "be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ." "Decide today whom you will serve" - your own ideas and preconceptions, or "the Lord." - Magnificat Introduction 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time