Daily Reading, Daily Thinking: June 14th, 2019
What do these readings have in common? On the surface level, it seems as only the Epistle and Gospel have anything in common: The disappointment in the Followers of God to live out their life with peace, love, and holiness. The third reading is about the inauguration of the Levitical Priesthood. And all these readings seem to be misplaced in connection to the Feast celebrated this Sunday, Pentecost. Pentecost, a time were God made holy the diversity of Babel and, in a sense, inaugurated the church. Where's the connection? There's a possible connection between the three readings and the Feast: Sound. Pentecost and the "tongues of fire", Aaron with the golden bells as a reminder to the people, the words spoken by Jesus and the gossip about Paul by the Corinthians (and his response as "speaking in Christ before God"). These are the reminder to the Church of God's absolute calling to us: to be a holy House of Prayer in the mist of our many-tongued life