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Friends,
Père LaGrange, the great Scripture scholar, referred to our Gospel
passage today as “Matthew’s most precious pearl.” Jesus is not offering
us one more philosophy of God. He is offering us the view from inside
the Trinity, for no one really and fully knows the Father except the
Son. And that is why we should respond to this compelling invitation:
“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you
rest.” What everyone wants is rest, but not in the sense of relaxation
or unwinding. Rest here means fulfillment, achievement of joy.
The
great illusion is that joy will come from filling up the ego with
goods. In fact, it will come from emptying out, from turning one’s life
over to the direction of God. Jesus is actually bearing the yoke
himself, since he is yoked to the Father, doing only what he sees the
Father doing.
What
he is saying in the Gospel, therefore, is to stand next to him, just as
one ox stands next to the other as they pull together. Just as Jesus is
yoked to the Father, so we should be yoked to him, obeying him as he
obeys the Father. In doing this, Jesus says, we will find “rest.”
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