Fr Ed likens his miserable experience at being lost recently – a result of his thinking he didn’t need a GPS or written directions to get around – to Ezra’s lament in today’s first reading. The people of Israel had lost their direction because they, too, thought they could do it alone. Fr Ed found his way home by not losing sight of Sombrero Peak. We, too, can always find our way home – as Ezra’s people finally did – if we never lose sight of God.
“My God, I am too ashamed and confounded to raise my face to you, O my God, for our wicked deeds are heaped up above our heads and our guilt reaches up to heaven.”
EZR 9:5-9
Jesus summoned the Twelve and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
LK 9:1-6