Carmelite homily for Friday, December 13, 2019 – Lectionary 185
In today’s Gospel Jesus remarks about the gripey people. That he says, “We played you a flute but you would not dance so we sang you a dirge but you would not wail. That John the Baptist came neither eating nor drinking and you said he’s crazy and so Jesus came eating and drinking and you said he’s a glutton. No matter what happens people will complain. Teresa of Avila says, ahh, put that all aside. One of her great lines is, “For a soul surrendered into God’s hands doesn’t care whether they say good or evil about it.” That could sum up today’s message of the Gospel.