Right In Front

Carmelite homily for Monday, March 2, 2020 – Lectionary 224 (Matthew 25:31-46)

Saint Therese reports in her autobiography, Story of a Soul, that there was a nun in the convent that no one got along with, including Therese.  But Therese said, ‘she is a beloved child of God.’  So she said to herself, “I am resolved to do for this sister what I would do for the person I love the most.”  I think that’s the call of today’s Gospel.  We have the separation of the sheep and the goats where if someone is hungry or thirsty or naked or sick or in prison, we do something.  But what about other things?   Like lonely or ostracized or hurting or bullied?  I think this is the call, that whatever we see right in front of us, do that.  And that’s the action of a beloved sheep.