Today’s Reading from Exodus 32:15-24, 30-34 tells us that Moses spent 80 days atop Mt. Sinai learning from God.
God condensed His Teachings into the Ten Commandments, carved into both sides of two stone tablets. When Moses came down the mountain, he found that his people had made, and were worshiping a golden calf that they had forced his brother, Aaron, to make from some of the “gold jewelry” given to them (Ex 12:35-36) as they were leaving Egypt. “They gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.”
“On the next day, Moses said to the people, ‘You have committed a grave sin. I will go up to The LORD. Perhaps I may be able to make atonement for your sin.” He went back up Mt. Sinai and spent another 40 days with God, Who promised: “Only those who have sinned against Me I will strike out of My Book.” (Only Catholics see The Hidden Mystery: “What was Moses eating for 80 days on a barren mountaintop, alone with The Three Persons of The Holy Trinity? Was it the first Catholic Communion?”)
Catholics are blessed! We connect That Blessing from He Who began to download His Creation Program 13 trillion light-years ago with He Who fulfilled over 300 Prophecies by appearing in Human Form from The Holiest of Virgins of The House of David, in the tiny village of Bethlehem to give His life to “atone for our sins”.
1,200 years after Moses, The Prophesied Messiah gave these “keys to The Kingdom of Heaven” (which include the Seven Catholic Sacraments) to His First Catholic Pope 1,200 years after Moses came down the second time from the mountain: “And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”
Psalm 78:2 predicted Jesus would teach with parables, as He did in Mt. 13:31-35: “Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds. ‘The Kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.’ (Ezekiel 17:22-24).”
Another “parable from Jesus” relates to the percentage of yeast (as little as .05%) needed to make bread: “He spoke to them another parable. ‘The Kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened.’”
Catholics differ from other believers. We obey The Command from Jesus that is more than a “parable”. He repeated 12 times in the last half of John 6 and twice more at His Last Supper on earth His Direct Order: “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.” We receive “God’s Holy Yeast” that gives “God’s life” to Communion-receiving Catholics through The Miracle of Transubstantiation which Ordination as Catholic priests, each a living link to Jesus, empowers them to provide.
May every Catholic be blessed to see that our duty is to “leaven” ourselves and the world by loving and obeying Every Word of God.
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Some choose God. Some choose sin. / Catholics choose to have God within. / Us.”
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