VincentWiki:Reflections/3 2007
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
- He has sent me to preach the gospel to the poor (Lk. 4:18)
To walk in God’s ways, says Rabbi Joseph Telushkin in article 208 of his Bibilical Literacy, means to ask oneself before performing a deed: “Is this what God would want me to do? Is this the Godly way to act?”
The questions that a true Christian asks or must ask are not much different. The true Christian believes, of course, that Jesus is the way to finding God and God’s will. For he sees the Father, the one who sees Jesus, the image of the invisible God, the Son who is both the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being (Jn. 14:9; Col. 1:15; Heb. 1:3). So the question, then, for the true Christian becomes, “What would Christ do if he were in my place?” Thus did St. Vincent de Paul ask himself and recommend too that others likewise ask themselves, holding up Jesus Christ as “the true model and the great invisible picture on whom we should model all our actions” (cf. Sister Juana Elizondo, “Vincentian Charism and Spirit”
