Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A

Meditation – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr A
Exodus 32: 1-14
Psalm 106: 1-6, 19-23
Matthew 22: 1-14

I was seven years old when I first heard the story of the golden calf (Exodus 32 v 1-14). It was not until I was grown up, however, and read the account for myself in the Bible, that I came across the shocking words, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.” (v 3, 8). The Israelites imputed to this powerless lump of metal the powerful acts of the Lord on their behalf. The writer of Psalm 106 v 20-21, in writing of this event, expresses his dismay in the strongest possible terms - “They exchanged their Glory for an image of a bull, which eats grass. They forgot the God who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt.”...

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