Welcome to the Pauline Family's "Year of the Bible"! I'm reading the Bible clear through this year, and I invite you to read along with me. But first, let us pray:
Everlasting Father,
All time belongs to you, and all the ages. In signs, in songs, in words of promise, you reassured your chosen ones, “I am with you; fear not.” You taught them through the prophets to trust that your saving deeds were not limited to the past.
When Jesus came, he fulfilled “all that was written in the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
The Church has found him everywhere in these same holy books.
Help me to find Jesus in my reading today, to listen to him, and to follow him with all my heart.
Amen.
Today's chapters are Isaiah 23-25.
The oracles of judgment end in a song of praise to God, who is the defender of the poor. And then comes the great prophecy of the Banquet in the Kingdom of God, a prophecy that has already been fulfilled in multiple ways: in the miracles of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes first, as a sign of what was to come, and above all in the Eucharist where the Heavenly Banquet is renewed for us every single day on earth even as it is fully enjoyed in Heaven.
And only when the Kingdom will have fully come at the end of time can we say that this beautiful prophecy will be totally fulfilled:
On this mountain the LORD of hosts will provide for all peoples
a feast of rich food and choice wines,
juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines.
On this mountain he will destroy
the veil that veils all peoples,
the web that is woven over all nations.
He will destroy death forever.
The Lord GOD will wipe away
the tears from all faces;
The reproach of his people he will remove
from the whole earth; for the LORD has spoken.
On that day it will be said:
“Indeed, this is our God; we looked to him, and he saved us!
This is the LORD to whom we looked
let us rejoice and be glad that he has saved us!"
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