come out!

Isaiah 49:8-15; Ps 145 The Lord is gracious and merciful; John 5:17-30

Thus says the Lord, "In a time of favor answer you, on the day of salvation I help you; I have kept you and given you asa covenant to the people, to restore the land and allot desolate heritages, saying to the prisoner: Come Out!...For he who pities them leads them and guides them beside springs of water...Sing out O heavens, and rejoice, O earth break forth into song...For the Lord comforts his people and shows mercy to his afflicted."


JEsus answered, "My Father is at work until now, so I am at work."

IT is important to stop every now and then, remove ourselves from the business of life and the many task that are pressing for our attention and simple remind ourselves that The Father is at Work and the SOn is also at Work, the Spirit is at work,

We do not work alone in life. The Blessed Trinity is working beside us each and every day, every moment. Sometimes life makes no sense, things happen we were not ready for, the mystery of tomorrow unfolds quickly and often catches unaware.

YEt God is always aware, attentive and at work. God's providential care not only creates but sustains.

The one who pities us leads us...

Here is what the Catechism of the Catholic Church states about Divine Providence
in Paragraph 302 "creation has its own goodness and proper perfection, but it did not spring forth complete from the hands of the Creator. The universe was created "in a stage of journeying" toward an ultimate perfection yet to be attained, to which God has destined it. We call 'divine providence' the dispositions by whch God guides his creation toward this perfection."

In 306 we encounter the following, "God is the sovereign of his plan. But to carry it out he also makes use of his creatures' cooperation. The use is not a sign of weakness, but rather a token of almighty God's greatness and goodness. God grants his creatures not only their existence but the dignity of acting on their own, of being causes and principles for each other, and thus of cooperating in the accompllishment of his plan."

In 314, "The ways of his providence are often unknown to us. Only at the end, when our partial knowledge ceases, when we see God "face to face" will we fully know the ways by which-even through the dramas of evil and sin-God has guided his creation to that definitive sabbath rest for which he created heaven and earth."