Society is simply a word we give to describe this huge network of human relationships complicated with many storms and friction even in a community. But globally, nevertheless, the human family is simply a family with a network of relationships, so what happen in one part of that network, in one part of the body, affects everything else. Just as if you have something wrong. If you have a pain in your big toe that affects the whole of your body. So when we read the Gospel about the power of the Peace of Christ to calm the the waters of our emotions and the hurts of the past and our personal psychological history, and the problems of the present moment, that make us worry and anxious. When we see the power of the love of Christ to calm the air, the wind, our thoughts, and our attempts to control everything. This is why we can see how in meditation, where we open ourselves to this power of the presence of the love and the Peace of Christ, we find that our emotions and our thoughts become karma.
Homily 23 June 2024 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
