Reflecting on Zechariah 9:9-10 :-
Thus says the LORD: Rejoice heartily, O daughter Zion, shout for joy, O daughter Jerusalem! See, your king shall come to you; a just savior is he, meek, and riding on an ass, on a colt, the foal of an ass. He shall banish the chariot from Ephraim, and the war horse from Jerusalem; the warrior's bow shall be banished, and he shall proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. and others from last Sunday's mass,
Bishop Gumbleton says :-
I have a sense that many of us still somehow cling to the idea that war can bring peace, that we can use violence to end violence. But that is impossible, and that is what Jesus makes so clear as he fulfills this vision of Zechariah. It is not something that strikes us as common sense, I suppose. In fact, Jesus said something like that in the Gospel when he said it would be the little ones who hear his words. "I thank you God," he says, "and I praise you because you've hidden these things from the wise and the learned and revealed them to simple people," that is, people who are ready to set aside what human wisdom tells us and accept divine wisdom.Gumbleton's homilies are always worth reading.
