Wounds ~ Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye

Reading for today's Homily

While I’ve never had to go to one myself, I know there are places called The Wound Center.  You know folks who have gone.  They have a wound of some sort that just won’t heal, and specialists really help them along to recover.

You can understand the image that Jeremiah has in today’s reading when he says, “Why is my pain continuous, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?”  Jeremiah’s imagery is quite depressed, even alienated from God.  But in the end, the reading says, “If I repent, then I am with you, to deliver and rescue you.  I will free you from the hand of the wicked, and rescue you from the grasp of the violent.”

Maybe if we can take our wounds, not our physical wounds but our spiritual wounds, to the Lord, we will find a wound center behind all understanding.