{"id":24006,"date":"2025-08-15T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=24006"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:37:07","slug":"one-lord-one-way-un-senor-un-camino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2025\/08\/15\/one-lord-one-way-un-senor-un-camino\/","title":{"rendered":"One Lord, One Way\/ Un Se\u00f1or, Un Camino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two weeks ago, the Old Testament reading on Tuesday, 18th Week, Ordinary Time C, Numbers (12:1-13) told how a family spat arose between Moses, his sister Miriam, and brother Aaron. Moses had dared to marry someone not of his tribe or race. God settled the argument in favor of Moses. Now, on his Sunday, the Jewish Prophet Jeremiah was cast into the mud of an almost dry cistern to die and was saved by someone the same race as Moses\u2019 wife, possibly an Ethiopian Cushite. What might this mean for us? At least, shouldn\u2019t a person\u2019s race mean less to us?
Then the Psalm is exceptional this Sunday, suggesting we think of Jeremiah, a symbol of suffering Christ, and take as his prayer, \u201cLord, come to my aid,\u201d with Jeremiah drawn from the cistern, and Christ drawn from the grave, and perhaps we ourselves drawn from our own grave-like trouble. Couldn\u2019t we try not to let pass the cry of faithful Jeremiah, of suffering Christ, or our own painful cross-like troubles as the Father\u2019s will? Or perhaps speak to God as Paul did, \u201c[That I ] may not grow weary and lose heart In [my] struggle against sin, [for I] have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood?\u201c Paul the brave eventually did shed his blood imitating and honoring Jesus.
Also, let us allow St. Luke\u2019s Gospel to help us. Jesus be our guide. After all, don\u2019t we aim to be His disciples, to imitate, to follow Him? In the Gospel, Jesus showed how intense this desire was, \u201cI have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!\u201d Yet, Jesus said softly, \u201cThere is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!\u201d A simple word is \u201cbaptism.\u201d Jesus disguised His meaning, but this was an invitation to His disciples (and us) to be one with Him in suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus went on to use \u2018figures\u2019 to indicate how awful division might arise from opposition to a marriage: \u2019father against son; son against father; mother against daughter, and so on down through both families. Can such anger and hatred stop? Paul says yes, \u201cKeeping the eyes on Jesus, leader and perfecter of faith.\u201d Jesus wove this case into appeals for Trust and Patience in God, a purely spiritual answer. He persists, \u2018Prayer! Patience, Trust in Me.\u2019 Some things go beyond human solutions, says Jesus, not beyond mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight” ( Proverbs 3:5-6 )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Un Se\u00f1or, Un Camino<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Por Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hace dos semanas, la lectura del Antiguo Testamento del martes 18, Tiempo Ordinario C, N\u00fameros (12:1-13) cont\u00f3 c\u00f3mo surgi\u00f3 una disputa familiar entre Mois\u00e9s, su hermana Miriam y su hermano Ara\u00f3n. Mois\u00e9s se hab\u00eda atrevido a casarse con alguien que no era de su tribu o raza. Dios resolvi\u00f3 el argumento a favor de Mois\u00e9s. Ahora, este domingo, el profeta jud\u00edo Jeram\u00edas fue arrojado al barro de una cisterna casi seca para morir y fue salvado por alguien de la misma raza que la esposa de Mois\u00e9s, posiblemente una cusita et\u00edope. \u00bfQu\u00e9 podr\u00eda significar esto para nosotros? Al menos, \u00bfno deber\u00eda la raza de una persona significar menos para nosotros?
Luego, el Salmo es excepcional este domingo, sugiriendo que pensemos en Jerem\u00edas, s\u00edmbolo de Cristo sufriente y tomemos como su oraci\u00f3n: “Se\u00f1or, ven en mi ayuda”, con Jerem\u00edas sacado de la cisterna, y Cristo sacado de la tumba, y tal vez nosotros mismos sacados de nuestro propio problema como una tumba. \u00bfNo podr\u00edamos tratar de no dejar pasar el grito del fiel Jerem\u00edas, de Cristo sufriente, o de nuestros propios problemas dolorosos como cruzes como la voluntad del Padre? \u00bfO tal vez hablar con Dios como lo hizo Pablo, “para que no me canse ni me desanime en [mi] lucha contra el pecado, [porque] a\u00fan no he resistido hasta derramar sangre?”Pablo el valiente finalmente derram\u00f3 su sangre imitando y honrando a Jes\u00fas.
Tambi\u00e9n dejemos que el Evangelio de San Lucas nos ayude. Jes\u00fas sea nuestro gu\u00eda. Despu\u00e9s de todo, \u00bfno aspiramos a ser sus disc\u00edpulos, a imitarlo, a seguirlo? En el Evangelio, Jes\u00fas mostr\u00f3 cu\u00e1n intenso era este deseo: “He venido a incendiar la tierra, \u00a1y c\u00f3mo desear\u00eda que ya estuviera ardiendo!” Sin embargo, Jes\u00fas dijo en voz baja: “Hay un bautismo con el que debo ser bautizado, \u00a1y cu\u00e1n grande es mi angustia hasta que se cumpla!” Una palabra simple es “bautismo”. Jes\u00fas disfraz\u00f3 su significado, pero esta fue una invitaci\u00f3n a sus disc\u00edpulos (y a nosotros) a ser uno con \u00e9l en el sufrimiento.   
 
Jes\u00fas continu\u00f3 usando “cifras” para indicar cu\u00e1n terrible podr\u00eda surgir la divisi\u00f3n de la oposici\u00f3n a un matrimonio: “padre contra hijo; hijo contra padre; madre contra hija, y as\u00ed sucesivamente a trav\u00e9s de ambas familias.\u00bfPueden parar esa ira y ese odio? Pablo dice que s\u00ed: “Poniendo los ojos en Jes\u00fas, l\u00edder y consumador de la fe”. Jes\u00fas teji\u00f3 este caso en apelaciones a la confianza y la paciencia en Dios, una respuesta puramente espiritual. \u00c9l persiste: ‘\u00a1Oraci\u00f3n! Paciencia, conf\u00eda en m\u00ed’. Algunas cosas van m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de las soluciones humanas, dice Jes\u00fas, no m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de las m\u00edas.
 
“Conf\u00eda en el Se\u00f1or con todo tu coraz\u00f3n, y no te apoyes en tu propio entendimiento; som\u00e9tete a \u00e9l en todos tus caminos, y \u00e9l enderezar\u00e1 tus veredas” (Proverbios 3:5-6)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB Two weeks ago, the Old Testament reading on Tuesday, 18th Week, Ordinary Time C, Numbers (12:1-13) told how a family spat arose between Moses, his sister Miriam, and brother Aaron. Moses had dared to marry someone not of his tribe or race. God settled the argument in favor of Moses. Now, on his Sunday, the Jewish Prophet Jeremiah was cast … Continuar leyendo One Lord, One Way\/ Un Se\u00f1or, Un Camino<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":12531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[777629889,2343517,20310044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fr-ed-liptak","category-gospel-reflection","category-province-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/intouch-scripture-graphic-feature.jpg?fit=1600%2C510&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-6fc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10336596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24307,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24006\/revisions\/24307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}