Everyday is #HDAwareness day

In today's gospel Jesus quotes from Psalm 118:22, ‘the stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone’ (Mt. 21:42). Jesus is speaking about himself. He was rejected by the religious and political leaders of his day but he went on to become the cornerstone, the foundation of the church. Jesus didn't look for rejection or ridicule, but he didn't run away from it either. Neither can we if we are going to be faithful to Christ and his gospel. Let us remember that Jesus’ experience of rejection did not have the last word. God worked powerfully in and through that experience of rejection and brought great good of it, not only for Jesus himself but for all who believe in him. There are times in our lives when we feel rejected. We reach out to someone and they spurn us or do not respond at all. We feel hurt and upset, annoyed with ourselves for being so vulnerable. However, those painful experiences in life contain the seeds of new life. The Lord works powerfully through them for the ultimate victory of good over evil. The experiences that we might have considered at one time as totally negative turn out to bear abundant fruit in our lives. We learn something from them and we grow through them. What seemed like an experience of death becomes the dawning of new life. The Lord can always transform the rejected stone into the cornerstone. What God has done for his only beloved Son he can also do for each one of us.