Wednesday June 14, 2023

Matthew 5:17-19

As a young novice in the passionist order I stood in the kitchen mesmerized by how our cook Mma Maseo was managing all the pots. She was fixing a meal for the reverend brothers and the beautiful, delicious smell was coming from her kitchen. I watched as she cut up tomatoes, onions, throwing a bit of this spice and that spice in the different pots. Eager to learn I asked, “mma Maseo nthuta, Ke kopa recipe” “mother Maseo teach me, I am asking for the recipe.” She stopped and looked me dead in the eye “ga ke apayi sekgoa” “I do not cook like white people.”She was almost offended. You see, the Irish priests were great cooks but their were married to their recipe books. You had to have the book with you as you cooked.

That scene in my life came back as I hear Jesus say “Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete them. The disciples noticed that Jesus was cooking up religion without a book. He took a little bit of this and that but it all came together. He was saying life is not black and white, there is some gray. May you come to a place in your spirituality where you are not tied but freed. Try Rabbouni Catholic Community.