Thursday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
1 Peter 2:2–5, 9–12
Some truths cannot be understood from far away.
You cannot understand bread by looking at a photo.
You cannot understand music by reading its title.
You cannot understand love by studying a definition.
Some things must be tasted.
Some things must be received.
Some things must enter us before we know what they are.
Peter says:
“Taste and see that the Lord is good.”
Not only think.
Not only discuss.
Not only watch from the outside.
Taste.
This is strange language for people who think religion is only an idea.
But Christianity is not only an idea.
God became flesh.
The Word became body.
The invisible God came close enough to be touched, heard, seen, and received.
So when Peter says, “Taste,” the Church hears something deep.
The Eucharist.
The table of the Lord.
The bread that is more than bread.
The cup that is more than a sign.
Christ gives himself not only to our thoughts, but to our hunger.
He knows we are hungry.
Hungry for love. Hungry for meaning. Hungry for peace. Hungry for someone who will not disappear.
And he does not answer hunger with explanation alone.
He gives himself.
Taste and see.
The Lord is good.
But Peter does not stop there.
After we taste, we are changed.
We come to Christ, the living stone.
Rejected by human beings, but chosen and precious to God.
And then Peter says something astonishing:
you also are living stones.
Built together into a spiritual house.
That means faith is not only a private feeling.
It becomes a people.
A home.
A temple made of lives.
Christ is the living stone.
We are living stones in him.
He gives us his life, and we become part of his house.
Peter even says:
“You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation.”
These are not words for pride.
They are words for mission.
If we have tasted goodness, we must become a sign of goodness.
If we have received mercy, we must become merciful.
If Christ has fed us, our lives must feed hope in others.
That is why Peter says our way of life matters.
People may not first read the Gospel.
They may read us.
They may not enter a church.
But they may meet a Christian.
And through one patient word, one honest choice, one act of kindness, one quiet refusal to hate,
they may taste something.
And be led to Christ.
Taste his goodness.
And see
that the Lord is good.
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