1 Cor 11:17-26, 33 / Luke 7:1-10
As much as we strive for perfection, we also have to admit that nothing can be perfect.
No matter how the word is used, such as "the perfect car", or "the perfect program", or "the perfect fit", in time to come, something will give way, and what can go wrong will go wrong.
As much as the Church is divine and human, many a times the human aspect of the Church seems to come across more prominently with its failures and shortcomings.
But this is actually nothing new. It has happened before, such that even at the essentials and fundamentals, the weakness of the human aspect of the Church had manifested.
In the early Church, St. Paul highlighted one area that had degenerated into profanity, and of all things it is the Eucharist.
Something had gone really wrong that even when the community came for the Eucharist, there were separate factions and discrimination and some were even getting drunk.
Obviously, the sense of the sacred and reverence for the divine had diminished to an almost sacrilegious level.
It cannot be denied that in this present day and age of the Church, there were occasions when the divine liturgy is subjected to human sacrilege.
We the Church are called to manifest the divine presence of God especially in our liturgy, but there are times when the devotees of other religions show us that they have a deeper reverence for the divine.
Like Jesus said of the centurion in the gospel: Not even in Israel have i found faith like this.
Let us strive to be a people of faith, to be a people that shows others how to revere God and how to offer Him a worthy worship.
We do not need to have a perfect worship; we only need faith to offer God a worthy worship.