WEEKLY REFLECTION 
Today, though, the First Reading is very interesting for us, because we tend to forget about Elijah the prophet. Now, Elijah the prophet was the greatest of all prophets. There was no prophet greater than Elijah the prophet. And how come we don’t know so much about him? Because he never wrote a word. 

And you say, “Well, how could he be a great prophet like Isaiah and Jeremiah who wrote these wonderful books and they’re quoted all over the place,” until we remember that Jesus was also a prophet who never wrote a word. 

Everything that he gave was face-to-face, eye-to-eye, and heart-to-heart. 

He was a man of great vigor, a man of great talent. He was a man we know very little about his early life because he appears suddenly on the scene when the Israelites are in danger of betraying the Covenant and turning away from Yahweh and following the gods of the Baal, the gods of that time, further and further away. 

The prophet, and his job is to bring the people back. Back to what? 

Back to the only God, the God who is kind and merciful, given to forgiveness. This is the God that the prophet was to preach. 

Because God works through people, and when people do good things, and they come in, like to save you from some embarrassment or unhappiness or that, if you are a believer, you always say what? You say, “An angel sent you.” 

This is a very important part of the story of Elijah, who preaches through his stories, and not just what he says but what he does, because this is the way God works among us. He sends us angels. 

Angels, they might be close friends, they might be someone you just ran into. But when you reach those desolate times of your life, you will always remember that, when you awake from your sleep, you will find someone to help you. 

And all through the traditions of Christians, it is we are surrounded by angels, and they use the human beings that surround us and we take for granted every day. 

This is the way God works. He doesn’t work directly, like bolts from the blue. He works through those he chooses to work. He works through our friends and neighbors, and people who might not be friends and neighbors but suddenly get an inspiration to find us out in tribulation and time and trouble and pain. And when we think nobody cares, suddenly an angel appears. The Church teaches us that we have our angels to help us, this is our Guardian Angel.

Reflections courtesy of Evengeli.net.