Moses in the basket — Homilia II CLOSEOUT

Seeing the child was beautiful, they hid him three months, then set him in a bitumen-sealed basket by the river. Pharaoh’s daughter — the church gathered from the nations — comes to the waters to wash from her father’s house, hears “Daughter, forget your father’s house”, and receives the infant with mercy. Moses names the Law: shut in cheap coverings of literal Jewish reading until the church takes him from the marsh into royal rooms. Grown strong, the veil of the letter lifts and solid food appears Hebrews 5:12-14. The synagogue’s “wage” is that, seeing Gentiles worship one God, she blushes to serve idols still Deuteronomy 32:21. Though Pharaoh once fathered us in evil works, when we come to the waters let us take up a great Moses — nothing small, everything spiritual — and ask Christ to reveal how great he is. To him be glory forever. Amen.