June 2 - Friday of the 8th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Sir.44:1,9-13; Ps.149:1-6,9; Mk.11:11-26) “They are as though they had not lived, they and their children after them.” This line from Sirach could refer well to the Jewish nation symbolized by the fig tree “withered to its roots.” For “never again shall anyone eat of [its] fruits”; its temple now destroyed shall never be rebuilt. And yet Sirach speaks not of those who have perished in sin, and so are never to be known again in the sight of God, but of “godly men” of Jewish ancestry who, though “there is no memory” of the particulars of their actions in time – as there is with the great…
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