Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Jan 10 - Weekday in Ordinary Time

+ The gospel passage today is about authority. When we meet someone with authority – real, genuine, unassuming authority – we are astonished because somehow that person unseats our deepest fears, fills us with certainty, and realizes the desires crucial to our happiness.

The contrary is also true: when we observe someone with questionable authority – surreal, counterfeit, assumed authority – we are alarmed because somehow that person affirms our deepest fears, fills us with uncertainty, and threatens the desires crucial to our happiness.

For example: we see Jesus today as God Himself coming in our midst to exercise that primal and incontestable authority that is so powerful that it can even expel our unclean spirits. The “new teaching” of Jesus is our salvation.

Likewise, the contestable, unstable, erratic sense of power looming in the gathering administrative structuring of the “new government” in Washington, D.C., ought to alarm the psyche of this great nation, and its sleeping, numb or simply dazed citizens to defend the escalation of their deepest fears of disunity, chaos, uncertainty and destruction of their pursuit of happiness at the core.

Unless those who are imbued with the good sense, and truth, of the rightful authority of Jesus, and the right use of it, stand up and say NO! to what is on the verge of destroying not only our country, but also the unraveling of the very fabric of world civilization – it will be soon too late – and those who were silent and did nothing will be held most accountable on Judgment Day!


Jesus, we collectively say and mean: we trust in You, we trust in your Light, we trust in your Love, we trust in your Joy – HELP US TO STAND UP and cooperate in saving ourselves from DECEIT, LIES and THE EVIL ONE!

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