+ Again today, we have timely readings for this mass. It
would be very easy to get caught up in the notion that we are living in
“impossible times.” On this President’s Day, of all days, the presidency and
entire White House presence both in Washington, DC, the country and the world
seems to be in great disarray and the legendary ideals and principle to honesty
and fair play as put forth by our first President, George Washington, seems to
be far from the minds and hearts of the current administration.
These are very disturbing
times, yes, but impossible, no!
And the reason is that, as
Jesus tells us in the gospel passage: “Everything is possible to one who has
faith!” And this is not just some pious platitude from a motivational speaker:
it is TRUTH as espoused by very TRUTH MADE FLESH – Jesus the Christ, the
Redeemer, the Friend of Mankind.
Another way of saying this: is
that wisdom, the gift that needs to be energized and promulgated at this time
to all who live in this country, is greater than all of the world’s agonies.
When “wisdom builds herself a house” in the minds and hearts of God-fearing men
and women, then real truthful, good, honest, just and compassionate results can
abound – and the country and the world can be transformed.
In the gospel passage, Jesus
tells us that certain kinds of ills can only be rooted out by prayer: prayer is
what we do as Christians, as Catholics, as disciples of Christ. Jesus already
knows that he wants to grant our requests but he wants us, nevertheless to
pray, that it happens.
Let us do as he says, and
effect a true change in the mind and heart of many of our congressional
representatives as well as the president and his cabinet – for the good of the
states, for the good of the country, for the good of the world.
We must never forget that God
is in control, everything is in his hands, and that the true ruler of rulers
and king of kings and presidents is Jesus the Christ who won that right by
vicious, barbarous, murderous death on a tree!: this is how we treated the
Greatest Immigrant of them all who emigrated from Heaven to save our sorry
souls!
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