+ Our readings today are again timely, and thought-provoking. In the first reading, we have
a recap of the activity of God on behalf of the people, the family, the nation
He is trying to form. And like unruly children, the people just don’t seem to
“get it” – to get what is actually happening here.
Everything that they received,
is a gift from God. All of the “work of their evolution as a people, was not
their doing: but it was a response to God’s invitation. Nothing that they
built, planted or created was their own – their hands worked on behalf of the
God who dwelt within them. Having nothing, then to call “their own” – the
proper posture would be to kneel before God, bow the head, and open the hands
and pray: “Abba, Father, you will take care of us, not just the way you have,
but in newer more magnificent ways” – but we must “let go of the steering wheel
of our lives” – we must humbly and with a listening
heart move forward at God’s will and pace and not our own.
Of course, the people of
Israel, just never seem to get it entirely, and to this day, they do not grasp
the entire reality!
The gospel passage has to do
with commitment and covenant! Marriage is meant to be an unbreakable bond
between two mature and responsible people: able to put the other first in all
circumstances: to be willing to lay down
your life for the other – in many ways great and small. Such a dynamic is
an ever flowing energy that is out-reaching and out-giving and generous. Warm,
fuzzy feelings are only meant to be a by-product of such a bond, and not the
main attraction.
When a President of the United
States is sworn in, he, in a sense, enters into a God-given covenant relationship
with all of the people of the country! He marries them! He begins then to think
entirely of them, and not at all of himself; he is to selflessly “lay down his
life, his will and his interests,” for the good of the whole; he is to defend
and uphold the covenant documents and laws that hold the republic together; he
is to represent the country and be a champion in striving for world peace and
harmony among nations.
He is to be everything that
our current president Donald Trump is not.
Donald is immature to the
extreme, mentally deficient and handicapped, and completely unfit for office.
He fails miserably the test of moral rectitude and ability to be compassionate,
to lead and to heal.
A “divorce,” a calling for
removal of office, and recommendation for him to be placed in an institution
that could help him, in time, is certainly in order. Only mature,
self-sacrificial, self-forgetting individuals ought to marry, or be president
of our republic. It is time to annul this travesty!
And most emphatically of all,
let the cowardly silence of American bishops and Religious Superiors end, let
them stand up for what is right – for who they have vowed to protect and defend
on their ordination days. THE SHEEP! The
sheep are being bludgeoned by this president – STAND UP, DEAR BISHOPS, DEAR
ABBOTS, DEAR SUPERIORS – and SHOUT OUT YOUR ALARM, YOUR CONCERN, AND YOUR
TRUTH. For this you have been commissioned by Jesus Christ: HIGH PRIEST who
will hold you accountable for not doing so on the Final Day!
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