Jun 20 - Wednesday 11th Week in OT

+ Today’s reading is a call to conscience and a call to action: the time has arrived for Catholic in particular, to be as fully as we can be, who we say we are: followers of Christ, and not only that, not following like he’s 10 paces ahead of us, it means following him in Spirit and in Truth, in Justice, Charity, Compassion, Kindness and Tenderness – but again, not separate from him, but as his is identical with our very beings: which is what happened when the waters of baptism were poured over us, and the spirit came to us at Confirmation, and Ordination. We now possess the spiritual but very real DNA of Jesus Christ, Creator and King of the Universe. And this fact should make an enormous difference in the way we navigate our way through today!

The political situation in this country today has finally spun off the charts: when babies, and toddlers and young children who are ripped apart and separated from their mothers who are fleeing already excruciatingly painful situations in their own countries, and are coming to our country for asylum – and in the name of the United States supported fully by our so-called President and backed by spineless, cowardly congressional members – are kept from entering with a zero tolerance policy that can be reversed with a simple phone call from the President – then we have reached the bottom of the barrel – this evil is one half step from abortion.

The cowards are now the Catholic Christians who sit by and do nothing, and worst of all – who support such policies. The torch on the Statue of Liberty is now shamefully dark – and as a country we need to hang our heads in shame if we sit by today and do not flood our congressmen and women with outrage, outcry and demand to right the ship of this government before it is too late.

This is not rocket science – look at the faces and cries from the soul “Papa, Papa” – the children and speaking as loudly as they can – trust me – Jesus is getting angrier and angrier by the moment – and the consequences of that could be very frightening indeed….

Just as Elisha the Prophet received a double portion of Elijah’s spirit – Elijah, who was used very powerfully by God to defeat evil – so let us beg the Holy Spirit to rush on not only us, but our pastors and bishops so that the face of the earth will finally be renewed and the children – all children – including us, who are adopted children of God will be safe.