+ The gospel passage today again tells it like it is: how you build your house is quite
literally a matter of life and death, and in the realm that Jesus is inferring
today: how you build your spiritual dwelling is very literally a matter of your
eternal life and your eternal death.
In a good sense, we can look
around at the insidious dissolution of the government of the United States of
America, just shy of its 243rd birthday, and the global
ramifications of our sinking into a democracy free, authoritarian populist form
of self-imposed dictatorship – as a blessing: for it begs God the Father to
intervene, as he said he would, at just the right time, and he will install the
true regent, true king, true lord of the universe into a reign that will be so
simple, so loving, so powerful, that it will include everyone who ever lived.
This coming kingdom is indeed
a fact, but the timing, we have a lot to do with – if we don’t stand up as also
citizens of this earth, and demand the removal of such an autocracy
immediately, then we will be forcing God’s hand in establishing the new heavens
and the new earth, sooner rather than later.
So long as our own spiritual
houses are not only in order – with good works galore as our entrance fee to
the new kingdom – but solidly built on rock: the rock being the tenets of the
Catholic Church – which is the living resurrected person of Jesus Christ, then we
can be assured that reckoning day will go easy for us. And for the rest – so long
as one is “on the way to the sky” following objectively and rightly formed
conscience – he has nothing to fear – but those who just insist on living in a spiritual
house of their own design and construction, and on sand, will not fare well at
all. And that will be that!
Let our day today be filled
with joy because we have chosen Christ, chosen life, chosen, chosen one
another! Amen.
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