Jun 26 - Tuesday 12th Week in OT

+ Today we have a very excellent gospel passage, which ought to jar us to the core. In it Jesus says point blank that it is only by entering through the narrow gate – using the hard road – that we will enter the Kingdom of Heaven – and that only a few will find it.

This road and gate have to do with hard choices to be made, hard speeches to be made, hard actions to be taken – on the side of Truth, on the side of Justice, on the side of Mercy, on the side of God in a twisted and depraved world that is only getting more so by the inane and deplorable spectacle which is the president of the United States “and his minions of brainwashed followers – his core base.

This group has chosen the wide path of blind obedience to a clearly definable autocratic posturing that is poised to take down our democracy and neutralize the core values and sacred principles on which we were not only founded, but which are supernaturally based: all law is derived from supernatural law – and when that reality is debased and ignored grave consequences follows.

And so: DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU – this is not only a fundamental concept all across all civilizations – this is only common sense: but we must call to our own mind and consciences that when Jesus says it he is referring directly to himself both explicitly and implicitly. I, the Lord of Heaven and Earth who Created You – and who sustains you – also redeems you – by my own indescribable Passion and Death on a Cross. This is the type of self-sacrifice that I demand of you who wish to share in my Resurrection to a newness of life.

Yes, going out of your way to protect all of our Father in Heaven’s spiritually common sensed “laws” and “prescriptions” – and extending these rights and dignities to all persons everywhere – especially those who want to come into our country to seek a better life – is essential to our own sharing in the fruits of the rejection, plotting against, execution and then glorious restoration of our model in life – our savior – our Lord, King and Friend: Jesus Christ.

The time has come to use the hardest road, and enter by the narrowest gate – because, in one way or another time is running out swiftly for Americans.

We have a lot to think about, pray about and act on as we approach our nation’s 242 birthday – will there even be a 243^rd?

Mary, Mother of the Church, and Patroness of the United States: PRAY FOR US! PRAY FOR US! PRAY FOR US! Amen.