Monday, September 11, 2017
This is an extended reflection in two parts. The first part is a litany
for 9/11. The second is a commentary on the Gospel of the day. Both parts are
being posted separately, and yet there is a subtle relationship between the
two.
I.
The world was changed on
September 11, 2001, and not for the better. Since then we have been undergoing
a time of trial and suffering, and in so many instances, the feeble attempts of
those in power have only served to increase the trials and the suffering for so
many in so many parts of the world.
Lord, have mercy on us; Lord,
come to our aid; Lord, heal us.
Hatred and revenge have broken
through any barriers that charity and peace would have wanted to erect, and it
is something we live with every day. “He who lives by the sword will die by the
sword” is one Biblical teaching that has not been heeded, and the cost has been
uncalculablely horrifying.
Lord, have mercy on us; Lord,
come to our aid; Lord, heal us.
Over the past two years or so in
the USA, and most especially since the rise of Donald Trump, hatred, bigotry
and violence have become normalized that the darkest parts of men’s souls have
been brought out into the daylight with a force not seen since the rise of Nazi
Germany in the last century.
Lord, have mercy on us; Lord,
come to our aid; Lord, heal us.
And how about y-o-u? How have the
events of the past 16 years--and most especially the events of the past year—how
have these things affected you? What have they possibly been done to your soul?
Lord, have mercy on us; Lord,
come to our aid; Lord heal us.
May God have mercy on us and
bless us all in the ways that only He knows we need.
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