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Time for a Change
“You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky;
why do you not know how to interpret the present time?”
(St. Luke 12.56)
The
dead are raised. The blind see. The deaf hear.
The lame walk. The leper is cleansed. The crippled are cured — and in
front of your very eyes! In front of the eyes of multitudes! What can
possibly qualify as proof for you? The Hand that is raised, never strikes,
but heals!
And still you do not know Who I am and whence
I come?
You do not see what is upon you?
God has come
to you! The Son of God — One with the Father — has walked among you.
He has healed you! He died for you on the Cross! He is with you still!
And you cannot interpret the present time?
It
is the time to change!
— To change your life — drastically!
The truth
of the matter, however, is that you do not want
to change — no matter what evidence is given, no matter what
proofs are adduced.
It is not that you do not know Who He Is; you know very well. But you
will always find excuses for your pretense to disbelief –because
belief carries the responsibility of change.
This is why, in one of Jesus' parables, Abraham told the rich man in
hell that even if he did as the rich implored
him — who wished Abraham to send Lazarus to his brothers to warn them
of the reality of such a place — it would make no difference. "Even
if someone should return from the dead they still would not believe",
they still would not listen.
Like you, they would find an excuse ... too.
Human nature has not changed. But the times have. And the more they
have changed the more they have remained the same.
How should you interpret the present time? In the way your
neighbor should have ... whom you buried yesterday.
It is the time of salvation! Your own!
How quaint! How charmingly Semitic.
It would make a great movie!
The only draw back is that there is no “replay” button at the end of
it. Make the changes before it is played out.
Intermission
is ... at any moment.
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
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Totally Faithful to the Sacred
Deposit of Faith entrusted to the Holy See in Rome
“Scio
opera tua ... quia modicum habes virtutem, et servasti verbum
Meum, nec non negasti Nomen Meum”
“I
know your works ... that you have but little power, and
yet you have kept My word, and have not denied My Name.”
(Apocalypse
3.8)
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