Are you ready? Are you really ready, to face all the challenges, that lay before us. Challenges that demand a solution. The solution lies with in each person that The Creative Spirit choose to have existence at this point in time. Each person alive right is now, is not just an accident of birth. Each person, ST. Paul reminds us " each person is in the place The Creator intended her/him to be." While we are at it, we might as well draw to mind another of Paul quotes," The gifts and abilities we are given, are, NOT, for ourselves but the building up of, the common good". The "common good' is not a priority for those who wild power in our towns, cities and beyond. Power is being misused, and the powerless, are being abused ,exploited, marginalized , denigrated, their existence as fellow human being is ignored, denied, and their rights cancelled. How those who are powerless, like The Historical Jesus on The Cross, how are their struggles experienced in your depths ? The response to the seen crucifixions, will be so tempered by our response to our own encounters with The Crucified One. As we minister to The Internal Crucified one, will we have the compassion to reach out, and compassionately respond to those who will be placed on 'their way."
These modern day crucifixions, are being executed in plain sight. Golgotha, and The Contemporary Christs, is now available, in living color, and running commentary, on our social media screens. It is presented in living color, to highlight the atrocities. Where are the screams of protest, joining the screams of the victims, who are, in their deepest reality, our sisters, and brothers? Justice and morality, two words, but where are they uttered in today's, convulsing society. We are challenged to dig beneath the sufferings, of those who suffer, and face a reality that is, at present so ignored. For how long" ??
We have been chosen, to be constructive members of, The Mystical Body of Christ, the totality, of the living family of, humankind. Inclusivity in action is demanded. The old binary way of seeing and reacting has been consigned to the garbage pit. The coziness of empathy, has to be replaced with acts of real compassionate action. We must again see, and respond with the Good Samaritans, on our streets and alley ways . The apophatic season, just celebrated has demanded our individual and collective actions. The action is not a merely, suggested, the social teaching of the gospels, DEMANDS a conversion.
A conversion, leading us to actively, courageously meet the demands stemming from our individual and communal action. Actions, that will confront the lies, the misuse of power, used to punish, persecute the most vulnerable, The Christ Child, and The Christic Presence. Please reread those last few words again. Allow them to sink into your depths. In the depths, an encounter will take place. Encounters, always, lead to a new way of being, and seeing. Lives of complacency and indifference can no longer be ours. We have been chosen to be the contemporary, Simon of Cyrene and the compassionate Veronica.
"Every blessing is, a curse, and every curse, is a, blessing." We, will we see the change in the collective consciousness, that is certain to emerge, from these many encounters with death. Death never wins. Stored within the collective unconscious already are sewn the seeds of a new, vibrant Spring. I will not get to see and experience this resurrection. It will come. The Irish suffered for 800 years. Their abiding beliefs, and actual practice of those beliefs got them through. The essential core of the church and, America is, not powerless. Under the prophetic leadership of Pope Leo the church is exercising its required leadership, and the acts against humanity, are not going unchallenged.
The Holy Spirit has been the guide through many past experiences, and She is not going to abrogate Her contemporary, responsibilities. The Spirit ,does not act, ALONE. The Spirit, does not act alone. The Spirit has foreseen the contemporary challenges. Guess where the answers, solutions lie ? Within the collective, unconscious. The solutions, are already in place, and working ? Mrs. Mary Ellen Hennessy, "The mills of god, grind very slow, but they do grind very true ." This is her son signing off.
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