My brothers and sisters in
Christ, from the day the terrible event happened at the elementary school in
Connecticut, I've been thinking a lot about this issue and I want, in this
edition of our Pastor’s Bench, write
a little about it. Grandmothers always have much wisdom and say things in short
and deep phrases. My grandmother used to say that things went wrong
"because we live far from God." It's true. Things in our country and
the world go wrong because we live far from God. Yeah, we come to church time to time, we spent some time together in
community, even we receive the Body and Blood of Christ, but our life is not in
full communion with God, and little by little we have been turning God into a
"private matter", and it seems that the world in which we live… is a
world without God! Let us look around: where is God? In our schools? In our
malls? On the streets? Sure thing: we want to fix all the things that are
happening on a daily basis with laws and legislatures, with letters to the
president, with guns, with plans and schedules, with hospitals and research,
but we have not tried to fix them with prayer
and fasting, silence and penance, wishing to include God in every one of the
moments of our lives. The crisis of insecurity and lack of peace that we
are living is not going to be solved with a new approach to the issue of
weapons, nor with new laws on immigration, much less with a new financial
budget for the coming years. The crisis we are experiencing is a crisis of a
world that believes it can survive without God, human beings, you and I, who
think that God is important for certain aspects of life or for Sunday mornings.
When the people of Nineveh is in the midst of a crisis and lives far from God
and receives with good attitude the preaching of Jonah, they quickly changed
their attitude, God sees change in those men and women and He forgave them[1].
I wonder: is it not now the time in which our world and our country should turn
to God with a repentant heart? Let us be honest: this is not a matter of if we
are Catholics or Methodists or Jewish or Muslims, that is not important (for
God’s sake, we are all children of God!!), is a matter of God has become a
private matter that is used when there is a craving or when He may be useful...
Let's wake up! Is it not this the right time to return to God with all our
heart, and allow Him to solve everything bad that is happening in the world and
is driving us crazy? Oh Lord our God that man does not force you to repent of
one day gave us the keys of the earth!! ■ Fr. Agustin, Pastor.
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