Live the Liturgy
Inspiration for the Week

God's messengers always seem to get mocked.  They speak a truth that some folks do not want to hear.  While on the one hand we admire them, we also are quite happy keeping them at a distance.  After all, they are not referring to me but someone else, aren't they?

We often wrongly conclude that because we may be more avant-garde, contemporary, politically sensitive, and untraditional, we are somehow more in the light than others.  People tend to prefer darkness more than light, even the most spiritually sensitive among us.

The light always carries with it the richness of God's mercy and compassion, which see beyond ideologies and concepts to relationships that cultivate life, earthly and eternal.  Every hand of compassion and mercy extended to a human being must always point back to God.  The call always involves ordering our lives in accord with our truth and essence of being.  As God never forgets us, we must never forget God.  Now is the time to take stock of our infidelity and return to the light, even though it is difficult to look at.