Posted by The WORD in other words (2006) by Sister Mildred Arcos SSpS
Tuesday 3rd Week in Ordinary Time
A time of tragedy is timely for concerted charity. A time of tragedy also occasions reflective query for answers to basic questions that however remain cathartic than punctuated: Why did God allow this to happen? Is this the will of God?
Tragedy, whether of global, national or individual scale, pulls the rug under the walls we’ve put between us – economic, racial, religious, personal. We come to realize that these barriers are only skin-deep, fragile, our own making and maintenance. Tragedies make us bare and aware of our need for one another.
Assuaging tragedies through charity and query reflect a possible union of minds and hands. But why do we have to wait for a typhoon, an earthquake or tsunami to reach a stage where we can be brother and sister and mother to everyone.
Our Gospel presents a more positive and greater uniting force – doing the will of God. United in the pursuit of God’s will that militates against the root causes of divisions gathers us into the family of God as brothers, sisters and mothers in Christ.
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