Two sides of card offered by "Catholics United"
After these elections: less politics, more
Jesus. The answer to the “fiscal cliff”
is found in our looking to the heavens for the Second Coming as in today’s gospel, erect, unafraid, because we’ve listened to the Last Judgement message
of Jesus in Matthew 25:40 —“whatsoever you did to the least of your brothers and
sisters, you did to me.” And there is
practical evidence the “cliff” is just another manipulation by the powerful of
the public’s dire imagination, to keep people so anxious they can’t think
straight, and forget that it is in God, not Wall Street, that we trust.
Why was there such fierce animosity and
distrust this last election? Where did
this come from? Why do those that
disagree have to call each other--lost souls?
Many crusaders for respecting life, and ending war, competed in
disrespecting each others’ persons.
We need to unite the social justice and
devotional charity aspects of our churches, which have too often been at
odds. They both must work and pray for
each other.
Does the right hand of our church know what
the left is doing? Or does the left know
the right? Our conservative and liberal
elements have been placed in pitched battle, especially in this past election
season. Yet red and blue we worship in
the same pew. If both hands can be
clasped together offering each other their best strength, depth and humility,
maybe the proposed “new evangelization” can become a reality. “See how they love one another.”
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