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TWENTY- SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
(Respect Life Sunday)
Paul VI once wrote that if you 'want
peace, work for justice.'
There is so much violence in our
world today and on all levels of life. What can we do to begin building a
world for peace. We need to work justly among our friends and enemies. We
should begin with ourselves. Gossip is, in the scripture, related to murder.
Word violence against people is murderous to them. Traffic violence is another
way to increase unjust in the world. Making people suffer because we are
anxious or afraid. Our bad mood is not someone else’s fault.
As citizens, we can also work for
justice by being tolerant of one another. However, tolerance of people is not
silent opposition to others’ thoughts or opinions; real tolerance calls us to
dialogue openly in charity so we can each God , the source of all Truth,
together.
As citizens we have a lot of violence
to talk about, euthanasia, birth control, abortion, Pre-emptive war, embryonic
cloning, so much to talk about
We are obligated as Catholics to work
in nonviolent ways for justice that can begin to establish an authentic peace
for our children and ourselves.
Charity, service, prayer, sacraments,
forgiveness, compassion, these are tools for justice, the fruit of which is
genuine peace.
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