Where are the prophets ???
I hope - in the meantime - all Sisters + Brothers + Fathers of every religious Congregation has taken up my "proposal" for a good meditation: poverty for "universal sharing"; obedience for "honest cooperation" chastity for "multiple relationship" - quite interesting thinking - pls discuss it!
But nobody must be scared - change in our Church is slowly; we are still more like a rock than like water.
Today (26 Sun B) Moses don't like to stop prophets - the contrary - "if only the
whole people of the Lord were prophets and the Lord gave his Spirit to them all" (Numbers 11.29). why not as a prayer of the people ???
But today most baptized people have forgotten the call to be a prophet. And also in the Church there is no school to learn it and not much encouragement
(because - as history shows - prophets bring troubles).
What is a prophet? My first answer today: "A prophet is a person who knows what's going on". After you see and listen to the world - you may discover "new
ways" into the future... and some have the courage to speak out.
Like Jesus today (Mk 9.38-43.45.47-48): Jesus knows: to be handicapped (one arm only; one eye only etc...) is not easy... and healing is good. But Jesus sees deeper: As a handicapped person don't be afraid... you have the chance like everybody else to enter the Kingdom of God, to participate with the fullness of Life. You are not lost - in no way!
The real problem starts if you have no faith, no hope, no love. Such people are more than handicapped - they are on the way to get really lost. Therefore people pay attention! The real criminal is the one "who brings down one of these who have faith". Faith-loss is the problem. Some prophets of today are convinced: not Cathedral-Church or Tree-Church, not Holy Communion for re-married people is the ground-problem... the evaporation of faith in God is the scandal. This evaporation we have to discover - if people don't come to Church anymore - maybe they are on the way to loose their faith. Now what is your reaction ?
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