Saturday, 8/29/15
The Gospel gives us a
litany of spectacular evils.
Herod was
spectacularly fatuous in the party he threw for himself, in his
appreciation for his
step-daughter’s bawdiness, in his caving in to his respect for his fatuous
guests.
Salome was spectacular
in her vanity and in her disregard for John’s untouchable holiness.
Herodias was
spectacular in her spite.
In pleasing contrast, the
first reading presents us with a litany of down home goodness. Paul compliments
Thessalonica’s Christians for their fraternal charity, going on then to encourage
them to be even more loving.
He recommends the down
home beauty of lives of tranquility, of our not meddling in the affairs of
other’s, and of our working with our hands.
When you are among
people, all you hear them talking about are acts of such spectacular evils as
shootings, of abandoning refugees to die, and of official corruption.
We should buck up, and
give more attention to the down home goodness inspired by the love of God all
around us.
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