27th Sunday Loyalty to God brings life
Loyalty is a virtue. We praise loyalty, whether it is loyalty from our spouse, family, friends and our dogs. Loyalty means to trust in that other. So it involves a relationship of some form or another, almost covenantal. Loyalty itself does not necessarily have a specific reward. I know companies will reward “loyalty” by giving so-called discounts for using them exclusively, but that to me seems a distortion of loyalty. That borders on manipulation. Loyalty’s reward rather is loyalty itself; that relationship, that security that comes with it. Our expectation is that the person, the other will be with us. Anger is the emotional response to when an expectation is not being fulfilled. We expected something of someone, whether another human, an institution, ourselves, God…and it does not happen. The stronger that connection with the other, and the higher the expectation, the more anger we experience. Do we see a lot of anger right now? Within ourselves, within our world, wit...
Beautiful stated. What I was thinking last Sunday during the readings was the great injustice the people were doing with Christ. It takes a Christ to handle Injustice. Also, I guess he never stopped talking to people he encountered because of concern that whatever He said was taken the wrong way, Sadly I have learned with friends, acquaintances, people I have never met formally, most everybody, one innocent, well meaning , respectful comment I make, and a lot of the times people gives it the wrong interpretation. Those accusing looks, snap comments thrown at my direction, I might be strong but those actions are very hard to handle. Thank you Fr. Bob, you are one of the few people sensitive and caring for others, and who I have never seen acting like some others. You are a healer, and I know that because in my worst moments I watch your morning talks and a peace overcomes me. Thank you for the beautiful work you do for the people.
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