Quo Vadis 

 

   In 1896 Polish author Henry Sienkewicz wrote a book that contains this story:  It is the 300's and Emperor Nero is carrying out a persecution of Christians in Rome.  St. Peter is fleeing from Rome.  On the road he meets Jesus coming from the opposite direction.  He asks Jesus, "Quo vadis?"  i.e., "Where are you going?"  Jesus answers, ""To Rome, to be crucified again."

   Today, we can tell the same story with a crucial difference.  "Jesus can say, "I am going to America to be crucified again."  

    in fact he has already arrived.       

1.    Here in America Jesus is being crucified again

   - -by every American who chooses to act with aggressive ignorance rather than with peaceful understanding and genuine patriotism. . 

   - -by political leaders who pledge to preserve and protect the Constitiution and then openly betray their pledge. .

  --  by a broken educational system that almost guarantees failure for too many children. In Christ, we cannot tolerate a system in which a School superintendant said, "Our goal this year is to try to see to it that our graduates can read their diplomas."

-- by continuing racism that is literally lethal to Black Americans.

-- by a financial system that permits corporations to pay little or no taxes that could help alleviate poverty and hunger for the poor.

_--by a still overly clericalized Church that is losing members every day who should be applying their vocations to help make our society more human by making it more luminously alive in the way Jesus actively taught and empowered us to be.

I  -- In sum, Jesus is being crucified here in America, by everyone of us who are not using our God-giving gifts to do all that we can to fulfill Jesus' great prayer, "Thy Kingdom come, on earth as it is in heaven." 

    Now we should ask ourselves, "Quo vadimus?"  Where are we going?

    I humbly advise all of my readers from the other 106 countries where I thankfully have readers, to make your own list for your own country.  .

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OURTWO CONSTITUTIONS

     Today, January 6th, 2022, we commemorate the attack on our country and our Constitution by a mob of people stirred up by a spiritually lost President.   

     Also today, we commemorate an attack on another Constitution, the one given to us by Jesus:  the Beatitudes.  .  

   The two Constitutiions have much in common.  They both are a "blueprint" for living as true, fully human beings in brother/sisterhood, with respect and love for one another.

   This day must be a day for us to rededicate ourselves to respecting both Constitutions in our daily lives.  We owe this to ourselves now and to those wo will inherit the country we leave for them.   We owe it to our coujntry's Founders.  We owe it to Jesus, who is the beautiful embodiment of the way we should all live in love with and for one another, with no exceptions.

   I repeat:  No exceptions.  The more we disagree with someone, the more we must honor our two Constitutions and work toward resolving our disagreements peacefully.  

   Today is a day to reflect and to resolve to live according to our two Constitutions as well as we can.  

                                                   God bless America

                                              All Glory to Jesus Christ