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Psalm 73, Today
We are back in Rome after a very uplifting, challenging, though too quick trip to Malta. Even in this traditionally strong Catholic and pro-life fortress the Culture of Death is confident and active.
Our partners in Malta have been very creative and resourceful in achieving certain victories, but some battles have been lost as well. I greatly admire those who pick themselves up after a loss, dust themselves off, and get right back into the battle with new ideas. For those whose faith is well integrated into their lives, this is the only thing to do.
This short trip follows an eventful week in Rome, centered around the Italian March for Life and the Rome Life Forum. Here also you find many positive and energetic people, those whose joy comes not from earthly good news (obviously) but from the knowledge that Our God has already won. That even in these times where we see the family and the most innocent life under constant attack from earthly powers, when leadership seems unsure, when institutions are falling apart all around us, we have hope and faith in the love of the One Who died for our sins, and who will not leave us alone.
This is why St. Paul’s call to “put on Christ” still resonates: We must be Christ to one another. We must see Christ in one another. He is the Form of our solidarity, the Source of our strength.
Even, and perhaps especially, when times seem darkest. Last week I asked you to join me in prayer for another great Catholic country, the Philippines. As expected, the elections brought mostly bad news for a nation already crippled with corruption and declining faith. Though there were some victories at local levels — again, something we in the U.S. can identify with — the national elections were a cacophony of rage and confusion, with the largest minority supporting a candidate who boasts of, among other troubling things, killing criminal suspects without trial in the town where he was mayor.
This president-elect just announced he would travel to Rome to apologize to the Holy Father for his public attacks on him and on the Church.
The mind boggles at the sheer arrogance and backwardness of so many of our political leaders. Yet these forces are seeing many victories at the higher levels of societies — governments, huge NGOs, multinational organizations. They have the money and the power, without a doubt.
But they do not have God, and God will not sit idly by as He is mocked and rejected. Throughout Scripture and into the modern era His preference is to work through His faithful ones, to call them to repentance and conversion in order to align them with His will. Yet it is foolish to think that He is watching all of these turns of events with indifference.
In fact, He has made it clear that none of this is new, and that He is not simply watching. From Psalm 73:
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Source: http://www.hli.org/2016/05/psalm-73-today/
