Justice Reflections From Fr. Claude
Fifteenth Sunday of the Year
Pope Francis says that he wants a poor Church for the poor. This wish is based on today’s gospel. The disciples are called to make their home amongst strangers. Last week, Jesus came home and was made to feel a stranger and was expelled from the synagogue. Amos, too, was expelled from the sanctuary after he made a powerful call for social justice where those who tried to please God by ‘worship’ whilst their lives were based on dishonesty, corruption, and oppression of the poor. It was a harsh truth to an educated and sophisticated regime disinclined to take any notice of him or his message. It was a place of prosperity and wealth but rife with social inequity, injustice and immorality and where religion was closely linked to state power. As with Jesus, Amos was not silenced by the rejection and nor should we.
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Justice Reflections From Fr. Claude
Fourteenth Sunday of the Year
For the last four Sundays Mark’s gospel has portrayed the success of Jesus’ ministry where the crowds listened to his teachings, expressed in parables; witnessed the healing of the sick and the possessed, and the restoration of Jairus’ daughter to life.
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