A Perfectly Timely Parable

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JMJ

The Readings for Thursday in the 19th Week of Ordinary Time (B2)

Serve nequam, omne debitum dimisi tibi quoniam rogasti me : nonne ergo oportuit et te misereri conservi tui, sicut et ego tui misertus sum?

You wicked servant! I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to. Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant, as I had pity on you?’

I was not sexually abused by any clergy – Catholic, Orthodox, or Episcopalian.

Nor do I have children.

I hear this parable always when I hear people crying for blood.

Yet, reading Ezekiel, and the Responsorial Psalm,

I know the Church is Israel

And we, too, can be sent into exile for our idolatry.

When the people of God

object to God’s teachings

From within the House of God

We are all at risk.

Let us pray for victims, for the Church,

and for the world who cannot hear the Gospel for our sins.

Author: Huw Raphael

A Dominican Tertiary living in San Francisco, CA. He is almost 59. He feeds the homeless as a parochial almoner and is studying to be a Roman Catholic Deacon. He is learning modern Israeli Hebrew and enjoys cooking, keto, cats, long urban hikes, and SF Beer Week. View all posts by Huw Raphael

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«The only thing secular is sin.»
– Robert Hugh Benson

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This blog contains a good number of things, sometimes religious, sometimes not. Please remember me in your prayers.

Seduxisti me Domine et seductus sum.

I who have written this story, or rather this fable, give no credence to the various incidents related in it. For some things in it are the deceptions of demons, other poetic figments; some are probable, others improbable; while still others are intended for the delectation of foolish men.
(Closing lines of the Táin Bó Cúalnge)

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Author: Huw Raphael