I am not a Telletubby...he cries...I am a man!
Tuesday, March 19
So?
Of course not all the players in the current very public stage of this horror are interested in building up the Body of Christ.
Again, so?
Here's the news: God works through it all. Read Genesis 50:20, the words of Joseph to his brothers:
Even though you meant harm to me, God meant it for good, to achieve his present end, the survival of many people.
Words whose meaning resonate throughout that long, purgative journey we call "Salvation History" and that echo with particular power around the gruesome injustice at Golgotha.
Consider the alternatives. What if the press hadn't picked up on this story? What if the Boston Globe hadn't forced the Archdiocese to open up its files? What if victims didn't sue? What would the situation be? Really. Honestly.
Sometimes we need to be kicked into action to do the right thing. Even by forces whose interests aren't totally commensurate with our own. But you know, that usually happens when our interests have wandered off from what our real interests should be.
By the way, yesterday was a day full of peek-a-boo. There is nothing much cuter than a baby first learning to play peek-a-boo: thinking he's hidden when he just ducks his head and closes his eyes, peering around the corner of the couch.
St. Joseph is a special protector of the Church, just as he was the protector of Jesus. So it's particularly fitting that we offer our prayers to St. Joseph in these wretched times, asking his prayers for all of us and our leaders, especially. Here's a pretty good one.