10/02/2023

 Being aware that I exist, knowing that I am alive is fraught with problems. Being made aware that God has created me brings more problems. All mankind has faced the same problems. The root of all evil is not money; it is itself. 

Nobody has answered the question that is prompted by our knowing that bad things happen in the world. In my lifetime millions have been slaughtered in disasters both man-made and natural. Many children have been born weak and disfigured. There are people whose bodies are not quite definitely  male or female.

We all ask why it should be that today many are suffering atrocious living conditions following the deaths of thousands of victims of the earthquakes in Anatolia and this is only one location where the goodness of God is not apparent.

I can be happy in my less than perfect being  by turning to the  revelations that begin in the Old Testament but I have only faced the evil from which I  need to be delivered in my own self. I do not know the pain and suffering cold, hunger and thirst that is the objective evil known by many this morning.

Jesus did not ignore this question which has been asked by millions of us poor mortal souls. We are all sinners, except for Jesus and Mary, and the 18 killed by the collapsing tower at Siloam were no greater sinners than the  disciples who questioned him about it.The chain of historical human decisions and pride that resulted in the collapsing buildings in places where the Church first grew to be "Christian"  is known only to Father, Son and Holy Spirit and we must put our trust only in God for our true being is in our souls.We must not????

Dear Lord you know how difficult it is to witness the evils of this world. The disciples saw your body on the cross as the end of all their hopes. In fact it was an event that was needed for the links of  our chains of sin going back to the Garden to be broken and for the Resurrection to bring the surety of faith into our hearts. May Mary who although created without sin held its results and defeat in her arms on Calvary plead  the the grace to turn us all away from sin in this world and obtain forgiveness as do the Holy Souls in Purgatory.