In today’s
first reading, Jerusalem finds itself far outnumbered, and surrounded by
enemies intent on destroying the city. The
prophet Isaiah is sent to strengthen the king of Judah, Ahaz, and Isaiah says
to Ahaz, although you do not see a way out of this situation, God will destroy
all these nations encamped against you.
And the prophet Isaiah ends his speech to king Ahaz with the line “Unless
your faith is firm
you shall not be firm!”
As we
look around the world today, it seemed like Catholics are surrounded on all
sides by people intent on destroying the Church. The Catechism even assures us, in paragraph
675 that
“Before
Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will
shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her
pilgrimage on earth will unveil the “mystery of iniquity” in the form of a
religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the
price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of
the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of
God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.”
We feel
surrounded, but Isaiah’s words to king Ahaz in our first reading today are as
relevant as ever…unless your faith is firm, you shall not be firm.
There are
millions of miracles being worked in Brazil, IN, every day. Let us resolve to not have Jesus say about
Brazil, IN “it will be more tolerable for
the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you”
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