This Holy Week and the Rest of Your Life
As I write this it is safe to say that there is
more fear, insecurity, uncertainty, and distrust
of authority than at any other time in my
lifetime of over sixty years. This can be said
for the United States and for most other
countries in the Western world, probably the entire world.
Why?
The secular and worldly thinker will come up with
a veritable flock of cackling, screeching,
barking, whining and screaming excuses.
They will all be wrong.
To understand our tenuous position, one must go
to the order of causes rather than mere effects.
The serious illness we see manifest socially,
economically, and politically has its origin in the moral and spiritual realm.
To be blunt and to the point, it concerns that
“dour combat with the forces of evil” that haunts
the entire history of humanity.
We have divorced God in the public sphere. We
have evicted the Owner of the house, forgetting
that nature abhors a vacuum. If we reject the One
that is Goodness and Truth, then it is guaranteed
that He will be replaced by the one who is the
“father of lies and murderer from the beginning,”
as Jesus referred to the ancient adversary of man—Satan or the devil.
If you don't believe that you don't believe in
the existence of either the enemy or the
war...You will have little chance to survive.
The newest spectator sport in America is watching
the disintegration of the great nations of the
world on the cable news networks. Each day there
is more drama and adventure in the news than the
wildest of fiction. Every day you have to worry “What’s next?”
Mass murders multiply—in the workplace, in
schools, public places, private homes. It is a
frightening and sobering spectacle. The pundits
marvel: How could it happen? Who could do that?
The unthinkable becomes commonplace. The largest
corporations vaporized in the twinkling of an
eye. The net worth of millions of people cut in
half in a matter of months. The politicians
bluster and threaten. CEOs of major corporations
fired by politicians, one wonders if the banking
industry, the auto industry, the energy
industries, etc. will soon be nationalized. Will
the United States end up like some insolvent
Third-World country. Will we bring wheelbarrows
full of dollars to the checkout counter at
Walmart soon for a few household items?
Why wonder?
We've divorced God...
Countries call abortion the “law of the land.”
Can such societies that espouse what is
tantamount to genocide be pleasing to God?
Can they survive for long?
Please recall that this:
During Holy Week we celebrate the victory of
Jesus Christ over all of this avalanche of sin,
Satan, and death. He nailed it to the Cross.
“Dying He destroyed our death. Rising He restored
our life.” It is necessary that we enter into the
Paschal mystery one person at a time, fully and
seriously. Live in a state of grace. Do not
persist in sin, for your life and mine is shorter
than we think. The only way a family, a school, a
parish, a city, a country, or a world can be healed is one person at a time.
All of the suffering and darkness of Good Friday
finds its meaning in the burst of Light that is
Easter morning. All of the fear, the insecurity,
and the uncertainty; all of the betrayal, the
mockery, and the suffering are vanquished by the
glory of the Cross. No pain, no gain! No cross, no crown! No battle, no glory.
So stop worrying!
Trust the Lord Jesus...
After all, He is the Savior, and only He is the
Savior. Place your trust in Him. All of this is
really small potatoes. It simply provides a
proving ground for saints. That’s all. We have no
lasting dwelling in this valley of tears. It is
the crucible wherein imperfect human beings are
transformed by the fire of trial and the power of
grace into the pure gold of God’s holy ones.
In the twinkling of an eye this will be over and
we'll stand before Jesus, Who will wipe away
every tear, and having been faithful to our Faith
we'll hear those beautiful words:
“Well done my good and faithful servant! Now at
last enter into the joy of your Master’s house.”
A blessed Holy Week to you, and may the Light and
glory of Easter comfort you in your struggles and confirm you in your faith.
Fr. John Corapi
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