Greetings on this the Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Readings: Ex 2:1-15a; Ps 69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34; Mt 11:20-24
Notes: Today’s reflection is direct and to the point.
In our current time we have this great debate on moral issues.
Great? It’s not great in the sense that it is mere screeching and posturing and speeches without actual meaning and poor quality reasoning.
Moral? It’s not moral as it ignores basic ethical civic behavior that would evidence of an actual moral context.
I attached a YouTube. I remember this exchange. I didn’t understand Frank Zappa then (1986) but I understand him now (2023). He was right.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fam5wRXcoQE
Wokeness – “alert to racial prejudice and discrimination”. Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities such as sexism (WIKI). These guys frighten me as they sometimes lack the gravity of the decisions. This group needs to be a bit more sober in their thinking.
Anti-wokeness – If you don’t like something, join this group. You’ll get way more painful reminders of how out-of-control moralism is, how far it’ll go and how self-righteous they have become. Be assured you will be ejected eventually from this group as you are not perfect and they are deciding on the perfect.
Babies.
Babies are used for cannon fodder by men.
In yesterday’s first reading, Pharaoh then commanded all his subjects, “Throw into the river every boy that is born to the Hebrews, but you may let all the girls live.
Babies are rescued by women.
In today’s first reading, [Pharaoh’s daughter] On opening it, she looked, and lo, there was a baby boy, crying! She was moved with pity for him and said, “It is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
When you listen to [fill in name], do you hear someone moved with pity?
Is this his morality? Pharaoh then commanded all his subjects, “Throw into the river every boy that is born to the Hebrews, but you may let all the girls live.”
There is no doubt you simply self-justified in the sentence above. That is what we do. It is unimaginable that ‘my’ view contains error. Congratulations.
Language has become the tool. Misappropriation of meaning the wedge.
Who was your villain?
Who was your hero?
We are devolving into madness.
Looking about and seeing no one, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
“Why are you striking your fellow Hebrew?” But the culprit replied, “Who has appointed you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?”
- But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
- But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.
Yes, Jesus is talking to you.
And no amount of sweet words and coopting divine talk will save you from the hypocrisy.
Try to understand. Please. I cannot penetrate your bubble. You must escape from it. The arguments are so intertwined I can no longer distinguish between you.
But Moses fled from him and stayed in the land of Midian.
Seek God, may your hearts revive!
First Reading
When the child grew, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, who adopted him as her son and called him Moses; for she said, “I drew him out of the water.”
Responsorial
Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.
“See, you lowly ones, and be glad; you who seek God, may your hearts revive! For the LORD hears the poor, and his own who are in bonds he spurns not.”
Gospel Acclamation
If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Gospel
But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.
Peace be with you,
Deacon Gerry