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Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus passes judgment on towns who have
failed to believe in him and his signs: “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to
you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done
in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in
sackcloth and ashes.” And this Gospel contains a word for us.<br> <br>What
is the first thing that the minister should do upon entering a city?
“Cure the sick there.” Christ is Soter, healer of both body and spirit.
So many of the saints were healers; so many of the apparitions of the
Blessed Mother lead to healing.<br> <br>Another great task of the Church
is
to proclaim, “The kingdom of God is at hand.” The Church is an
announcing, proclaiming, evangelizing organism. What we proclaim is
that, in Jesus Christ, a whole new way of ordering things has appeared,
that God, in Christ, is drawing all things to himself. The great
ordering principles of the world—money, fame, power, sex, pleasure—are
overthrown. A new King has come, a new way of organizing life. Love,
inclusion, compassion, nonviolence, forgiveness, especially of
enemies—this is now the way sanctioned by God.
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