Deep Calls to Deep Roc Homily Part Deux – Twenty-Fourth Sunday Ordinary Time 2016
The Religious Significance of the Illusion of Righteous Anger:
- What does this have to do with 9/11?
- RE: the religious significance of the illusion of righteous anger?
- Often fear elicits anger
- Anger inflates one in order to avoid feeling vulnerable
- Anger allows one to focus outside/blame & not look inside
- Seems to me that we have not been ready to look inside yet…
- We have not grieved the loss of the illusion of our invulnerability over the last 15 years
- We don’t see our need to repent from taking on ourselves the mantle of divine wrath & retribution
- Perhaps, when we can approach this very difficult task, we can meet the prodigal father in the very place of our impotence and fear.
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Before thought:
Oh Brother! How the heck is he going to tie this together?
After thought:
Never underestimate the person who loves to dig in the deep … Never content to stay in the warm, fuzzy top soil … No, let’s crack open the hard core!
Thanks! 😄
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Ha! That was my concern all week, Mary!!! It was only Sunday morning that a lot came clear. I’m grateful for your reply. Thanks! –roc,sj
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