Gospel
text (Luke 7,11-17): Jesus
went to a town called Naim and many of his disciples went with him —a great
number of people. As He reached the gate of the town, a dead man was being
carried out. He was the only son of his mother and she was a widow; there
followed a large crowd of townspeople. On seeing her, the Lord had pity on her
and said, «Don't cry». Then He came up and touched the stretcher and the men
who carried it stopped. Jesus then said, «Young man, awake, I tell you». And
the dead man got up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. A
holy fear came over them all and they praised God saying, «A great prophet has
appeared among us; God has visited his people». This news spread out in the
Jewish country and the surrounding places.
Our God is all love and truth, who asks from us humility and forgiveness. Our God is the only living God. He has the word of eternal life. Observing the process of the current protests in the Middle East and many other places in the world by the so called followers of Islam, presumably outraged because they do not like what is being presented in a film about their prophet; it is interesting to distinguish that factual truth, about what is missing in the whole staging of these protests and it is precisely, truth, love, humility and forgiveness and it is not precisely from the ignorant mobs perpetrating the assaults under the direction of their evil leaders, but from the ones supposedly protecting the basic and fundamental freedoms we all in the western civilization which is founded in Christianity, have for granted.
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