Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Homily for 20 Jan 2016

20 January 2016

Young David is right: “The battle is the Lord’s.”  As we struggle to proclaim the gospel and to reconnect humanity with its God, it’s good to repeat the wisdom of David: The battle is the Lord’s.  And it’s a battle the Lord does not shy away from.

He didn’t tiptoe around the Pharisees.  He went right up to them, and did good things right in front of them in order to test their hearts.  He never did (and never does) shrink from the worthy fight.  And the struggle to transform culture from the inside out is a worthy one.

As we Catholics go up against commercialism, consumerism, atheism . . . all those “isms” that infect our culture, we remember that the battle is the Lord’s.  He alone is our strength, our rock, our inspiration.

With him by our side—or, rather, with us by his side—we needn’t fear the Goliaths of our time.

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