"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" wrote Charles Dickens in describing the climate of the French Revolution in his classic, ATale of Two Cities, and that phrase has been borrowed many a time since he wrote it. One might apply it to our own country as we plunge ahead for the next four years under our re-elected leadership. One of the regular contributors to our Marist Young Adult Newsletter, Luis Ramos, a deeply spiritual and faith-filled young man, wrote a piece this morning looking at the election as a personal call to a deeper faith. How different would elections be if guided by faith rather than by partisan politics and lust for power!
And on the social issues, the near victory for the "death with dignity", doctor assisted suicide referendum in Massachusetts is a shocking statement of a wide drift from Judeo-Christian morals and beliefs. The pursuit of truth urged by Pope Benedict's call for a Year of Faith becomes more and more necessary as we see uninformed voters attempting to legalize one former taboo after another, based a short-sighted view of existence, i.e. that life on this planet is all there is, and that we simply evaporate when die. Life after death? Life with God? What is that? Who is God???
The spread of such ignorance of the truth calls for, demands a deepening of our knowledge and practice of the "Faith of our Fathers." Lord teach me to live and move by faith.
Bro. Rene
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