The fence at the Nogales border
We start a new week after the chaos and shock of last week. We have much to think about. And grieve. And we all have work to do like never before. The works of mercy in this new era will not be cheap or that easy.
Our new week started this morning with a fine entrance hymn and a moving homily and after having shared the sacred meal at the table of mercy, processing out through the Holy Doors of Mercy into the city.
The entrance song set the tone:
O shame to us
who rest content while lust and greed for gain
In street and shop and tenement
Wring gold from human pain.
And bitter lips in blind despair cry,
" Christ has died in vain."
" Give us O God the strength to build
the City that has stood
Too long a dream, whose laws are love,
whose ways, the common good.
And where the shining sun becomes
God's grace for human good."
James Martin, SJ, passed on a little mantra last Wednesday which reminds us simply of the mandate:
I stand with Jesus who stands with the poor.
I stand with Jesus who stands with all those
who are made to feel as if they don't belong.
I stand with Jesus who stands with
all those who work for justice and peace.
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