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Thursday, March 10, 2016

Let the stones cry out

At the very end of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, the Pharisees are angry with some of Jesus' disciples for worshiping Jesus as the Messiah.  When this is brought to Jesus' attention, his response is, "I tell you, if they were silent the very stones would cry out" (Lk 19:40).  What this means is that truth cannot be silenced!  As much as the Pharisees wanted Christ's disciples to shut their mouths in proclaiming the truth of Christ' messiahship, the Pharisees couldn't.   Even if the Pharisees were somehow able to silence the disciples, the stones would cry out the truth about Christ's messiahship.

Christ's kingship cannot be suppressed or avoided, no matter how hard people try.  Just like the Pharisees,  many leaders of nations try to suppress the kingship of Christ, by imprisioning or martyring Christians, they will only fail, becuase truth cannot be suppressed or wiped out.    

Truth by its very nature needs to be proclaimed, because truth is the langauge of love, truth is the activity of love expressed in words. Truth and love are the same full reality, a dvine reality that became man for the salvation of souls, whose name is Jesus Christ 
Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way. In a culture without truth, this is the fatal risk facing love. It falls prey to contingent subjective emotions and opinions, the word “love” is abused and distorted, to the point where it comes to mean the opposite. Truth frees charity from the constraints of an emotionalism that deprives it of relational and social content, and of a fideism that deprives it of human and universal breathing-space. In the truth, charity reflects the personal yet public dimension of faith in the God of the Bible, who is both Agápe and Lógos: Charity and Truth, Love and Word. (Caritas in veritate 3)
To suppress the truth is to suppress charity, and where this is the lack of the gospel truth there is oppression.  This is why it is so important to go and baptise all nations, because those nations without the gospel, will become, or are already, oppressed. This is why political correctness is an illusionary form of charity, because it is not bound in truth. 

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