Sunday
28th June 2009
13th
Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jesus said: "Why all this commotion
and crying? The child is not dead, but asleep."
But they laughed at him. A lovely feature of
our Catholic tradition is that we can have a
good sense of humour even about the most sacred
things. However what we see in the Gospel today
is not humour but ridicule. And there is a lot
of that today about what we hold sacred. There
are a lot of good jokes about the marriage relationship,
for example. But there is also a lot of ridicule
about it today which we should not tolerate.
Young people find it difficult today to admit
to going to Mass because their peers make fun
of them for it. We need to find the ways of
encouraging them to keep going. Our society
will tolerate anything but people who treasure
their faith. We need to stand by one another
and let Christ be present as saviour for the
world.
Fr. Johnny Doherty,
C.Ss.R
