GIVE THE LORD, GLORY AND HONOR; HE ALONE, FOR THERE IS NO OTHER!
Catholic Homily/Sunday Reflection 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A October 19, 2008 People get worried sick and frightened each time they think of battle alarms, war mongerings and posturings of people who seemed to have been born with an armalite rifle beside them. If we look at this last century just ended, with all the battles waged all over, with two world wars indelibly etched in the annals of human history in a matter of a hundred years, with the on-going threat of total annihilation, whether from nuclear, chemical or biological means, we would most likely ask ourselves – and even God Himself: IS THERE SOMEONE IN-CHARGE? IS THERE A GOD IN CONTROL OF HUMAN AND WORLD EVENTS? DOES GOD CARE AT ALL FOR THE OUTCOME OF HISTORY? IS HISTORY ON THE SIDE OF GOD? These are legitimate questions. They speak about worries and fears that grip the human heart – today, as in the times of Isaiah, the prophet. Let us go back a bit in time. You would remember that sometime in the history of ancie...