THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS
for Thursday of the First Week of Lent, February 26th, 2015
Liturgical texts here
The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin, attributed to Lorenzo Monaco, (1370–1425)
WHEN we speak of a “last chance” for the world, it is because we are talking about an “incurable evil.” Sin has so entwined itself in men’s affairs, so corrupted the very foundations of not only economics and politics but also the food chain, medicine, and the environment, that nothing short of cosmic surgery [1]cf. The Cosmic Surgery is necessary. As the Psalmist says,
Footnotes
| ↑1 | cf. The Cosmic Surgery |
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