Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth." Then the LORD said: Let us then go down and there confuse their language, so that one will not understand what another says." Thus the LORD scattered them from there all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the speech of all the world. (Gen 11:1-9)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021723.cfm
The story of the Tower of Babel is not an invective against urbanism . . . rather it is a story about those who want to make a name for themselves rather than accepting the name God has given them, “My people.”
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Friday, Week VI, Ordinary Time
