I tell you, brothers, the time is running out. From now on, let those having wives act as not having them, those weeping as not weeping, those rejoicing as not rejoicing, those buying as not owning, those using the world as not using it fully. For the world in its present form is passing away. (1 Cor 7:25-31)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091124.cfm
Most of us can probably remember where we were and what we were doing on September 11, 2001. I was on retreat at the seminary. After the retreat session with my spiritual director, he suggested that I go to the faculty lounge and turn on the television. He didn’t explain. So I went, I was the only one there. Soon the bells of the seminary began to ring. We all gathered in the chapel and celebrated Mass. We knew what to do.
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.
Wednesday, Week XXIII, Ordinary Time, September 11
