God spoke further to Moses, "Go and assemble the elders of Israel, and tell them: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I am concerned about you and about the way you are being treated in Egypt; so I have decided to lead you up out of the misery of Egypt into a land flowing with milk and honey." (Ex 3:13-20)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071725.cfm
The Biblical story of the liberation from Egyptian slavery has been a sign of hope and God’s favor for oppressed peoples in every age. Liberation Theology is not new. God has always been on the side of the oppressed and the downtrodden. Sometimes the church has been, too. https://youtu.be/gtLcELU1brA?si=PVOsNC--SIwzLakR
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.
Thursday XV, Ordinary Time
