Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land! "When will the new moon be over," you ask, "that we may sell our grain, and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat? We will diminish the ephah, add to the shekel, and fix our scales for cheating! We will buy the lowly for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals; even the refuse of the wheat we will sell!" The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Never will I forget a thing they have done! (Amos 8:4-7)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092125.cfm
Although tax cuts for billionaires might be the politics of the day, God has other priorities. We choose to forget that a society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members. But God doesn’t forget. Through the prophet Amos, God says, “Never will I forget a thing they have done!” Maybe it’s time to Get Right With God. https://youtu.be/oqrGlnpFYu0?si=lH2g3WW07Wb9zge8
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.
Sunday XXV, Ordinary Time
