{"id":99800,"date":"2017-04-07T09:23:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T16:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=99800"},"modified":"2017-04-07T09:23:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T16:23:40","slug":"one-needed-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/04\/one-needed-hear.html","title":{"rendered":"I, for one, needed to hear this"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Sherry Antonetti writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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So what do we do as we watch powers and principalities play out a game of life chess with real people?<\/div>\n
\nIf we remember, back when war with Syria seemed inevitable in 2013,\u00a0Pope Francis asked the Church to pray and fast for peace.<\/a>\u00a0 Somehow, the war which seemed unavoidable, evaporated\u2026overnight.\n

Perhaps it is time to make that request again, and this time, add alms giving in the form of each parish taking on a family. If the Pope asks our fellow Christians and Muslim and Jewish brothers and sisters to each take on a family at each church, each mosque, each temple, we will be able to whittle that picture of endless despair down, and perhaps help prove there is another way to address \u201csuch relentless hate,\u201d by riding out to meet them. \u00a0Problems aren\u2019t intractable just because they\u2019re difficult to resolve. Problems remain intactable because people refuse to be moved or to move. What is required is embracing the cross. \u00a0Somehow, we have to know, if we are Catholic, everything always requires embracing the cross. \u00a0 Somehow, we have to know, peace isn\u2019t the merely absence of conflict. \u00a0Anyone who ever had a silent fight knows how a house feels when two people aren\u2019t getting along. \u00a0On a global scale, we can\u2019t know peace when we wilfully ignore suffering so as to \u201cget along.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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What we keep forgetting, as individuals and whole peoples, is when we ignore a problem because it is hard, it gets bigger. \u00a0It\u2019s true with weight. It\u2019s true with debt. \u00a0It\u2019s true with education. It\u2019s true with politics. \u00a0It\u2019s true with everything that matters in life. \u00a0When we ignore problems because they are difficult, we eventually wind up ignoring people. \u00a0 \u00a0We need to take on this crisis we\u2019ve ignored.<\/div>\n
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How?<\/div>\n
\nWe can eliminate the humanitarian crisis by helping one family at a time, via one community at a time. \u00a0Risk is always involved when we reach out to a stranger, to an other, whenever we offer love but to do otherwise, is indifference (which is the simplest path and what we\u2019ve done as a world whenever we thought we could). \u00a0We\u2019ve tried indifference. It has lead to where we are now, with millions searching for room in the inn of the world, pictures of the dead and the dying and stories of suffering, waste and pain with no respite.\n

Here\u2019s some links to ways we can get involved.
\nSeven Ways to Help Syrian Refugees.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

How to Get Congress to Act to provide relief to Syrian Refugees.<\/a><\/div>\n
Here\u2019s one more, which has some of the same information but is still worth reading as I\u2019m pleased it\u2019s from a secular source:\u00a0How to Help.<\/a><\/div>\n

Petition your bishop, your pastor, and your friends to encourage everyone to do the same. \u00a0As we prepare for Holy Week, we ought to ramp up our prayers, fasting and alms giving, storming Heaven, asking for the peace the world cannot give. \u00a0 If we show we are not living as this world would have us, but as the next, perhaps we can have better pictures and better stories to tell.<\/p>\n

So Pray the Rosary for peace.
\nFast as penance for all the pain we\u2019ve created via neglect, indifference and not being willing to act,
\nand give alms, so they will know who we are.<\/p>\n

It may seem unreasonable to pray for peace in such a wartorn and conflicted country. How could it possibly happen? That\u2019s okay. God loves unreasonably. \u00a0We can be unreasonable with God in our prayers, and God wants peace for these people, for all of us, even more than we do. It may seem crazy to give alms when there are so many in need. How could our little be sufficient? \u00a0That\u2019s okay. Give what you can. God will do the multiplying. He\u2019s done it before. \u00a0 It may even seem scary to take on caring for people of a different faith, people we don\u2019t know, and to invite them into our lives. Again, that\u2019s okay.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Love is always unreasonable, generous and courageous. \u00a0So be unreasonable, generous and courageous. \u00a0This week, this about to be Holy Week, be love.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I gotta learn to be more centered in the love of God. \u00a0Pray for me.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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