{"id":569,"date":"2016-07-08T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/steelmagnificat\/?p=569"},"modified":"2016-07-08T14:55:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T18:55:17","slug":"rend-your-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/steelmagnificat\/2016\/07\/rend-your-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"Rend Your Hearts When You Hear of Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Everybody stop what you\u2019re doing, right now. Stop scrolling, stop typing, stop spreading conspiracy theories and stop arguing against people who are spreading conspiracy theories, stop a minute. Now, pray for peace. I like to pray with music, so here\u2019s some inspiration for you if you\u2019d like. I\u2019ll wait right here.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sweet Honey in the Rock\u2122 - Let There Be Peace\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QrXB3xD8NRI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Litaniae Sanctorum (Litany of the Saints \/ Litanie dei Santi)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uOBfXncaDbY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nothing But the Blood (Hymn)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/00MuwFlPjUk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Okay, now that you\u2019ve prayed, what does the Holy Ghost\u00a0place on your heart to do? Our Lord\u00a0desires mercy, not sacrifice. Why does He desire mercy, not sacrifice? Because sacrifice is taking something away, and that doesn\u2019t work to take something away from nothing. Hate is evil, and evil is a privation; in the most real sense, it\u2019s something that isn\u2019t there. It\u2019s a grievous lack of something that ought to be there. Where you see evil, you see a rotten, yawning cavity where there ought to be good. When you see violence, hatred, racism and murder, you see the senseless actions that won\u2019t fill\u00a0a vacuum which should not exist. When you see horrendous acts of vengeance and retaliation, furious tensions fanned into open flame, innocent people killed to avenge innocent deaths,\u00a0you\u2019re looking at further flailing to fill the abscess, but\u00a0the abscess only widens in result. Violence begets violence. The hairline crack becomes a fissure, the walls of the fissure erode, Hell opens up and swallows the tents of the wicked.<\/p>\n<p>And, like it or not, we\u2019re all wicked. All have sinned. We\u2019re all standing on the fault line because we made the fault line, through the hardness of our hearts. It will only get bigger if things remain as they are.<\/p>\n<p>But there is hope.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy is our hope, because mercy is real. Charity\u00a0is real. Justice,\u00a0empathy, repentance, forgiveness and intercession are real. They\u2019re not like evil. They\u2019re real things that actually\u00a0exist, not as a lack but as an abundance. They are things that can fill the wound; they are the means through which God can heal us if we only will it.<\/p>\n<p>What did the Holy Ghost place on your heart to do? Do it. It may not seem related to\u00a0this week\u2019s tragedies. Do it anyway. Go be reconciled to your neighbor. Sell something you don\u2019t need, and give to the poor. Bake a loaf of bread for the soup kitchen. Give blood. Go to Confession. Hug your spouse. Take your children to the park. Pray a Rosary. Learn to write icons. Clean the kitchen, including the part you\u2019ve been avoiding. Sign up to teach Bible school. Apply to join the seminary.<\/p>\n<p>Then come back, pray again, and do whatever He tells you to do next.<\/p>\n<p>Keep doing that until you die.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll do it too.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start now.<\/p>\n<p>(Image via Pixabay)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody stop what you\u2019re doing, right now. Stop scrolling, stop typing, stop spreading conspiracy theories and stop arguing against people who are spreading conspiracy theories, stop a minute. Now, pray for peace. I like to pray with music, so here\u2019s some inspiration for you if you\u2019d like. 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