New Days do not always bring new Proposals.

New Days do not always bring New Proposals.

Proposals tend to place more than one person in a compromising situation that may put someone in a non-reversal effect.  Contracts between more than one entity demand a cohesiveness that can stand firm until both parties decide to terminate the decision.   Here is where the legal portion of society is called upon to make a decision the contractual parties are unable to do themselves.  

Of course the type of contracts we might discuss deal with amounts of money that become the primary element of getting things accomplished and will remain substantial until either party decides they can no longer adhere to what was executed

But there is another contract called a covenant that God instituted to his prophets beginning with Abraham:  “I will maintain  my covenant with you and your descendants after you throughout the ages as an everlasting pact, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.” (Gn 17: 7).  “Having come down in a cloud, the Lord stood there with Moses and proclaimed his name.  “Lord.”  Thus the Lord passed before him and cried out, “The Lord, the Lord, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity, continuing his kindness for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness and crime and sin.”  (Ex 34: 5 - 7).

Perhaps the greatest sign of a covenant with God is the Last Supper:  “Then he took the bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, saying,” This is my body, which will be given for you; do this in memory of me.”  And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which will be shed for you.”  (Lk 22: 19 - 20).

The one unmistakable contract which is sealed in the Blood of Christ becomes the covenant of God for all humanity signed and proven to be unbreakable by the Son of God in payment for our sins. God will never reject his promise of a lasting covenant with man for all eternity.

Through the prophets, God forms his people in the hope of salvation, in the expectation of a new and everlasting Covenant intended for all, to be written on their hearts.”  The prophets proclaim a radical redemption of the People of God, purification from all their infidelities, a salvation which will include all the nations.  Above all, the poor and humble of the Lord will bear this hope.  Such holy women as Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Miriam, Deborah, Hannah, Judith, and Esther kept alive the hope of Israel;s salvation.  The purest figure among them is Mary.”  (CCC 64).

Above all this New Day is always today with the promise that God’s Covenant will never falter.  

Ralph B. Hathaway