May we say everything is OK when too much agony exists?

May we say everything is OK when too much agony exists?

Can opposed to May denotes a casual approach to speech if we only use these adverbs without considering the impact of the question.  Can of course expresses ability as may will denote allowance.  I used May in the header as if asking God for the allowance to express the current feeling of humanity’s crisis that is confronting all of his children.  

Lately I have written articles that tend to make an impression upon those who do not care about what we face in the view of threats to war or how the Church is altering the parishioners that there is a crucial need for deep meaning prayer.  I will not become a street walker with a clapboard regarding the end of the world.  What we need is a warning that Sacred Scripture is not speaking about hyperbole events.  The words of scripture are opening to those who show concern regarding what God has handed to prophets about the future of mankind and the failure of its effort to change the thoughts of humanity. 

In the days of Noah God sent warnings to people who were much like those of modern-day citizens.  However, the difference between the two generations is that we have all of the events in a kaleidoscope of old and new catastrophes sitting together with choices that we must put in their proper place.  The old cliche that tells us: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”  Reading about the citizens of Noah’s time laughed at what God warned them about.  Living at a time in current history presents a similar outcome as predicted in writings like Daniel and Revelation.  

There is one blessing that we who are living presently in the Paschal Mystery of the 21st century have all of the past events of Sacred Scripture to send warnings that are there for our education.  We know what was prophesied and became true in the realms of human history.  Becoming aware of what happened centuries before is a blueprint for understanding the Paschal Sacrifice that is Jesus Christ.  “The Paschal mystery of Christ's Cross and Redemption stands at the center of the Good News that the apostles, and the Church following them, are to proclaim to the world.  God’s saving plan was accomplished “once for all” by the redemptive death of his Son Jesus Christ.”   (CCC 571).

May each of us reach into the mind of Christ and through the Sacrifice handed to each one who will believe and adhere to the dictum of trusting the word of God through faith will save us from the tragedy the citizens of Noah’s time experienced.  The question is can we do what is put before us?  That will take our ability to stand up and say yes I can do what's asked of me!

The Church remains faithful to the interpretation of all the Scriptures that Jesus gave both before and after hid Passion:  “Was it not necessary that the Chtist should suffer these things and enter into his glory?”  Jesus' sufferings took their historical, concrete form from the fact that he was “rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes,” who handed him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified.   (CCC 572).

Here we have the complete forgiveness of God and it hasn’t left us wanting.  With acceptance of that we now may say everything shall be OK as our souls are saved from eternal death.  

Ralph B. Hathaway