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(Is.56:1,6-7;\xa0\xa0 Ps.67:2-3,5-6,8;\xa0\xa0 Rom.11:13-15,29-32;\xa0\xa0 Mt.15:21-28) \xa0 \u201cGod delivered all to disobedience, that He might have mercy upon all.\u201d \xa0 (In love let me speak, O Lord.)\xa0 Brothers and sisters, the Lord has said, \u201cMy house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.\u201d\xa0 Yet our scholars and leaders make it a den of unbelief.\xa0 Like the scribes and Pharisees of Jesus\u2019 day, they are deaf and blind to the light of God.\xa0 We must not follow in their steps, but speak the truth of the presence of Christ that all might enter the portals of the Lord. I ask you: How shall the Lord\u2019s \u201cway be known upon earth; among all nations, [His] salvation,\u201d if His Truth is blunted, if His Word is watered down into an alphabet soup?\xa0 The commentary of the missal I read states of our gospel: \u201cMatthew took this story from Mark\u2026\xa0 He molded it to bring out a message for the Church of his day.\u201d\xa0 And so again, and continuously, those who presume to speak for the Church know nothing of God\u2019s Word.\xa0 In their excessive analyzing, in their presumption and fabrication, they themselves attempt to mold the divine Scriptures to fit the vision of their blinded eyes, unable to see the Lord who stands before them.\xa0 It is remarkable how ignorant these \u201cintelligent\u201d beings are to the simple fact that \u201cprophecy has never been put forth by man\u2019s willing it,\u201d that \u201cmen impelled by the Holy Spirit have spoken under God\u2019s influence\u201d (2Pt.1:21).\xa0 And so they seek to make the Bible as any other sacred text, and the Church no different than the next. Why?\xa0 So that there will be \u201can open-minded respect for all who seriously follow their religious convictions, provided of course that they fulfill their obligation to find the truth.\u201d\xa0 But what they do not see is that the very condemnation of people they seek so anxiously to avoid, they are themselves effecting, in an eternal fashion.\xa0 For they do not open the loving arms of the Catholic Church and speak of the acceptance of all into its grace and favors.\xa0 They themselves do not \u201cfulfill their obligation\u201d to the truth for they know not what truth is: that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life is not heard by those who thirst for it most of all. And they do not see the absolute beauty of the woman\u2019s cry, \u201cPlease, Lord, even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters.\u201d (Or Jesus\u2019 wonderful exclamation, \u201cO woman, great is your faith!\u201d)\xa0 They do not see the way is not easy for any to come to salvation \u2013 be it the Gentile to whom the gates had seemed to be shuttered (though even throughout the Old Testament the Lord makes it very clear that \u201cforeigners who join themselves to the Lord\u2026 them [He] will bring to [His] holy mountain\u201d) or the Jew who must repent of the hardness of his heart.\xa0 They do not witness that all must come crawling on their knees to Jesus, and so how can they preach it?\xa0 Their eyes are not open to see that the daughter who is healed is more than just the woman\u2019s blood offspring, but all the Gentile race; and they do not call all these to the light of His face.\xa0 May the Lord have mercy on their disobedience.\xa0 \u201cMay God bless us, and may all the ends of the earth fear Him.\u201d Written, read & chanted, and produced by James Kurt. Music: "The Whole Whale" (second half) from The Whole Whale, eighth album of Songs for Children of Light,\xa0by James Kurt. ******* O LORD, lift us up from the pit and baptize us with your fire. YHWH, opposition from sinners we must indeed endure if we are to be called by the Name of your Son.\xa0 The Cross we must carry through this world if we are to come to where Christ is at your right hand.\xa0 If we are lowered into a muddy cistern, what should that matter to us, as long as we ourselves are not guilty of sin. Should we not take great strength in the suffering of Jesus and all those who have followed Him so faithfully to the Cross?\xa0 Have they not proven that you come, O LORD, to save those who cry out to you?\xa0 We shall be delivered even from death by the grace upon your Son, and so why should we fear the shedding of our blood? Your sword of truth cannot but divide the evil from the good, those who look to you from those who take their refuge in the things of this earth.\xa0 Let your fire come, dear God, and burn away all sin from our midst, that all your afflicted and poor may rise from the ground blessed.