tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post4113070034005167757..comments2024-03-25T06:39:42.081-04:00Comments on Bonfire of the Vanities: Jesus with us is the ultimate healing (Sunday homily)Fr Martin Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01375628123126091747noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post-33237447811176167652021-05-07T08:35:07.041-04:002021-05-07T08:35:07.041-04:00This is something overlooked in these times. I thi...This is something overlooked in these times. I think it is a cultural phenomenon. This was made more clear for me by viewing from far away, as Chesterton wrote, seeing the chalk figure on a hill that was incomprehensible up close. The Navaho have a healing ceremony for the dying that is intended to help them get their mind clear and to remove the poison of worldly troubles so they can meet their fate with a calm spirit. I thought it was quaint but of little use while I considered the lack of medicinal value. When I realized that they expected to die anyway the value became clear. They, as all men do, sensed a greater existence was eminent and embraced it not able to know what comes. This set the Catholic understanding in a bright and clear light because man cannot actually understand existence and unity with our Creator. He had to reveal it to us. We have that revelation in our sacraments; mysteries beyond our understanding, perceptible only in the Substance changed and revealed to us. It is Glorious rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00661998350597126663noreply@blogger.com