The 20th Sunday of the Year
Jer 38:4-6 & 8-10; Heb 12:1-4; Luke 12:49-53 (Year C)
"Let Jeremiah be put to death: he is unquestionably disheartening the remaining soldiers in the city, and all the people too, by talking like this…”
Jeremiah, together with a host of martyrs reaching down to the present day, was not a welcome voice. As Jerusalem faced destruction, he alone proclaimed that resistance was futile. He alone had the courage to describe the coming disaster as the inevitable consequence of infidelity and the shameless exploitation of the poor. His contemporaries sought to silence him by abandoning him to drown in a muddy well.
