Twelfth Sunday of the Year
Jer 20:10-13; Rom 5:12-15; Mt 10:26-33 (Year A)
We live in troubled times. Outrages committed by the few in the name of religion have cast a dark shadow over the many who conscientiously seek to live lives of faith. There will be those who will seize the opportunity to dismiss the voice of faith completely from the public forum.
We can sympathise with the prophet Jeremiah, who, facing the difficulties of his own generation, encountered insult and derision: “I hear so many disparaging me, ‘Terror from every side! Denounce him! Let us denounce him!’ All those who used to be my friends watched for my downfall.”
