Thirty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

It is only the person who can read the signs of the times who can understand that history repeats itself everyday in our lives, in our families, in our societies, in our world.
History repeats itself because human beings have short memories. After a disaster has occurred, generations who have not known the pain and suffering of the preceding generations cannot see an approaching disaster unless they have taken seriously the historical lessons of such preceding disasters.
It requires honesty to admit to oneself that if human beings behaved badly and continue to behave badly, they would attract certain consequences to themselves and to others. When such consequences occur, innocent people are caught up in other peoples’ intransigence and intolerance.
The evidence of history is that once love is eclipsed in men and women’s hearts, the world descends into an avalanche of hatred and nonlove. It is the sort of carelessness, which creeps upon men and women in times of forgetfulness. In order to avoid the historical consequences of human carelessness, there are simple but difficult things we all must do: respect people and their non-harmful beliefs; respect people and how they have turned out from their mothers’ womb; respect people and their non-harmful cultural beliefs; respect people’s lawful property and possession. By all means do no harm.
“Mind your business”, as St Paul tells us in some of his letters, for example, in Ephesians
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