When the Homily is about Immunology

I am grieved to the point of tears by a news story I just read about a 4 year old little boy being randomly taken hostage by a knife wielding man at a bus stop. As police negotiations failed, the man began stabbing the boy and the boy died. A picture, included in the article and taken prior to the stabbing, showed absolute evil on the face of the man and terror on the face of the little boy. I am distraught and feel terribly for this little child and his family. O why is there such evil in the world? What role do I play in perpetuating it with my own daily selfishness and hatred? Do the collective sins of the world grow and build until at last they seemingly focus on one person who by demonioc possession or whatever yields themselves and commits such an atrocity? I don't know. Odd that this event should in some way direct me to my own sins? The Father's sometimes say that when we sin against our brothers or sisters, we effectively kill them.


Lord Have mercy...

A Prayer for the Departed

"O Master, Lord our God,
Who in Thy wisdom hast created man,
and didst honor him with Thy Divine image,
and place in him the spirit of life,
and lead him into this world,
bestowing on him the hope of resurrection and life everlasting;
and after he had violated Thy commandments,
Thou O Gracious lover of mankind,
didst descend to the earth that Thou mightest renew again the creation of Thy hands.
Therefore we pray Thee, O All-Holy Master
give rest to the soul of Thy servant, Dexter Balala, in a place of brightness,
a place of green pasture, a place of repose,
and, in that they have sinned in word, or deed or thought forgive them:
For Thou art a good God and lovest mankind
and unto Thee do we ascribe Glory, together with Thy Father, Who is from everlasting
and Thine All-Holy and good, and ever giving Spirit, now, and ever, and unto ages of ages.
Amen."