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MONDAY, May 30 Rogation Day Memorial Day
Deuteronomy 8:1-10. For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, with flowing streams and with springs and underground waters.
The Jordan River is in trouble. Increased settlements on the West Bank, legal and illegal, and increased demands by a burgeoning and contentious population have put an immense strain on the Jordan watershed, exacerbated by the repercussions of long years of Israeli occupation and Palestinian resistance. The situation provides a troubling and ironic commentary on the Deuteronomist’s vision of the promised land, a good land of brooks and springs. It will be an ecological and human disaster if things continue as they are.
Still the beauty of the land endures. One of my seminary students returned from his first visit to Israel/Palestine (his first time out of the country, his first time on an airplane). His group spent a few days in Galilee, which he described in lavish terms as a place of green beauty and teeming fruitfulness. No wonder, he said to me in awe, that after his resurrection Jesus told his friends to meet him in Galilee.
Pray for peace in that troubled place. And pray too for the healing of Jordan’s waters.
PRAY for the Dioceses of Northern Philippines and Southern Philippines (Philippines)
Ps 80 * 77, [79]; James 1:1-15; Luke 9:18-27
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