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November 10, 2022
Thirty Second Sunday
in Ordinary Time
G.K. Chesterton's great book, "The Everlasting Man" penned in 1925 as a response to H.G. Well's atheistic take on human history effectively explains how Christ, born in a cave, is God reaching out to humans who first gave evidence of culture through primitive cave paintings. The four last things, death, judgment, heaven and hell are the Christian witness to the Divine plan for all of creation, but just human life. OVC discusses "The Everlasting Man" and Christ's prophecy about the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple and the Cosmos. Here is the poem I quoted:
Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud
BY JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
Readings for the 32nd Sunday: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111322.cfm