Saturday, July 7, 2012

Amos - a prophet for our time

The first reading at Mass today is from the prophet Amos.

Amos lived between 783 and 743. It was a period of prosperity in the Northern Kingdom but it was also a time when the wealthy exploited the poor.

A quote from the Jerusalem Bible: "Fine liturgical show disguised the lack of sound religion."

Amos was surely a man of our time.

And guess what he was expelled from Israel.

Among the things he condemned was the deceitful consolation of insincere ceremonial.

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