Proclaim from the housetops

In the Gospel reading for tomorrow, Jesus tells his disciples,

What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops.

Larry Gillick, a Jesuit at Creighton University's Deglman Center for Ignatian Spirituality writes this about the Gospel reading for Sunday

I, personally, never won an argument about God, religion, spirituality and the like, mainly, because very early in my life I found it a bad investment of time and words. Arguing is different from witnessing. Proclaiming is different from denouncing.

On our campus here at this Jesuit Catholic University we have students of various faiths telling each other that they are not going to heaven, because they are not of this group or that. There is much of witnessing which is more like arguing....Arguing about who is going to heaven and who goes to hell is not of any import....What is more difficult is buying into the simplicity and stability of Jesus and letting how we choose and how we speak and how we define ourselves be our strongest religious argument. It just might get us in trouble, but it will also get us into heaven.

The full reflection by Gillick is here at the Center for Liturgy Sunday Website.

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