~~~SisterSea~~~

  This homily adapted from the work of Allison Tanner (Woke Time) and Jonathan Brennenman ( Keep Awake) found at:   https://www.fosna.org/keepawake Have you ever encountered a catastrophe so horrible that the sun darkened, the moon didn’t light, and the stars fell off from the night sky? Have you ever experienced feeling so terrible that your cries shook the powers in the heavens? Have you ever felt the crushing weight of the sky falling upon you? Mark 13:24-37 alludes familiarity to such a time of suffering and loss. The text at once refers to total cosmic disturbance and exhortation to stay awake, to persist in the responsibilities of keeping attunement to the present alive. Many scholars note its familiar apocalyptic overtures. According to Richard Horsley, the most “apocalyptic sounding part of the gospel of Mark is precisely in this passage which focuses on the climatic restoration of the people.” This historical background of this passage, for Horsley, is within the context

  10  ‘Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11  ‘Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Dear Jesus, the Earth and the Peoples you love are under siege.   The world’s Indigenous Peoples, especially in the Americas are trying preserve the health and beauty of our ailing Earth.   Please let your kindom come now, before this planet is beyond repair.  I pray. Open the hearts and minds of those who cannot yet hear the cry of the Earth and Her poor.  Your Brown and Black Peoples, are crying out for release from wars and release from violence.   Others hungry for wealth and hungry for power are rendering the anawim of today hungry for food and health care and homes.  I pray. Open the hearts and minds of those who cannot yet hear the cry of the Earth and Her poor.  Dear Jesus, in your name I ask that before all the polar ice melts, all the ri