November 22, 2011 – Luke 20:9 – 20:47

What do the people mean when they say, “let it not be so”. Do they understand the parable applies to God and Israel and what He gave them and what He is making available to the Gentiles. The Leaders see what the parable is saying because it says they do and they tried to grab Jesus right after that. But I don’t think the people understand it fully. So, what do they mean my “let it not be so”. They heard the story of the wicked people and Jesus says that they will get the land removed from them, why are the people against this.

I just finished a book called “Render unto Caesar” which I recommend to everyone. It is based on this story of Christ being questioned about taxes. The whole point of the book, if you could wrap it up into a few words, was trying to motivate Catholics to live out their Catholic belief in the political world and the world in general. There is a fear out there that Catholic politicians that live out their faith will try to push their beliefs on the country and the nation will become a nation ruled by Rome. But the book points out that being Catholic and living that out forms our morals and those morals influence our decisions and those morals need to shape Catholic politician decisions. Right now there are many “Catholic” politicians who appear to be voting without any moral compass, or at least not one based on Catholic beliefs. Voting for policies based on your morals is not pushing your religion on anyone, it is living your life as a good Catholic and having good morals. There is something to be said for the way the country is moving and the correlation with the lack of moral foundation that is out there.

I have already talked about Sacraments and marriage and the idea that when you get to Heaven, you do not need marriage or the other Sacraments because they are signs that point you to God and there you have God. We see Christ questioned about marriage and the Resurrection, which ties into that discussion.