JeremiahNov 16
Today’s Gospel (Luke 21:5–19) opens with Jesus pointing at the Temple — the center of religious life — and saying it won’t stand forever.
Not as a threat, but as truth: systems built on exclusion eventually crumble.
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On this World Day of the Poor, that feels close to home.
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This week’s baby-formula experiment made it painfully clear: a woman posing as a single mother called houses of worship for help.
Nearly every non-Christian house of worship said yes. Only about 27% of Christian churches did.
A gospel of welcome met with a culture of suspicion.
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And politically? Both parties keep advancing policies that further marginalize the poor. Poverty is regulated instead of relieved.
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John Cobb wrote,
“God’s power is the call toward life, never the force that crushes it.”
When we choose fear or scarcity, we side with the collapsing stones.
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Marjorie Suchocki reminds us,
“God works with the world as it is to bring it toward what it can be.”
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Jesus closes the passage with:
“By your endurance you will gain your lives.”
Endurance = active compassion.
Endurance = refusing systems that harm.
Endurance = saying yes when a parent needs formula, and yes to a world shaped by dignity.
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May we practice that endurance today — and every day.
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