How realistic is it to believe most contemporary men and women live their lives and make decision that set patterns that include a spirituality component? Anyone examining the American scene cannot find spirituality alive and well in our landscape.
Indeed a number of Americans attending church services on weekend. However, can we say that American life is God-influenced when so many cities are experiencing senseless murders day after day? Is God present in greed that seems to be characteristic of “Wall Street” and all those businesses that moniker represents? Does the large number of divorces brought about by spousal infidelity not speak of spiritual blindness not being alive and well around us?
Today the Church honors Sister Katherine Drexel, elevated to the community of proclaimed saints on October 1, 2000. This was surely a Philadelphia woman who had unique “eyesight.” Americans of African descent and native American Indians were more than just “them or those”. Her family wealth and station did not take the place of a serious spirituality in her life.
So the question each person can ask of him/herself: “Do I suffer from any spiritual blindness in how I live my life?”
Indeed a number of Americans attending church services on weekend. However, can we say that American life is God-influenced when so many cities are experiencing senseless murders day after day? Is God present in greed that seems to be characteristic of “Wall Street” and all those businesses that moniker represents? Does the large number of divorces brought about by spousal infidelity not speak of spiritual blindness not being alive and well around us?
Today the Church honors Sister Katherine Drexel, elevated to the community of proclaimed saints on October 1, 2000. This was surely a Philadelphia woman who had unique “eyesight.” Americans of African descent and native American Indians were more than just “them or those”. Her family wealth and station did not take the place of a serious spirituality in her life.
So the question each person can ask of him/herself: “Do I suffer from any spiritual blindness in how I live my life?”
