Fridays of Lent 2008
wevigilo February 14th, 2008
God’s Lenten peace be with you. May you not be afraid. Positively put, may you experience peace as vigil where peace is assaulted. I will join you from my detention. The situation of nuclear holocaust is proximate. It is dire. In a moment you’ll be invited to evoke an applied litany with a response begging God’s mercy. Each danger was immanent, yet the crisis remains for a violence of unprecedented, conflagration magnitude. The nightmare is still with us. The grounds and buildings making-up Lockheed Martin cover-up the workshops of violent destruction. An analysis of the seat of malevolent power can be traced back to the infernal forges of production going on about you.
Dick McSorley made an understatement in assessing that nukes are the tap-root of violence as we see violence practiced since the Manhatten Project. He was accurate in asserting, “…it is a sin to build a nuclear weapon…” I contend that we are possessed as a people by this structure of this sin. Our imaginations are possessed by the Lord of nuclear weapons ever since Enola Gay. When first told of Hiroshima and the bomb Gandhi prophesied, “…what will happen to the soul of the nation that has used such a device…?” The very faculty we would need, the very capacity God gave us to see, to image a way beyond nukes, is incapacitated, numbed. We are bankrupt to see our own way out, to possess any hope. Echoing Gandhi, one has only to scan the degree of violence in our contemporary literature, our computer monitors, games, Hollywood, the talk between ourselves, to see demonic terror, the diabolic unleashed. (pause)
God have mercy on us.
Fr. Steve Kelly, S.J.
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