Today's Readings

Folks,

I had not read the Daily Readings from Scripture for 06/30/2009 this morning, but I did attend evening Mass and learned that they coincidentally included the account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19:15-29. I wonder if President Obamolech remembers why Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. The answer of course is given in Genesis 18:20-33. The story goes on Genesis 19:1-11 about the visit of angels from the Lord to Lot who was living in Sodom. Certain wicked men of that city went to Lot's house on the evening of the visit and demanded:

Where are the men who came to your house tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have intimacies with them.

Sadly, the present state of Amerika is no different than the state of Sodom and Gomorrah four millennia ago. Indeed our English word "sodomy" derives from the name of that infamous city renown for its rampant homosexual immorality.

No nation is beyond God's eternal justice, and no ruler beyond His gaze. Beware, Mr. President. You are being watched by the Lord God Most High, and to Him you, I and everyone else shall have to answer. But yours is a special position of responsibility. As Wisdom 6:1-9 says,

Hear, therefore, kings, and understand; learn, you magistrates of the earth's expanse! Hearken, you who are in power over the multitude and lord it over throngs of peoples! Because authority was given you by the LORD and sovereignty by the Most High, who shall probe your works and scrutinize your counsels! Because, though you were ministers of his kingdom, you judged not rightly, and did not keep the law, nor walk according to the will of God, Terribly and swiftly shall he come against you, because judgment is stern for the exalted - For the lowly may be pardoned out of mercy but the mighty shall be mightily put to the test. For the Lord of all shows no partiality, nor does he fear greatness, Because he himself made the great as well as the small, and he provides for all alike; but for those in power a rigorous scrutiny impends. To you, therefore, O princes, are my words addressed that you may learn wisdom and that you may not sin.