In today’s Scripture reading (Zachariah 8: 1-8), the prophet tells us that God is “intensely jealous for Zion, stirred to jealous wrath for her. Thus says the Lord: I will return to Zion, and I will dwell within Jerusalem; Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain.” We may not be exiled to Babylon, as were the Jewish people. Yet we are exiled, nevertheless. Exiled from a safe world, a world of integrity, a world that acknowledges God as God and man as man dependent upon God. Many Jews in exile did not believe that Jerusalem could be or would be restored. Perhaps, many of us do not believe it either. I do! The confirmants of one of the parishes her in NJ will be making a retreat this Thursday and Friday. They had parishioners sign up to pray for them every hour that they are retreating. God is returning through our young people and through all of us who do acknowledge our dependency upon one another, upon God and upon prayer.
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