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| The fall of the Tower of Babel: What happens when we try to build the city of God |
33rd Sunday in
Ordinary Time, Luke 21:5-19
Jesus said, “All that you
see here – the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another
stone that will not be thrown down.
It
is not my intention at this time to discuss the various merits and demerits of
OCP or of any particular song – but I will mention the refrain of two hymns,
not so much to criticize those hymns in particular, but rather as a means of
indicating the view many modern(ist) Catholics have regarding the second coming.
At
some parishes in the United States, it is still not uncommon to hear: “Let us
build the city of God, may our tears be turned into dancing!” or “Sing a new
Church into being, one in faith and love and praise!” Beyond the fact that
these songs have a mystical ability to turn otherwise respectable adults into buffoons,
their real danger is in the theology which they embody. These songs (and others
like them) are a deception of the Antichrist.
