Deacon Greg's Homily 11-13-16
Homily – November 13, 2016 (33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time- C) In 1986, I was in my last year of college. It was three years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Do you know about the Doomsday Clock? This is a PR tool that has been used since 1947 by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientist to warn the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. Well the Doomsday Clock was set for three minutes to midnight... Midnight referring to the END TIME. It had been set there in 1984 as US/Soviet relations were at their coldest, and it stayed there until the 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed, moving the clock back to six minutes to midnight. In the years to follow, things improved even more, and the clock was moved back as far as 17 minutes to midnight in 1991 when even deeper cuts were made to the nuclear arms arsenals of the world's super powers. Since then, we’ve endured the Gulf War, 9/11, the continuing struggle in Afg