St. John the Baptist

On this posting for Dec. 19th I wrote a parable called The Empire and A Child. Today while commenting on a Catholic Worker scripture reflection site, The Daily Dynamite, I wrote a reflection on today’s Gospel, the story of birth of John the Baptism. I think it has the makings for another parable. Parables, as my son Peter taught me, are sometimes good ways to speak our deeper feelings. I wrote:

I think of John or Jesus being born today. Again I believe it would be Palestine, or what we call today “the occupied territory”. I believe John, the forerunner, and Jesus, the Christ, would grow as ordinary persons in a land occupied by a military force. As young adults they would begin their ministry and deliver their message by word and action to the local people. Again they would be praised but ultimately rejected and killed. John, not by a sword but by a bullet, Jesus, not by a cross but by a bomb. The instruments of death would be from the American Empire not the Roman Empire.

Does anyone want to write this parable?

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