I heard this morning that United States forces killed Osama Bin Laden and a few others in a raid in Pakistan. If you read the news reports, it would seem the entire nation is rejoicing.
Why is it I am not?
Don’t get me wrong…. I was not supporting him or his evil deeds. I am not doing so now. But I do not rejoice over the death of anyone.
My question for all of us is, “Have we forgiven him? Are we willing to extend mercy even to his soul?”
He was killed, my friends, on Divine Mercy Sunday.
Maybe a tall order, after what happened on 9-11, but a moral imperative nonetheless….. if we bear the name Christian.
Someone once said (perhaps a reader could remind us who, as I have forgotten the name) that we love God as much as we love our worst enemy.
May God have mercy on his soul.
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