Father Dominique Fontaine priest of the Mission de France, you answered
"The Psalms call
to God" to destroy the wicked. "
As a Christian,
how can you say that? "
(Michael M.)
My bishop, Father Paternoster, once said:" When I pray the psalms, I try always put faces behind all of today's situations are discussed. "You meet people like me who want to shout their pain and sometimes their hatred in front of people who were injured.
Hopefully that hatred can be exceeded-see, but it must first expressed. Have you noticed how often the Psalmist says her anxiety and then gradually find some peace, as if God, mysteriously-ment, had responded to the very heart of his words? I attended this summer at a youth camp: they could say their suffering, their revolts, their doubts. For a number, because of all this, God can not exist, or at least, if it exists, it does nothing to the injustice.
We offered to write a letter to God. In this personal letter they could tell him everything they had on the heart. Everyone has slipped the letter in the Bible, among the pages of the 150 psalms. The psalms are not they "letters to God"? I can assure you that these letters were real young psalms today, with everything contained in the Psalms: suffering, rebellion, trust, thanksgiving ... Many thought he must be "religiously correct" when talking to God, and they discovered that you can tell him everything! So Michael, when you read a psalm asks God to destroy the wicked, you do not have to take this request to your account, but you can feel solidarity with people who go through this difficult time of the revolt before discovering the peace of God. .
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