https://adct.org.za/prayer-and-reflection-by-bishop-sylvester-david-omi-7/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=prayer-and-reflection-by-bishop-sylvester-david-omi-7 Catholic Church in Cape Town Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:35:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://adct.org.za/prayer-and-reflection-by-bishop-sylvester-david-omi-7/#comment-48154 Sun, 17 May 2020 19:13:11 +0000 http://adct.org.za/?p=10300#comment-48154 Following your snake analogy, I think of the common phase “snake in the grass.” Amid this virus’s onslaught and in its dark shadow of social-economic consequences, we might do well to ask who are the snakes in the grass. In this crisis, what friendly Pollyanna word or which familiar public face is treacherous, appealing yet deceitful? When has my own tired and long-quarantined spirit become treacherous under the title of reasonableness or common sense?
The real danger of the snake in the grass is that it appears so friendly and cozy and reasonable and comforting. Its poison is in its sensibleness. Within the onerousness of quarantine, we seek a reasonable way out.
Your call for us to protect our selves and others is first a call to honestly… you spoke of that snake we avoid by staying out of the garden, the most dangerous snake is the snake in grass. The most poisonous words are “we’ve over reacted.” In all honesty, we cannot protect ourselves without protecting others.
What is reassuring is how much our being reasonable to and with one another matches our call as followers of Christ.

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