Hold on ...Endurance!

Today in the Roman Catholic lectionary, Luke relates Jesus advice about endurance. The followers of the Way are perceived by the religious orthodoxy of the day as being dangerous to the dogmas and doctrines which have maintained control in human hands and have comforted those who are uncomfortable with the call to transformation at the core of authentic spiritual journeys. There will be persecutions, then and now. Endurance, which for the believer, is rooted in hope in the Promise is the quality that is needed to overcome. “We shall overcome” is the chant of those who moved against the social orthodoxy in the last century. We are further along for their endurance.