But it's not too late. It's never over until it's over. We do not have to keep re-inventing the flat tire. We can learn from our mistakes, change our ways, and disrupt the on-rushing process of history, right here, right now. Today Paul the Apostle begs us to be reconciled to God.
Today is in fact the day of salvation.
All who are in Christ become New Creations. We fast, we pray, we give alms, we practice abstinence, and we examine our conscience. We question our uncritical embrace of the modern and post-modern consumer cultures and their associated philosophies of instant gratification, radical ultimate personal autonomy, predatory competition, materialism, moral indifference, dehumanization, depersonalization, alienation and angst. We consider how the choices we make affect our daily lives and the lives of those around us. We examine our personal sins of omission and commission and our willing personal participation in the structures of sin that are eating away at the foundations of family, culture, civilization, and community everywhere in the world.