Welcome to the Revolution

While some people have seen religion as a sedating influence (“the opium of the people”) or as a intrinsically conservative force that supports the political status quo, today’s Gospel (Mary’s Magnificat) and Responsorial “Psalm” remind us that the effect of God in human history is very often disruptive, for God’s ways are not the ways of sinful man.

What are we doing to “lift up the lowly” and “fill the hungry with good things?”