{"id":22760,"date":"2023-08-15T10:40:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T14:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=22760"},"modified":"2023-08-15T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T15:00:10","slug":"22760","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=22760","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost #theroadnottaken #coversong #anactorslife\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WxcJnAF2M6M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prophets Are Radicals and Traditionalists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Father Richard considers the \u201cboth\/and\u201d nature of the prophetic charism and call:&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prophets were both radicals and traditionalists. They were radical believers in God and radical lovers of God\u2019s people. We can even say they were radical traditionalists. Their penetrating insight <strong>saw into the heart of their own tradition, the tradition that went back to YHWH\u2019s covenant with Israel, the tradition that went further back than their recent religious institutions.<\/strong> They reminded their people of God\u2019s faithfulness to that covenant, and they called them to be faithful to the God who gave it to them. [1]&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prophetic gift or \u201ccharism\u201d is rare, I believe, because it demands two seemingly opposite things\u2014radical traditionalism and shocking iconoclasm at the same time. Normally, we would think these two things would cancel each other out. Most people cannot imagine that both can coexist, tame, and educate one another.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cradical traditionalism\u201d we see in the prophets is very different from what we see today in many social activists, who are often embarrassed to use words like God, faith, surrender, or trust. <strong>To put together opposites such as radical and traditional demands a level of human maturity, groundedness, spiritual intelligence, a readiness not to be liked, and a willingness to be persecuted<\/strong>. [2]&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hebrew prophets <strong>did not care if others looked on them as conservative or liberal.<\/strong> They only cared about being faithful to God. To some, they looked like \u201cconservatives\u201d preaching old-time religion. To others, they looked like \u201cliberals\u201d questioning the status quo. The same is true of prophets in our day. Many people turned against Martin Luther King Jr. (1929\u20131968) when he spoke out against racism, poverty, and war; yet he was only being faithful to the call God had given him to preach the gospel of freedom. Antiwar prophets are labeled as radicals even when they call us back to the ancient tradition of Christian pacifism. Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910\u20131997) was admired by many conservatives, and yet her radical care for the poor is rooted in the same love of Christ as the gospel poverty of Dorothy Day (1897\u20131980), who was hated by conservatives.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prophets, past and present, <strong>first call us into that experience of God\u2019s love which radically alters our vision of ourselves and our outlook on life. <\/strong>Too often we are concerned about petty things that in the end do not really matter. What the prophets are saying is this: Let God do something good for us. Let God lead. Enter into the experience of God\u2019s presence and love. We s<strong>houldn\u2019t be surprised if we find ourselves falling in love with our tradition&nbsp;<em>and<\/em>&nbsp;wanting to radically change the way things are. Entering into the vision and love of God alters our perception of reality.<\/strong> [3]&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"blob:http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/b101dbdb-92ab-4473-9ff5-9126685bf800\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prophets Are Radicals and Traditionalists Father Richard considers the \u201cboth\/and\u201d nature of the prophetic charism and call:&nbsp;&nbsp; The prophets were both radicals and traditionalists. They were radical believers in God and radical lovers of God\u2019s people. We can even say they were radical traditionalists. Their penetrating insight saw into the heart of their own tradition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22760"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22767,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22760\/revisions\/22767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}