THE ZIG OF LIFE, THE ZAG OF DEATH AND BACK AGAIN~5~PART 2
In the weeks since I last wrote about being taken seriously ill [non-covid just to clarify] death has come unexpectedly, though not unusually, to many of our brothers and sisters in the US through mass shootings, seven in this month alone, with forty people either killed or seriously wounded. As I pray for the victims and for their grieving loved ones left to live the rest of their lives with the proverbial empty place at the table, St. Paul’s teaching comes to mind, applicable to the Baptized members of the Body of Christ, the Church on earth, but in solidarity with every human being, applicable to each member of the human family. St. Paul uses the analogy of the human body: If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it [1 Cor.12:26] I know from experience, such as my near-death sickness now almost a year ago, most particularly, by their words, by their bringing me back here when I was released from the hospital and all they did for me during the long wee