Savagery and Brutality

                                          "...he never even saw Lazarus..."
         "There is no city of the well as opposed to a city of the ill, we all live in one and the same city."
                    -William Lynch, Images of Hope

In this 'age of savage inequalities' and even greater brutalities, society, especially the Church, must shake itself loose from its demonic shackles of indifference and indecency to address the terrible pain of massacred souls. 

                  O Church, Mother of Souls, embrace and love your lost children!

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
What hours, O what black hours we have spent
This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went!
And more must, in yet longer light's delay.    –Fr. Hopkins

In this Agonising Heart alone..there is hope…

...”to dispel the dark clouds of mental sorrows and of external sufferings from the hearts of many of the Faithful, by leading them to find their consolation in consoling others, in converting the dying, in promoting the salvation of souls exposed to the greatest dangers.’

   The ‘Spirit of the Lord Himself, which raises us to Heaven by resignation and prayer, and brings us back to earth by self-devotion and compassion. …How many hearts are in agony all through their life!  

They ought to be all the more ready to console their fellow-sufferers, and to succour the dying in their perilous agony…This Divine Sympathy for all human woe is an inexhaustible source of consolation for all sufferers,…This is to ‘be full of zeal for…the Agonising Heart of Jesus, for the consolation of the afflicted and the conversion of the dying…’

The story, The Streetsweeper, loosely based on a true story, starts out as an interesting tale of intersecting lives...

“Sing to God, sing praises to His name; Lift up a song for Him who rides through the deserts, Whose name is the LORD, and exult before Him. A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows, Is God in His holy habitation.” -Psalm 68:4-5