GOD’S WORD

6th Week in Ordinary Time Ps 50:1 & 8, 16bc-17, 20-21 1st Reading: Genesis 4:1-15, 25 Gospel: Mark 8:11-13 According to Genesis, no sooner were there two brothers, than one killed the other. Along with this primordial sin comes the impulse to evade responsibility. God asks Cain, “Where is your brother, Abel?” And Cain, conscious of his guilt replies, “I don’t know; am I my brother’s keeper?” Perhaps the seeds of his crime lay in that innocent-sounding question. Yes, we are our brother’s and sister’s keeper. The blood of so many victims cry to God from the ground— victims not necessarily by our conscious intent, but by our indifference, our failure even to recognize that they are our brothers and sisters.