The fifth sunday in Ordinary Time
Job 7:1-4, 6-7 St. Mark 1:29-39 By Evan Underbrink If you were to scan literature section of your local library or bookstore, I would bet that you’d find the happy endings are outnumbered, flanked on all sides. Upon that library shelf, where all the timeless classics reside, you'll find the joyful ends of the Divina Commedia and Odyssey . But surrounding these on all sides there is a Hamlet , Antigone , Media … Job on the dunghill, Gonzalo Carrasco This is really no surprise that the really profound works have some necessary glare into the dark. As human beings, we do not like to contemplate death or tragedy much, and so it is right for books and art to take is places we wouldn't readily go. What benefit is there to the melancholy of death? I mean here true death and grief, not the fondled desires of morbid minds, wondering how people will respond to our suicide. That is another kind of brokenness, the product of which is usually on