A story to remember

     I remember going to see the movie The Ten Commandments while in grade school.  We went as the Catholic School kids from the three schools in Uniontown to the State Theater for the showing.  We marched from the schools through town, two by two, with the Sisters shepherding us.  It was a sight to behold.  But so was the movie.  A true "blockbuster".  I still remember the plagues and the angel of death passing over and later the anger of Moses upon coming down from his encounter with God and the earth swallowing up the blasphemers and idolaters.

     But what I remember most is Charleston Heston as Moses lifting his staff and parting the Red Sea ... and after the crossing, bringing the waters together upon the heads of the army of Pharaoh.  It was a sight to see, an epic story told with great effect by the filmmakers.  But the story is to be remembered because it told of God championing the Hebrew people, his "fighting for them against the Egyptians".  Whether embellished in the telling in Exodus or spectacular in the viewing by Hollywood, it is a great story of victory and freedom won on behalf of a people weak in faith by a God strong in love.

     Again, as I mentioned before, this epic story, this exodus event, is the precursor of the greatest story ever told, that of the victory over sin and death won for us by Christ in his death on the tree of the cross.  It is the story of freedom won on behalf of a people weak in faith by a God strong in love.  It is our story.

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FYI
Did you know that the Diocese of Bardstown,
Kentucky (moved to Louisville in 1841)
was established on April 8, 1808,
along with Boston, New York and
Philadelphia ... formed from the first Diocese,
Baltimore, which at that time became
an archdiocese.
It was the first diocese West of the Mountains.
It is a historic place, and beautiful.