Theology of the "Crumbs" Part II
“Five Loaves & Two Fish, Bridging the Gap Between Dives and Lazarus” (Theology of the Crumbs, Part Two) Fr. Ambo S. David “Between us and you is a wide gap that prevents anyone from crossing who might wish to go from our side to yours or from your side to ours.” (Lk 16:26) It doesn’t take much to imagine the wide gap that father Abraham speaks about. We just need to look at the great divide between the rich few and the poor majority in this country. The gap remains unbridgeable, so how can we even hope to gather the scraps that fall from the rich man’s table? I hate to say this, but it is becoming clearer and clearer to me that the scraps from the rich man’s table are not the kind we would wish to gather for pondong pinoy. These are scraps from unbroken bread, which the rich man in the story never intended to share in the first place. Perhaps he was really saving them as bait for the hungry fishes that will also end up in the rich man’s table. This narrative is every bit an...