Jeremiah: A Prophetic Voice in the City (Biblical Meditations)

By taking the figure of Jeremiah one that can be immediately associated with that of Jesus Cardinal Martini highlights in this volume the prophetic life afflicted by dark and difficult times. As is typical of his style however Martini does not offer an exegetical commentary on the Book of Jeremiah nor a continuous reading of the fifty chapters we find in the Bible. He simply chooses to explore some of the more surprising pages of this prophet that are particularly useful for pursuing the dynamic which is proper to the Spiritual Exercises: purifying the heart freeing it from all forms of slavery in order to discover Gods will. In other words putting ones life in order the order the Lord would like.The human being does not understand this order nor keep to it precisely because we are not free. Nor is it easy to discover Gods will in the context of a city that is as divided idolatrous lost and humiliated as wounded as Jerusalem was in Jeremiahs day and as our cities are today. What does it mean then to be prophetic voices today and how can we still achieve that?