Trying to be a good Catholic keeps us from many popular activities. We are not encouraged to be involved in falsehood and are told to “avoid the near occasions of sin”.
No fraud on earth has been as expensive as public education. Yet, there are Catholics working in that, and other fraud-based systems not ordinarily thought to be criminal in nature.
As the Catholic views such occupations, he cannot help but see elements of fraud. Yet, we are not all called to be monks and nuns.
How do we live in the fraud? We don’t. We live in a bubble. We move into a little sphere of activity, accompanied by our guardian angel, and we strive mightily to do our best without hurting others.
If we are in a corrupt organization, we must, as Jesus said, “be content with our pay”. We must not steal or take bribes.
If our bubble breaks, we may destroyed in the collapse. Scientists say that collapsing bubbles produce so much energy that sometimes they emit sound and light.
When our bubbles burst, the Devil hears and laughs. Jesus hears, and weeps.
Countless angels and saints want to preserve us. Turn to them in adversity. Their ever-bright bubbles swirl about the Throne of God in endless, coruscating waves.
Oh, to be one of them and not a burst bubble, disappearing into the abyss.
