{"id":595,"date":"2008-04-22T23:23:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T23:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/04\/next-time-someone-mocks-the-red-shoes.html"},"modified":"2008-04-22T23:23:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T23:23:38","slug":"next-time-someone-mocks-the-red-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/04\/next-time-someone-mocks-the-red-shoes.html","title":{"rendered":"Next time someone mocks the red shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Send them this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

After many false starts, the doors finally opened to reveal the Pope. He came down the steps toward his car and, then, headed toward the barricades on the lawn. I was standing close, but as he approached, I lost sight of him. He had to walk between two large shrubs and he is not a tall man.
\nThe shrubs were a type of evergreen, trimmed round, fresh spring green. My eyes fell to the bottom of the bush. I do not recall focusing on the noise. All seemed quiet and time seemed to stop. I felt like a child playing in my neighborhood; looking beneath the shrubs, as I often had. What was I looking for in particular back in my childhood? Nothing in particular, looking beneath the shrubs was an exercise in pure desire, an exercise in hope.
\nThen, in a moment, I was recalled to the present. Amidst the spring green shrub I made a find, rather something emerged. I saw bright red. It had always been exciting to spy a red bird in the garden, so bright.\u00a0 The shoes! The images deluged my mind: fire from a bush, the shoes of the fisherman, the bloodied feet of Christ, St. Peter\u2019s bloodied feet. The Holy Father had greeted Catholic educators yesterday evening with Isaiah\u2019s words quoted by St. Paul: \u201cHow beautiful are the footsteps of those who bring good news\u201d (Rom 10:15-17). The Holy Father brings Good News, Christ is our Hope! This morning we found abundant joy in Christ with each other. May the words of Psalm 65 be a prayer answered as the Holy Father travels to New York:
\nYou crown the year with your goodness.
\nAbundance flows in your steps,
\nIn the pastures of the wilderness it flows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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