You heard today, in the first reading, the accusations:
“Death to that Jeremiah! He’s demoralizing the soldiers and all of the people with those speeches. That man doesn’t promote the people’s good, but their harm.”
See how the accusations against the prophets of all times are the same. When the prophet bothers the consciences of the selfish, or of those who are not building with God’s plans, he is a nuisance and must be eliminated, murdered, thrown into a pit, persecuted, not allowed to speak the word that annoys.
But the prophet could not tell them anything else.
Read in the Bible how Jeremiah often prays to God, “Lord, take this cross away from me. I don’t want to be a prophet. I feel my insides burning because I have to say things even I don’t like.”
It’s always the same.
The prophet has to speak of society’s sin and call to conversion, as the church is doing today in San Salvador: pointing out whatever would enthrone sin in El Salvador’s history, and calling sinners to be converted, just as Jeremiah did.
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