Been a good boy or girl? Then God will shower you with blessings and prevent tragedies from affecting you. A very attractive teaching reinforcing the old Protestant Ethic of hard work and material rewards for all the faithful following the law as well as condemnation and tragic separation and loss for those who do not stay faithful and have sinned.—Mike Evans  “When he” the Lord, “speaks of a `new’ covenant, he declares the first one obsolete.  And what has become obsolete and has grown old is close to disappearing” (Hebrews 8:13).  “Kindness and truth shall meet: justice and peace shall kiss.  Truth shall spring out of the earth, and justice shall look down from heaven” (Psalm 85:11-12).  That is a blessing to pray for from the Trump administration.  Liturgy of the Word, Reading 315, Friday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, Year I