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News from Priest in Training (P.I.T.)
For our comprehensive exam in seminary, we were given a pastoral scenario, and we were asked to write a homily responding to it. After we had submitted the homilies, we decided to see what the artificial intelligence bot, ChatGPT, would come up with. The homily it generated started pretty well: โIn this reading, Jesus calls us to love God and to love our neighbor.โ But things went downhill pretty quickly. โAnd you, as sinners, are in direct violation of the Churchโs teachings.โ The AI-generated homily might have been correct in essentials, but it lacked any sense of hope in Godโs mercy.
In the First Reading, we hear about Jonahโs preaching mission to the people of Nineveh. After he runs from Godโs command to preach repentance, is swallowed, and spit up by a great fish, he preaches a hopeless sermon: โForty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed.โ But astonishingly, this pagan city repents before Jonah can even finish preaching, and God shows them mercy.
In the Gospel, Jesus calls Peter, Andrew, James, and John to be fishers of men. Biblical scholar John Bergsma says that this is a fulfillment of a prophecy of Jeremiah: โI will send many fishermen to catch them. After that, I will send many hunters to hunt them out from every mountain and hill and rocky creviceโ (Jer 16:16). The context of the original prophecy is judgment on Israelโs idolatry. But in Jesusโ fulfillment, something surprising happens. Rather than condemning sinners, the fishermen are sent to preach repentance.
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