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The Tablet January 21, 2021
By Father Jean-Pierre Ruiz
“Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed!” What might happen if a latter-day Jonah were to stroll down Flatbush Avenue shouting something like that about Brooklyn? I imagine that such a messenger wouldn’t be as persuasive as Jonah was after just one day’s walk through the streets of Nineveh. Sunday’s first reading tells us that, as a result of the prophet’s proclamation, “when the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth.” That’s impressive!
It is even more remarkable when we step back for some context. Jonah was a notoriously uncooperative prophet. When God commanded, “Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and preach against it; for their wickedness has come before me,” Jonah fled in the opposite direction, going to Joppa and boarding a Tarshish-bound ship instead of going toward Nineveh. His frustrated escape efforts ended