Los Angeles, Calif., Dec 13, 2017 / 15:17 pm
While fires in southern California continue to threaten thousands of homes, Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles reflected that God can be found even amidst the violent flames, if we just listen for his message.
"Always it is the same question: Where is God to be found when natural disasters strike and bad things happen to good people?" he said in a Dec. 12 column, published at Angelus News, the archdiocese's multimedia publication.
"God is speaking in every moment, in every circumstance. But sometimes he speaks in a whisper. He asks us to listen, to have ears to hear."
The Thomas Fire began on Dec. 4 in Steckel Park, near St Thomas Aquinas College in southern California. Within nine hours, strong winds pushed the fire to engulf 31,000 acres, moving at a rate of an acre per second, CNN reported.