CAUSE OF THE SUN RISING

“An old woman observed how, with scientific precision, her rooster would begin to crow just before the sun rose each day. She therefore came to the conclusion that the crowing of her rooster caused the sun to rise.

So when the rooster suddenly died she hastened to replace it with another lest the sun fail to rise the following morning.

One day she fell out with her neighbors and decided to move out of the village to live with her sister several miles away. When the rooster started to crow the next day and, a little later, the sun began to rise serenely above the horizon, she was confirmed in what she had known all along: the sun was now rising here, but her village was in darkness. Well, they asked for it!

It did cause her to wonder, though, that her former neighbors never came to beg her to return to the village with her rooster. She put it down to their stubbornness and stupidity.”
(From: Anthony de Mello (1931-1987) Jesuit priest, ‘Taking Flight’)

“Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn.” Jesus