“Until now you have not asked anything in my name;”
Jn 16:24
Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter
In recent homilies Bishop Patrick J. Zurek has put forth the Encyclical of Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti, as the standard for love and unity in our diocese. Today, let’s reflect upon paragraph #213 in that regard:
CHAPTER SIX
DIALOGUE AND FRIENDSHIP IN SOCIETY
SOCIAL DIALOGUE FOR A NEW CULTURE
The BASIS of Consensus
Consensus and truth
213. The dignity of others is to be respected in all circumstances, not because that dignity is something we have invented or imagined, but because human beings possess an intrinsic worth superior to that of material objects and contingent situations.
“Work is a means of participating in the work of salvation, an opportunity to hasten the coming of the kingdom, to develop our talents and abilities, and to put them at the service of society and fraternal communion,”
This requires that they be treated differently.
Catholics using the media, professionally or personally, must do so in a way that spreads faith in a loving God and attracts people to Christ, he said, adding that he was convinced St. Paul, “that great communicator,” would “certainly have made use of email and social messaging” to share the Gospel.
That every human being possesses an inalienable dignity is a truth that corresponds to human nature apart from all cultural change.
“The Lord wants you to be his disciples and to spread light and hope, because he counts on your boldness, your courage and your enthusiasm.”
The Memorial to the Unborn was the Eagle Scout project of parishioner Derrick Martin, an eighth grade student at Canyon Junior High School.
For this reason, human beings have the same inviolable dignity in every age of history and no one can consider himself or herself authorized by particular situations to deny this conviction or to act against it.
“They are using rape and food as weapons of war.”
The intellect can investigate the reality of things through reflection, experience and dialogue, and come to recognize in that reality, which transcends it, the basis of certain universal moral demands.
“In fact, we have already reached out to thousands of customers that we believe qualify for this discount to bring awareness of the program so as many customers as possible can take advantage of the subsidy.”
“I am excited to continue my commitment to our parish and school in this new capacity,”
Please know that each of you will be welcomed with open arms as you return to your other home, your parish Church…your spiritual home!
From a Memo from Bishop Patrick J. Zurek Sent to All Diocese of Amarillo Priests in the Matters of Lifting the Covid-19 Dispensation
The Mass will also celebrate the Feast Day of Sts. Isidore and Maria, which is traditionally celebrated on May 15.
Today this “restless” and formally unrecognized catechist, asks Saint Isidore to pray that we in the Diocese of Amarillo investigate the reality of the United Catholic Appeal (UCA) through reflection, experience and dialogue, and come to recognize in that reality, which transcends it, the basis of certain universal moral demands which is not present in it. Instead of appealing in Jesus’s name to those returning home, and receiving what is pledged so that our joy may be complete; the “life under the dome” places a “Quota” on their “parish Church” and tells them that they will be evicted from their spiritual home if it is not met.
Let’s not forget that in 2002 the New York Times reported,
“If Boston is the fault line of the child sexual-abuse scandal that has convulsed the Roman Catholic Church, then few places have felt the aftershocks more deeply than the Diocese of Amarillo.”
We are still feeling those “aftershocks”.
