“You are greatly misled.”
MK12:27
Wednesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
In his Holy Week homilies Bishop Patrick J. Zurek 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 #228 in that regard:
CHAPTER SEVEN
PATHS OF RENEWED ENCOUNTER
THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF PEACE
228. The path to peace does not mean making society blandly uniform, but getting people to work together, side-by-side, in pursuing goals that benefit everyone.
As biographer Jonathan Eig details in “Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig,” Gehrig’s entire life was a practice in that saying to “bloom where you are planted.”
A wide variety of practical proposals and diverse experiences can help achieve shared objectives and serve the common good.
The ethnic diversity of their characters — and of the cast — is another plus.
The problems that a society is experiencing need to be clearly identified, so that the existence of different ways of understanding and resolving them can be appreciated.
“In our current situation, I think churches may be the only legal space to have such (events),”
The path to social unity always entails acknowledging the possibility that others have, at least in part, a legitimate point of view, something worthwhile to contribute, even if they were in error or acted badly.
We who follow Christ as
Bishop Patrick J. Zurek, A Reflection on Christian Life
Christians are called to be the “Light of the world”; yet “a few” of our
number have allowed the secular influence to dominate their life and hence
their light has dimmed.
“We should never confine others to what they may have said or done, but value them for the promise that they embody”,[212] a promise that always brings with it a spark of new hope.
“The Glenn” in conjunction with the Laudato Si’ Action Platform has pledged to develop a Laudato Si’ Plan, which we can use to discern and implement our response to Laudato Si’. This part of the blog will update readers on this journey.
Borger—Parishioners at St. John the Evangelist Church are selling tickets for a Springtime Drawing.
Today this “restless” and formally unrecognized catechist is asking our shepherd “under the dome, “Are you not ‘greatly misled‘ in believing it is so appropriate that the theme of our United Catholic Appeal this year is ‘Abound
in Hope’, when you are confining ‘a few‘ to what they may have said or done, and devalue them for the ‘secular influence‘ that they embody”, a denunciation that always extinguishes any spark of new hope?”
I ask Saints Marcellinus and Peter to pray that those of us in the Diocese of Amarillo, but especially those at St. Mary’s Cathedral and “the few” , can work together, side-by-side, in pursuing goals that benefit everyone.
