“The lamp of the body is the eye.
If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light;”
Mt 6:22
Friday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
Tell me what you see
I hear their cries
Just say if it’s too late for me”
I agree with our bishop, Patrick J. Zurek, in putting forth in his Holy Week homilies this year the Encyclical of Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti, as the standard for love and unity in our diocese. Today, let’s reflect upon paragraph #239 and current events in that regard:
CHAPTER SEVEN
PATHS OF RENEWED ENCOUNTER
THE VALUE AND MEANING OF FORGIVENESS
Inevitable conflict
“Your leadership is critical to countering the demonization of immigrants, reducing polarization on this issue and making the moral and practical case for putting our parishioners, friends and neighbors on a pathway to full social inclusion.”
239. Reading other texts of the New Testament, we can see how the early Christian communities, living in a pagan world marked by widespread corruption and aberrations, sought to show unfailing patience, tolerance and understanding.
“In their history, Catholic Charities agencies have enjoyed a cooperative partnership with government to work for the common good,”
Some texts are very clear in this regard: we are told to admonish our opponents “with gentleness” (2 Tim 2:25) and encouraged “to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show every courtesy to everyone.
“In the church’s view, abortion is not a means of family planning or part of ordinary health care.”
For we ourselves were once foolish” (Tit 3:2-3).
“Nothing can stop the actions of God in history.”
The Acts of the Apostles notes that the disciples, albeit persecuted by some of the authorities, “had favour with all the people” (2:47; cf. 4:21.33; 5:13).
“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.
And the constant and insistent claim “I have proof”
A Reflection on Christian Life, Bishop Patrick J. Zurek
means nothing when all is fabricated.
Amarillo—Hereford native Wade McNutt will present a free concert Friday, June 18 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm on the lawn at the Bishop DeFalco Retreat Center, 2100 North Spring.
Today I pray that those of us in the Diocese of Amarillo, but especially those at St. Mary’s Cathedral and, “the few” , through the Holy Spirit’s grace, show “unfailing patience, tolerance and understanding”, when we read, “A Reflection on Christian Life“, and thus keep our eye sound and our, “whole body will be filled with light.”
