“Do not give what is holy to dogs,* or throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them underfoot, and turn and tear you to pieces.”
Mt 7:6
Tuesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time
His shoes are a terrible disgrace
He has no manners when he eats his food
He’s fat and lazy and extremely rude
But if you don’t care a feather or a fig
You may grow up to be a pig”
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 #242, current events and an occasional question in that regard:
CHAPTER SEVEN
PATHS OF RENEWED ENCOUNTER
THE VALUE AND MEANING OF FORGIVENESS
Inevitable conflict
“worship pleasing to God can never be a purely private matter, without consequences for our relationship with others: It demands a public witness to our faith.”
When will Bishop Zurek give us his thoughts on this matter?
242. The important thing is not to fuel anger, which is unhealthy for our own soul and the soul of our people, or to become obsessed with taking revenge and destroying the other.
“It’s my belief that with something as important as the protection of minors and safeguarding policies, there are small and big ways to move the ball forward, especially in institutional systems like the church,”
Why is the religious education center at St. Paul the Apostle in Kress named after Bishop Matthiesen, even though the priest who oversaw the dedication was a known serious sexual abuser whom Church officials had warned of and of whom Bishop Patrick Zurek has said “a serious mistake” was made when Matthiesen brought the priest to the diocese?
No one achieves inner peace or returns to a normal life in that way.
“The Lord is always — always — close to us. He is close to us with new possibilities, new ideas, new consolations, but always close to us. You know that the Lord is eternal; he never, ever goes into retirement,”
The truth is that “no family, no group of neighbours, no ethnic group, much less a nation, has a future if the force that unites them, brings them together and resolves their differences is vengeance and hatred.
“I look forward to returning to the NASA family and working with Administrator (Bill) Nelson,” Melroy said, “to ensure the United States continues to lead in space and beyond — exploring the wonders of the universe, expanding the earth science research critical to combating climate change, unlocking scientific discoveries that will change the world as we know it, and inspiring the next generation of discoverers and dreamers.”
We cannot come to terms and unite for the sake of revenge, or treating others with the same violence with which they treated us, or plotting opportunities for retaliation under apparently legal auspices”.[224]
“We have the truth, and we must be bold enough to stand up and proclaim it, no matter the cost. May our Lord give us strength and wisdom for the work that lies ahead,”
Nothing is gained this way and, in the end, everything is lost.
“I don’t have any physical limits: I drive a car, I run, I swim, I can do anything. That is the message that I am giving everyone who follows me or sees me and is something I want to take to another level,”
“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.
Amarillo—Singers of all backgrounds from all parishes in the Diocese of Amarillo are invited to help lead the assembly in song at a number of diocesan events in the near future, according to Dr. Greg Onofrio, Music Director at St. Mary’s Cathedral. To learn more about participation in the diocesan choir, please contact Dr. Onofrio at 806-376-7204.
As long as he remained focused on Jesus, he was able to do the
A Reflection on Christian Life, Bishop Patrick J. Zurek
impossible…walk on water!
Today I ask Saints Paulinus of Nola, John Fisher and Thomas More to pray that those of us in the Diocese of Amarillo, but especially those at St. Mary’s Cathedral and, “the few” , remember that although Bishop Zurek’s words in “A Reflection on Christian Life“, seem to tell us not to even attempt to walk on the stormy waters of the legacy of clergy abuse in our diocese; let’s not trample underfoot the pearl he gave us when he said, remain “focused on Jesus”.
