“Thereupon the whole town came out to meet Jesus,
and when they saw him they begged him to leave their district.”
mt 8:34
Wednesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
And don’t you come back
No more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road, Jack
And don’t you come back no more”
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 #248, current events and an occasional question in that regard:
CHAPTER SEVEN
PATHS OF RENEWED ENCOUNTER
MEMORY
“A serious mistake was made in bringing John Salazar to the Diocese of Amarillo for ministry,”
Bishop Patrick J. Zurek
248. Nor must we forget the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“A church that is weak, yet finds strength in the presence of God. A church set free and capable of offering the world the freedom that the world by itself cannot give: freedom from sin and death, from resignation, and from the sense of injustice and the loss of hope that dehumanizes the lives of the women and men of our time,”
Once again, “I pay homage to all the victims, and I bow before the strength and dignity of those who, having survived those first moments, for years afterward bore in the flesh immense suffering, and in their spirit seeds of death that drained their vital energy…
We cannot allow present and future generations to lose the memory of what happened.
“rather than hi, goodbye, you work it out.”
It is a memory that ensures and encourages the building of a more fair and fraternal future”.[233]
“to protect taxpayers from having to pay for the evil of abortion, and to instead use our tax dollars for the common good and welfare of all.”
Neither must we forget the persecutions, the slave trade and the ethnic killings that continue in various countries, as well as the many other historical events that make us ashamed of our humanity.
“The call always implies a mission to which we are destined; that is why we are asked to prepare ourselves seriously, knowing that it is God himself who sends us and supports us with his grace,”
They need to be remembered, always and ever anew.
We must never grow accustomed or inured to them.
“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.
development of cultures and policies that protect our common home and all
who share it. That is why Developing resilience by analyzing the physical, social, and spiritual ways our community is likely to be affected by climate change and biodiversity loss and making a plan to resiliently prepare for those changes, ensuring buildings are prepared for changes in heat, storm intensity, and sea-level rise, and ensuring members of the community are able to travel to other
locations in the event of a weather emergency is part of our Laudato Si Plan.
Amarillo—A Clay Shoot benefiting St. Mary’s Cathedral School is set for Sunday, Aug. 29.
We lose the capacity to realize
A Reflection on Christian Life, Bishop Patrick J. Zurek
“I, as a lay person, do not always have all the knowledge”; while it is quite
probable that the deacon, priest or bishop has a much fuller picture of what is
actually happening.
Today I ask the First Holy Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church to pray that those of us in the Diocese of Amarillo, but especially those at St. Mary’s Cathedral and, “the few” , recall Bishop Zurek’s warning in “A Reflection on Christian Life“, and realize that without the laity, no “deacon, priest or bishop has a much fuller picture of what is actually happening” in regards to the legacy of clergy abuse in our diocese; and even if we are “begged…to leave” these matters to the clergy, we must realize that clergy abuse must “be remembered, always and ever anew”, and that we as the laity, “must never grow accustomed or inured to” the legacy of clergy abuse in our diocese .
