“Then he said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe.'”
JN 20:27
Feast of Saint Thomas, Apostle
The disbelief of Thomas has done more for our faith than the faith of the other disciples.
From a homily on the Gospels by Saint Gregory the Great, pope
To the love hidden deep in your heart.
To the love hidden deep in your heart.”
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 #251, current events and an occasional question in that regard:
CHAPTER SEVEN
PATHS OF RENEWED ENCOUNTER
MEMORY
Forgiving but not forgetting
“A serious mistake was made in bringing John Salazar to the Diocese of Amarillo for ministry,”
Bishop Patrick J. Zurek
251. Those who truly forgive do not forget.
Nondenominational religious flourishes and an emphasis on the value of family offset occasionally intense showdowns and some unsavory vocabulary in “F9: The Fast Saga” (Universal).
Instead, they choose not to yield to the same destructive force that caused them so much suffering.
“I had never touched them,”
They break the vicious circle; they halt the advance of the forces of destruction.
“Yet unaccompanied immigrant children without sponsors, many of whom have experienced extreme violence in their home countries and have valid legal claims to stay in the U.S., spend too much time in large, congregate settings where they are at risk of being traumatized again.”
They choose not to spread in society the spirit of revenge that will sooner or later return to take its toll.
“A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future,”
Revenge never truly satisfies victims.
The nurses gently wiped her face and hands, gave her some water and toothpaste to brush with and gently washed her hair. All of the technical equipment was turned off and put to the side for a moment, a silent witness to the power and beauty of analog human compassion.
Some crimes are so horrendous and cruel that the punishment of those who perpetrated them does not serve to repair the harm done.
Even killing the criminal would not be enough, nor could any form of torture prove commensurate with the sufferings inflicted on the victim.
“We know the federal death penalty system is marred by racial bias, arbitrariness, overreaching and grievous mistakes by defense lawyers and prosecutors that make it broken beyond repair,”
Revenge resolves nothing.
“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.
the wellbeing of all, as we equitably address the climate crisis, biodiversity loss,
and ecological sustainability.
That is why “Protecting biodiversity by planting native trees, planting native gardens,
removing invasive species, practicing regenerative agriculture, and
protecting pollinators” is part of our Laudato Si Plan.
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Any help is appreciated.
Another concern is in the form of a question: why is it that everyone
A Reflection on Christian Life, Bishop Patrick J. Zurek
seems to believe everything that appears on a social media page, and worse,
may pass it on as truth.
Today I ask St. Thomas the Apostle to pray that those of us in the Diocese of Amarillo, but especially those at St. Mary’s Cathedral and, “the few” , listen to Bishop Zurek’s concern in “A Reflection on Christian Life“, and not use “social media” to pass off untruths about the legacy of clergy abuse in our diocese; by “forgiving” not “forgetting” we will not “yield to the same destructive force that caused…so much suffering”, thus putting our finger and hand into the Lord’s wounds and “not be unbelieving, but believe.”
“In memory of the death of innocence of the victims of clergy sexual abuse. When innocence dies…a life stops. It is essential that we never forget.”
