From blasphemy I got bought back
Made my decision ain’t turning back
Cos damnation I don’t want that
Is it NORMAL for a lay Catholic to have a bishop, whose obstinance that “a few” show uniformity before the diocese has unity, to delay the start of a synod, even if it draws him ever closer to blasphemy, since the work of evangelization and the message of salvation is incomprehensible while denying Jesus’ constant openness to the widest possible audience, which the Gospels refer to as the crowd, that is, all the people who follow him along the path, and at times even pursue him in the hope of a sign and a word of salvation: after Jesus are they not the second actor on the scene of Revelation?
Today is the 8th day since the solemn opening in Rome of the 2021-2023 Synod entitled “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission” . There is one day until the Diocese of Amarillo is expected to open the process on the 17th of October; however Bishop Zurek appears to have forgotten that the proclamation of the Gospel is a gift guaranteed to all, not addressed only to enlightened or chosen loyal disciples…
You are the faithful and loyal disciples that the Lord Jesus desires.
bishop Patrick J. Zurek, a reflection on christian life
although the term “loyal disciples” is found in Bishop Zurek’s reflection on Christian life, it is not found in scripture
Pope Francis greets people during a meeting with representatives of bishops’ conferences from around the world at the Vatican Oct. 9, 2021. The meeting came as the Vatican launches the process that will lead up to the assembly of the world Synod of Bishops in 2023. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
…Jesus’ interlocutor is the “people” of ordinary life, the “everyone” of the human condition, whom he puts directly in contact with God’s gift and the call to salvation, and for whom he remembers his covenant for ever…
…the Spirit of truth testifies in a way that surprises and sometimes scandalizes the witnesses of Jesus accepting as interlocutors all those who emerge from the crowd: he listens to the impassioned remonstrances of the Canaanite woman (cf. Mt 15:21–28), who cannot accept being excluded from the blessing he brings; he allows himself to dialogue with the Samaritan woman (cf. Jn 4:1–42), despite her condition as a socially and religiously compromised woman; he solicits the free and grateful act of faith of the man born blind (cf. Jn 9), whom official religion had dismissed as outside the perimeter of grace….
…since blasphemy’ does not properly consist in offending against the Holy Spirit in words but rather in the refusal to accept the salvation which God offers to man through the Holy Spirit; I pray that does not Bishop Zurek does not become immune to the thought that the good searched in delaying or ignoring the synod just to be obstinate with “a few” is a very little one; for they are not worrying about how or what their defense will be on this matter!
