“This presence is so unique that it is called the “Real Presence” since it is the most perfect presence of Christ.”
Bishop Zurek, VII. The Church’s Official Teaching or Dogma in regard to the Most Holy Eucharist, The Holy Eucharist: Celebration and Profound Significance, Diocesan Catechesis
Could the reason why many in the Amarillo Diocese have lost the absolute “Real Presence” of Christ at the Respect Life, or any Mass, be due to our transactional relationship with conservatism in which we’ve lost the ability to recognize the absolute “real presence” of evil?
With Roe overturned, march will focus on Congress
“…abortions prior to 15 weeks is the least we can do to protect women, as well as babies who at this stage are not already fully formed in their mother’s womb and cannot feel pain,…It is consistent with what we know from science about the lack of harm of early abortion, as well as in line with where Americans stand on the issue.”
Statement on upcoming March for Life in Washington D.C., Jeanne Mancini, head of March Life Action
Reading I
“Therefore you rebuke offenders little by little,
Wis 12:2
warn them and remind them of the sins they are committing,
that they may abandon their wickedness and believe in you, O LORD!
By ignoring the “little by little” warnings, have we become so lost in our “pro-life is just anti-abortion” conservatism that, “We have not not only lost our way; we have lost our address.”?
Responsorial Psalm
I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God.
Ps 145: 1
- Whose name drew the crowd for the single largest rally in the March for Life’s history?
- Who identified himself as the “best president in the history of the Catholic Church”?
- Who do we have more communion with than the pope?
- Who is most often praised for the overturning of Roe v. Wade?
- Who receives total support from Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. (The senator that is proposing a bill supported by March for Life that will codify abortion from conception to fifteen weeks)?
- Who has innovated the conservatives from being a bulwark against the mob to becoming a mob itself; and exceedingly likely to behave like one?
- Who has become our king and our god as we’ve become lost in the midst of our political success and policy judgments?
The modern Conservative no longer conserves. He is avowedly an innovator. Thus all the current defenses of the House of Lords which describe it as a bulwark against the mob, are intellectually done for; the bottom has fallen out of them; because on five or six of the most turbulent topics of the day, the House of Lords is a mob itself; and exceedingly likely to behave like one.
GK Chesterton, What’s Wrong With the World
“We can confuse our Christian hope with political success”; furthermore, “there is a danger that we confuse our political policy judgments with the judgments of God.”
RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS
Reading 2
We always pray for you,
2 Thes 1:11
that our God may make you worthy of his calling
and powerfully bring to fulfillment every good purpose
and every effort of faith,…
Could it be that the good purpose God is calling us to is to do a Respect Life Walk for the federal codifying of abortion for the pre-born from conception to 15 weeks?
Alleluia
What is the Good News about getting lost in a transactional relationship over Roe v. Wade and ending up in the house of a sinner?…
Gospel
“…the Son of Man has come to seek
Lk 19:7
and to save what was lost.”