Have you not been disgusting with all your filthy practices?
Today’s Office First Reading
From Ezekiel
Is this the way you build up the believer?
Today’s Office Second Reading
From St Augustine’s sermon On Pastors
Reading 1
On this 21st day of the Season of Creation, isn’t it a certainty that Bishop Zurek will soon be heading out the door as the Bishop of Amarillo, or of anywhere else for that matter; so, shouldn’t I begin to reflect on the morbid disposition for arguments and verbal disputes I’ve had for him before I am deprived of the truth,..
Responsorial Psalm
…for though His Excellency deprived me of being a part of the Catechetical and Prison ministries, ACTS, and even the parish which had been my home for sixty years…
The few who made infamous
From a letter from Bishop Patrick J. Zurek to the Faith Community at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Amarillo.
accusations against myself, Monsignor Colwell and Father Roy are not part of the parishioners of St. Mary’s Cathedral Parish, who are the faithful and loyal disciples that the Lord Jesus desires.
…why should I fear in evil days
when my ensnarer rings me round: didn’t this assure me that even my virtues could be burned away., leaving me poor in spirit…
Alleluia
Gospel
…and almost seven years since Bishop Zurek entered the doors of the new Diocesan Pastoral Center, which the Diocese of Amarillo provided for as his legacy out of parish resources; I’m wondering now, as he walks out those doors, “Is this the way the good news of the Kingdom of God is proclaimed”❓
From September 1 – October 4, the Christian family unites worldwide in prayer and action for creation during the Season of Creation. The 2023 theme is “Let Justice and Peace Flow.”
“in this Season of Creation, as followers of Christ on our shared synodal journey, we may live, work, and pray so that our common home will teem with life once again.”
Pope Francis
When we fail to acknowledge as part of reality the worth of a poor person, a human embryo, a person with disabilities – to offer just a few examples – it becomes difficult to hear the cry of nature itself; everything is connected.
Laudato si, paragraph 117