Do I have the courage to encourage my parish priests to accept the Lord’s call to be builders of a synodal and missionary Church and to devote themselves enthusiastically to achieving that goal❓
A person in the inner circles of St. Mary’s Cathedral once shared with me that shortly before Monsignor Waldow died he told a group of people, “St. Mary’s is dead.”; subsequently, a few months later, Bishop Zurek felt the need to write..
There has been a
A letter from Bishop Patrick J. Zurek to the Faith Community at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Amarillo
lot of unrest in the Cathedral parish for the last few months; actually, in
reality, for some decades.
…hence, a pandemic and five years later: “Is St. Mary’s still dead or in unrest as Msgr. Waldow and Bishop Zurek said, and is it a place that one can go so then they “shall know the LORD”;…
…indeed, “The Lord is gracious and merciful“;…
…moreover, Alleluia,
“Our Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death
and brought life to light through the Gospel”;…
…nevertheless, just as dealing with climate change by, “Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility, above all on the part of those countries which are more powerful and pollute the most.“, accepting the Lord’s call to be builders of a synodal and missionary Church at St. Mary’s Cathedral requires more than just powerful priests like Msgr. Waldow and Bishop Zurek; indeed, doesn’t it also require me to have the honesty, courage and responsibility to say to St. Mary’s Cathedral Parish, “‘Courage, daughter!’, your faith has, can and will save you!”, whether or not I think she is alive and well, dead or just sleeping❓