Three years on the road
Is not Father Tony asking St. Mary’s Cathedral to overcome Bishop Zurek’s clericalism by taking some steps on the,” path of synodality” with him, by “Beating the Bounds” on Saturday mornings; so, just as, “The First Session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (October 2023) opened the second phase by welcoming the fruits of the phase one listening in order to discern in prayer and dialogue the steps that the Spirit is asking the Church to take, shouldn’t I consider the idea that now is not the time I , “kept the matter to” myself that Father Tony has been walking alone the boundaries of our parish for the past two weeks❓
Today’s Office of the Readings
From a letter from Bishop Patrick J. Zurek to the Faith Community at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Amarillo.
This phase will continue until the end of the Second Session (October 2024), when the Holy Father will be offered these fruits in preparation for further implementation by the local Churches, “And we, with our unveiled faces reflecting like mirrors the brightness of the Lord, all grow brighter and brighter as we are turned into the image that we reflect; this is the work of the Lord who is Spirit”; consequently, “Let us retire from the world, stand aloof from the earth, rise above the body, detach ourselves from creatures and turn to the creator, to whom Peter in ecstasy exclaimed: Lord, it is good for us to be here”…
Today’s First Reading
accordingly, “The one like a Son of man received dominion, glory, and kingship”;…
Today’s Responsorial Psalm
furthermore, “The Lord is king, the Most High over all the earth“…
Today’s Second Reading
subsequently, “We did not follow cleverly devised myths”…
Today’s Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
…Thus, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased;
listen to him”
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Today’s Gospel
…accordingly, intervening in nature in the past, “was a matter of receiving what nature itself allowed, as if from its own hand”; however now, do I not take more than allowed and then after having done that, “kept the matter to themselves”❓
