Posted on 03/25/2014 2:25:22 AM PDT by markomalley
Msgr Pope ping
Sounds like "social justice" to me. You do the work and let 0 and his fellow democrats harvest the fruits of your labors.
Marxism camouflaged as a religious message...
Really? Sounds like St Paul to me:
But, hey, what do I know?
See post #5. It’s amazing how many people are deceived by Marxism. Paul of Tarsus should be ashamed of himself.
I’m not at all confused about Marxism. I see it and deal with it all day every day, in Washington, DC, Baton Rouge, the Lincoln Parish (Louisiana) Court House, and the Ruston, LA City Hall.
They take the fruits of MY labor, via taxes, and distribute it to people who had nothing to do with wealth creation. If some of the taxes are utilized for the common good (streets, sewers, a working legal system, etc), it is often by accident.
Apparently not enough to judge context. The devil can quote scripture.
Ping!
And furthermore, that money (the fruit of my labor) is used by the political class to buy votes that are in direct conflict with enlightened self-interest.
But what did that have to do with Msgr Pope’s reflection? If you bothered to read it, you’d see that he was talking about speaking the Word to people and letting God worry about whether they receive it or not.
Now if you want to call that Marxism, then so be it.
Ah, yes. The classic Protestant response to a Catholic who actually dares to cite Scripture to him.
Your response has the same intellectual honesty as a leftist pulling the race card when he loses the argument.
Now, if you actually care to read what Msgr Pope wrote, I'd be interested to see where his words supported Marxism.
Or I'd be interested in hearing your apology for the calumny you committed.
One way or the other.
I read it. But the Marxists that use scripture to further their goals utilize such commentary to “prove” that one isn’t entitled to what they work for.
And people complain about me taking something out of context?
FRiend, you are making a huge leap of logic there...
Unless he’s stitching those seeds together, he’s SOWing them, not SEW
Ing them.
Dear GA & Abb,
You are missing the actual message of Jesus. We are to sow his message and not worry about how many are converted. Think of it this way, “We are not to put notches on our spiritual gun of how many people we can claim to have saved.”
The final talley of those saved by our sowing God’s and Jesus’s message of salvation is NOT ours to worry about, but it is only God’s to talley up. If your goal in spreading God’s message is only to build up a personal list of those “you have saved/lead to salvation” than, in my opinion, you are missing the mark of Jesus’s words and Msgr Pope’s homily
I can’t disagree with your post, but I didn’t get that out of the article at all.
Hey everybody.
This is a good teaching, I was wondering though if it applies to patience in general.
I have been suffering from tinnitus for the last couple of months. I have not been able to find peace with it even after offering it up to God. From this teaching today I’ve been wondering if this is a way I should be patient, waiting for the “harvest”.
What does anyone think about this? Or does anyone have any other Bible passages or other teachings of the Church that might be more useful in my situation?
Please pray for me too.
Thanks,
I’m not sure where you guys are getting any Marxist teaching out of what Msgr Pope has written here.
“.. leave the harvest to God and the one whom he assigns it.”. That’s not Marxist mentality, that’s simply stating God has a plan and it’s not always our plan, for when and how the harvest is done.
And I don’t know what kind of harvesting you guys have done, but when I’ve harvested vegetables out of a garden, it’s WORK too. So if the person harvesting is different than he that sowed the seed, it’s irrelevant, both are working for God.
Hardly “redistributing wealth”.
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