Posted on 07/08/2020 1:56:54 PM PDT by MurphsLaw
WEDNESDAY OF THE FOURTEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
MATTHEW 10:1-7
Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus summoned apostles whom he shaped and sent on mission. Priests, through the centuries—from Augustine and Aquinas, to Francis Xavier and John Henry Newman, to John Paul II—are the descendants of those first friends and apprentices of the Lord. They have been needed in every age, and they are needed today, for the kingdom of heaven must be proclaimed, the poor must be served, God must be worshiped, and the sacraments must be administered.
Spiritual fathers are required especially in our time, when a rising tide of secularism threatens to overwhelm the religious impulse. We are wired for God; we will never satisfy the deepest longing of our heart apart from God.
The secularist ideology teaches that sufficient amounts of wealth, pleasure, power, or honor will make us happy. Who will counter this? Who will speak to this culture of the beauty of God? Who will remind us that our lives are not about us? Who will break open the words of the Gospel and spread out the banquet table of Christ’s Body and Blood? This is why we need priests.
Bishop Edward Wm. Clark, S.T.D., V.G.
Bishop David G. O'Connell, D.D., V.G.
Bishop Robert E. Barron, D.D., S.T.D., V.G.
Bishop Marc V. Trudeau, D.D.,
Bishop Alejandro D. Aclan
What’s in a name anyway.... it’s all goood.......
Where was he when the statues of Saint Juniper Serra were being desecrated?
Oh, that's right. That's not a bishop's job; it's the laity's job.
Well, I guess that mission has now ended, now that proselytism is a sin.
The Pope Who Didn’t Like Catholicism
From what I can tell, conversions would bogart the culture of encounter or the joys of dialogue, or something similar. Don’t stomp the buzz of otherness.
Alas, such an edict happens to be entirely congruent with his past words and practices. For example, consider the fact that he successfully counseled his close friend, the late Anglican cleric Tony Palmer, against converting to Catholicism despite the latter’s interest in doing so. Then there are the reports from other Christians where the Pope takes great pains to say that he has no interest in converting anyone to Catholicism.
I hadn't know that L.A. county had so MANY auxiliary bishops. Live and learn.
I wonder if THEY have the "hate-on" for Pope Francis that SOME posters here have. Lol.
Wow, such calumny coming from one who claims to be a Catholic.
You're the perfect example of those people Bishop Barron complains about:
Are Catholic Flame Wars Evangelizing Online? Bishop Barron Says ‘No’
Grow up, Murph.
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