being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you. But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience:[1 Pt 3:15-16]
The next meeting will be held at Saint Mark Catholic Church, 7960 Northview, Boise, Idaho, on Saturday, October 19 at 8:00AM.
There may be a retreat at St Benedict Lodge in Oregon during 2019. Further notice as plans are made.
St Benedict Lodge is a retreat facility in the Cascades that is owned and operated by the Dominican Friars of the Western Province.
It makes no sense that we grant the use of unrestricted lethal force to a citizen with no judicial oversight, and simultaneously claim that the state has no right to the use of restricted lethal force with full judicial oversight.
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It's wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
- John Adams, 2nd US president, Oct 11, 1798
The child, who does not think about so serious a thing as health, dreams of meals that are made up of desserts. Men and women, who do not think about so serious a thing as living, dream of a life that consists only of sweetness, soft music and rest to the echo of applause and gently sympathetic understanding. But meals are never like that; neither is life. In the same vein, our modern men and women dream of God as a being of whom no one could ever be afraid, a gentle, stupid god who would allow men and women to ruin themselves and then admire them for the work they had done in destroying his masterpiece. You see they never really think about God, for God is not like that.
Walter Farrell, O.P., A Companion to the Summa, Volume III CHAPTER I -- FREEDOM FOR THE MIND (Q. 1-9)
For there must be also heresies: that they also,
who are approved may be made manifest among you. [1 Cor 11:19]
"You seek me", St. Augustine comments, "for the flesh, not for the spirit. How many seek Jesus for no other purpose than that He may do them good in this present life! [...] Scarcely ever is Jesus sought for Jesus' sake" ("In Ioann. Evang.", 25, 10).
Man's whole salvation, which is in God, depends upon the knowledge of this (divinely revealed) truth. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part I, first question, first answer
This, and nothing else, is the purpose of the Church: the salvation of individual souls Benedict XVI – Sao Paolo, Brazil, May 11, 2007
It sounds pretty open-ended as to just exactly what the archbishop is going to do.
ReplyDeleteViolence to souls has already been done. Almighty God can "lance the boils" in our souls, but even He requires our cooperation. For a human pastor, this is a frightfully difficult task. (But putting it off doesn't help either.)
This sounds like the same situation they're having in the Archdiocese of St. Louis with St. Stanislaus Kostka parish, right down to the priest who entered formal schism by abandoning his post without leave.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the archbishop here is taking action, but I cannot help contrasting his performance and his statement unfavorably with those of Abp. Burke, who acted promptly and decisively. I find this letter, frankly, mealy-mouthed. There is really nothing inspiring about the "social justice" concerns of a parish in schism, when it comes right down to it; and what good can a parish "undoubtedly" do when it has severed communion with Rome? All "good" works are dead when performed by those in the state of mortal sin.
P.S. What is "wrong" with destroying a pagan idol set up in a Catholic church?
Prompt and decisive? That situation dragged on for years, if memory serves.
ReplyDeleteAlso, please consider that a statue of Budda is no more an "idol" than a statue of Jesus, Mary, or the saints, don't support the protestant claim about us.
I don't think Abp. Burke dinged around about dealing with St. Stanislaus; remember that he only became Archbishop of St. Louis in 2004.
ReplyDeleteI must disagree that a statue of Buddha is analogous to a statue of a saint.
I stand corrected. I was unaware of the perversions of Buddhism that are out there.
ReplyDeletethank you.
Catholic Encyclopedia article on Buddhism and Idolatry