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Homily today: Ordinatio Sacerdotalis
Much to the consternation of about .0005% of the congregation today, our Assc. Pastor mentioned JP II’s encyclical that declares the Church does not have the authority to ordain women to the priesthood. It didn’t tie in gracefully with Pentecost, but it did tie in with The Situation did tie in nicely with his theme in the last few weeks of the question: Is Jesus God?
If Jesus was God, could he have chosen apostles who were women? Or do we think that our pal Jesus just a historical figure that was bound by the customs of his time?
Someone explain this to me: Why do some people think that the socio-economic changes that ocurred in America since the 1960’s should also be applied to the 2,000 year old Church of Christ? Do they know more than JP II what’s good for the Church? More than St. Catherine of Sienna? More than St. Francis? St. Teresa Avila? St. Paul? Or even Jesus – who made the choice Himself?
God on earth. He did a lot of things that were “counter-cultural” including die on the cross for us.

and not the tasty kind that comes in a can!

Got this in my electronic mail today:

I have visited www.catholiclight.blogspot.com and noticed that your website is not listed on some search engines.

The message goes to plug a service we can use to make this site more visible. If it would draw some visitors from the Vatican I might just do it. At this time, however, being listed on other Catholic blogs is quite enough!

My brother had enough time today to alphabetize our blogs links. That’s nuts.

and told you He had someone very dear to Him that He needed you to take care of. Someone that no one else could fully provide for, nurture, care for, feed, clothe, respect, get to church on Sundays, teach about life and faith and the sacraments, pray with, pray for and most of all, love. Jesus would tell you this person is a temple of His Spirit. Someone whose arms and hands Jesus would use for as instruments of His mercy and kindness. Someone whose mouth He would use to preach his Gospel. Someone who He wanted in Heaven with Him forever. Someone who suffered and died for, someone for whom He suffers still.

On this day of Pentecost realize Jesus has done just that with each one of us. That someone is you. He’s given you YOU. “Love your neighbor as you love yourself” is not only a commandment, it is a fact. We will love others to the extent we love ourselves.

when he changes the title on his blog.