Sunday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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At that time the Lord appointed seventy-two others whom he sent ahead
of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit. He said to them, “The harvest is abundant but
the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for
his harvest. Go on your way; behold, I
am sending you like lambs among wolves…"
I am sending you. Our whole way of life will soon change
in America because of the recent Supreme Court decision overturning DOMA
(Defense of Marriage Act). State
Amendments defining marriage between a man and a woman will be overturned by
Federal Courts. States will be forced to
perform and recognize same-sex marriages.
Church institutions will cease to operate because local governments will
consider them to be discriminatory. Churches
will be boycotted by organizations preaching “tolerance.” Couples will boycott Church weddings to show
their in solidarity with those they deem to be “oppressed.”
The minority opinion, with the
support of the Mass Media, will quickly turn into the majority opinion, and the
minority will be left to suffer (just as the minority suffered before them). But there will be no rise of this minority. They will be crushed.
Have no doubts: the Lord wants us in the fight. Have not doubts: Christ wants us in the midst of this battle.
I love to point out hypocrisy,
and I love to analyze it.
I can’t quite remember the
headline, but a few weeks ago, The Dallas Morning News (the DaMN), ran a story
with the headline: “Chaos above the Senate Floor.”
They were referring to the noise caused by a large number of abortion
rights advocates screaming and whistling at Senators attempting to vote on a
bill restricting abortions to twenty weeks.
That was “chaos?” Chaos?
Now, if the advocates screaming and whistling had been pro-life
advocates, what would they have written?
Probably something like, “Criminals
above the Senate Floor.”
Not to change the subject too
much, but did you notice the numerous Fourth of July commercials from ASPCA
featuring Willie Nelson’s song “You Were
Always on My Mind”? How
beautiful. I really liked the commercial
the first, second and third time I saw it.
I started to get annoyed around the 10th and 11th
time I saw it. And then I thought to
myself, “Couldn’t they have done the same
thing for babies as well?”
Our poor babies! Far too
many of us have far more sympathy for dogs and cats then for our fetuses!!!
In this season of “Pro-Choice”
advocates screaming and whistling and Pro-Life advocates praying and kneeling,
I think we should take a moment to imagine a commercial featuring our most vulnerable
children, those who have come so far and yet will never see the light of day.
My dear children, “You Are Always On My Mind!”
Last night I had dinner with a
friend. He had a pretty good
observation. He said to me, “Father, the day NASA discovers one living
cell on a planet, they will declare that life was found. But a fetus in womb is not a life. How stupid!” The hypocrisy!
My dear friends, the work is
plentiful but the laborers are few. We
need more laborers. We need you. We need you to start chiming in during conversations
with friends and family. Do not be
afraid. We are living exciting
moments. The truth is obvious. It does not need inventing.
May Christ words be on our mind,
on our lips and in our hearts.
Then Dallas Symphony was doing a rehearsal with Willie Nelson in a tent in the heat. It seems that Mr. Nelson cannot read music. So, when we needed to go over something, the conductor could not say, "Start at letter B". We had to go all the way back to the beginning every time something needed to be corrected. We had to endure, and the DSO had to pay for, two hours of time and a half overtime. I think of that every time I see him on TV, usually doing a commercial. I don't think he was ever invited back. . . . .
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