Posted on 06/05/2023 6:16:01 PM PDT by ebb tide
Jesuit Father James Martin said this weekend celebrating Gay Pride is compatible with devotion to the Sacred Heart because both teach us about the love of Jesus.
“In June, Catholics celebrate the Month of the Sacred Heart,” Father Martin writes on Twitter. “LGBTQ people celebrate #PrideMonth. LGBTQ Catholics celebrate both. One shows us how Jesus loves. The other shows us whom Jesus calls us to love today.”
“Where would the Sacred Heart be today?” Martin asks in an accompanying tweet. “It would be poured out in love on these people who seek love and acceptance.”
On social media, many expressed perplexity at the priest’s assertion, insisting that taking pride in one’s homosexual activity or transgender identity seems diametrically opposed to the core of devotion to the Sacred Heart.
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Catholic devotion centered on atonement and reparation to the Heart of Jesus for one’s personal sins and the sins of mankind.
For his part, Saint Paul warned of those who take pride in the shameful things they do, since this makes them “enemies of the cross of Christ.”
Father Martin, a vocal proponent of LGBTQ rights, has come under fire from Catholic prelates in past years for affirming immoral sexual behavior rather than calling people to repentance and conversion.
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