Posted on 02/09/2025 3:31:25 PM PST by heartwood
Went to Mass. Most political homily from the deacon I've ever heard.
We've cancelled USAID, we don't help the hungry, we don't welcome the refugee.
A dig at Vance, without naming him, in that we are not supposed to have primary duty and love to family, then community, church, country, humanity - subsidiarity. No, the stranger is our family.
I approached him after mass, I said his homily was uncharitable to those who in good faith and careful thought had formed different political conclusions.
He denied the homily was political, it was about the Gospel. "Read the Gospel." So if I were a good Christian I would agree with him! Patronizing and dismissive.
I kept thinking that man and I read very different news sources.
Oh dear God help me be charitable.
The parish where no mention was ever made of the assassination attempts on Trump, no prayer for the peace of our land.
God before politics, before country, before everything, but they do make it hard.
Prudence is a virtue and yet Christian love is a most imprudent thing. Love your enemies. It is love to love and help the lost and the prisoner and the addict and the Muslim - but it is not love to house them next to your neighbors' daughters.
Off my chest.
Aaaaargh.
Most Catholic leaders over 50 are very liberal.
Threw a huge difference between practicing Catholicism and the political entity that is the Catholic Church.
You really should go elsewhere and not support them by your presence.
That’s because the churches have been infiltrated by influence from Schwartz Gyorgy, Bill Gates and the world enslavement forum.
I went to that church from another diocese after an Easter homily at my local parish about the Resurrection as metaphor.
For many years there was a wonderful pastor...and now there isn’t.
Men who have given their lives to the priesthood or diaconate and strive to do good for the Lord...I have to honor that.
Catholics are generally good people. Their church.... not so much.
...Pro-abort in front of me, LGBT behind; all of them immaculate, standing in the Communion line.
Need to leave.
Don’t stay at a church where they allow politics to twist the Word of Gods into something it wasn’t ever meant to be.
I certainly wouldn’t tithe to them either. That’s something only false church’s understand.
I preached on today’s readings to an institute of priests. There is virtually no way to make those readings political. Shame on your deacon for using his office as a place to express his political views.
Younger Catholics are more likely to be conservative, as everyone has noticed.
Shake the dust from your feet.
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What?
U.S. policy prevents your church from feeding the hungry and welcoming the refugee?
How is that not political?
You should try a church sometime, they are usually better.
Liberals bitch and moan about un-truths that they pick up from Liberal/Deep State propaganda.
They are unable and incapable of recognizing the truth.
From the General Superintendents Church if the Nazarene. This is not the whole statement, but notice that they changed the word “stranger” to “immigrant.” We checked several translations. No where does it say “immigrant.”
“....Jesus said: “I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was an immigrant and you invited me in” (Matthew 25:35, NIV).
“Do not forget to show hospitality to immigrants, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels” (Hebrews 13:2, NIV).
While we recognize the complexity of immigration laws in various nations, the Board of General Superintendents calls on Nazarenes around the world:
To treat immigrants with love, respect, and mercy.
To participate sacrificially in local, national, and global compassionate ministry responses to assist refugees and immigrants.
To encourage their respective governments to approve equitable laws that will allow for family reunification, legal work permits for productive immigrants in the workforce, and pathways for undocumented immigrants to be able to obtain authorized immigrant status.
To follow the clear biblical mandate to love, welcome, assist, evangelize, and disciple the immigrants near us.”
I am probably making too big a deal out of it, but now I REALLY want to send a “remove my membership” letter.
Just to make sure I was not losing my little mind, I looked up about 50 different versions on MySword. All of them say stranger except the very aptly titled “Literal Version” which says needy travelers. The fact that the BGS aslo translates Leviticus as ‘stranger’ shows no respect for the Jewish theologians and rabbis who always comented on that as people who joined themselves to Israel and are becoming Jewish, i.e. Ruth and Rahab as examples.
Based on today’s Gospel?
When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at the knees of Jesus and said,
“Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.”
Congrats to you for talking to the Deacon about his ‘homily’. Most of us would just walk away with some unkind thoughts.
Thank you for looking the verses up. I, too, thought my mind was gone.
We thought we knew the word was “stranger,” because we (my husband and I) had learned at least the Hebrews verse as kids. He looked up the other verses in various translations on his Kindle.
They twisted the words. You cannot tell me that all those translators are wrong and that the GSs are correct. It is disgusting, they should be embarrassed.
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