Posted on 05/08/2009 10:50:01 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
John 21:15-17
When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” A second time he said to him, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.”
Feed my lambs: Grow the young in the church.
Tend my sheep: Keep the sheep in line with Jesus’ teachings, disciplining where necessary.
Feed my sheep: Nuture in the church.
Where is this bishop “tending” the sheep?
Could one be a Klansman and subscribe to the NAACP at the same time? Or vice versa? What has gotten into the human race that nothing can be defined?
Cutting and pasting doesn’t make you an author; claiming that you’re an author only proves that you’re an egomaniac.
“There has to be SOME line doesn’t there?
Could one be a Klansman and subscribe to the NAACP at the same time? Or vice versa? What has gotten into the human race that nothing can be defined?”
Apparently so. Very good analogy BTW.
“...and it wasn’t a way we convinced Catholic politicians to appropriate the faith and live it and apply it; the challenge has always been to convince people.’’ Whereas sanctioning them, in his view, has the opposite effect.”
Mr. R—You captured my thought so to add to your observation, it seems that, given His Excellency’s preference for ‘convincing’ [a proper choice of word, as opposed to let’s say converting or saving a soul, because we try to convince a mind] catholic politicians and their catholic followers, it is he who is perhaps inadvertently participating in what he describes as the politicization of the Eucharist.
Yes, thanks for the correction. :)
She has already excommunicated herself and cannot receive Holy Communion worthily anyway!
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