“I have a bad, sad feeling that no matter what we say or write, you’re going to consider that we don’t love Jesus enough to comply with your standards. Even though He is more central to my life, more the subject of my love, devotion, and service, more the Lord of my life,....”
I am glad for you.
I have been of FR over 12 years and in that time I have noticed that Catholics rarely, if ever, post anything about Jesus Christ. I’ve seen thousands of articles about Mary - many thousands about the Pope, or some saint, or some bishop, or some practice of the Church, etc.
If I didn’t know better I would think he was a supporting actor.
I say this not out of any sense of animosity, nor out of a desire to win an argument, but because it is what I have seen with my own two eyes.
That’s a very interesting observation, and I don’t dispute it. I wonder if the reason is the same as the reason that I never post about breathing oxygen: it’s a given, it’s so basic to life, it’s assumed, it’s impossible to describe, it just IS. The other issues—the Pope, the Magisterium, the Blessed Virgin, points of doctrine, history, etc.—can be clarified, explained, defended, and advocated, but the Name above all names doesn’t need explanations or arguments. There’s no dispute about Him among Christians. The whole of the Church, of life, death, the Universe made by the Word, everything everything everything is Him. I can’t even think of anything to say about Him because He is all; I just fall on my knees. How do you post about that? The other things can be discussed or argued about, but we can’t argue about Him.