Posted on 09/07/2013 3:59:35 PM PDT by steelhead_trout
I think I love him :)
thanks for posting
I think you are not telling the truth and have no idea of what you are talking about Book of Jonah.
Yes to the first. No to the second.
I honestly think most practicing Catholics feel that way. However, the Church needs to stay out of politics. If they want to tell us to welcome the stranger, feed the hungry, etc. I'm fine with that. However, I draw the line on them trying to set legal policy. Look where it's gotten us - it's moved what is a religious obligation, i.e. charity, into the hands of the government. It's sick. We're a socialist nation now and members of our Church had a lot to do with that.
Nor ours as well. I hope someone takes a count - I'll bet it's not as many as the media has been drumming up. And I think the homily could've been preached at my parish with very little repercussions in the collection plate, i.e. most of my parish is too rich and too well employed to care on a personal level about immigration laws and most probably have a Catholic sense of welcoming the strangers in our midst. Yet our homily was on the letter to Philemon in the second reading. Touched on the Gospel a little bit.
The Harrisburg diocese has a lovely Latin Mass. It is doubtful that those priests will be talking about illegal aliens.
Here is the link to the church:
Regards,
Another reason why I finally opted to go non-denominational. Religion ties everything said to a whole mass of churches, etc. In non-denominational, instead of worrying about religiosity, sacraments, rites (we do Baptism as a open declaration and a Lord’s Supper/Communion where we follow His instructions and use it as a remembrance instead of a miracle of the transformation of food into Him - the holiness is from a sharing of the remembrance, not from some mystical event). The greatest part of the message is Jesus’ sacrifice and the Love of Him, the Father, and the Holy Spirit - it includes the Bible, cover-to-cover, and concentrates on the Word vs. religion. If a pastor goes rogue, there are plenty of other places to worship, but I’d hazard that there is a greater percentage of conservative, God-fearing, moralistic (pro-life, anti-homo “marriage”) in nondenominational churches than in any other religious sect of Christianity.
Not according to the Bible. The Master said, "My Kingdom is not of this world."
Politics married with religion is 'the social gospel,' which is not the Gospel of Christ at all. It is a false gospel, and the father of it is the Devil, IMHO.
:)I was on a roll last night.Guess I’m just angry.I am praying a rosary for the Bishops today-Our Lady’s Birthday.They did not read the letter at Mass today here.
No anti Catholic sentiments meant. Setting aside the religious claims by the Catholics and Protestants and looking at church support for illegal aliens from an historical perspective. Christian support for illegals is Cosmopolitanism which runs rampant as a culture dies. Cosmopolitanism is antithetical to love of the the Nation State. American protestants ONCE differed in that they loved our Nation. Today they too are becoming “Universal” and belong “to the world.” Again it is historical with a number of factors involved and time and space does not allow a complete discussion.
Went to my usual TLM here on Long Island, and Father said not a single word about illegal aliens.
Thought you might be interested.
Best regards,
No.
Although I am an energetic promoter of the Latin Mass I have to admit that a few years ago, at a time when unlawful immigration was in the news also, one homily did include a few words of “the immigrants are mostly good people”, etc (which may well be true). Nothing since, though.
Thanks for your advice and guidance. I went to mass today, and the homily was very nice. Related directly to the Gospel passage, nothing about immigration, amnesty etc. Next time, I won’t listen to silly, sensationalist journalism, particularly where religion is concerned.
Dear Steelhead, Thank you for your report. I read through the chain to see if you made it to mass and reported on what was said.
I have learned not trust to the generally secular, if not ‘anti-Christina’ media’s headlines.
Not Word One on immigration - preached on the Gospel for the day, and King Solomon, and a couple of other interesting topics about discerning God's will and acting on it.
Good homily.
We didn’t hear a peep about immigration—illegal or otherwise— in our priest’s homily today. He preached right from the Gospel, like he always does. And I live in Arizona and our parish has a HUGE Spanish-speaking population.
I would not go either but I would tell them why.
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