Posted on 12/24/2019 12:50:52 PM PST by ebb tide
It didn't happen just anywhere, no, it happened in that which used to be the central learning institution for thousands of Irish priests sent around the world to teach the Catholic and Apostolic Faith, Maynooth. The preacher was the President of Saint Patrick's College Maynooth himself, Father Michael Mullaney.
Even Jesus had to confront his ingrained prejudices; indeed, even racism. The Gospels recount his stunning and unique encounter with a Syro-Phoenician woman desperately seeking a cure for her sick daughter. The disciples dismiss her as she was considered racially inferior. Surprisingly, Jesus sharply rejects her appeal. His mission is to the Jews only; his tribe; the children of God. When the woman insists, Jesus dismisses her again– calling her shockingly a ‘dog’ – a racial slur. The woman doesn’t challenge his insult. Like so many victims in history, she has internalized her inferiority. But her repartee: “Even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs” is the only recorded encounter that left Jesus speechless. If we truly celebrate the mystery of the Incarnation, of God who takes human flesh, it should not surprise us that Jesus could not have avoided the effects of the prejudices that had shaped his human and cultural identity from childhood. [source]
Ping
Judas Priest.
I don’t see ANY problem with this, beyond the stupid virtue-signalling it will doubtless invoke.
*Spoiler Alert*
Jesus heals the the woman’s daughter.
If it comes from a catholic church clergy, it isn’t from a Christian organization anyway, not with that organization’s latest nonsense.
With fiends like Mullaney who needs enemas?
Nothing says Christian like someone praying to a mortal woman.
Earlier when the Lord healed the centurian’s servant He said that He’d not found such faith in Israel.
Now, get this, Peter’s mother in law is sick at home, Peter knows it, Jesus obviously knows about it, but there’s no mention of a Peter mentioning it to Jesus.
These two events (healing the servant and healing the mother in law) happen essentially one after the other.
What would be the odds that when the Lord praised the centurian’s faith he glanced Peter’s way?
Wait.... What??? I am not Catholic, but why would Jesus, who is part of the trinity, who created the different races be racist against his creation. It doesn’t sound like the Jesus that I serve.
That priest has slipped a cog.
Where in the Gospels is this incident?
So, if Jesus was a racist, and racism is a sin, then Jesus wasn’t sinless, and His death could not redeem us. What am I missing here. Our faith is meaningless, and we should all vote Democrat. I GET it, and I REJECT it.
I’m always reminding people not to confuse religion with God. Some religions only serve to remind us of how badly some folks are in need of God. (Not casting aspersions on any particular denomination.)
Obviously, the Father Mullany is a Secular, Roman Catholic Priest.
I have heard some nutty sermons. This one (sans context) is the most bizarre.
Strong Catholic baiting here. Not gonna bite...
Pure insanity.
Christ was sent, as stated in Matthew 15, only to the lost children of Israel. His own Nation.
It is apparently God’s nature, as well as our own, to take care of ours before dispensing magnanimity to the “other”.
We’re made that way for a good reason, and we’d better never forget that the “other” is made the same way by the same God.
Ascribing SIN to the Son of God is BLASPHEMY.
He is Holy and completely without SIN.
And that was after Jesus noted that the woman had expressed great faith even though she was not a Jew. The incident thus illuminated that even for gentiles, faith in Jesus can provide a path to healing and deliverance from evil.
That is what I was taught as a Catholic. For years, during bitter days of public school segregation, my Catholic elementary school had been under threat from the Klan because it taught black and white children together.
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