Daily Mass Gospel Reflection

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 7-4-2021 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mark 6:1-6

Friends, today’s Gospel develops a theme that is uncomfortable. It tells how the people of Nazareth rejected Jesus. Authentically religious people, authentically spiritual people, will almost always be opposed. The logic behind this is simple and unanswerable: we live in a world gone wrong, a world turned upside down; therefore, when someone comes speaking the truth to us, we will think that they are crazy and dangerous.

Think for just a moment what would happen to you if you consistently and publicly spoke the word of God to our culture. If you spoke out against abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, human trafficking, rampant materialism, and ideological secularism, what would happen to you? If you presented, in a full-throated way, the full range of Catholic social and moral and spiritual teaching, what would they do to you? Today’s Gospel offers a clue.

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I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may
dwell with me.
Therefore, I am content with weaknesses,
insults,
hardships, persecutions, and constraints,
for the sake of Christ;
for when I am weak, then I am strong.

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If you spoke out against abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, human trafficking, rampant materialism, and ideological secularism, what would happen to you?

I noticed the homo-friendly bishop left out homosexual activity.

Bp. Barron hit with massive backlash after praising pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin

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The Troubling Kinship of Bishop Barron and Father Martin

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Anyone who says that either of our political parties perfectly, or even adequately, represents Catholic social thought is simply misinformed. Broadly speaking, the Democratic Party advocates a number of themes and principles reverenced by the Catholic tradition: concern for the underprivileged, for the migrant and refugee, and for the environment, as well as opposition to capital punishment and to all forms of racism. And again, broadly speaking, the Republican Party sides with Catholic teaching in a number of ways: opposition to abortion and euthanasia, defense of the traditional family, advocacy for conscience protection and freedom of religion. Which of the two parties is more “Catholic?” It seems to me impossible to adjudicate the question in the abstract.Bishop Robert Barron

Poor Bobby can't even differentiate between "concern for the environment and "opposition to capital punishment" from abortion and euthanasia. It's "impossible" for him to do so.

If he dared to side one way or another, he would become less popular, his greatest fear (since Hell is empty).

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Anyone who says that either of our political parties perfectly, or even adequately, represents Catholic social thought is simply misinformed. Broadly speaking, the Democratic Party advocates a number of themes and principles reverenced by the Catholic tradition: concern for the underprivileged, for the migrant and refugee, and for the environment, as well as opposition to capital punishment and to all forms of racism. And again, broadly speaking, the Republican Party sides with Catholic teaching in a number of ways: opposition to abortion and euthanasia, defense of the traditional family, advocacy for conscience protection and freedom of religion. Which of the two parties is more “Catholic?” It seems to me impossible to adjudicate the question in the abstract.

Note in the above comparison of political parties, Barron again fails to address the pink elephant in the room: homosexual activism. Why? Because it would make him less popular.

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Do not reply to my threads unless you have the courage or backbone to answer the questions I have asked of you - as you demand of others.

And so you know, ad homina may be fun and cool... but it ain't Christian.

Answer my questions.

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“when someone comes speaking the truth to us, we will think that they are crazy and dangerous”

Trump.

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A VERY succinct point you make...
And don't I know it !!!
When he announced, I thought he was a joke..a media stunt.... and since he was a Hillary fan boy in 2008, I was convinced it was a ploy to tank the election for Bill's wife....
Boy was I wrong....
A lesson learned about preconceptions...