Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Preaching the Risen Christ

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 7-8-2021 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

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Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Matthew 10:7-15

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus sent the twelve to evangelize the countryside. To evangelize is to proclaim Jesus Christ crucified and risen from the dead. When this kerygma, this Paschal Mystery, is not at the heart of the project, Christian evangelization effectively disappears, devolving into a summons to bland religiosity or generic spirituality.

When Jesus crucified and risen is not proclaimed, a beige and unthreatening Catholicism emerges, a thought system that is, at best, an echo of the environing culture. Peter Maurin, one of the founders of the Catholic Worker movement, said that the Church has taken its own dynamite and placed it in hermetically sealed containers and sat on the lid.

In a similar vein, Protestant theologian Stanley Hauerwas commented that the problem with Christianity is not that it is socially conservative or politically liberal but that “it is just too damned dull”! For both Maurin and Hauerwas, what leads to this attenuation is a refusal to preach the dangerous and unnerving news concerning Jesus risen from the dead.

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+++"The laborer deserves his keep.
Whatever town or village you enter, look for
a worthy person in it,
and stay there until you leave.
As you enter a house, wish it peace.
If the house is worthy,
let your peace come upon it;
if not, let your peace return to you.
Whoever will not receive you or listen to
your words—
go outside that house or town and shake
the dust from your feet.
Amen, I say to you, it will be more
tolerable
for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the
day of judgment
than for that town.”+++

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When Jesus crucified and risen is not proclaimed, a beige and unthreatening Catholicism emerges, a thought system that is, at best, an echo of the environing culture.

Which is what the heretic, Barron, is guilty of.

He proclaims Jesus Christ is just the "privileged way" to salvation to those who are not Catholic. That is not evangelization.

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Ahhh.... but you are righteous... you are not in need of evangelizing.... for you have already your reward....

15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.
16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees(L) saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

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I need evangelizing from good shepherds, not wolves like your heretic, Bobby Barron.

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And I've told you over and over
these posts ARE NOT INTENDED for you....
you are righteous, you already know what many don't...
You have been given that privilege...
Stop wasting it...

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And I’ve told you over and over:

Bobby Barron is a heretic and anybody who pimps him is not a faithful Catholic.

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you already know what many don't...

No, I'm just a simple Catholic who knows that Catholics only worship God. They don't worship Mary, as you have claimed.