Posted on 09/20/2022 2:08:04 PM PDT by MurphsLaw
MEMORIAL OF SAINTS ANDREW KIM TAE-GŎN, PRIEST, AND PAUL CHŎNG HA-SANG, AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS
LUKE 8:19–21
Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus identifies his disciples as his family.
I want to say something about our becoming disciples in his family.
Once we make the decision to follow Jesus,
then every other claimant to supremacy must fall away.
As I’ve argued many times before, every one of us has something
or some set of values that we consider greatest.
Perhaps it is money, material things, power, or the esteem of others.
Perhaps it is your family, your kids, your wife, your husband.
None of this is false, and none of these things are bad.
But when you place any of them in the absolute center of gravity, things go awry.
When you make any of them your ultimate or final good,
your spiritual life goes haywire.
When you attach yourself to any of them with an absolute tenacity,
you will fall apart.
Only when we make Christ the cornerstone of our lives are we truly ready for mission.
Keep in mind that every encounter with God in the Bible conduces to mission,
to being sent to do the work of the Lord.
If we try to do this work while we are stuck to any number of attachments, we will fail. Period.
Most beautiful thing I have read today. Amen.
Back to pimping Barron’s main website so soon, Murph?
What faith?
That no one’s in Hell and the Supreme Court should not reverse legalizing homo-marriage?
A faith where Boobie tells Jews that Jesus is only the “privileged” way to Heaven?
Barron spins a faith of Rainbow Stew:
“Drinking that free bubble up and eat’in that rainbow stew”.
No wonder people fall for such glad-happy talk. Like I said before, Barron is another Joel Olsteen.
What mullarkey! Giving credit for Lefeouf's conversion to Boobie and not the real reasons: St. Padre Pio and the TLM (of which Boobie is no fan).
Get back to me when Boobie converts a non-catholic (like Ben Shapiro) to Catholicism.
Boobie's mission is to make catholics feel good about themselves, to make protestants feel good about themselves, to make jews feel good about themselves; but most importantly, he makes homos feel good about themselves.
Think of Boobie as Sammy Davis, Jr.'s "Candyman".
And the bottom line is: the more people that Barron makes "happy"; the more money he rakes in.
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