Posted on 10/12/2022 11:40:05 AM PDT by MurphsLaw
Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus says,
“Woe also to you scholars of the law!
You impose on people burdens hard to carry,
but you yourselves do not lift one finger to touch them.”
Some religious leaders get their kicks from burdening people,
laying the law on them heavily, making demands that are terrible,
exulting in their own moral superiority.
At the core of Jesus’ program is a willingness to bear other people’s burdens,
to help them carry their loads. And this applies to the moral life as well.
If we lay the burden of God’s law on people, we must be willing,
at the same time, to help them bear it.
When were you cured by Christ and how? What was it like to receive,
through the Church, his healing touch?
When did you feel ostracized, despised, unworthy—
and how did Christ, through his Church,
restore you to health and communion?
Remember that moment and share it.
Then one of the scholars of the law said to him in reply,
“Teacher, by saying this you are insulting us too.”
And he said, “Woe also to you scholars of the law!
You impose on people burdens hard to carry,
but you yourselves do not lift one finger to touch them.”+++
Simple: In the Sacrament of Confession.
What was it like to receive, through the Church, his healing touch?
Simple: A joyful cleansing and a firm resolve to ammend my life and experience God's true mercy, not Bergoglio's false mercy for unrepentant homos and adulterers.
When did you feel ostracized, despised, unworthy—
Daily, when heretics like Bergoglio, Barron, Cupich, Gregory, McElroy, Tobin, et al, deride and persecute traditional Catholics.
Boobie is clueless to the questions he poses; and so are those who continue to post his trash.
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