I almost walked out of church today when the substitute priest devoted his homily to Earth Day. It was all I could do to keep myself from commentiing to him on the way out.
Fr. Veik tried to link Earth Day to St. Francis of Asissi, claiming that he had ariginated it. (I’ve never heard that before.) I wanted to ask him if he had ever heard of Ira Einhorn and Holly Maddux. Instead, I just offered the Mass for Holly.
If Fr. wants to credit St. Francis, that’s all well and good. But, he should differentiate between the good Saint, and the modern Marxists and Murderers who have co-opted the idea of Earth Day, IMHO.
I did give my pastor a verbal reprimand after he incorporated college football into one of his services...my wife and I never returned. He discovered that not every resident of Tennessee was a ‘Vols’ fan...
You should have walked out of the Homily. It’s not one of the required three main parts of the Holy Mass and anti-Christian at that.