whole thing at Father ZWhen we are ignored, belittled or resisted because of our courageous fidelity to the Gospel of Life, we should pray, as we prayed, with the words of the Psalmist, in response to the First Reading:
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Though princes meet and talk against me,
your servant meditates on your statutes.
Yes, your decrees are my delight;
They are my counselors.[9]
[Pray, and vote.]
Those who would resist our testimony to the truth of the Gospel of Life should see on our faces the joy and peace of those who follow the law of the Lord. [This is not a small point. Often when I speak to people who have strife in their families over issues of the Faith, I will at some point offer the suggestion that they should show to their loved ones who are fallen away or of a different or no faith, that they are joyful in the Faith, that being a Catholic brings joy. Joy is attractive. Gloom is not. Persistent joy is alluring.]
FatherZ: Card. Burke's sermon in Houston
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Yes!
Loving Jesus, being in love with Jesus, has to be the absolutely central point of our love for the Catholic Tradition.
The Saints and Martyrs of the ages, especially in the first centuries of Christianity; and especially (I'm Anglo-Irish here) the martyrs of the English so-called Reformation are the witnesses of loving Jesus in His Church amidst all kinds of pain, suffering, torture and horrid deaths.
Cardinal Burke is the voice of Jesus!
Praise Him that we have this witness in this day and age!!
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