Dear Friends,continue at MadCatHerald
By the time you see this (I hope) our political elections will have been decided, but as I write this column we’ve not yet reached Election Day. In many ways I’m glad for this, as it allows for me to write to you without being affected by those outcomes. At the end of the day, our hope does not lay in any political candidate or party, and our ultimate destination is not even anywhere in this world. Our hope rests always in the Lord, our God, and our ultimate destination is His home, His Kingdom.
Depending on who has won or lost the elections, our work may become easier or more difficult, but regardless who wins or loses, our job is unchanged. It is our work as Catholic women and men to do all we can, to welcome ever more the gift of His Kingdom. The race for political office has ended, and we have seen just how much time and energy (not to mention money) has been expended in order to insure victory for this or that man or woman for the span of four or six years. With this perspective we must ask ourselves what we are doing in the race toward heaven? How can we do anything less than to expend similar time and energy toward victory for eternity? The Apostle Paul uses the analogy of an athletic race (1 Cor 9:23-27) to encourage us in our efforts to, “run the race so as to win!” And that analogy holds true here as well!
And how do we do that? First, of course, we do that by engaging in the New Evangelization, to renew our encounter and personal relationship with Jesus Christ and to convince our brothers and sisters who have begun to neglect their faith as to what it is that our faith teaches and as to what it is that Jesus Christ is trying to do in their lives. We’ve talked about the New Evangelization in previous columns and will do so through the year.
But the Truth of our faith is also borne out by the truths written on the hearts of each and every man and woman, including those who do not know Jesus Christ. And so we must work to convince them too. We’ve got to work -- and hard -- to awaken people to the truths written in their hearts and work hard to protect the ecology of human nature.
Knocks it out of the park.
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3 comments:
Now this is more like it. The only really sensible thing I read today. Wisconsin - the land of saints and prophets.
"Knocks it out of the park."
As usual. :D
"...work hard to protect the ecology of human nature"
Seriously?? "ecology of human nature". Gaaaaaagg!
Please, point me to a doctor, Father, or even saint that uses language like that.
Poor +Morlino is still in denial. The problem is not fundamentally the culture. The real problems are right in the heart of the Church. Until we get men in the hierarchy that can acknowledge first to themselves and then publicly to others that the priesthood and the episcopacy is rife with those without Zeal for the House of the Lord and frequently without the Faith itself, the "New Evangelization" will utterly fail like every other half-hearted attempt in last 50yrs.
"You cannot give what you do not have."
Church, heal thyself.
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