Paul was not ashamed of the Gospel and his example is an inspiration to all Catholics. One of the great dramas taking place in the Church today, I’m convinced, is about whether we’re ashamed of Jesus’ teaching about the indissolubility of marriage or whether we think it’s part of the truth that sets people free, part of the Gospel that, although hard to live in circumstances, is meant to bring us to God and fill us with joy.
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It’s often some priests, religious and Catholics professionally involved in education that are among the most ashamed. These are among the issues that make many members of Christ’s flock sheepish with regard to living and sharing the faith.
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Contrary to gender ideology, we believe that God made us male and female in his image and that is part of his plan. It’s important that we confront and with God’s grace overcome any embarrassment we have over our faith. There are many in the Church who are ashamed of the Gospel. In the context of an aggressive secularism that is pushing hedonism, materialism, individualism, and rationalistic empiricism, and often mocks Church teaching as the morality of unenlightened, antediluvian cavemen, many feel somewhat humiliated to give witness to their Catholic faith. Many Catholics have been made to feel that the Gospel is not only “bad news,” but on occasion even ridiculous. Catholics after all believe that we adore and eat God himself in Holy Communion, even though to the world all we’re doing is consuming cheap bread and wine. We believe, according to Jesus’ own words, that the path of happiness is spiritual poverty instead of riches, purity instead of sexual profligacy, spiritual hunger instead of satiety, meekness instead of strength, and persecution instead of popularity. We believe in praying for persecutors, forgiving those who hate us seventy times seven times, and turning the other cheek. We believe that we shouldn’t commit even the slightest sin even if we were able to win the whole world. And then we get to the really controversial issues for people today! We believe that the Pope is infallible - he cannot make a mistake, ever - on something that he teaches to be definitively held by all the faithful on something we need to believe (faith) or do (morals) to please God and enter into his life. We believe that even though men and women are equal in dignity before God, only men are capable of being ordained priests.We believe that no one should morally be able to take the life of the unwanted child growing within her through abortion. We believe that everyone should remain chaste and sexually abstinent until marriage, and that all sex outside of marriage is sinful. We believe that even though almost everyone, including Catholic married couples, use some form of contraception at some point in their marriages, it is still wrong. We profess to love those with same-sex attractions while at the same time saying that they should never, ever act on those attractions by engaging in same-sex sexual activity.Paul emphatically tells the Romans at the beginning of today’s epistle. Those are very strong words for someone who, at a human level, might have had many reasons to be shamefaced and silent about the Gospel. After all, he was scourged, beaten with rods stoned, shipwrecked, ambushed, hunted down and imprisoned on account of the Gospel. He was crisscrossing the globe to preach preposterously that a publicly executed carpenter from an obscure village not only had risen the dead and was alive but was also the Lord and Son of God. Jesus’ crucifixion, he knew, was a laughing stock for Greeks and an embarrassing scandal for Jews. But despite it all he stressed that he was not ashamed of the Gospel, in all its paradoxical details, because he knew that, however improbable it might seem to human wisdom, it was in fact the power and wisdom of God. The following points were attempted during the homily: To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click below: Tuesday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I Visitation Mission of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan
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Retreats for Priests, Deacons, and Seminarians.