Kathryn Lopez
1. St. Leo the Great from the Liturgy of the Hours:
My dear brethren, there is no doubt that the Son of God took our human nature into so close a union with himself that one and the same Christ is present, not only in the firstborn of all creation, but in all his saints as well. The head cannot be separated from the members, nor the members from the head. Not in this life, it is true, but only in eternity will God be all in all, yet even now he dwells, whole and undivided, in his temple the Church. Such was his promise to us when he said: See, I am with you always, even to the end of the world.
And so all that the Son of God did and taught for the world’s reconciliation is not for us simply a matter of past history. Here and now we experience his power at work among us. Born of a virgin mother by the action of the Holy Spirit, Christ keeps his Church spotless and makes her fruitful by the inspiration of the same Spirit. In baptismal regeneration she brings forth children for God beyond all numbering. These are the sons of whom it is written: They are born not of blood, nor of the desire of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
In Christ Abraham’s posterity is blessed, because in him the whole world receives the adoption of sons, and in him the patriarch becomes the father of all nations through the birth, not from human stock but by faith, of the descendants that were promised to him. From every nation on earth, without exception, Christ forms a single flock of those he has sanctified, daily fulfilling the promise he once made: I have other sheep, not of this fold, whom it is also ordained that I shall lead; and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.
Although it was primarily to Peter that he said: Feed my sheep, yet the one Lord guides all the pastors in the discharge of their office and leads to rich and fertile pastures all those who come to the rock. There is no counting the sheep who are nourished with his abundant love, and who are prepared to lay down their lives for the sake of the good shepherd who died for them.
But it is not only the martyrs who share in his passion by their glorious courage; the same is true, by faith, of all who are reborn through baptism. That is why we are to celebrate the Lord’s paschal sacrifice with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. The leaven of our former malice is thrown out, and a new creature is filled and inebriated with the Lord himself. For the effect of our sharing in the body and blood of Christ is to change us into what we receive. As we have died with him, and have been buried and raised to life with him, so we bear him
within us, both in body and in spirit, in everything we do.
2.
Catholic Orders that Help the Poor http://t.co/dwRClj697B
— Elizabeth Yore (@ElizabethYore) April 15, 2015
3. I’ve been wanting to meet these people running a Catholic Worker house in Houston in the tradition of Dorothy Day. America has an interview.
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.@BishopOlmsted: Thoroughly Dominican but not a Religious: St. Catherine of Siena #YCL15 http://t.co/tu97VoAHYY pic.twitter.com/7PTmpZCSml
— The Catholic Sun (@thecatholicsun) April 15, 2015
5. Russell Shaw: With all its faults and failings, the Catholic Church is pretty wonderful–and it’s time to start saying so again.
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Salvation or Judgment through Embracing Light or Darkness – http://t.co/YFugu6lPZH
— Fr. Roger Landry (@FrRogerLandry) April 15, 2015
7. From Magnificat today (a letter to the magazine Traces):
I go to school in Boston, and was present for the bombing on [April 15, 2013]. I was not close to the finish line, but far too many people I knew were dangerously close to it, whether because they were running, and were half a mile from the end, or watching. I myself was cheering on the race a few miles away.
Once I heard what had happened, I desperately sought out my friends on campus. The afternoon was terrifying. I stayed cocooned within the company of my friends on campus until late in the evening as we watched the news, received anxious phone calls, and just accompanied each other. Ultimately, I left to go to Mass at 9 pm. Upon going back out, I felt as if a band-aid had been torn away. Immediately, fear was present, and I hurried to arrive at my destination.
At the Mass, I was able to look at this fear and I asked myself why had I felt wounded upon leaving the company of my friends and why I had so sought them out originally. It was because Christ, very simply, has to be real. I could not even accept the death of the three people until I had heard it from a friend. Christ has to be real before I can look at death.
What happened on [that] Monday is not extraneous to my life. It clarified the importance of what I do every day … living my faith in Someone present. Only if Love and Goodness can be met is this evil swallowed up. Fr. Julian Carrón has spoken so often of “journey” and the necessity of “doing the work” — yes, it can be laborious, and I can distance myself from it. But in the end, this journey is an embrace, without which I would be afraid.
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Iraqi archbishop teams up with pop band @ooberfuse to release anti-#ISIS anthem http://t.co/XLZ8zsQuMc pic.twitter.com/sZTvvm89jQ
— Catholic Herald (@CatholicHerald) April 15, 2015
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http://t.co/3OXD09nm8h Path to sainthood could open for priest who gave life on Titanic #History #Catholic pic.twitter.com/8UsjnCEcgd
— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) April 14, 2015
10. Three things I heard at Mass this morning:
It is our duty to show the way, show the truth, to show how beautiful life with Christ is #homilytweet
— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) April 15, 2015
The Christian life is not convenient but it is worth it.Ba good salesman 4 the Gospel by living it boldly,truthfully,lovingly. #homilytweet
— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) April 15, 2015
The best sermon we can give is a good example. #homilytweet
— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) April 15, 2015
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