Kathryn Lopez
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In all things we are victorious through your love;
take us into your care today.
– Stay with us, Lord Jesus. #lauds
— Fr. Patrick Brennan (@Pathound) July 8, 2015
2. Speaking of Twitter: a Twitter chat I helped lead today for the World Meeting of Families.
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One of the reasons we seek to pray through the day is so that… https://t.co/whU0JSQJeO pic.twitter.com/oTcVAJX7M4
— Marie Paul Curley (@SisterMPaul) July 8, 2015
4. Homily notes from Fr. Roger Landry today:
As part of the proclamation that God is among us, Jesus sends the 12 and us out with his authority to expel demons and heal every disease and illness. We need to be signs of that exorcism, no longer letting the prince of this world, the father of lies, have any dominion over us and bring people to Jesus to experience that same liberation. Likewise we need to be the nurses of the Divine Physician and, as Pope Francis never ceases of saying, healing the wounds of those today. The Church is a field hospital in battle, it’s a trauma unit, and so many are wounded physically, emotionally, relationally, spiritually. We’re sent out as Good Samaritans to try to care for people in their illnesses and to let Jesus and his healing into their lives, remembering that Jesus never healed just for healing sake, but to bring people to the deepest type of healing of all, spiritual healing by faith.
And:
As we go out to heal these wounds, it’s key for us to grasp that one of the most important ways we proclaim the message of the kingdom is through our own wounds that have been healed by Jesus. Jesus doesn’t always take our wounds away but he transforms them, just like his wounds in his Risen Body no longer bled. Just like he sent out forgiven sinners to proclaim that forgiveness of sins is possible, so he sends out the healed wounded in order to proclaim that healing of wounds is possible. He has allowed us to be wounded in the past so that he could heal us and so that we could be effective signs to those we meet that they too can receive that same gift. That’s the lesson we learn in the first reading from the story of Joseph the Patriarch. God allowed him to be wounded through his brothers’ envy precisely so that through his wounds he could be a source of divine healing through his brothers. In this he was a Christ-like figure, who did precisely the same thing, seeking to heal through his wounds the very people who were inflicting those wounds. Jesus wants us to be similar Christ-like figures. One of the greatest ways we proclaim the reality of the kingdom is not when everything is going well, but when we’re suffering and then we become credible witnesses that if God is with us in our wounds doing his healing work by redeeming our souls and reordering our lives through those wounds, then he can do the same with others.
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Francis: a poor man dying of cold isn't news. The market loosing one or two points is a catastrophy. I ask you: where is your brother?
— IneSM (@inesanma) July 7, 2015
6. From Fr. Lawrence Lew today:
that the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, is the successor of St Peter is not just a matter of politics and jurisdiction but is something essential to the Catholic faith, to the hierarchical structure of the Church, to the very transmission of the revealed truths of the Gospel. As the Dominican bishop Charles Morerod observes: “Faith comes to us through preaching, and the authority of the Church is the reference of true preaching. If two incompatible teachings are proposed for our acceptance, the way of knowing which one is part of divine revelation is the authority of the Church”.
The issues of papal primacy and infallibility, therefore, are not human inventions shaped by power politics and historical happenstance, as people sometimes make them out to be, but are a share in divine authority, a gift from Christ to the Church; something willed by Christ in the Gospels to make possible the preaching of the Kingdom. As such, adherence to the Bishop of Rome, is adherence to that truth which Christ revealed in the Gospels; it is obedience to Christ. Hence Vatican II teaches: “Jesus Christ… instituted in [the Pope] a permanent and visible source and foundation of unity of faith and communion”.
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"Pope Francis and Spiritual Virtuosos" http://t.co/qXWDwYNcj5 pic.twitter.com/KEyytS9iRR
— Word On Fire (@WordOnFire) July 8, 2015
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"Consecrated life in Ecuador means moving around, being with the least and the marginalized." -Sr. Marisol Sandoval pic.twitter.com/k4bAa9z0c8
— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) July 8, 2015
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"Do not fear." -St. Padre Pio #holyland #franciscans #saintquotes pic.twitter.com/0DnKoeq9a9
— FFHL (@FFHL_HQ) July 8, 2015
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12. More from Padre Pio (in a letter to Fr. Benedetto of San Marco in Lamis on July 7, 1913:
It seems to me that Jesus is always looking at me. If I sometimes lose God’s presence, I soon feel that Our Lord is calling me back to do what I ought to do. I do not know how to describe this voice that calls me. I know, though, that it is quite penetrating, and any soul that hears it can almost not refuse it.
Do not ask me, my father, how I know for sure that it is Our Lord who is showing himself to me in visions when I see nothing with my physical eyes or with the eyes of the spirit, because I do not know. I cannot say anything more than what I have said. I know only this: The one standing at my right side is Our Lord and no one else. And even before he told me who he was, my mind was already strongly impressed that it was he.
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