Yesterday, in a small upstate
Village in New York
State , thousands of adoring
and appreciative boxing fans came out to cheer and pay tribute to several boxing legends
and a well-known national actress who processed and paraded through the Village’s
streets.
Months of preparation went into
this annual event. Many came several hours before the parade began in order to
stake claim to prime viewing positions. This weekend event attracts national
television and media coverage, as well as visitors from all parts of this nation
and even from some foreign countries – assembled to publicly honor and pay
homage to men and women who made a living by physically pummeling each other.
They certainly have the right to do so.
This acclaimed group of human celebrities paraded right past the local
Catholic Church, where the only Divine Person deserving of such public acclamation
and worship remained locked in a tabernacle, ignored, unappreciated and alone.
Last week we Catholics celebrated
the Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. We were and
have been encouraged for centuries to take Him out of the locked tabernacles
in our churches on this feast day and to honor and adore the King of King and Lord of Lords, by publicly
processing and carrying Him onto and over the streets of our cities, towns and
villages. Few, so very few, parishes were or have been willing to do so. How
can that be?
I guess we value those who punch
each other with their hands more than He Who allowed Himself to be pummeled,
crucified and killed out of love for us.
Doesn’t seem right to me.
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