Who Will Step Up This Christmas and Speak the Truth in Love?
(Originally posted December 9, 2014)
[This is one of the two times each year when, I believe, our Lord most dreads the silence that will envelop far too many of our parishes. Someone needs to give voice to His yearnings. Where is the zeal for the salvation of souls?]
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Let us welcome with open arms the thousands who will flock to our Churches this Christmas – most especially those who rarely come to worship the God whose birth we commemorate.
But what does Love command we tell them?
Speaking the Truth is, at times, very difficult but necessary.
This is one of those times.
If our primary concern is for the salvation of souls (and it should be), silence about their absence from our midst during the rest of the year is not an option. Such silence will be construed as tacit approval of their continual and mortally sinful absence from Mass on Sundays and holydays of obligation. The failure to explain why many in attendance should refrain from receiving the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ is equally egregious.
Why are we afraid to share these Truths?
Will there ever be a better time to do so? Is it not preferable to risk offending the feelings of some visitors than to lose an opportunity to save a soul?
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