Showing posts with label Poor Example. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poor Example. Show all posts

Just Eat The Pork Under Protest!

 

Just Eat The Pork Under Protest! 

(Originally posted on June 30, 2013. Tragically not much has changed since then.)

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One of my favorite characters in the Old Testament (2 Maccabees 6:18-31) is Eleazar, a ninety year old Jewish scribe, a “teacher of the Law.” He was ordered to eat pork in violation of the Mosaic Law or be killed. He preferred death rather than offend God.

Pondering Tidbits of Truth - May 18, 2017



(Photo©Michael Seagriff)
Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time.


Juan Donoso Cortes

"Those who pray do more for the world than those who fight, and if the world is going from bad to worse, it is because there are more battles than prayers."


(From The Soul of the Apostolate)

Worth Revisiting - You Are Being Watched

Another Wednesday and another opportunity to thank Allison Gingras and Elizabeth Riordan for their weekly invitation to re-post our favorite posts on Worth Revisiting.


Go there now (and every Wednesday) and let an interesting group of Catholic bloggers nourish you in your Faith journey.

Visit Allison at  Reconciled To You and Elizabeth at Theology Is A Verb during the rest of each week.  You will enjoy your visit. 

I thought I would share one of my more recent posts:


Monday Musings - You Are Being Watched!

(Originally published February 13, 2017)



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Contemporary commentators often report that there is not much difference between the manner in which the majority of Catholics act with respect to such issues, for example, as the active homosexual life style, abortion, cohabitation, contraception, euthanasia, and fetal stem cell research, and how the rest of the non-Catholic population acts.


How tragic! 


Has it been the poor example of Catholics that have led others astray? Or have Catholics simply abandoned their faith in order to fit in? An affirmative answer to either of these questions is a damning admission.


Alas, we have forgotten who we are, whom we are called to be,  how we are to live our lives, and where we are going.

Eucharistic Reflection - Would A Stranger Know?

  "The Eucharist is alive. If a stranger who knew nothing about the Eucharist were to watch the way we receive, would he know...