Worth Revisiting - The Real Reason for The Confusion and Chaos in Our Nation and Our Church

Thank you Elizabeth Riordan at Theology Is A Verb for hosting Worth Revisiting each week. It is a privilege to share our work with you and your followers.  Here is my contribution.

The Real Reason for The Confusion and Chaos in Our Nation and Our Church

(Originally posted on August 3, 2020)

This is a "must listen to homily" given at the Vigil Mass at St. Daniel Church in Syracuse, New York by 94 year old Monsignor Eugene Yennock.

I received the video link embedded below from a friend and faithful Catholic who reminded me that the good Monsignor "is noted for his straight forward talks" and "for saying it the way it is."

This is the way Truth must be presented to those who have never heard it, abandoned it, forgotten it, or rejected it. This humble and courageous prelate is a model for all our priests to follow. He is an invaluable gift to the Catholic Church and to our Syracuse Diocese. The clarity of his teaching is sorely needed today.

You honor the God he has so faithfully served as a priest for seventy years by taking his words to heart and by sharing his homily with family, friends and the general public.

The homily is 16 minutes in length. You can view and hear it here. It begins around the 15:50 mark.

Let us never cease praying for our priests!

 

Monday Musings - The Real Reason for the Confusion and Chaos in Our Nation and Our Church

This is a "must listen to homily" given at the Vigil Mass at St. Daniel Church in Syracuse, New York by 94 year old Monsignor Eugene Yennock.

I received the video link embedded below from a friend and faithful Catholic who reminded me that the good Monsignor "is noted for his straight forward talks" and "for saying it the way it is."

This is the way Truth must be presented to those who have never heard it, abandoned it, forgotten it, or rejected it. This humble and courageous prelate is a model for all our priests to follow. He is an invaluable gift to the Catholic Church and to our Syracuse Diocese. The clarity of his teaching is sorely needed today.

You honor the God he has so faithfully served as a priest for seventy years by taking his words to heart and by sharing his homily with family, friends and the general public.

The homily is 16 minutes in length. You can view and hear it here. It begins around the 15:50 mark.

Let us never cease praying for our priests!

St. Catherine of Siena - A Hidden Gem - A Valued Guide - A Source of Wisdom

Today we Dominicans joyfully remember our beloved sister, St. Catherine of Siena. 

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons)

What a treasure St. Catherine of Siena is! One does not become a Doctor of the Church by being fearful to express, teach and live God's Truth in its entirety. 

How ill-advised we are to discount, ignore or try to nuance the wisdom God has shared over the centuries through such faithful servants as she.  Less likely would we be to commit this error if our primary concern was the salvation of souls. No wonder those who wish to only tickle our ears and destroy our consciences ignore these great spiritual writers, abandoning God's Truth for a less demanding and counterfeit one.

The following words  Jesus shared with St. Catherine in the 14th century are clear and unambiguous directions to his shepherds - not only those living then but for those among us today. May we and they be given the grace, humility and wisdom to hear and follow His Inerrant Voice:

"No rank, whether of civil or divine law, can be held in grace without holy justice.  For those who are not corrected and those who do not correct are like members beginning to rot, and if the doctor were only to apply ointment without cauterizing the wound, the whole, body would become fetid and corrupt.

So it is with prelates or with anyone else in authority. 

Worth Revisiting - Choose The Clarity of Truth

 

 

We thank Allison Gingras at Reconciled To You  and Elizabeth Riordan at Theology Is A Verb  for hosting Worth Revisiting each week. It is a privilege to share our work with them and their followers.

 

Monday Mornings - Choose The Clarity of Truth

(Originally posted on July 17, 2017) 

Few Pontiffs spoke with such clarity and authority than the late St. John Paul II. Anchor your soul to the certainty of His teaching. 

Run from those who wish to replace the clear waters of Truth with doubt and uncertainty. They will lead you to eternal damnation.

Truth does not hide itself behind ambiguity. Satan does:

Monday Mornings - Choose The Clarity of Truth

Few Pontiffs spoke with such clarity and authority than the late St. John Paul II. Anchor your soul to the certainty of His teaching. 

Run from those who wish to replace the clear waters of Truth with doubt and uncertainty. They will lead you to eternal damnation.

Truth does not hide itself behind ambiguity. Satan does:
 

Worth Revisiting - A Plea to Save Human Lives and Souls

Thank you Allison Gingras  (Reconciled To You) and Elizabeth Riordan (Theology Is A Verb) for another opportunity to re-publish our favorite posts on Worth Revisiting.

Stop for a visit now (and every Wednesday). The gifted writers who post there each week will no doubt have much of value to offer you.

Monday Musings - A Plea To Save Human Lives and Souls! 

(Originally published October 10, 2016)

This is not a political post. It is a moral exhortation, a plea to save human lives and souls!

(The Truth is a Person - Jesus Christ)

Speaking the Truth should not be a rarity in the pulpits of our country. Since the salvation of souls is the primary purpose of the Catholic Church’s existence, Truth should be an ever-present pulpit visitor.

But alas Truth is an infrequent guest there.

As a result, souls are being lost and millions of human lives, in and out of the womb, are being prematurely snuffed out and discarded like so much unwelcome trash.

Nothing is more valuable or entitled to greater protection than human life – from the moment of conception to the natural death.

Monday Musings – It Is The Truth, Not Nuanced Language, That Will Set Us Free

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons)

What a treasure St. Catherine of Siena is! One does not become a Doctor of the Church by being fearful to express, teach and live God's Truth in its entirety. 

How ill-advised we are to discount, ignore or try to nuance the wisdom God has shared over the centuries through such faithful servants as she.  Less likely would we be to commit this error if our primary concern was the salvation of souls. No wonder those who wish to only tickle our ears and destroy our consciences ignore these great spiritual writers, abandoning God's Truth for a less demanding and counterfeit one.

The following words  Jesus shared with St. Catherine in the 13th century are clear and unambiguous directions to his shepherds - not only those living then but for those among us today. May we and they be given the grace, humility and wisdom to hear and follow His Inerrant Voice:

"No rank, whether of civil or divine law, can be held in grace without holy justice.  For those who are not corrected and those who do not correct are like members beginning to rot, and if the doctor were only to apply ointment without cauterizing the wound, the whole, body would become fetid and corrupt.

So it is with prelates or with anyone else in authority.