FRATELLI TUTTI
OF THE HOLY FATHER
FRANCIS
ON FRATERNITY AND SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP
CHAPTER ONE
DARK CLOUDS OVER A CLOSED WORLD
LACKING A PLAN FOR EVERYONE
16. Amid the fray of conflicting interests, where victory consists in eliminating one’s opponents, how is it possible to raise our sights to recognize our neighbours or to help those who have fallen along the way? A plan that would set great goals for the development of our entire human family nowadays sounds like madness. We are growing ever more distant from one another, while the slow and demanding march towards an increasingly united and just world is suffering a new and dramatic setback.
This has found its way into the Church.
Bishop Patrick J. Zurek
socialist-catholics in fear will be divided from the entire human family in a march towards a false hope that the pope is blessing lbgt marriage…
maga-catholics in fear will be divided from the entire human family in a march towards where victory consists in eliminating one’s opponents,…
comfortable catholics in fear will be divided from the entire human family by using prayer as “a sedative to alleviate life’s anxieties;”…
Catholics in LOVE, for LOVE, will be united with the entire human family in a slow and demanding march towards an increasingly united and just world, using prayer to “raise our sights to recognize our neighbours or to help those who have fallen along the way”!
Today’s Scriptures
I kneel before the Father,
from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
EPH 3:14-15
R. (5b) The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
But see, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him,
upon those who hope for his kindness,
PS 33:18
“From now on a household of five will be divided,
three against two and two against three;”
LK 12:52
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