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
A “throwaway” world
18. Some parts of our human family, it appears, can be readily sacrificed for the sake of others considered worthy of a carefree existence. Ultimately, “persons are no longer seen as a paramount value to be cared for and respected, especially when they are poor and disabled, ‘not yet useful’ – like the unborn, or ‘no longer needed’ – like the elderly. We have grown indifferent to all kinds of wastefulness, starting with the waste of food, which is deplorable in the extreme”.[13]
However, I live in Hope! St. John wrote; “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” (Jn. 1:5 – Prologue)
Bishop Patrick J. Zurek
Questions continue around film’s use of pope’s quote on civil unions
comfortable catholics in fear, “go to Mass ‘only to be seen’ or to show off”, and judge themselves “worthy of a carefree existence” with no need of the pope’s cultivation and fertilization; thus bearing no fruit in the future…
socialist-catholics in fear search for a “carefree existence” and take the pope’s cultivation and fertilization out of context by hearing that LGBT people “have a right to a family”, without hearing, “this does not mean approving homosexual acts — not at all.”; thus bearing no fruit in the future…
maga-catholics in fear think LGBT “persons are no longer seen as a paramount value to be cared for and respected” and refuse the pope’s cultivation and fertilization; thus bearing no fruit in the future…
Catholics in LOVE accept the cultivation and fertilization that the successor to the Apostle Peter gives as they go rejoicing to the house of the LORD; thus bearing fruit in the future…
Today’s Scriptures
And he gave some as Apostles,…
EPH 4:11
R. (1) Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.
In it are set up judgment seats,…
PS 122:5
“‘Sir, leave it for this year also,
and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it;
it may bear fruit in the future.
If not you can cut it down.’”
LK 13:8
Catholic Bicycle 