Friday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time Fratelli Tutti Bicycle Pilgrimage

Hyperlapse Video of Pilgrimage

Give thanks to the Lord, for his great love is without end.

CHAPTER ONE

DARK CLOUDS OVER A CLOSED WORLD

THE ILLUSION OF COMMUNICATION

Shameless aggression

44. Has my social aggression found unparalleled room for expansion through computers and mobile devices???

Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of St. Louis, a member of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism, listens to Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland, Ore., from the Cardinal Rigali Center in Shrewsbury, Mo., Nov. 17, 2020. Archbishop Sample’s comments came on the second day of the bishops’ two-day fall meeting, which was livestreamed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Lisa Johnston, St. Louis Review)

sometimes, when there is no “personal interaction”, i show a “lack of restraint that could not exist in physical contact without tearing us all apart”…

Pope Francis is seen delivering a message for the Nov. 19-20 virtual seminar, “Latin America: Church, Pope Francis and scenarios of the pandemic,” in this still image taken from a video released by the Vatican Nov. 19, 2020. The pope said government leaders and authorities must not exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to discredit political rivals but instead set aside differences to find solutions. (CNS photo/Holy See Press Office)

other times i “choose a form of constant and febrile bonding that encourages remarkable hostility, insults, abuse, defamation and verbal violence destructive of others” that places “the common good at the service of (my) interests”

https://www.catholicnews.com/german-survivors-accuse-cardinal-woelki-of-abuse-of-abuse-victims/People are silhouetted against the Cologne Cathedral in Germany Jan. 25, 2016. The two abuse survivors who resigned as spokesmen of the victims’ advisory board in the Cologne Archdiocese have accused Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of a “renewed abuse of abuse victims.” (CNS Photo/Wolfgang Rattay, Reuters)

All the parishes, missions and convents of the Diocese are saying the Prayer for Vocations at each Mass.

A Reflection on Christian Life, Bishop Patrick J. Zurek

at times i “maintain my comfortable consumerist isolation” as i recite, “the Prayer for Vocations“, while ignoring the, “renewed abuse of abuse victims”, by clericalist…

I pray to become a Catholic believing that although the sweeter than honey taste of God’s promise will turn sour in my stomach by the “Shameless aggression” found on “computers and mobile devices”; I still hear the Lord’s voice and follow Him recalling his promise that His house shall be a house of prayer!!!

Today’s Scriptures

It will turn your stomach sour,

RV 10:9

R. (103a) How sweet to my taste is your promise!

sweeter than honey to my mouth!


PS 119:103

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord;

I know them, and they follow me.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

JN 10:27

“…My house shall be a house of prayer,

LK 19:46

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