Great homilies to improve the faith and understanding of Christians
Should we believe that economic and political institutions are corrupt? Should we seek to tear them down in line with today’s wokeism? Or is political and economic authority necessary for an ordered life? Catholic social teaching holds that neither extreme is fully justified. Power can be good but power can also be corrupted.
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Where do you place the allegiance of your heart? Do our hearts belong to anything in this world? Not that anything in the world is bad. But everything in this world will not last.
Failures will come. Loved ones will die. We will become sick. Our practical enterprises will end.
Just like a healthy tree, we will be alright only if our roots extend to the source of life.
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In a world gone wrong, those who speak the truth will be opposed. The more authentically religious you are, the more you are going to be opposed. .
We like to think of Jesus as a unifying figure. The reality is that Jesus is a source of division before he is a source of unity. Hatred, cruelty, self-absorption, grudges, and all manner of sin must be burnt away. If others are not willing to put such things away to follow Jesus, they will oppose you. Like Jeremiah being lowered into the cistern, do not expect to be treated well. We know where following Christ will lead us.
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