Monday, August 12, 2013
I kind of expected it...
Sickness. Its not all it is cracked up to be.
I know people who enjoy the time of being at home in bed... "languishing" under the covers while they recuperate. I, unfortunately, have been numbered among such poor souls for the last few days... except that I have been at work here at the parish. I contracted some kind of low grade headache that has been hanging around for almost a week now.
Not that I am complaining, mind you. Especially when people are getting into head on car crashes in Missouri! If you haven't heard that has been a big manhunt for a priest who mysteriously appeared "out of nowhere" to offer the Anointing of the Sick for a young lady who had been in a car accident. Initial reports made it sound more mysterious than real:
Check it out the video here, because I couldn't get it to stop auto-playing on my page :(
But it turns out that this may have not have been as mysterious as some had hoped! In fact, over at the National Catholic Register website, people were hoping it was a Saintly priest from heaven who appeared to reveal God's mercy (see the comments at this link). It turns out, the answer is much move obvious than some had hoped, and that in fact it was an average ordinary priest of God.
What i find so interesting, though, is that even in that article one finds a very strange reaction:
What I am getting at here is that if you are a Catholic, we SHOULD NOT be comfortable with God's grace which is so generously offered to world. We can not be complacent at the amazing hands of a Priest, who though he is only a "channel" of God's grace, it is GOD'S GRACE that we want to remember is entering into the world. A real and direct power and reminder of His Truth and Strength that we can receive in the Sacraments. The world and the media are happy enough to have found the "mystery priest" but they completely ignore that the power of the priesthood of Jesus Christ has and continues to act in the world! AND THAT IS STILL NEWS!!!
I know people who enjoy the time of being at home in bed... "languishing" under the covers while they recuperate. I, unfortunately, have been numbered among such poor souls for the last few days... except that I have been at work here at the parish. I contracted some kind of low grade headache that has been hanging around for almost a week now.
Not that I am complaining, mind you. Especially when people are getting into head on car crashes in Missouri! If you haven't heard that has been a big manhunt for a priest who mysteriously appeared "out of nowhere" to offer the Anointing of the Sick for a young lady who had been in a car accident. Initial reports made it sound more mysterious than real:
Check it out the video here, because I couldn't get it to stop auto-playing on my page :(
But it turns out that this may have not have been as mysterious as some had hoped! In fact, over at the National Catholic Register website, people were hoping it was a Saintly priest from heaven who appeared to reveal God's mercy (see the comments at this link). It turns out, the answer is much move obvious than some had hoped, and that in fact it was an average ordinary priest of God.
What i find so interesting, though, is that even in that article one finds a very strange reaction:
While some had hoped for supernatural intervention, it seems an entirely human conclusion has come to fruition. Still, the faithful would argue that God’s hand was in this gesture, regardless of the channel that was used to help usher in calm at the scene.Really? An "entirely human conclusion"? One the one hand they are right in their meaning of the channel of God's grace, but on the other GOD'S GRACE has come into the world!!! It is quite interesting to me that the Catholic Church is so common place to people that no one thinks it is strange that a man walks around in black clothes and dabs people with oil! REALLY?? There is a reason this human being has done this! He is not merely imagining that he is doing good deeds. In fact, the news reports noted that the young lady was strengthened when the Holy Oils were administered. The Emergency responders also noted that they were more at peace.
What I am getting at here is that if you are a Catholic, we SHOULD NOT be comfortable with God's grace which is so generously offered to world. We can not be complacent at the amazing hands of a Priest, who though he is only a "channel" of God's grace, it is GOD'S GRACE that we want to remember is entering into the world. A real and direct power and reminder of His Truth and Strength that we can receive in the Sacraments. The world and the media are happy enough to have found the "mystery priest" but they completely ignore that the power of the priesthood of Jesus Christ has and continues to act in the world! AND THAT IS STILL NEWS!!!
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