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All posts for the day April 26th, 2012
He is LOVE.
Posted by 1catholicsalmon on April 26, 2012
https://1catholicsalmon.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/he-is-love/
Humane Vitae: Day 19
Paragraph 19 begins the third section of the encyclical which is titled, “Pastoral Directives”:
19. Our words would not be an adequate expression of the thought and solicitude of the Church, Mother and Teacher of all peoples, if, after having recalled men to the observance and respect of the divine law regarding matrimony, they did not also support mankind in the honest regulation of birth amid the difficult conditions which today afflict families and peoples. The Church, in fact, cannot act differently toward men than did the Redeemer. She knows their weaknesses, she has compassion on the multitude, she welcomes sinners. But at the same time she cannot do otherwise than teach the law. For it is in fact the law of human life restored to its native truth and guided by the Spirit of God (See Romans 8).
For several centuries, all Christian denominations condemned the use of contraception. It wasn’t until the 1930s when at the Lambeth Conference, communities began to break from this teaching one by one. The culture in general followed suit. The Catholic Church remained steadfast in this teaching.
Even so, there were some within the Church who wanted the Catholic Church to revise her teaching against contraception. Some took it upon themselves to teach something different. Chaos followed, and even today we are still dealing with its effects. But here in paragraph 19, Paul VI says that the Church must hold to the Truth.
“She [the Church] cannot do otherwise than teach the law”. The role of the Church is to be both mother and teacher (Mater et Magister), and in fulfilling this role, she teaches the Truth: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” (Mt 28:19-20). It is the Truth of Jesus Christ that gives life to the world.
(Posted with permission from Fr. Lee Acervo at http://fatheracervo.wordpress.com)
Posted by 1catholicsalmon on April 26, 2012
https://1catholicsalmon.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/humane-vitae-day-19/
Redemptive suffering.
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My most profound and intimate experiences of worship have been in my darkest days ( I’ve lived through a few!) — when I’ve lost someone dear to me, when I’ve felt abandoned and isolated, when I’ve been out of options, when the pain is great, and I turn to God alone. It is during suffering that I have learned to pray my most authentic, heart-felt, honest-to-God prayers. When in pain, superficial prayers seem pointless. At these times of great distress the need to be near the Eucharist, to receive our Lord to be united with Him is overwhelming and urgent. I know He is always there, He will never desert me, He is constant. Reliable.
I have learned that in suffering I get to know Jesus and inch towards the understanding of why His message of Salvation and Forgiveness is so powerful. I have learned things about God in suffering that I don’t think I would’ve learned about Him lying in a bed of roses. It has been at those times of fear and seeking that I ‘ve come to realise my powerlessness and the reassurance of kneeling in the presence of God’s Might.
God could have kept Joseph out of jail, kept Daniel out of the lion’s den, kept Jeremiah from being tossed into a slimy pit, kept Paul from being shipwrecked three times, and kept the three Hebrew young men from being thrown into the blazing furnace, but he didn’t. He let those problems happen, and each of those people were drawn closer to God as a result.
Problems force us to look to God and depend on him instead of ourselves. Paul testified to this benefit: “We felt we were doomed to die and saw how powerless we were to help ourselves; but that was good, for then we put everything into the hands of God, who alone could save us ….” (2 Corinthians 1:9) You’ll never know that God is all you need until God is all you’ve got.
Whenever I feel overwhelmed, I retreat to my ‘sanctuary’, pray to God to feel safe and calm before I’m able to relaunch into the world. God is my querencia-the place in the bullring to which a bull can safely retreat from the matadors-where I can pause and gather strength before returning to the fight. I must pause, however briefly, to regain the strength needed to battle the stresses of daily living.
Posted by 1catholicsalmon on April 26, 2012
https://1catholicsalmon.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/redemptive-suffering/
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