Sunday, 10/26/14
Today’s readings
urge us to be good Christians by aiding aliens, widows, and the poor, by being
honest in business dealings.
While this is the
kind of good advice we have been hearing in church all our lives, it still
represents the turn of mind that Pope Francis is urging on us.
It is a little
different from the type of good Catholic behavior held up to us when we were growing up. Then, rather than being told over and over that we must been mindful
of the needy, we were being cautioned against sins that would take us out of
the state of sanctifying grace. We were most often told of the need to get to
frequent confession to be absolved from the mortal sins we committed by
thoughts against holy purity.
We were to examine
out consciences ever evening, while leaving the good deed a day to the Boy
Scouts of America.
We were like
housekeepers whose furnishings, china, and silverware were always in spick and
span readiness for guests they never invited.
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