Good morning, hope your week goes well.
I have spoken before about how our churches, religions, neighborhoods countries can become closed to others who may look, speak, and think different from us. We can become like tribes of old. Once we do that we then have to defend that tribe against those other tribes around us. This has been seen to be true even in the Christian communities.
In 1962, the United Presbyterian Church included the following petition in its Litany For Holy Communion, “Forgive us for turning our churches into private clubs; for loving familial hymns and religious feelings more that we love You; for putting stained glass on our eyes and our ears to shout out the cry of the hungry and hurt of the world.”
It is important to remember that God created ALL things, and breathed His breath into all people, yes, even the ones we don’ like. We may be very surprised to see who is sitting next to us at the banquet in heaven.
I pray that you all will have a present day and a great weekend.
Peace and All Good,
Fr. Vinnie, fcm and the
Bros and Srs of the
Franciscan House of Prayer.
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