https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2022/12/19/synod-is-like-a-hui-bishop-lowe-tells-shine/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Tue, 20 Dec 2022 07:48:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2022/12/19/synod-is-like-a-hui-bishop-lowe-tells-shine/#comment-89604 Tue, 20 Dec 2022 07:48:49 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=26364#comment-89604 The reality is the cross.
“Take up your cross daily and
follow me”.
The head of the Jesuits, Fr Peter Hans
Kolvenbach, SJ used to sleep on the floor with
the window open.
St Benedict Joseph Labre had a
journey of faith of extreme poverty,
and the Sulspicians in Canada are
formed under the tutelage of Fr Michel
Roderick in a seminary that evolved
from this.
Jesus was not born in a palace, but in
a stinky stable.
Whoever removes the cross and its interpretation
by the New Testament, in order to replace it, for
example with the social commitment of Jesus
to the oppressed as a new centre, no longer
stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.
… Hans Urs Von Balthasar
The cross is carried by 45,000,000 aborted
babes each year, globally. This is 30 times
the number murdered in the Armenian genocide,
only no-one calls it genocide.
Today’s priesthood have a unique moment to
witness to Christ, and raise matters such as
these, in a world governed by Secular Humanism,
and a global apostasy, that fuels abortion,
euthanasia, drugs, porn, and gay marriage.

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