Reading 11 COR 5:1-8
(See below)
Today's readings couldn't be more appropriate and this is just how Jesus works. His word is for all times and all people and it sure seems we have readings like this just when it fits situations going on around us. Make no doubt about it, this reading couldn't come at a better time!
The current situation in the Catholic Church is devastating and is going to get worse before it gets better! God, our Father, has heard the cry of the poor! Make no doubt about it, He will take this situation and make good out of it, purifying His Church, His Bride!
It's going to be long and difficult but necessary in order for the Church to be as it is supposed to be.
We, as Catholics, have to be even stronger now. Pray and fast more, make reparation, go to Adoration and adore the Lord for all those who have committed these horrible acts and for all the victims of them, pray the Rosary. Beg for God's mercy on the whole situation.
It is going to take all the true, faithful Catholics uniting together in all these things to bring the Church through her dark night; remembering that in the dark night, the reason it's so dark, is because our Father is even closer. He made the promise He would never leave us alone.
It's so important to remember the (C)hurch, big C, is not the people, it's Jesus! The (c)hurch, little c, is the people and it's those that we have righteous anger at, priest's, deacons, religious sister's and brother's that have been given such a profound roles and have abused it in so many ways! We must remember however that not all of these people are abusive but rather suffer greatly because of what the other's have done. It's these that we are grateful for and to! Pray for them and the strength they need in all of this!
When it seems we just can't take anymore I offer two great Scriptures: Roman's 8:28-39 and Exodus 14:13-14.
We need to hold firm in faith that God, our Father, will take care of this!
Pray for us Holy Mother of God, Our Lady of Perpetual Help!
"Brothers and sisters:
It is widely reported that there is immorality among you,
and immorality of a kind not found even among pagans–
a man living with his father’s wife.
And you are inflated with pride.
Should you not rather have been sorrowful?
The one who did this deed should be expelled from your midst.
I, for my part, although absent in body but present in spirit,
have already, as if present,
pronounced judgment on the one who has committed this deed,
in the name of our Lord Jesus:
when you have gathered together and I am with you in spirit
with the power of the Lord Jesus,
you are to deliver this man to Satan
for the destruction of his flesh,
so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
Your boasting is not appropriate.
Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the dough?
Clear out the old yeast, so that you may become a fresh batch of dough,
inasmuch as you are unleavened.
For our Paschal Lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed.
Therefore, let us celebrate the feast,
not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness,
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."
Responsorial PsalmPS 5:5-6, 7, 12
R. (9) Lead me in your justice, Lord.
For you, O God, delight not in wickedness;
no evil man remains with you;
the arrogant may not stand in your sight.
You hate all evildoers.
R. Lead me in your justice, Lord.
You destroy all who speak falsehood;
The bloodthirsty and the deceitful
the LORD abhors.
R. Lead me in your justice, Lord.
But let all who take refuge in you
be glad and exult forever.
Protect them, that you may be the joy
of those who love your name.
R. Lead me in your justice, Lord.
