I heard one seminarian today speak of a certain significance for the Year of Faith that I didn't really think of before. In society today, in which government is so controlling, the media so influential, aspirations to wealth so overemphasized, scandal so commonplace, and sexual activity driven to excess and lunacy, what reason is there for faith when everything is already pre-determined for us? We are told that we are nothing more than the sum of our actions and that the only thing responsible for our actions are biological impulses. What room does this leave for free-will and what act of faith can be made? What does this leave for the human person? What is the need for faith?
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Pope Francis refused his personal limousine and chauffeur
in favor of riding on the bus with the Cardinals. |
We are not the sum of our failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us. This is what the Church must proclaim during this year that the dignity of the person is rooted in God. No matter how confused society becomes we as Church are called to take that to heart. How fitting it is, that the election of someone almost no one expected has happened during this year?
The media can harp on politics in the Church and take internet polls on moral stances that aren't to their liking, but how difficult to demonize and beautiful it is that the Pope bowed before his people, washed the feet of AIDS victims and sick kids as a Cardinal, presents himself in all simplicity as Shepherd of 1.2 billion Catholics the world over, and he still takes the bus.
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| Cardinal Borgoglio. |
Pax et bonum,
Mike
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