We will be judged, each of us, by what we did and what we failed to do. No shuffling off the duty to Caesar relieves us of our personal responsibilities.
Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
If Christ is who socialists claim He is, he would have fed the multitudes every day of his public ministry. He didn’t. His physical works were offered as proofs of His authority so that He might accomplish the mission of saving us from oppression far worse than that of Caesar – the oppression of eternal damnation.
3 Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair; the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.
4 Then Judas the Iscariot, one [of] his disciples, and the one who would betray him, said,
5 “Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days’ wages and given to the poor?”
6 He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and held the money bag and used to steal the contributions.
7 So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Let her keep this for the day of my burial.
8 You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”
John 12:3-8
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/12?3