Thought for 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.
The false gospel of social justice, the common good, and peace at any price is nothing other than Satan’s temptation of Christ in the Wilderness, “Turn these stones into bread!” And Christ’s response still holds true, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” Think about it: After the feeding of the 5000 in John chapter 6, the crowd followed Jesus around the lake. What did He say when they caught up to Him? Verses 26 and 27 tell us:
26 Jesus answered them and said, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled. 27 Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal.”
The crowd did NOT get a second free handout.
In John 12, Mary at the house of Lazarus used a jar of perfumed ointment worth a year’s salary to anoint the feet of Jesus. Judas Iscariot (who would later betray Him) said in verse 5 what every politician says even today, “Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days’ wages and given to the poor?”
Verse 6 tells us, “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.”
Social justice is nothing other than the gospel of envy and the sacramentalization of theft from those who work and produce real wealth, impoverishing the honest while enriching those promoting such greed: politicians (and sadly today, too many liberal progressive clerics in the Church).
“….the sacramentalization of theft from those who work and produce real wealth, impoverishing the honest while enriching those promoting such greed: politicians (and sadly today, too many liberal progressive clerics in the Church).”
I’m reminded of the countless wealthy children who left those comforts and security to physically follow Christ with their whole being. Saintly men and women who embraced poverty and in so doing gained souls for Christ.
St. Mother said; Do it anyway. Regardless if your offerings are bashed against a rock, or misunderstood by others…don’t let it stop you from doing the right thing. She said in the final analysis it was never about you and them ..it was about you and God.
We will always have Judas’ hanging around.
St. Mother Theresa of Calcutta
“Social justice is nothing other than the gospel of envy and the sacramentalization of theft from those who work and produce real wealth, impoverishing the honest while enriching those promoting such greed: politicians (and sadly today, too many liberal progressive clerics in the Church).”
Or, as one priest that I heard giving a talk said, socialism is nothing more than a Christian heresy.
Like all heresies, it should be opposed.
I understand the concern for the migrant and homeless, but the way various governments around the world used that was to create social upheaval, which is not a gospel value by any means. As St. Teresa of Jesus says; The world knows everything about Christian perfect but how to follow it.
I wonder who and what powers are behind this flooding of immigrants into the West. The has to be tremendous money and power that are controlling these political parties to embrace this cultural suicide, but there seems to be a lack of people bringing to light these negative realities. A lot of the power is satanic, the true sower of confusion, violence and social unrest, but who are the major accomplices? I don’t know.
“A lot of the power is satanic, the true sower of confusion, violence and social unrest, but who are the major accomplices? I don’t know.” Matthew
Soros?
Who knows.
Satanic indeed!
I’ve never seen our town as being a violent town, yet the stats speak for themselves. Crime is up. Violent crime too, not just white collar crime. Here in [God’s] country a crazy man went postal in Walmart. He went to the self checkout center and started stabbing and slashing as many as he could. He sent 11 people to the Hospital….4 in critical condition. This happened around 4:30 pm.
What is going on?
Traverse City was a calming and charming retreat city. A tourist destination.
My nickel opinion. Satan is short on time.
Clock is running out for that liar and he is very hungry.
That attack happened yesterday afternoon.
Gosh Cardinal Sarah is good. The fact he is African and saying this should resonate. Religion is about attaining Eternal life. The actions we do here on Earth resonates in Heaven. To allow unrestricted immigration is not good for the society or the individual. It shows a lack of care or concern for the individual. It devalues them into just another statistic. It’s dysfunctional.
And let’s be honest, it’s all about gaining a new population group who will perpetually be reliant on government assistance and therefore will vote the left into power, which is why unreserved immigration is always advocated by the left with little or no management of the individual involved.
Our former Labor PM Bob Hawke (80’S) once had an immigrant driver who warned the PM about mass immigration from the ME. The PM responded along the lines of “I’m not concerned about the immigrants, I’m concerned about their children and children’s children.” Hawke knew exactly what he was doing. It’s all by design.
Faith is a gift from God. Religion is man’s response to the gift of Faith from God.