By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--July 26, 2020
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“Over these last two weeks, we have struggled to find an appropriate response that expresses solidarity with the legitimate protests in our streets. We have organized a prayer service last Saturday and will have another one Sunday afternoon at 1:30pm. A group that had been in conversation with the parish of St. Charles Borromeo and St Francis De Sales over issues of racial justice and white supremacy has reconnected and will be planning to help us all work for reconciliation. We have united around a Pledge for Racial Justice. Different ministries within our parish have issued their own statement to join their voice to that of so many in righteous indignation and a call to reform. (Pastor Boller, Page 3 of Bulletin, June 14, 2020) …”Our national sin is racism, which has supported the privileged at the expense of the oppressed. This sin has tainted all of us and we have the opportunity to do an Ignatian Examen, an examination of conscience and consciousness with the lens of racism and white privilege. It will not be easy, nor will it be comfortable, but conversion never is. “For the foreseeable future, we will develop programs to help us move from examination to conversion to reconciliation. Together we will work to bring about effective change in our hearts, our church and our world. Let us be guided by the Spirit of Pentecost, nurtured by the Body of Christ to respond to the current tragedies with grace and courage to make a new “normal,” a normal when all will recognize the dignity of each as a beloved child of God.”
“In the otherwise beautiful church in Manhattan, St. Francis Xavier, in the clutches of the Jesuits, the visitor will today see this. “Think that this was perhaps a photoshop job, I went to their website HERE On their rotating header they have this image. (See Above) “This is sacrilege, as it is the misuse of that altar which is consecrated. It looks as if the mensa is still there. “This is also blasphemous, since it seems to present these people for veneration. They are placed, after all, on an altar. “Imagine what St. Edmund Campion would say about this. Peter Canisius! John de Brebeuf! FRANCIS XAVIER! Jesuits…. I respond: GANGANELLI!You can say that again, Fr. Z: Pope Clement XIV, born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, was best known for his suppression of the Jesuits! GANGANELLI! all the way!
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