Cowardly Catholics

[domNoah]

"For if one does not love God enough to offend bad men for his sake, how can he love him above all things? And if one does not love God above all things, how can he be saved? "

I thought that this Homily explained in a none boisterous way why Catholics are obliged to stand up for Jesus Christ and his church when it is under attack. It was preached over 100 years ago. Fortunately though it also shows how good living should be stood up for as well as the Holy Faith.

One of the things I like about a lot of the old homilies is that they are generally presented in a “if you do this you will be saved” or “if you do this you will not be saved” etc. In my own experience it does not seem that many homilists bring up the question of salvation (though I guess they think it is implied when they speak of sin) with the clarity that these Paulists Fathers did back in the 1800’s.

The text is here
alleluiaaudiobooks.com/homily-2nd-week-of-advent-cowardly-catholics/

A Dramatic reading is here
alleluiaaudiobooks.com/short-catholic-homily-2nd-week-of-advent-cowardly-catholics/

 

[Nimzovik]

Thankyou for posting this.

 

[domNoah]

Your welcome

 

[fred_conty]

"For if one does not love God enough to offend bad men for his sake, how can he love him above all things? And if one does not love God above all things, how can he be saved? "

I thought that this Homily explained in a none boisterous way why Catholics are obliged to stand up for Jesus Christ and his church when it is under attack. It was preached over 100 years ago. Fortunately though it also shows how good living should be stood up for as well as the Holy Faith.

One of the things I like about a lot of the old homilies is that they are generally presented in a “if you do this you will be saved” or “if you do this you will not be saved” etc. In my own experience it does not seem that many homilists bring up the question of salvation (though I guess they think it is implied when they speak of sin) with the clarity that these Paulists Fathers did back in the 1800’s.

The text is here
alleluiaaudiobooks.com/homily-2nd-week-of-advent-cowardly-catholics/

A Dramatic reading is here
alleluiaaudiobooks.com/short-catholic-homily-2nd-week-of-advent-cowardly-catholics/

Today is a bit different than 1800. Different from even before Vatican II.

We have so many more social issues today. The internet itself is a huge one.

Communication is almost unbelievable from what it wasn’t.

There is the animal farms which typifys modern considerations which are new.

To me it is hard to compare to the close net family farm life back when.

In fact, where do we start with sin since there is so much more occasion.

The talks then were very long, about an hour to an hour and a half sometimes.

Their language was more flowery and eloborate, which would hardly suite our tech culture.

There may be a better way, but I don’t know what it might be…complicated.

I believe more has to be done on the individual level updating one’s own knowledge.

So many changes even from the “father knows best” times.

Just so wandering thoughts.