During the 10-minute drive to church this morning, I heard the Teresa Tomeo show, and her blunt criticism of our country. Quoting from the Catholic catechism, she noted that we are required as a matter of faith to speak the truth, and that there IS a truth, a right and a wrong. She read how the Catholic faith is against relativism, as is now being heavily taught in our schools on most moral matters, and emphasized in public discourse, and in a media which no longer seeks the whole truth of a story, but only its opinion.
Teresa’s publicly stated words are becoming rarer today, and people are being censored or even jailed for saying them.
At mass later this morning, the Gospel today was about Jesus calming the stormy sea which threatened the lives of those in the boat. But, as the priest commenting on the Gospel pointed out, Jesus’ first reaction is not to calm the storm, but the criticize His apostles: “Do you not have faith?”
God sees all. He knows all. He loves us, always. And, at the end of the day, He will be with us, always, forever.
In our country the storms today against all that Jesus taught is fierce. We are seeing that many of the younger people have given up the fight against it. And us? “Do you not have faith?”
Do not be anxious is the title of a blog which tries to speak the truth, and always will.
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I was going to title this posting “What is Truth?” When I went to save it in Word, however, it came back indicating that I had already saved a document under that title. So I went to my blog online and in the search engine there entered “What is Truth” to read that first document, so I wasn’t duplicating something. What came back were a number of previous posts, which included the words “What is Truth,” some from as far back as 2012 which, if I might humbly say, were very good. And now, twelve years later they hit home much harder than the simple posting above.
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