Wednesday, March 15, 2006
LENTEN HOMILY JESUIT STYLE
Where do the people at Novus Ordo Watch find them? Night after night there is a jaw-dropper waiting there.
This one is the Ash Wednesday talk of Presider J. A. Loftus, S. J. at The Jesuit Urban Center - Boston, Church of the Immaculate Conception. After citing the teaching in the Talmud, and telling his congregation that they are not yet fully human (so apparently God did make junk, but it doesn't matter because our sins "are hardly worth mentioning, really."), he writes:
The consequence of not being free is sin. I suspect many in this community have already seen Brokeback Mountain. If not see it; if you have, see it again and reflect on the consequences of not being interiorly free, the consequences of not knowing who you really are and want to become, the tragic consequences and subsequent devastation that comes from only living in a “pretend” world. Watch carefully the price of dishonesty in yourself and with those whom you try to love.
Let this Lent be a Brokeback Lent. Let yourself feel genuinely dreadful at just how little you accept God’s invitation to be yourself, to be honest, to live more freely, to love more passionately, to even be prepared to die for those whom you love. So hold on to both pockets of your jacket and don’t ever forget both messages. Because while you are not the fully human being God created you to become, yet for you, this entire, magical and sacred world was made. Welcome to the hard journey we call Lent.
I wonder if he recommends that I freely pursue my love of someone else's husband? Maybe he should visit the Christian section of the library next time he needs a homily topic!
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
