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f it because he is alive and present to all of us he s had a bit of a day this first easter sunday from the early morning conversation with mary magdalene to an appearance to simon peter to an appearance to the ten judas was dead and thomas was absent and now on the road heading out of jerusalem risen from the dead he is no longer bound by time and space he can be in many places at once which he does even now like the prayer says in all the tabernacles of the world even until the end of time jesus is present everywhere we just have to have a heart that seeks him now the gospel how many times in scripture does jesus put himself in the middle of two people james and john want and their mother wants them to get the seats on the right and left of jesus he spends time refereeing between the sisters active martha and contemplative mary he gets crucified between two thieves one demanding a jailbreak and the other asking to be remembered now he is on the road to emmaus between two men we only know the name of one of them cleopas and he has no trouble letting his anger and frustration out they re walking with jesus but they don t recognize him they don t see him only at the end when he breaks the bread do they see who was with them all the while what a lost opportunity if only we recognized him sooner they must have thought the church just gave us six weeks to look for jesus christ in our lives now we have eight weeks of easter to show him to others posted by father jay toborowsky at 4 03 2013 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday march 26 2013 reflections on today s gospel tuesday march 26 at the beginning of lent on the first sunday the gospel reading told us of the devil s temptations of jesus turn stones into bread throw yourself off the parapet and worship me and these kingdoms are yours jesus fought them all and won and the devil went away for a while today in the gospel passage about the last supper we can see that the devil is back he is a cunning fighter and this time he s not going after jesus but rather those close to him namely judas and peter it s the next step in the battle against christ if the devil can t hurt jesus he can certainly hurt those around him and yet jesus is not defeated because he sees beyond the battles to the whole war the word that ties both readings together is glory isaiah tells the story of the servant sent by god to restore glory to israel jesus is about to be beaten humiliated tortured killed and yet glorified neither will be easy it s not easy to be a catholic if all we want is a good time but glory is found in the fight even when popular opinion is against us look at how facebook is inundated with these equal signs showing support for same sex marriage who can be mad at an equal sign it s the perfect symbol though my inner math geek says the congruent sign would be a more accurate logo to some extent the gay community has a valid argument but not so much because the love of 2 men or 2 women can be exalted as a marriage their argument has validity because more and more today many marriages between a man and a woman have such lowered expectations and are so watered down so superficial and so non committal that they may as well be civil unions the scribes and pharisees were the moral compasses of their time their elite class claimed to show judaism how one was to live in right relationship with god then along comes jesus who challenges their authority and begins to poach at their flock with talk like you have heard it said but i say to you you can bet those who abandoned the pharisees in favor of jesus were called all sorts of names traitor hater etc it s easy to be a catholic when a new pope is standing on a balcony and he s smiling and waving and seems like a nice guy it s easy to be a catholic when you get as it were palms stuffed into your palms but it s hard to be a catholic in standing for the truth even when the world will call you names like bigot and homophobe and accuse us of hate all in an effort to get us to keep silent or at least confused feeling down because you re not willing to change your facebook profile picture to an equal sign you re not alone peter is the perfect patron saint of caving into the crowd s whim just to get them off your back judas though he s got more to answer for he s not only doing what the crowd wants on the inside he has come to think that it s the right thing to do only after the fact when the deed is done and realizes both what he has done and how it cannot be changed does he despair of his choices to the point of suicide holy week continues and the time for jesus passion is getting closer and closer will we stay or will we run posted by father jay toborowsky at 3 26 2013 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday march 23 2013 what was discussed today s vatican news service blog reports about today s historic meeting between pope francis and pope emeritus benedict in it can be found this blurb after a short time of prayer they went to the apartments library where their private meeting began around 12 30pm it is the library where the pope normally receives important guests at castel gandolfo their meeting lasted around 45 minutes the world wonders what the two discussed and i am proud to say i have a source at castelgandolfo who has given me the highlights of the meeting the holy father and pope emeritus have promised to pray for each other and remember each other at their respective masses the holy father and pope emeritus have agreed to continue speaking by telephone no one can counsel the holy father better than the man who held the job himself the holy father and pope emeritus have agreed on joint custody of abp gänswein each gets 2 weekends a month plus their name days both baptismal and papal vacations will be discussed as the situation arises since pope francis and the archbishop share the same given name he gets first shot at birthdays though benedict will certainly be invited the two promised not to fight in front of him the two decided that dick york was the best darren sean connery was the best james bond and cheers was never the same after shelly long left pope emeritus benedict let the holy father know which bathrooms in the papal apartments have drippy faucets and presented him with a collection of menus from restaurants in the borgo pio neighborhood that deliver pope francis presented pope emeritus benedict with a carton of cat food for the castelgandolfo kitties and boxes of piano sheet music posted by father jay toborowsky at 3 23 2013 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday march 20 2013 reflections on today s gospel weds march 20 the day after st joseph s day and we jump back into lent the readings today revolve around freedom we all love the idea of being free it is engraved into our american thinking that we are a free people in a free society just don t smoke a cigarette in public or pour yourself a big gulp in manhattan the scriptures present us with a contradiction jesus is confronting the pharisees about their supposed freedom they think their devotion to the law has given them a freedom really as our lord points out their freedom is a slavery it s not new really my desire for junk food could make me a slave to either the treadmill or to insulin the choice is mine i might choose to smoke or to drink or to waste hours on the internet in search of pornography all in order to claim i am free but the reality is that after a while the thing takes hold of chooser and makes him her a slave to it how many people swore they would give up smoking when the cost of a pack of cigarettes reached a certain level those scribes and pharisees are so proud of their status and supposed intelligence that they feel they ll spot the messiah before everyone else or because they re so special the messiah will naturally come and seek them out first before revealing himself to the rest of the world their ignorance is on display for us to see the messiah is close enough that they can smell on his breath what he had for breakfast and they don t get it sad for so many catholics pride has them thinking they know better than the church that s it they are slaves to their pride then there are the three slaves shedrach meshach and abednago hananiah azariah and mishael in the words of phil esposito no doot aboot it they are slaves the property of the king their disobedience has earned the king s wrath being burned alive when they do polls every so often about the way people would least like to die burning to death is always in the top few come to think of it why does this king have a furnace big enough have a party in the three see this furnace in front of them i m sure they can feel the heat from it just being in the room with it yet they consistently refuse to act like slaves they are free no matter what society or the king or his guards think jesus said everyone who sins is a slave to sin imagine sin as one of those leg irons with the lead ball at the end that s what sin does to us weighs us down keeps us from moving freely some people have so many of those irons on they can hardly walk some have been walking with one of those things on their leg for so long they have forgotten it s there and come to believe that s as fast as they can walk how many have let pride stop them from coming to confession to get the chain broken what was that song from the eagles so often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key posted by father jay toborowsky at 3 20 2013 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday march 16 2013 reflections on today s gospel sat march 16 we know we re getting close to the end of lent because the tones of the gospel readings have changed at the beginning of lenten season the readings themes were things like prayer mercy forgiveness humility almsgiving etc now especially in this past week the gospels are confrontational all this week we ve read the confrontation between jesus and the scribes and pharisees who do you think you are doing this healing on the sabbath who is he he is the son of god only you can t see that now in today s gospel we see them continuing in their anger trying to get the temple guards to do their dirty work they find something to hang on to the scriptures say the messiah will come from david s family and from david s town of bethlehem now they feel justified in not becoming followers now they feel good about themselves all over that one fact why didn t anyone in that crowd say let s go ask him where he came from nicodemus diffuses their momentum by asking do we always condemn someone without hearing from them first he is one of those great characters of lent through whom we see a progressive conversion in the 3rd chapter of john he sees jesus at night not wanting to be seen publicly with him here he is now willing to give him the benefit of a doubt but still won t publicly support him finally nicodemus comes totally to jesus in passion account of good friday how nicodemus joins joseph of arimethea in caring for the lord s body bringing with him costly spices to anoint his body and helping lay him in the tomb so they don t want to know where he is from they ve hung their whole argument against jesus on one fact and do not want to know anything different how many people do that today how many people including out own catholics continue to criticize the church for one issue or event which they justify their whole disinterest or lack of involvement when i was a child our neighbor had an angry dog but there was a big chain link fence between my yard and the dog s yard so i knew the only thing the dog could do to me was bark at me some catholics have decided to stay on the other side of the fence far away and uninterested from the church more than a few like to straddle the fence close enough to jump in if they want something from the church but also positioned far enough that they can jump away if the church asks something from them lent is the time to jump inside the fence because that means i m forced to deal with the dog i ve been avoiding for all this time who knows maybe the dog will lick your face posted by father jay toborowsky at 3 16 2013 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday february 11 2013 some random thoughts on pope benedict s upcoming resignation i thought it would be a quiet monday first let s all take a breath and realize how unprecedented this is yes i know this has happened before centuries ago but nothing like it has happened since before america was discovered these are uncharted waters we are about to go through scary yes uncertain of course interesting you bet your bippy canon law allows for this to happen canon 332 paragraph 2 says that the roman pontiff may validly resign his office if he does so freely no one can hold a gun to his head and force him to resign and that it be duly manifested he can t do it secretly the universal church needs to know his resignation does not need to be accepted by anyone he essentially resigns to himself now to the haters the conspiracy theorists to those who pretend to advocate things like tolerance and acceptance of all beliefs providing you agree with them i say just shut your pie hole this isn t about some nasty scandal that is about to break this is about bad health nor is this your foot in the door to open up your old playbook of now can we have a discussion about ______ this isn t about what doctrine s will change they won t even after the new guy is elected what you can have a shifting paradigm every five years and the pope can t have one ok so let s talk about bad health the ratzinger family has had some bad health in it the pope s father died two days after suffering a stroke in 1958 the pope s mother died from stomach cancer in 1963 his sister is already gone he and his brother have had health scares in the past also don t overlook the holy father s timing of the announcement he announced this on the church s world day of prayer for the sick emphasis added in the announcement he hinted to health setbacks in the last few months saying that in order to perform the functions of the pope strength of mind and body are needed strength which in the last few months has deteriorated in me yes he is keeping the particulars private but he is a sick man jp2 even at the last moments of his life could communicate to aides in soft mumbled tones how would the church function with a pope who has had a stroke whose heart beats on but who cannot communicate with anyone he would not want the church to endure that also from the start of his pontificate when everyone assumed the new pope would be called john paul iii the choice of his name showed he did not see himself as another john 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