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The New Missions
THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS
for December 7th, 2013
Memorial of St. Ambrose
Liturgical texts here
All the Lonely People, by Emmanuel Borja
IF there were ever a time when, as we read in the Gospel, people are “troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd,” it is our time, on so many levels. There are many leaders today, but so few role models; many who govern, but so few who serve. Even in the Church, the sheep have wandered for decades since the confusion after Vatican II left a moral and leadership vacuum on the local level. And then there have been what Pope Francis calls “epochal” changes [1]cf. Evangelii Gaudium, n. 52 that have led to, among other things, a profound sense of loneliness. In the words of Benedict XVI:
Footnotes
| ↑1 | cf. Evangelii Gaudium, n. 52 |
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