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TWENTY-FIFTH  SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

 YEAR B: YEAR OF MARK

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TWENTY-FOURTH  SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

YEAR B: YEAR OF MARK

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TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

YEAR B: YEAR OF MARK

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THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN OUR BIBLICAL TRADITIONS.

The Old Testament

Jesus came into our world, a world in which there was deep understanding of communion with God.  The traditions into which he was born had rich experiences of communion with God. Such obvious conceptions as the Fatherhood of God, the covenant binding God and People in an embrace of love, God as husband longingly pursuing an errant wife (Hosea), speak of a communion, of presence, of experienced love.  There is an intimacy in this love that speaks of a sacrament most holy, a sacrament divine.

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It is impossible to think of a conversion of our activity as a Church that does not include the active participation of all the members of God’s People. Indeed, whenever we have tried to replace, or silence, or ignore, or reduce the People of God to small elites, we end up creating communities, projects, theological approaches, spiritualities and structures without roots, without memory, without faces, without bodies and ultimately, without lives.[2] This is clearly seen in a peculiar way of understanding the Church’s authority, one common in many communities where sexual abuse and the abuse of power and conscience have occurred. Such is the case with clericalism, an approachthat “not only nullifies the character of Christians, but also tends to diminish and undervalue the baptismal grace that the Holy Spirit has placed in the heart of our people”.[3]
Clericalism, whether fostered by priests themselves or by lay persons, leads to an excision in the ecclesial body that supports and helps to perpetuate many of the evils that we are condemning today. To say “no” to abuse is to say an emphatic “no” to all forms of clericalism.
 
 
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