"NEW "PHARISEES" ARE WORKING HARD TO "PURIFY" THE CHURCH

 

LET'S NOT ALLOW THEM TO KICK US OUT! 

IT'S OUR CHURCH TOO! LET'S STAY! 

GOSPEL OF LUKE 15:1-2

"The tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus, but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."

CARLO CARRETTO

Carlo Carretto was an Italian author of the Congregation of the Little Brothers of the Gospel.

Born: April 2, 1910

Died: October 4, 1988

“How baffling you are, oh Church, and yet how I love you! How you have made me suffer, and yet how much I owe you! I would like to see you destroyed, and yet I need your presence. You have given me so much scandal and yet you have made me understand what sanctity is. I have seen nothing in the world more devoted to obscurity, more compromised, more false, and yet I have touched nothing more pure, more generous, more beautiful. How often I have wanted to shut the doors of my soul in your face, and how often I have prayed to die in the safety of your arms.

No, I cannot free myself from you, because I am you, though not completely. And besides, where would I go? Would I establish another? I would not be able to establish it without the same faults, for they are the same faults I carry in me. And if I did establish another, it would be my Church, not the Church of Christ.

POPE FRANCIS

 2015

"We learn that the Eucharist is not only a reward for the good but also the strength for the weak and for sinners. It is forgiveness and sustenance which helps us on our journey "

CARDINAL JOSEPH TOBIN

At his mother's recent funeral

"Mom reminds me of the Church, whose first job isn't to teach people to do stuff, but to welcome them and make sure they're fed!"