Cesar Fernandez-Stoll

Denying their own religiosity to reject religion in the name of their own religion. A hidden faith still is a faith or the wrong kind and where their god is the self.

Let me get this straight ... We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are   forced to purchase   and fined   if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people , without adding   a single new doctor , but provides for   16,000 new IRS agents , written by a committee whose chairman   says he   doesn't understand it , passed   by a Congress   that didn't read   it but exempted   themselves from it, and signed by a President who   smokes , with   funding   administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes , for which we'll be   taxed for four years before any benefits take effect , by a government which has   already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare , all to be overseen by a surgeon general   who is   obese , and   financed   by a country that's   broke!!!!! 'What the hell could   possibly   go wrong ?'

Gospel text ( Luke 6,43-49): Jesus said to the crowd, «No healthy tree bears bad fruit, no poor tree bears good fruit. And each tree is known by the fruit it bears: you don't gather figs from thorns, or grapes from brambles. Similarly the good person draws good things from the good stored in the heart, and an evil person draws evil things from the evil stored in the heart. For the mouth speaks from the fullness of the heart.

Gospel text ( Luke 6,39-42): Jesus offered this example, «Can a blind person lead another blind person? Surely both will fall into a ditch. A disciple is not above the master; but when fully trained, he will be like the master. So why do you pay attention to the speck in your brother's eye while you have a log in your eye and are not conscious of it? How can you say to your neighbor: ‘Friend, let me take this speck out of your eye’, when you can't remove the log in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the log from your own eye and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your neighbor's eye». Comment: Fr. Antoni CAROL i Hostench (Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain) «»

Gospel text ( Lc 6,20-26): Lifting up his eyes to his disciples, Jesus said, «Fortunate are you who are poor, the kingdom of God is yours. Fortunate are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. Fortunate are you who weep now, for you will laugh. Fortunate are you when people hate you, when they reject you and insult you and number you among criminals, because of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for a great reward is kept for you in heaven. Remember that is how the ancestors of this people treated the prophets.

One of the bad, bad, bad side effects of having allowed the world's educational systems to be controlled by the Marxists, has been the inevitable creation of left-wing monsters like Jimmy Hoffa, Andy Stern, Van Jones et al.

From: Contemplating today's Gospel Gospel text ( L uke 6,6-11): On another Sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and began teaching. There was a man with a paralyzed right hand and the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees watched him: Would Jesus heal the man on the Sabbath? If He did, they could accuse him. But Jesus knew their thoughts and said to the man, «Get up and stand in the middle». Then he spoke to them, «I want to ask you: what is allowed by the Law on the Sabbath, to do good or to do harm, to save life or destroy it?». And Jesus looked around at them all. Then He said to the man, «Stretch out your hand». He stretched it out and his hand was restored, becoming as whole as the other. But they were furious and began to discuss with one another how they could deal with Jesus.