{"id":1174,"date":"2021-10-08T21:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T02:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/?post_type=post_documents&p=1174"},"modified":"2021-10-08T21:36:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T02:36:02","slug":"october-10-2021-twenty-eighth-sunday-in-ordinary-time","status":"publish","type":"post_documents","link":"https:\/\/stkateridearborn.org\/index.php\/document\/october-10-2021-twenty-eighth-sunday-in-ordinary-time\/","title":{"rendered":"October 10, 2021 – Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the Pastor’s Desk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Fr. Terry Kerner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have not deserted you! I am home but restricted in my activities and required to rest as well as “enjoy” the physical therapy to build stamina. Breathing is still a challenge but seems to be improving as we go along. In the weeks ahead I will be concluding the anti-biotic regimen then enjoy a couple of blood tests prior to an internal examination of the heart. (For our medical professionals in the parish the procedure is call a “TEE”.) Every step along the way I have appreciated and felt the need for your prayerful support. So many of you have demonstrated this over the past couple of months and I want to believe that you have helped me to get to this point in recovery. My thanks also for your kind wishes for my birthday last Sunday. It didn’t take as long as I thought it would to turn seventy-six!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to encourage all of us to keep our faith alive and joyful looking for ways the parish can sustain us. There are a few activities and celebrations approaching that we can share in months ahead \u2014 contact sports are not on the list!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have good week and enjoy this beautiful time of year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Deacon Is \u201cSpeakin\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Rev. Mr. Thomas Leonard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abandoning Ourselves to God, Part 2 of 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our last \u201cThe Deacon is \u2018Speakin\u2019\u201d we spoke of how man can view God as a rival who curtails our freedom and thus, we cannot be fully human until we have cast Him aside.  God\u2019s love, which can seem to be untrustworthy, creates a dependence and man feels he must rid himself of this dependency if he is to be fully himself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, love is not dependence but a gift that makes us alive.  It gives us the freedom to live for God and for others.  Because our freedom is that of a limited human being, dependent upon God and others, our freedom is a shared freedom.  Only if we live in the right way, with one another and for one another, can freedom develop.  We live in the right way if we live in accordance with the truth of our being, and that is, in accordance with God\u2019s will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For God\u2019s will is not a law for the human being imposed on him from outside, like some sort of cosmic thumb forcing itself upon man and restraining him.  Rather, God\u2019s law springs up from within us \u201cto do good and avoid evil\u201d; \u201cto do to others only what you\u2019d have them do to you\u201d, or that \u201ctwo \u2018wrongs\u2019 don\u2019t make a \u2018right.\u2019\u201d  It\u2019s this law engraved within man that makes him the image of God, capable of consciously and purposely laying down his life for others and God.           <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we live in opposition to love and against truth \u2013 in opposition to God \u2013 then we destroy one another and destroy the world.  Then we do not find life but act in the interests of death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to the continuing \u201ceffects\u201d of original sin, we have a lurking suspicion that a person who does not sin must really be basically boring and that something is missing from his life: the dramatic dimension of being autonomous, testing our freedom, even in opposition to love. In a word, thinking that evil is basically good, even necessary, to experience life to the full. The Virgin Mary would beg to differ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next week we conclude Pope Benedict XVI\u2019s thought on \u201cAbandoning Ourselves to God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n