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Catholic Church in the Diocese of Orange * 3999 Rose Drive, Yorba Catholic Church in the Diocese of Orange * 3999 Rose Drive, Yorba Linda, CA 92886 tel/fax: 714 - 996 - 8161 * email: [email protected] * website: www.polishcenter.org Page 2 www.polishcenter.org SIXTEENTH SUNDAY buildings, conquers the streets and imposes our faith on the IN ORDINARY TIME—JULY 19, 2020 whole of society. We need to go back to two small parables Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heav- where Jesus makes clear that his followers’ task isn’t to con- en and earth; you have revealed to lit- struct a powerful religion, but rather to put themselves at the tle ones the mysteries of the kingdom service of the Father’s humanizing project (God’s Reign), — Mathew 11:25 sowing small seeds of the Gospel, and mixing themselves GIVING US TIME TO GROW into society as a bit of leaven in human life. There were people in Our Lord’s time who wanted him The first speaks of a mustard seed that is sown in a gar- to separate the bad from the good as well. Among them den. What’s special about this mustard? That it is the small- were people who claimed the moral high ground, the Phari- est of all the seeds, but when it grows, it becomes a bush sees whose name means “the separated ones.” Even John the bigger than the other vegetables. The Father’s project has Baptist expected Jesus to separate the cream from the skim, some very humble beginnings, but its transforming force to have only holy people around him. John foretold that Our can’t be imagined even now. Jesus’ activity in Galilee of Lord would separate the chaff from the wheat. He said (Mt sowing deeds of goodness and justice isn’t anything grandi- 3:12) “He will gather his wheat into his barn; but the chaff ose and spectacular: neither in Rome nor in the Jerusalem he will burn in a fire that will never go out.” That’s precise- Temple are they aware of what’s happening. The work that ly what Our Lord didn’t do. He had all sorts of people his followers are doing today is insignificant: the power cen- around him, a rainbow coalition of people, the learned, the ters ignore it. Even we Christians can think that it’s useless ignorant, the good-living, the bad-living, tax-collectors, to work for a better world. Human beings keep on commit- prostitutes, the lot. What in God’s name is he doing, they ting the same horrors over and over again, seemingly forev- said. Why doesn’t he get down to business? Why doesn’t he er, and we are incapable of catching on to the slow growing weed them out? of God’s Reign. As any gardener knows, weeding can be the greatest The second parable speaks of a woman who mixes a threat of all to the life of the young seedling. At first, the little leaven into a large mass of flour. Without anyone problem is one of identifying which is which. The weeds knowing how, the leaven goes about working silently until must be left until the seedling can be clearly recognized. the whole mass is fermented. That’s what happens with Even then, removing the weeds may pose an even greater God’s project of humanizing people. Once it is introduced threat. It might sever the seedling’s root system. Often the into the hearts of even a few, it goes about quietly trans- weed brings the seedling away with it. forming human history. God doesn’t act by imposing enor- In the case of human beings it is an even more risky mous pressure on us; rather, by attracting our consciences to business. “Weeding-out” has no history of success which a more worthy life, one that is more just and fraternal. doesn’t seem to curb people’s passion for it. Seventy years If we just trust in the word of Jesus, the Spirit of God is after Hitler’s final solution, the horrendous weeding out of still working among us, promoting solidarity, a love for six million Jews in concentration camps, the Bosnian Serbs truth and for justice, yearning for a happier world. We need are attempting the brutal policy of “ethnic cleansing.” Race, to collaborate with God’s project by following Jesus. A less religion, colour, sex, politics are still considered ready- powerful Church, one that is more lacking in privileges, reckoners for identifying society’s weeds. Increasing power poorer and closer to the poor, will be freer to sow seeds of over nature provides new and sinister instruments for weed- the Gospel, more humble in its living in the midst of the ing out. The unborn child, the seed of life is threatened with people as the leaven of a more worthy and more fraternal — Jose Antonio Pagola abortion. At the other end of life, euthanasia is proposed as life. the final solution for the new Jews, the old, the maimed, the Today’s Readings: Wis 12:13, 16-19; Ps 86:5-6, 9-10, incurables and the burdensome. Right through life, the 15-16; Rom 8:26-27; Mt 13:24-43 weeding-out continues remorselessly. The handicapped axe institutionalized, the delinquent are penalized, the deviant TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION are ostracized and the poor are patronized. For centuries, the only Eucharistic Prayer we heard as Weeding out is not confined to faceless bureaucracy. Western Catholics was the old Roman Canon, usually recit- We’re all tempted to try our hand at it. We are sharp at spot- ed in a low voice by the priest, in Latin. By the 1940s, many ting the undesirables, the troublemakers, the misfits. One Catholics were learning to follow along with the actions of shudders to think of the people who might have been weed- the priest by means of a bilingual missal, with Latin on one ed out if God had not chosen to intervene. Probably most of side and English on the other. the saints in the calendar. Peter, after his triple denial in the The Roman Canon is a long prayer, and since it was crucifixion crisis should have been weeded out for failing done every day for every occasion, priests had a way of gal- the leadership test. Strange isn’t it, that Christ never weeded loping through it. Even though long, its structure is fairly out Judas? The church did not always show her master’s simple, with the consecration and sacrifice clearly marked tolerance. Galileo could testify to that. The spirit of the In- out. Sadly, this surviving prayer had triumphed over many quisition lives on. Excommunications and anathemas may treasures of our tradition that emphasized other dimensions be out of fashion but old habits die hard. - Internet of Eucharist. The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy in 1963 did not call directly for new Eucharistic Prayers, but that LITTLE THINGS IN GOD’S PROJECT direction was inevitable. Discussion began almost immedi- Through the centuries, Christianity has been much dam- ately, and by 1967 the Vatican approved three new Eucha- aged because of triumphalism, the thirst for power, and ristic Prayers. In 1974, the Congregation for Worship un- wanting to impose oneself on our enemies. There are still veiled the experiment of two Eucharistic Prayers for Masses Christians who yearn for a powerful Church that fills church of Reconciliation, and three for Masses with Children. At last, a period of creativity and enrichment had begun. —Rev. James Field, © Copyright, J. S. Paluch Co. Page 3 www.polishcenter.org KOMENTARZ LITURGICZNY dejmowali współżycia zachowując czystość. W takim Cykl A, 16 Niedziela Roku Zwykła stanie przeżyli 40 lat. Czytania: Mdr 12:13, 16-19; Ps 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16; W tym czasie niezwykle trudnym dla Polski, bo trwa- Rz 8:26-27; Mt 13:24-43 ło rozbicie dzielnicowe a ziemie polskie nękane były na- jazdami tatarskimi, Kinga służyła Bolesławowi radą a Pan Bóg nie tylko powołał wszystko do istnienia, lecz kiedy trzeba było także swym wielkim posagiem. Dzięki równocześnie dla istot rozumnych stał się najdoskonal- szczodrości księżnej starczyło pieniędzy na opłacenie szym przykładem właściwego postępowania. I dlatego wojska, by bronić się przed groźnymi Tatarami. jest jednocześnie najbardziej sprawiedliwy i zarazem mi- Dzięki staraniom księżnej Kingi do Polski dotarli łosierny, karzący wszelkie zuchwalstwo i jednocześnie górnicy z Węgier, którzy odkryli złoża soli w Bochni i wynagradzający najmniejszy przejaw dobroci. Uczy prze- Wieliczce, gdzie rozpoczęli jej wydobycie. Ten cenny to stale swój lud, że każdy sprawiedliwy powinien być skarb przyczynił się do bogactwa księstwa. Fakt ten po- dobry dla wszystkich ludzi. twierdza wielkie starania księżnej Kingi o pomyślność i Ten najlepszy Pedagog posyłając na świat swojego rozwój jej nowej ojczyzny. Księżna nauczyła się bardzo Syna chciał, aby ogłosił ludziom Królestwo dobroci, w dobrze języka polskiego, by dobrze porozumiewać się z którym wszyscy zapatrzeni we wspólnego Ojca niebie- dworzanami i prostym ludem, o którego losy była zawsze skiego będą się starali być podobni do Niego w praktyko- szczerze zatroskana. waniu doskonałości. Usilnym staraniom świętej Kingi i biskupa Prandoty z Jednakże w tym Królestwie, założonym przez samego Białaczewa zawdzięczamy kanonizację św. Stanisława Syna Bożego, pojawia się obok pszenicy także kąkol zła. biskupa i męczennika ze Szczepanowa, która odbyła się 8 Bóg nie pozwala go wyrwać, lecz ma rosnąć do czasu września 1253 r. w Asyżu. Księżna chciała w ten sposób żniwa. Również w tym przejawia się nieskończona do- pokazać całej Polsce wzór świętego bez reszty oddanego broć Stwórcy, który nie pozbawia człowieka wolności, Bogu i Jego ludowi. wtedy nawet gdy jej nadużywa, dając mu zawsze moż- Bolesław, chcąc podziękować żonie za wsparcie w ność zawrócenia ze złej drogi.
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