Trinity

Most Holy


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The Vamoose Bus picks up in Bethesda a block from the Metro and in Arlington. Forty bucks. If you miss that you can pick up the Chinese Eastern Bus or the Megabus (google it on line-even cheaper round trip) It puts you in the heart of Manhattan. Because that's where you want to be. If you want to get to McCarrick's Basillica the SACRED HEART in Newark, it's a quick train ride-in from 30th st. to penn station in newark and another little local ride (stop Park st.) and two block walk.



New York, New York. So nice they named it twice.

Next weekend there is a lot going on, and you want to visit the Franciscans at Saint Anthony of Padua. Best Sermon award.


The tie in for today's readings- Naman was a Syrian- an outsider, a foreigner, like the one leper samaritan who returned to thank Jesus -God wants to heal everyone. He doesn't care what your spiritual qualifications are. He doesn't ask for your charitable donation record, your position on political hot buttons, or your party membership. He is looking for gratitude. He is looking for humble hearts who know EVERY good thing comes from him.
Because there is NOTHING that was made that was not made with and through him from the beginning. (John 1)

The Leper Samaritan and the Syrian were hardly welcome or coveted guests anywhere.
They were forbidden to enter the city. They were outcasts, and unwelcome. Banned, barred and driven out by the self-righteous whom Jesus didn't come to save- because they were too self-satisfied to realize they needed a savior.

The act of gratitude is the visible manifestation of faith. Your Faith has saved you.
The Franciscan noted that if we are authentic Christians, if Jesus means anything, he is an open armed welcome to all who recognize his Grace and goodness and reciprocate with Thanks-so we have no right to marginalize or persecute anyone rendering them 'other' if they are friends of Jesus. The 'immigrants" the 'aliens' the 'other' in whatever dimension or manifestation-persecution of them is totally unacceptable to any authentic Christian because it is totally unacceptable to Jesus. The real enemies of the Sacred Heart are those who persecute those friends of Christ- whether they be black, gay, immigrant, of another nationality, the other gender, etc.

The recent islamaphobia over the ground zero mosque (so called) and the hideous torture crimes against gays in New York are beyond scandal- they are against God as surely as God lives. They are evil at its core, just as all self-righteous persecution of people whose faith is manifest dogmatically differently while they call themselves friends of Christ.

His sheep know his voice. He knows them by name. The Lord, the giver of all Life, has a bleeding heart that pulses life through everything that partakes of that cleansing blood.
How dare anyone persecute his body?