Father Joseph Illo, pastor of Star of the Sea parish in San Francisco, gave a 12-minute homily on May 10.
Good to see so many people going to confession. Makes the Holy Eucharist valid, since you have to be in a state of grace. We’ll have to add another priest.
Our civilization depends on motherhood. If there is no mother, there is no home. We depend on our mothers for showing us what it means to love. Receiving a child and giving love. It is not as the yard signs say, ‘Love is Love’. Motherhood is tangible, conceiving, nursing, nurturing to adulthood.
God says ‘Love Me’ five times in today’s Gospel. Willing the good of the other is Thomas Aquinas’s definition of love. The love of a mother is the love that Christ gave on the cross. Obedience is love; you will trust God if you love Him. ‘Love is Love’ is just saying ‘Whatever’ – whatever my impulses say.
Jesus says I will send you another advocate. He is our first advocate. Jesus is our defense attorney before Satan. But He sends another one. ‘Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful.’ He tells the truth in a world of lies.
It’s hard to accept this divine dimension of our being. That we are dependent creatures, that we don’t make our own laws, that we don’t make our own reality.
The commandments are the objective markers of God’s love. Archbishop Sheen wrote a book in the 1950s called The World’s First Love about Mary’s love. We love God best when we love Him through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
I know families with two mothers and stepmothers. The more mothers the better.
“the more mothers the better?”– No. You only have ONE mother. All families are headed by one man– the father– and one woman– the mother. Anything else is an ugly, evil, Satanic perversion– a great danger to children! — and should be outlawed.
Are you serious? Numerous studies show that children are better off in a variety of ways when raised with a father and a mother. Just because you know fatherless families doesn’t mean it’s a good thing. I know fatherless families too and they usually suffer due to the lack of a father. And, no one really has more than one mother, biological or adoptive. And, many stepmothers do a good “job” of serving the children in their families. (Of course, I’m not “counting” the Blessed Virgin Mary, who is also our mother.) I recently heard Dr. Mark Regnerus speak at the University of Dallas about his extensive study of same sex parenting. It’s linked below.
https://www.frc.org/issuebrief/homosexual-parent-study-summary-of-findings#gsc.tab=0
I think we have the tongue-in-cheek pixie at work here.
O’Really, I hope you’re right.
But, I’m not sure. Maybe more mothers will clarify this. (But, I doubt that.)
That rainbow sign is actually correct: love is love. Sex is sex. And, love does not mean sex (apart from the marriage of one man and one woman). Let’s not surrender the word love or the rainbow (sign of a covenant with God) to the sex lobby. (It’s probably too late for the rainbow, at least for a generation. But, let’s fight for the word love to mean what it really means.)
Great post “words matter” poster. Yes, love is love and lust is lust. They are two different things, and the opposite of each other.. Love does the best thing for oneself and the other. Lust does for oneself and cares not what happens to the other. :Lust just uses and abuses.
But God’s rainbow has seven colors, not six. A sign with seven colors would be a sign of real love, godly love, and a six color sign is symbolic of derangement.
“Love is Love” on rainbow colors? What the HELL are you promoting?
Love wins
The Bible says that God is love, so love is love is God is truth.
Students at Archbishop Mitty High School made posters like that when I was there. The administration displayed them in the school foyer. That was under Bishop McGrath.
But, they still have an abortion promoting president under Bishop Cantu. Pray for repentance and courageous, charitable clergy.
What kind of love are the gay colors promoting?
It doesn’t matter because “love is love” so all love is love and love is what matters.
LGBT is a cancer on any nation, society, organization, institution, church, or family that it infects. It destroys its host, just as cancer does, by mutating good cells/people into bad ones and then replicating the bad DNA. If you don’t realize that LGBT is a cancer on humanity, then you might be part of the problem and infected yourself.
Any of you old enough to remember my top hit with a catchy tune, All You Need is Sex? I mean All You Need is Love.
Imagine there’s no heaven, It’s easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us, only sky, Imagine all the people, Livin’ for today, Ah…
Hmmm… I was wrong about no hell. But, people still sing my songs. Imagine is a world peace anthem, even sung at the Olympic Games.
As that second-rate American songwriter Stephen Stills famously wrote, “If you can’t be with the one you love honey
Love the one you’re with.”
Buggery is buggery
I bet we’ll live to see the day when families will be expanded by the government to include two mothers and two fathers or even more in a single family.
Love is love. Why can’t an outlaw motorcycle gang or a cult be family? Don’t be so narrow minded. As Fr. Brendan McGuire (Diocese of San Jose) teaches, “we believe that all our ancestors and all the angels and saints who have died before us are at that Heavenly Dock and wait with great joy and jubilation to welcome them home to their eternal destiny. For our part, we remain here for now. Every one of us will take that final journey home someday.”
Relax, the way and the gate are wide.
That’s comforting as I enter my final years.
A new controversial document was just released by the Vatican, on implementing the Synod on Synodality. The Vatican does not seem to care about the uproar over their recent, heretical Synod Study Group #9 report. The Catholic Church is to be “re-made” according to the ridiculous Synod on Synodality (?) What are we to do? They refuse to listen! More unstoppable Clerical Abuse!
Extremely immoral, anti-Christian, Gay State Sen. Scott Wiener is running to replace Rep. Nancy Pelosi, in the U S. House of Represenratives, as Pelosi is retiring. Don’t vote for this filthy creep! Here is a link to a disgusting campaign video: https://share.google/YXGSpB73aTxv2CZ6k
Don’t waste your time opposing him. He’s going to win. You either move out of San Francisco or accept that you live in a Democrat liberal la-la land that will never change.
Do you realize the tremendous, incalculable damages of corruption and sin done to our State and our Nation, by Nancy Pelosi and Scott Wiener? As the saying goes: “All that is necessary for the triumph of Evil is for good men to do nothing.” If you are a man– “Man-up” and fight for Christ! For your family, your wife and children, your Church, your community and schools, and your country! That is what our courageous forefathers fought– and won– for us — with prayer, hard work, and heavy sacrifices. Many of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence suffered severe losses in the Revolutionary War — severe property damages and financial losses, POW captivity and imprisonment, casualties of war (9 died in battle). Etc. And there were heavy losses in the modern era, of WWII, also. Pelosi and Wiener are huge promoters in the U.S. of the filthy, Satanic 1960s “sex revolution,” the “Death Culture” and Wasteland– killing our once-great country. Pray and sacrifice for Christ.
Yes, I do. That’s why you should leave. The Founding Fathers of the United States of America were people who left Great Britain to create a better society and a better life for themselves.
The corrupted Democratic Party is not of our true country and of the authentic vision of our Founding Fathers at all. America is not a land of sexual promiscuity, gay “marriages” and adoptions of kids, sex-ed, Drag Queens and pornographic books, films and Internet in the schools and in children’s libraries, legal baby killing — abortion– and rejection of Christianity and Christian Morality, and persecution of Christians. That is not America. The concept of “freedom” means only a limited freedom– freedom to act responsibly and morally-decent. Those who abuse freedoms in America are criminals, who must be arrested by police, thrown in jail, and prosecuted for their crimes. Those who legalize and who commit the sin and crime of murder of unborn children– abortion– are criminals. The Democratic Party is anti-Christian, unAmerican, and extremely sinful. All of its sinful beliefs inscribed in its Party Platform must be outlawed, and the Party must be either dissolved– or reformed under good and morally-decent American principles.
So, where do you plan to go to, if you leave America? And will you support and uphold Christian Morality in your new country, and fight evils?