“To whom much is given, much is required"
I’d like to share a prophetic word that Timothy, over at Ambrose Before Hoes, just published.
I encourage you to read the Good News he shares, Good News that we desperately need to hear. Here’s an excerpt:
The cult of Mammon has infiltrated the Church so deeply that we do not even see how much we tie our metrics of evangelization to algorithms, how much we tie our mission to retaining what we already have. This is why I told the bishop I want no settlement. I want radical Love.
Saint Óscar Romero, who began as quite a conservative priest, changed radically, alight with the fire of the Gospel. As Archbishop of San Salvador, he resisted the persecutions of his age and led his people with courage for 3 years, before being shot while saying Mass on March 24, 1980.
“That is what the church wants: to disturb people’s consciences and to provoke a crisis in their lives. A church that does not provoke crisis, a gospel that does not disturb, a word of God that does not rankle, a word of God that does not touch the concrete sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed—what kind of gospel is that?
Just nice, pious considerations that bother nobody—that’s the way many people would like our preaching to be. Those preachers who avoid every thorny subject so as not to bother anyone or cause conflict and difficulty shed no light on the reality in which they live.”
Saint John Paul II was not a fan, and had already started to work for Romero’s removal from the archdiocese until he heard news of the murder. We like our saints sanitized, but a prophet is not without honor except in his native land, and that includes our place in time. We owe our witness to those who have been put in our care, but we are also responsible for the witness we give those who will come into this world after we are gone.
Read the whole thing here, and give Timothy a follow:
