A Catholic principle often taught during a 3 year cycle is that as a follower of Christ, we should lower ourselves to lift up others, a move that could be humorous in Japanese cultures that know how to keep bowing as they back away from each other
The.lroblem with this teaching when boomers, or as some say are imitators of bad cultures, fail to actually look up a word in the dictionary and make a distinction between behavior that is becoming exploitive in their dishonesty.
As 80 year old Franciscan nuns smaller than Diane Lane just take care of themselves and lift heavy suitcases for 60 year old women who embarrassingly rely on wheelchairs and walkers as they lie to themselves about fear of losing their social security disability payments when all they really are doing is being lazy. This behavior is typical of southern women who do not actually follow any code of politeness or etiquette, but simply expect others to do for them what they do not do for others.
This is gross and to many obscene behavior is simply exploitation, and for children who are now in their 40s and starting to feel their own bodies exhaust, slavery. This is how the Roman style of abuse begins, as many in denial America s slowly begin to accept they are quoting and worshiping Roman Catholics, a church that split from the Greek Orthodox Church.
Following a Roman church is fine for beginners of faith that can be pretty theological, but the struggle begins when these now form holders of the papal authority deny their own culture they are adhering to. When told they are acting like Romans, which they are by being guilty of association, they get angry as they slowly realize they probably came from Rome.
Being raised in a parochial school system, my own heart broke as my family church at St. Louis Church ran out of money and simply closed its doors. Father John was our priest, a considerate and welcoming figure who valued humility and actually practiced servitude by telling the history of a historical soup kitchen in East Toledo that probably put Chicago humanitarian Al Capone to shame as he realized he too was exploring charitable services to get the Federal Bureau of Investigation off his back.
As dishonest believers are challenged by anaBaptists who are following Yeshua’s teaching to follow him as he brings a sword that puts children against their parents, in a war that often leads to humiliation and incarceration. As Yeshua himself was being reduced to an opposing gender, calling his mother a woman which probably caused her to throw her secret silver fork in anger, they too began to realize their own passions and jealousies, slowly acknowledging they too had dreams that were left to be fulfilled.
The point in this sermon is simple: be like the Franciscan nun who carries her own weight without screaming in anger, following her own faith that not every American agrees to. I never bowed down to a Catholic church, because deep down in my heart, I am simply not a Catholic…
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