Friday, March 21, 2008
Caracas Auxiliary Bishop Monsignor Luis Tineo: 'We cannot continue to live hating each other..."
After reading the Seven Words Sermon, Caracas Auxiliary Bishop Monsignor Luis Tineo on Good Friday said that while not easy it was 'necessary to forgive' in order to reach reconciliation among Venezuelans. 'We cannot continue to live hating each other. We are the disciples of this Man who is with and empowers us to forgive one each other.'
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Let Monsignor Luis Tineo set the example by divesting himself of all his finery and emulating The Christ Himself by wearing sackcloth and also applying ashes to his face.
ReplyDeleteThen the Bishop can truly give a sermon of what Christ taught us, was the true merit of forgiveness, and not idle words offered to the people from the pulpit. For that was the real message of Christ, is it not so?
What the Bishop has avoided was the uncaring rich and opulent, who were oblivious to the suffering of Venezuelan masses. And in fact the Bishop should also remind the rich Chist's own words: :"Leave all and follow me!" Then forgiveness can really mean something, and not idle words uttered in a sermon by someone who lives in luxury.
I live by the Seven Words of George Carlin myself.
ReplyDeleteThese hypocritical priests should indeed stop serving the Rich, before they open their damned mouths about "forgiveness". That's the kind of thing rich bastards say when they're losing, eh? But it's quite another thing when their foot is on your neck...
Better to hear the words of the liberation theologists living out among the masses in the barrios and the countryside -- not attend the swanky masses in the downtown (or uptown) cathedrals. Screw the damned Catholic Church: hypocritical and criminal supporters of fascism everywhere.
Socialism will be the world's savior.