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The best Mass, is the early morning one that much fewer people are willing to wake up and attend!
Father Patrick Brennan's homily: Christ was born as a baby, so that we wouldn't be afraid (as a second-grader once told him). Or as it says in Luke 10:2:
"Do not be afraid. Look, I bring you news of great joy, a joy to be shared by the whole people."
On a slightly different note, this morning on Fox News - it was the only news on at 6:00 am - the Archbishop of Washington DC, Father / Cardinal Donald Wuerl, made a notable response to a question from host Chris Wallace. Wallace asked the Cardinal on his thoughts about whether President Obama was conducting a war on religion, as Governor Rick Perry has asserted. Cardinal Wuerl responded:
"Our hope is that just as in the history of the church, and the history of our country. The church has been a part of the public effort to meet issues like feeding the hungry and providing care for people in need, the homeless, that we would always be a part of that. And to do that today, we need to be all the more respectful of the freedom of conscience, the freedom of religious expression of every one of us."
Did you catch that whopper?
Freedom of conscience.
Wherever you look, history is replete with examples of others judging - with righteousness - the quality of one's conscience, without the qualifications of being Perfect. I have tried to emphasize this point to others, with little progress, that no human is infallible, and therefore, no human may judge another's conscience.
It would be nice, on this Christmas day, if all people throughout the world could recognize this freedom of conscience -- a great gift given upon us.
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