Pope Benedict
If I were King of the Calendar, the year would begin with the celebration of the incarnation of Christ at Christmas and end with celebration of His resurrection at Easter. (I haven’t worked out rest of the details of the new Stevian Calendar. I’ll have to commission a study to flesh it out. It would have certainly have a Bacon Day, though. And I don’t mean Francis Bacon or Roger Bacon or even Edna Bacon.)
I grew up in a Roman Catholic home, but I don’t have warm spot in my heart for popes and popishness in general. That said, Pope Benedict does have the ear of much of the planet. The UK Daily Mail has excerpts from Benedict’s Good Friday address to the faithful. Denominational differences aside, he speaks the truth about the growing secularization of what we loosely call ‘culture’ and increased ridicule of the things of God.
‘Jesus is humiliated in new ways even today – when things that are most holy and profound in the faith are being trivialised, the sense of the sacred is allowed to erode,’ he will say.
‘Everything in public life risks being desacralised – persons, places, pledges, prayers, practices, words, sacred writings, religious formulae, symbols, ceremonies. Our life together is being increasingly secularised.
‘Religious life grows diffident. Thus we see the most momentous matters placed among trifles, and trivialities glorified. Values and norms that held societies together and drew people to higher ideals are laughed at and thrown overboard. Jesus continues to be ridiculed.’
Amen and amen. Click the link to read the rest of the article.
