I mean, I understand why; the Jesuits were trying to educate people but their actions were involved in destroying those cultures rather than help the people there.
Guys don't dick around, give money to Feeding America to help support people getting to eat.
They have a great track record of donations going TOWARD FOOD. They can stretch your dollar further. They are everywhere in the US. I've been donating there about 15 years.
#today's#catholic#mass#readings are Romans 8:12-17 and Romans 8:12-17: we should look for spiritual causes to help others; not the over rule them. We are all children of God aiming for higher things, we should let legalism override compassion or rest and ritual override compassion.
For the regular readings: Romans 8:1-11 and Luke 13:1-9:
Our actions have consequences in this world and the next; so we should for the things beyond this world (love, hope and faith) to fix ourselves and this world.
Happy 40 Martyrs of England and Wales day - not celebrating their suffering or condemning the English authorities but remembering and imitating their faith and determination.
They speak of our need for endurance from this world; for God has called us to him to be healed from the wounds of this world and become greater than it, just as he did the saints before us.