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Lay Network Update - September 2020
CCCR held a Zoom webinar on Transgender 101 with Nancy Corcoran last Monday evening. There was a good mix of people and we were educated and enlightened by Nancy's work. We learned that identity is complex. Who we think we are, along with what science and nature have revealed, must be taken into account when forming Catholic thought and action. CCCR affirms and will continue to support the LGBTQIA community.
Election is drawing near and I suspect most of us are highly enraged with what is going on in our deeply divided country. We need to be bold and speak up when we see injustice and mistreatment of the oppressed but we also need calm. Suck on a few ice cubes and cool the rhetoric if you can. We can look to the Beatitudes to guide us
on our journey to the ballot box.
Pope Francis suggested some modern Beatitudes during a visit to
Sweden on All Saints Day 2016:
1) Blessed are those who remain faithful while enduring evils inflicted on
them by others and forgive them from the heart.
2) Blessed are those who look into the eyes of the abandoned and
marginalized and show them their closeness.
3) Blessed are those who see God in every person and strive to
make others discover him.
4) Blessed are those who protect and care for our common home.
5) Blessed are those who renounce their own comfort in order
to help others.
6) Blessed are those who pray and work for full communion
between Christians.
The Four Woes follow the Beatitudes (Luke 6:24-26):
1) Woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.
2) Woe to you who are fed well now, for you will go hungry.
3) Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
4) Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you, for that is how
their ancestors treated the false prophets.
In these turbulent times, keep Pope Francis and Archbishop Hebda in
your prayers.
CCCR Board Nancy Gotto - Chair Gottonancy@gmail.com
952-451-6947
Still living in joyful hope,
CCCR Board
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