{"id":28259,"date":"2015-10-21T11:14:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T17:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=21220"},"modified":"2017-04-17T21:58:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T01:58:36","slug":"all-is-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/all-is-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"All is Grace","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS
for Wednesday, October 21st, 2015<\/p>\n

Liturgical texts here<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

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WHILE <\/b>many Catholics are caving in to a certain panic as the Synod on the Family in Rome continues to swirl in controversy, I pray that others will see something else: God is revealing our sickness through it all. He is revealing to His Church our pride, our presumption, our rebellion, and perhaps above all, our lack of faith.<\/p>\n

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For Christianity and salvation are not rocket-science. It\u2019s really quite straightforward, as St. Paul reminds us in today\u2019s first reading:<\/p>\n

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Sin must not reign over your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires\u2026 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There are two paths for each human being: to either follow the Creator’s will, or one\u2019s own will. To follow one\u2019s own will in contradiction to God\u2019s laws is called \u201csin\u201d. And this leads to death: darkness in our hearts, darkness in relationships, darkness in our cities, darkness in our nations, and darkness in the world. And so Jesus, \u201cthe light of the world\u201d,[1]<\/sup><\/a>cf. John 8:11<\/span><\/span>