...all they got 
was that crappy sign? And yikes, all they could come up with for a name was "Catholic Community of Christ Our Light?" Sounds like a new age temple. It's not even a "church," mind you, it's a "Catholic community." For goodness sakes, let me stick my finger down my throat right now. Someone please tell me, what in the world is suddenly wrong with the word "church?" And why are we replacing actual communities with concocted ones?
In any case, two pretty big churches in Cherry Hill, of all places, merge and all they can get for their first mass was 100 people? That's not exactly a rousing endorsement. Maybe people were put off by the lame sign.
The worst part of the article (link below) are, sadly, the quotes, from their new pastor:
"We stand after great visionaries who've come before us, and blazed a path."
Of course, the statement begs the questions, which visionaries? And where's your blazin' path headed?
I guess he tries to answer the questions by saying,
"The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made." What the heck does that mean? If he's saying that there isn't a path to be found, one that does, in fact, already exist and was "blazed" by Our Lord and Savior, but only the one we make, I think the lot of them are headed someplace I'd prefer not to go.
It's pretty simple really. We don't need to go blazin' our own paths, because Our Lord said this:
Click here to read Star Herald piece.
was that crappy sign? And yikes, all they could come up with for a name was "Catholic Community of Christ Our Light?" Sounds like a new age temple. It's not even a "church," mind you, it's a "Catholic community." For goodness sakes, let me stick my finger down my throat right now. Someone please tell me, what in the world is suddenly wrong with the word "church?" And why are we replacing actual communities with concocted ones?In any case, two pretty big churches in Cherry Hill, of all places, merge and all they can get for their first mass was 100 people? That's not exactly a rousing endorsement. Maybe people were put off by the lame sign.
The worst part of the article (link below) are, sadly, the quotes, from their new pastor:
"We stand after great visionaries who've come before us, and blazed a path."
Of course, the statement begs the questions, which visionaries? And where's your blazin' path headed?
I guess he tries to answer the questions by saying,
"The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made." What the heck does that mean? If he's saying that there isn't a path to be found, one that does, in fact, already exist and was "blazed" by Our Lord and Savior, but only the one we make, I think the lot of them are headed someplace I'd prefer not to go.
It's pretty simple really. We don't need to go blazin' our own paths, because Our Lord said this:
Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it. Matthew 7:13-14Yes, the good father, well intentioned I'm sure, seems to have contradicted Jesus' own words. Our Lord instructed us to FIND the path and to FOLLOW Him on it. In the very next chapter in Matthew, in fact, Jesus said, "Follow me." And not long after this, in Matthew 8:28-34, Jesus cast out demons and they entered instead into a herd of swine, which "rushed down the steep bank into the sea and perished in the water." Guess those piggies blazed quite a path.
Click here to read Star Herald piece.