{"id":31989,"date":"2015-02-04T10:38:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T14:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31989"},"modified":"2015-02-04T10:38:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T14:38:17","slug":"making-matthew-25-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/making-matthew-25-concrete\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Matthew 25 concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I met a Jesuit priest, Father Fred Enman, and he told me about his charitable work of assisting the poor according to the Jesus&#8217; teaching of feeding, clothing visiting, encouraging, etc our brothers and sisters in need. Father Fred called this work of his <a href=\"http:\/\/matt25.org\"><strong>Matthew 25<\/strong><\/a>. Not original, but it does open a door to a new and exciting way of be a good disciple of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>I ask myself: &#8220;What is a Christian&#8217;s concrete response after hearing the words of Jesus?&#8221; One good way of answering this question is to\u00a0see ourselves in action. Do I put what I hear in gospel and at Mass into action? Does what Jesus teach really mean something to me? In what ways can I, as a disciple of Jesus, be a force for good work in my community?<\/p>\n<p>Being a &#8220;disciple of Christ&#8221; is a question we don&#8217;t ask about too much, nor are many Catholics ready to ask that question. But I think we have to begin considering the implications of calling ourselves a Christian.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a bit: I&#8217;ve been praying and hoping and trying to plot a path to make what Jesus teaches more and more concrete in our parish of Our Lady of Pompeii Church (East Haven) and in the greater New Haven area.<\/p>\n<p>Charitable work is not about feeling good about oneself &#8211;though this is a wonderful consequence to to using our talents for the good others&#8211; it is the living of a relationship, a manifestation of God&#8217;s love for each of us personally, and how that relationship is translated into the reality of a community. Charitable work educates our heart; charitable work opens a door to friendship, charitable work eases the burden of others, charitable work shows that we can be in relation to another, etc. I could go on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Making &#039;Matthew 25&#039; Concrete | This is the Day\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gE_vyxMxVTA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I met a Jesuit priest, Father Fred Enman, and he told me about his charitable work of assisting the poor according to the Jesus&#8217; teaching of feeding, clothing visiting, encouraging, etc our brothers and sisters in need. Father Fred called this work of his Matthew 25. Not original, but it does open a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/making-matthew-25-concrete\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making Matthew 25 concrete<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[1955,32042,1957],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31990,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31989\/revisions\/31990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}