Confessions of a Cooperator
Yep, me too. Guilty. Read a good blog post yesterday on this on a blog whose name I've forgotten. I'm too ashamed to go back and analyse my own posts, comments and thoughts, but feel a real need to shape up my perspective going forward.
On knitting blogs, people make buttons for knit-alongs to generate group activities. I think we need a St. Blog's examine your conscience button or something like it.
I think there's been a surge due to post-conclave triumphalism. Premature gloating. Oh goodie, he's going to get all the bad guys at last.
I have to remind myself that people who disagree, people who sin in different ways from the ways I sin, well they are also people who love Christ and the church, perhaps as much or even more than I do.
As a distraction, it's the devil's work. It keeps us from progressing on our own path to holiness when we waste so much time relishing the misdeeds of others.
Jesus would be righteously angry. Maybe at those of us who snark most of all. Are we the 21st century pharisees?
Jo, we are SO on the same wavelength. Let's agree to take this to prayer and ask that St. Blog's Parish experience an old-fashioned retreat/revival/repentance spirit, blowing through the parish halls and setting up tents if necessary. Whenever two of us agree to ask the Father anything in Christ's name... so we'll ask. A snark scrubbing for St. Blog's Parish.
Oremus.
I also have noticed and perhaps indulged in some hard-edged and even arrogant phraseology. It is not a sign of the Holy Spirit, and I hope with extra light to avoid that in my blog... How can we evangelize people whom we cannot refer to without a dig of some sort? Or is this a way of asserting that "I am not alone" here; there are others who catch my meaning, so we are a "we" and those others are a "them" outside... And yet we are still one body, us and them...
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