As a reminder, we have designated our Masses on Sunday at Holy Cross Academy for our strictest safety measures during the coronavirus pandemic so our highest at risk population can safely attend Mass. This means anyone attending these Masses are expected to wear your mask properly for the entirety of your time inside the building, to properly social distance, and to respect the requests for the ushers. We encourage the at risk members of the parish who wish to attend Mass to attend at Holy Cross. Thank you for respecting the rules and doing your part to help keep the at risk members of the parish safe.
Bishop Burbidge has released a new pastoral letter, entitled “In Tongues All Can Hear: Communicating the Hope of Christ in Times of Trial.” He has made it available to the people of the diocese electronically. Please click the image below to read our bishop’s letter.
Some Tuesdays I just stare at my keyboard, or look at social media, or I read articles mindlessly. Why? Because I can’t think of what to write in my bulletin note. Today is one of those Tuesdays. So I thought, “Hasn’t something interesting captured my mind recently, I should share that.” So here we go.
I dislike social media. But it is useful for news. One platform that I can use anonymously is Twitter. I have one follower and just use it to read news articles. However, I recently responded to Father Dwight Longenecker when he mentioned how much he loved the movie “3:10 to Yuma.” Really? I had found nothing redeeming about this movie. Zero, zilch, nada. He responded to me and also shared an article with me. The article is entitled: “The Greatest Moral Film of All Time.” Wow! Did he watch the same movie as me? I saw a post-modern message where goodness is futile and meaningless. However, here is a pull quote from the article: I’d been misreading and underestimating the moral of the tale until my most recent viewing this Christmas: formerly I’d misread the film’s message as more postmodern than that which is truly buried there. Only when I realized what the message was—a call for the person to do the right thing even unto death—did I begin to think about this film as the greatest ever. It manages to make such an unpopular moral mandate…fashionable. And realistic.
I have to admit that he made a number of interesting points and gave me a whole new lens through which to see the point of the movie. In the end, I now have to rewatch that movie and maybe I’ll be a little less annoyed that my brother really likes it. Here is a shortened link to the article: tinyurl.com/y3c4ah8q
Maybe someday I’ll write another article about the Disney movie I watched whose message seems to be tearing down the monuments and achievements of your ancestors because you are more understanding. Talk about a movie for 2020? Yikes. Ideas have consequences.
