My favorite show on television premieres tonight. Heroes. I really love this show.
While the special powers that each of the characters has is fantasy, the choices they make are real. They have these amazing gifts, but how will they use them? I think this is the part that makes it real for me, choices. We all have them. Each of us, especially Catholics, have been given gifts that we did not merit. What defines us as people of God is how we choose to use those gifts.
Lately we have seen these choices in stark contrast, sort of like the black and white used in a comic book. We have seen Catholics, gifted with the grace of Baptism and the blessings of belonging to a church that contains the fullness of truth take different roads. We have seen some with that grace and God’s gifts choose to be heroes by standing up for life. Egan, Chaput, Burke, Pavone, and all the Bishops who have stood up in recent weeks to make clear the Church’s unwavering defense of life. The people are heroes.
We have seen others that have chosen to use their gifts to confuse and divide in their effort to gain and maintain power. Power for themselves. These people are …
September 22, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Obviously the special gifts received were not intellectual.
September 22, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Where are Aquinas and Augustine? I read somewhere that they were pro-choice too.
September 22, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Where are Aquinas and Augustine? I read somewhere that they were pro-choice too.
LOL! And I heard Augustine was into Sola Scriptura 🙂
September 22, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Where are Aquinas and Augustine? I read somewhere that they were pro-choice too.
Their pictures are hanging in the League of Villains secret hideout, doncha know…
September 22, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Catholic villains are usually people after personal gain in all they do. They insist that they put God first, but a blind man can see that it is not true. The only thing they follow is their selfishness. A hero is self sacrificing. He is the one that throws himself on the live grenade. or prays at abortion clinics to protest the murder of the unborn..
Few around these days.
September 24, 2008 at 2:06 pm
No, Catholic villians are all of us Catholic sinners. We need to pray for each other that we can all somehow reach beyond our human understanding into what God would want of us.