tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850096231666604.post4674833646762288262..comments2023-07-01T00:39:39.762-07:00Comments on Father Geoff Farrow: Beyond DeathFather Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03904564207135202567noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850096231666604.post-87430768570055857712011-04-22T19:22:30.230-07:002011-04-22T19:22:30.230-07:00Your post points to something I think important: J...Your post points to something I think important: Jesus asks difficult things of all of us, a profound challenge to us to think about ourselves and our relation to those around us. Yet it is a challenge tempered with love, an acceptance that we will always fall short of the ideal as much as we may strive to meet it.<br /><br />But the Church is increasingly sucking the life out of that truth. One of the ways we give is to dedicate to each other, to finding the God that resides in each of us in that unique bond that we share with those with whom we choose to share our lives, either as lay or ordained.<br /><br />The Church would deny LGBT that form of love and charity so unique to our state and so essential to our being. In the Church's eyes we are neither to be married nor ordained. We are not to love. The Church would cripple us, leave us quasi-humans, isolated from many of the crucial aspects of love that pervades God's central commandment to us and core to His plan of salvation for us. <br /><br />Paul, I think, said it best. "And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity." For these I pray.<br /><br />I wish you a blessed Easter Fr. Geoff. God bless.Talhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10370831725911688642noreply@blogger.com