Fifth Sunday of Easter, Apr. 6, 2012
Fr. Anthony Brankin
Gospel: John 14:7-14 “I am in the Father and the Father in me”
(Summary of sermon) I don’t particularly like to read the news columnists, but they are the bellweather of society’s propagandists — where the enemy brings the fight. The enemy is pummeling us in the media. They talk about how the Church is waging war against nuns, or women, or Obama, the poor, etc. To go after God, they go after us. They get us to disbelieve in the Church, and therefore disbelieve in God.
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The best possible defense against this may be the argument of beauty. Beauty cannot explain itself without God. I’m talking about the beauty of people’s lives. For the last two thousand years we Catholics have been doing beautiful things. We take care of the poor, the sick. We are about raising good children, and doing good things in the world. This all proves the truth and goodness of God.
A spark of God in beauty
Beauty resides in the thing itself; it is not something of style or personal taste. Beauty is a reflection of God. God lives in that beauty. There is a spark of God that glistens in the beautiful thing.