Don't Let Me Down
I saw a news article about Boston College today. A few days ago the CNA reported that BC decided to hang a Crucifix in all of the 151 classrooms on campus.Click here to read the story.
I am all for the decision to display the icon of our faith, and I find it odd that several professors and faculty on campus disagree with the changes. This and other articles suggest that the Crucifix comes across as divisive -- that it appears offensive to non-Christians who happen to teach there.
Alas, human beings will always look upon the Good (be it self-sacrifice, freedom, or love) and call it something just the opposite. I imagine at the actual Crucifixion that the nearby Roman guards might have held a different interpretation than the mother of Jesus. Sometimes people don't like putting up with love, so they tear it down.
In a country where we have an inundation of icons secular and sour, let's raise this One a little higher. Don't let him down. In the words of George William Kitchin who wrote in 1887: "Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim, till all the world adore His sacred Name."
First Georgetown. Then BC. Maybe next will be Loyola Chicago!
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Oh, and lest I forget the significance of this day ... loving birthday wishes to my model of faith.
Happy birthday to my dear and beloved Mom.
posted by Patrick Fairbanks at 10:28 PM
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I like these verses from Bible, and would like to share them with you. For we should love Gods word so much
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God
Romans 6: 23 For wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ jesus
Romans 5:8 God proved his love to us in yet while we were sinners Christ died for us
Romans 10:9-13 If you confess with your mouth that jesus is Lord and beleive in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved
Turn from sin, and place faith and trust in Christ alone
James 2:19 You believe there is a God good even demons do
Ephesians 2:8-9 For it is by grace that one is saved and this is not of works
Psalm 14:3 for there is no one who does good not even one.
Sin has a price and that price is hell, so turn from sin and place faith in Christ and give him the wheels to your car and have control of your life
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