Happy Christmas and New Year Dear Reader,
Today the Liturgical calendar lists several saints that are
venerated. I want to focus on the actions
of Elizabeth Anne Seaton. She founded the first parochial school for
girls in Maryland in 1810. The orders she
established to manage this endeavor, the Sister of Charity also took in poor
orphan girls in a time when that was a great need.
We live in a time where there are still vast numbers of
children in need. This is another area
that the Church has mostly relegated to the state when it is not ours to relegate. Rather, we should be leading the way in
caring for the most vulnerable in our society.
We politicize the needs of the weakest in our culture. If children are starving and homeless and we
do nothing, how can we say we are following the one who commanded that we not
offend little children?
We cannot blame our church leadership. If we do not insist that they herald this
cause then they may not. We raise our awareness
of this need during the Christmas season but in a couple of days, when the
trees are gone and the kettlebells are silent, we will forget that want and
need are daily challenges. We will push
aside the truth that the cost of our Vente Latte would feed a hungry child for
a day. It is not that we should not have
coffee. It is that we can buy a cheaper
coffee, or make one, and use the surplus for the hungry.
Elizabeth Anne Seaton had a short and troubled life. She buried two of her own children. She was determined to spend her life caring
for others. Her aim was to educate and
protect orphan girls in a time where neither ventures were popular. I am not saying
that we should abandon all that we do and devote our lives to the cause of poor
and needy children. I am suggesting that
if we wish to carry Christmas always, Dear Reader, we need to care for the
needs of children every day and not just when it is the popular attitude of the
season.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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