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In the Catholic Liturgical Calendar, today is the Transfiguration of the Lord, the feast the marks the remembrance of the marvelous miracle of Jesus’ appearance in full heavenly glory on Mount Tabor before his Passion and Death. Why is that relevant to this blog, since it’s not the direct focus?
Today is the thirty-first anniversary of the passing of Pope Paul VI, the courageous defender of marital unity. He was the promulgator of Humanae Vitae, the letter affirming the Church’s constant teaching on love and life, which dashed the hopes of accommodating faithful wanting to use and promote contraception with a clear conscience.
Thank you, Pope Paul VI, for your courage and your white martyrdom for the unity of marriage. Paul VI, pray for us.
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A friend of mine commented on Facebook:
History will remember the Servant of God Paul VI as a pope who had perhaps the most difficult pontificate in all of history, during a time when the world (and to some extent, the Church) was cracking up and someone had to steer as steady a course as possible. It’s too bad he is so terribly maligned by those both on the so-called left and the so-called right. They should be ashamed for speaking about that of which they know nothing: what it is like to be the pope who was called to simply hold together the Barque of Peter as best as possible on the rockiest of currents