Our Lady of Sheshan courtesy of communio.stblogs.org A few years ago (it seems like another era), Pope Benedict established May 24, today, as “A Day of Prayer for China.” Mother Teresa would always ask us to “pray that we be allowed to enter China,” but even before Xi Jinping, the CCP never permitted Mother Teresa to bring Jesus into China. So the sisters pray every day to Our Lady of Sheshan for the “beloved Chinese people.” All over San Francisco I see signs “Stop Asian Hate.” The greatest amount of hate against Asians is coming from the Chinese Communist Party. The best way to stop hate in Asia is to allow Jesus into China.
Many of my parishioners come from Hong Kong. One of them asks me, frequently, “Father, pray for Hong Kong.” My friend Fr. Raymond de Souza posted a good analysis on the First Things website today: “Last week, Father Stephen Chow Sau-yan was named the new bishop of Hong Kong. He is so reluctant to take the job that he will not assume office until next December, even though the usual canonical rules require him to start in four months. The Church can set the date of his ordination. Beijing’s communist regime will set the date of his imprisonment.”
We must pray for Hong Kong, and for all of China. Our own government, and our own Church, is at best appeasing, and at worst cooperating with, Marxist totalitarianism. I pray not only for Hong Kong, but for my own President and my own Pope, that they may begin defending the beloved Chinese people rather than, apparently, throwing sheep to wolves.
Many of my parishioners come from Hong Kong. One of them asks me, frequently, “Father, pray for Hong Kong.” My friend Fr. Raymond de Souza posted a good analysis on the First Things website today: “Last week, Father Stephen Chow Sau-yan was named the new bishop of Hong Kong. He is so reluctant to take the job that he will not assume office until next December, even though the usual canonical rules require him to start in four months. The Church can set the date of his ordination. Beijing’s communist regime will set the date of his imprisonment.”
We must pray for Hong Kong, and for all of China. Our own government, and our own Church, is at best appeasing, and at worst cooperating with, Marxist totalitarianism. I pray not only for Hong Kong, but for my own President and my own Pope, that they may begin defending the beloved Chinese people rather than, apparently, throwing sheep to wolves.
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