May Patrick Kennedy find his way to Romans 8

Low poll numbers for Patches and the emotional aftermath of his father's death, Kennedy decides not to run for re-election.

It's almost surreal Ted Kennedy's death seemed to spark major crumbling of the political foundation.

This was sad:

"Illness took the life of my most cherished mentor and confidant, my ultimate source of spirit and strength," he said.

The death of a significant person in our personal lives can take the wind out of our sails for a couple of years. Your animus is crushed by the hole in your life. Your life takes a dramatic turn. We dig in our heels to avoid the turn.

If you are not careful, you can surrender control over the momentum of your life to it.

How does anyone survive life's curve balls if they let another human being be their ultimate source of spirit and strength?


Christ experienced every kind of suffering. The death of John the Baptist and even his own death at the hands of people whose souls He came to save.

I pray the day never comes when I'm so caught up in a storm that my soul can't make its way to immerse itself in Christ to be refreshed and restored.

Ultimately, controlling the purpose of the Sacraments of Penance and the Eucharist to confirm you in your rebellion against doctrine is spiritual suicide.

When laity and priests and Bishops actively participate in leading a rebellion against doctrine, it is spiritual homicide.

In the story of Christ's, the substitution Christ's physical body with the image of the Church. At various points in our lives we take a role as one of the characters that surrounded Him.

Sometimes good. Sometimes, not so much.

It' a long road from "what is truth" to "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit".

I pray Patrick Kennedy, who has had a difficult life, gets there.

Romans 8


Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? or distress? or famine? or nakedness? or danger? or persecution? or the sword?

As it is written: For thy sake we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord