Sara May Be Wellintentioned But She
Sara may be well-intentioned, but she and St. Gregory’s are going about things the wrong way. You’re not supposed to let just anyone who wants to, take communion, much less pray the words of consecration over toast when your friend and former lover is dying, you don’t baptize people after they take communion, you don’t baptize children just because they ask, you don’t baptize people after they take communion, you don’t baptize children just because they ask, you don’t marry a person of the same sex and you don’t lay hands on people and pray for them without having received the authority to do so. And the pantry is not church; you need a valid liturgy and authorized clerics for that. Sara has simply allowed her leftist politics, concern for outcasts, and the ‘liberation theology’ of Jesuits like Martin-Baro to overcome her good sense. People need rules; that’s why we have them in the first place. If we don’t have rules, people will do whatever they want, and then where will we be? It is clearly stated how Sara feels about this issues beginning with the prologue in the novel. “Eating Jesus, as I did that day to my great astonishment, led me against all my expectation to a faith I’d scorned and work I’d never imagined. The mysterious sacrament turned out to be not a symbolic wafer at all but actual food, indeed the bread of life. In that schoking moment of communion filled with a deep desire to reach for and become part of a body, I realized that what I’d been doing with my life all along was what I was meant to do: feed people. We can see here demonstrated in this quote that this experience led her to perform the work as a missionary, a person sent on a religious mission. The earliest examples of Christian missionary activity are those which were recorded in the New Testament. The early writings begin with Saul who later became Paul. Paul and his original readers were citizens of the Roman Empire. While the Romans were the overlords of the period, the cultural