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In a recent sermon, Fr John Jimenez spoke of how the Feasts of Pentacost and of the Holy Trinity of God summarize the whole meaning of our existance. We are on a journey, like in the Book of Exodus, together, from Pentecost, the beginning of the Church, toward our end in the Holy Trinity of God, who is a communion of persons, a perfect sharing, a perfect love, as we say in the prayer Jesus taught us, "on earth as it is in heaven", and as St John's letter tells us, "perfect love drives out fear."From our beginnings, when the Holy Spirit rushed down upon us in a fire, purifying us, sending us for the with the gifts of wisdom and understanding, right judgement and piety...we are sent forth into the world, to our families, our communities, our workplaces..as instruments of the Holy Spirit, to transform the world...that things will be on earth as they are in heaven.
In this journey, we must keep our sights on our purpose and goal. Do not be deterred by scandals or corruption, frustrated plans or persecutions. This is why Jesus sends us the Holy Spirit, drawing us, to our end, the communion that God is, perfect love, perfect sharing...
Just as materialistic, temporary gratification destroys families, so too does greed and lust destroy societies...forces that drive war, bring us to the brink of ecological devastation, tilt us off balance with nature of God's creation.
With the impact of technology and job losses caused by automation and globalization, we face a dystopian future of massive unemployment and people living in homeless camps in the street. The priviliged few will have high tech jobs or live off of computer controlled algorithmic investments, and the many will live in shanty towns, as is now in Third World Countries
It will be the Church, formed at Pentacost in the Holy Spirit, drawing us to our end in the communion of love that is the Holy Trinity, that will form, at the parish level, Guild State Nazareths, cooperative communities, where we work and produce products useful to the community, self-sustained by local resources, in balance with nature and God's creation, where people are paid a fair wage, and products are sold at a fair price, and old idea written about by Pope Leo XIII, Pope John Paul II, Dorothy Day, E.F. Schumacker, Fr Vincent McNabb, Alexander Chayanov (disappeared into a Soviet Gulag) and others referred to in the "Distributist Review" and "St Austin's Review", a response to the seeds of a dystopian future foreseen in the World Wars of the 20th Century
Herein lies the final step of the Mission of Christ, and our access to the Father. Christ, in his humanity, as victim of injustice and sin, suffering on the cross, has joined himself to all persons in history who has ever suffered. The Father responds to the anguish of his only Son by the sending of the Holy Spirit upon Mary and the Church

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Our Pentacost Journey to the Trinitarian Communion With God

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In a recent sermon, Fr John Jimenez spoke of how the Feasts of Pentacost and of the Holy Trinity of God summarize the whole meaning of our existance. We are on a journey, like in the Book of Exodus...

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The Way of St Francis: Antidote to Big Tech Algorithmic Displacement

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Father John Jimenez is a San Francisco priest, chaplain, and teacher. Alongside instructing high school students in mathematics, he often contributes to the San Francisco Chronicle. In his articles, Father John Jimenez has talked about the "expanding bubble of desire" that is fueled by social media, and the development and use of algorithms that reward pleasure-seeking behavior.

Algorithms are digital programs that independently tackle problems with mathematical logic; one could be programmed to sort a million social media posts by topic, for example. They are considered tools that have the potential to solve a variety of problems. Engineers wonder if algorithms could be used to block harmful content in social media, predict the future, and prevent disasters. However, algorithms already play a massive role in our lives and provide direction to human behaviors, for better or worse. Platforms like TikTok have fully embraced the use of algorithms, using them to foster an addictive model that provides an endless stream of content for users to consume.

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Father John Jimenez has served San Francisco's Roman Catholic faithful in several capacities since 1998.

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Since 1998, Father John Jimenez has been a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. In a recent sermon, on the Feast of Corpus Christi, he points to how our Lord is leading us to a Cooperative way of living, as a way of peace and overcoming division.
" A generation ago, Ciudad de Ninos had been a shanty town on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico, a large industrial city on the dry, hot plains of northern Mexico. Like cities around the world with big city problems of lack of social bonds, temptations, crime...forces that break up familes, Ciudad de Ninos had been a shanty town of shacks, drugs and street children. Yet, through the spiritual activities of the Church, and the practical activities that the Church organized, of education, job training and family support, the community had become more intact, more safe and stable.
Then in the summer of 1994, the Peso was devalued by one-half, suddenly, in only a few days....similar to what happened here in the U.S. with the fincancial collaptse of 2008, and in many poor countries around the world that live like poor fishing boats at the mercy of globalist tidal economic forces and storms.
All of a sudden, many people without jobs, people going without food, crime in the streets, kidnapping for ransom, prostitution....subsequently causing the recent surge of immigration from Mexico to the U.S., despearate measures trying to walk across the desert in 10 days under 120 degree heat, with little food or water....such a collapse fed the rise of drug cartels and their violecne spreading to peaceful areas of Mexico like Monterrey and Michoacan.
Back in the parish 'Padre Nuestro' in the barrio Ciudad de Ninos, on the Feast of Corpus Christi, as the evening sun was going down, we had a procession of the Blessed Sacrament through the unpaved streets of the barrio. Hundreds of people lined the sides of the street, standing and waiting,. When our Lord, in the 'Blessed Sacrament approached, carried high by the priest, the people knelt down immediately, dust and all, rocks grinding into the knees and all. as if we had come in the deserrt to the meeting place of Abraham and Melchisidec, king of Salem, figure of the Eternal Christ, high priest and Lord of justice and peace, ot the New Jerusalem
Abraham offers Melchisidec, the Eternal Christ, his best portion. In the same way, the people, as they knelt, offer themselves to Christ, knowing that only when we are in union with Christ can bad things be transformed to good.
Looking around, I could literally see why the people knelt in devotion, in rocks and dust and act and willingness of sacrifice, which Christ shows us in the Eucharist. We were in a neighborhood that a generation ago was a shanty town , no opportunity, high unemployment, alcohol abuse, children running the streets uncared for, a government too corrupt to do anything, now though a church community transformed into a cooperative, sustainable place.

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Corpus Christi and a Cooperative Way of Life

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Since 1998, Father John Jimenez has been a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. In a recent sermon, on the Feast of Corpus Christi, he points to how our Lord is leading us to a Cooperative way...