Is Biblical faith anything more than social activism? Father Jeffrey Kirby, next.

Hello and welcome to focus the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding and defending

your Catholic faith. I'm Si Killett, your host. And I always enjoy talking with our friend

Father Jeffrey Kirby and we got to talk with him recently about his book Real Religion,

How to Avoid False Faith and Worship God in Spirit and Truth that's new from Catholic answers press.

But he's such a great guest and this is such a great book that we invite him back because

there's another topic that he covers in this book that really is of vital importance to our time.

The idea of the intersection, the point, the meeting point, between social activism and our Christian

faith, our Biblical faith. And sometimes the temptation to make social activism be the total

of our faith, the total way that we express our faith. That is not a good option when it happens.

And here's Father to explain why.

Once again, Father Jeffrey Kirby, how to avoid, excuse me, real religion, how to avoid false faith

and worship God in spirit and truth is the new book. Thanks for being here with us again, Father Kirby.

My pleasure. Thank you. So you wrote this book as you told us last time out of a kind of

pastoral concern with the number of people who thought they could improve upon the mass.

Absolutely. Anytime you hear language like that, you know, we're going to make the mass better.

Just be careful. Be careful. Those were those words where, you know, you should just stop and pause

because especially like with the Holy Saccharis of the mass, I was given to us by the Lord.

And as a divine actually, we can't make it any better. So yes, it came from from that desire

to help people. But there is a sense in which we can make it better by being more reverent, however.

And I want to give you a chance to say something about that because I can imagine the listener

who's like, what I mean, I just all I want is a reverent celebration of the mass. I sympathize

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