One can be with God without His talking to you. Usually He doesn’t.
The Greek Jews shake their heads and go back to the Temple. Sc. 80
Perhaps we should pause more often than we do.
In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same. —Marshall McLuhan
The tax collectors and the prostitutes will enter the kingdom before you. Sc. 78, Matthew 21:311
That person whom you disrespect may be close to heaven.
If you are not afraid of going to hell, you are in the wrong place.
One is good, who is God. Sc. 71, Mark 10:18
We are not commanded to be good, but to love.
We who are so displeased by earthly evil will want to avoid the fires of hell.
& the selfsame thing the thieves also, who were crucified with him, reproached him with. Matthew 27:44
& they who were crucified with him reviled him. Mark 15:32
I.e., the victims of the law echoed the chief priests & the scribes. But Luke knew that there was one who didn’t.
After seeing Social Justice signs, I was glad to happen upon Peace signs at today’s Empire State Plaza farmers’ market. Turns out at least two of the ladies were CSJs I knew or should have known.
When love is lacking in the world, it is churlish not to love the Mother of God.
Heaven and hell are forever.
Is the eye doctor Catholic?
We cannot see the past in a single, communicable picture except from a point of view, which implies a choice, a personal perspective. —Pieter Geyl, Napoleon: For and Against, p. 15
Pieter Geyl on the Criminal Past
All revolutions are moved by the conviction, which causes them to be so incalculably dangerous, that it is bringing a new world, a new order; that, therefore, all the standards, all the laws, of the past have become antiquated; and that it has on its side not power only, but right, so that everything must give way and all opposition, if not contemptible, will be criminal. —Pieter Geyl, Napoleon: For and Against, pp. 8–9
O you petty believer, why did you doubt? Sc. 46, Matthew 14:31, today’s Gospel Reading
Not in the wind.
Not in the earthquake.
Not in the fire.
A tiny whispering sound.
—from Today’s First Reading