Better NO Masses?
The particular NO Masses that nearly all of us attend might be improved in various or even many ways. For example, by a sound instinct, the cantor at Historic St. Mary’s in Albany, NY, always sings “Agnus Dei,” the first and only use of Latin in our Mass. This Mass could be improved if the celebrant followed this by saying to the people, “Ecce Agnus Dei”.
Place of worship ≠ God’s house
One cannot help liking Nietzsche for his sincerity.
Without God in life and death
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. —Sc. 78, Deuteronomy 6:5, 10:12, Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27
People who get along very well without God in their lives may have to get along without Him after their deaths.
If you want to be in heaven after you die, act now as if you belong there.
Entering the Adirondacks
They were able to return. —Micro Camp 2023: Anna Havron
People will be surprised what brings them to heaven or to hell.
The prodigal son committed a mortal sin, the elder son committed a venial sin. This doesn’t answer anyone’s questions, but is something to ponder.
Suddenly, unexpectedly, cause unknown.
“God wouldn’t do that.” But if He would, is He still your God?
‘…his ideas, his words, his temperament speak to me with intimacy as well as force…“he does me good”…I stroll with him again and again because he knows better than anyone else the material and spiritual country I am travelling through.’ — Jacques Barzun on William James twitter.com/mckinleya…
Though slavery is evil, to say that a slave cannot benefit from slavery is to say that the slave is not human. Good can come out of evil.
“Gender dysphoria” should probably be “sex dysphoria,” since the person is dissatisfied with his/her/their/zir/hir/eir/vis/tern sex rather than his/her/their/zir/hir/eir/vis/tern gender.
