20140709 Praying for felt needs is like buying. Praying for unfelt needs is like saving.
20140707 You don’t have to be good, you don’t have to feel good. [You have to do good?]
Man created God. So?
We cannot know what God is.
The problem religion addresses is man. The problem with religion is also man.
20140702 “Do not use clever words (GO TO HELL). Their cuteness wears off very fast and their mnemonic value is too subjective. Besides they offer an unwanted insight into your personality.” —Charles Moore, Programming a Problem-Oriented Language
“It is not the business of a verb to provide its own arguments.” Ibid.
30140630 To avoid sin, avoid temptation.
“The proof is obedience.” —Dr. Mark Miravalle
30140624
Neither the desert nor the city is the Promised Land. “Then who can be saved?” is a pertinent question.
The stable in which Jesus was born was a sacred space.
Fr. Connery pointed out in his Corpus Christi homily that Mary’s putting the Christ Child in a manger was a sign that he came into the world to be eaten.
30140623 Judging is a way of trying to make sense of experiences.
Mom slowly recovering from a fall that hurt or head and back: “I’m getting better every other day.”
30140622 Occasion is not cause.
30140621 Pin your hopes on the next life. There’ll be plenty of time for self-improvement after you die.
30140619 Americans are the Chosen People, like the Jews.
30140617 Little children aren’t saints.
20140616 No need to prove you are a sinner.
20140615 To myself: The biggest liar: you. The biggest lie: you.
The reason for sex is babies.
Selfish and sentimental.
20140612 The importance of the vocative.
20140424 I prefer good news to bad news, comedy to tragedy.
20140418 Anne’s 10th birthday. Last night the new bishop met Anne and said, “She reminds us of the dogginess of God.” Anne woke us up at 5:30 this morning. “Here I am, Dog.”
20140412 In heaven Beethoven again hears. And Milton sees.
20140410 Observe the commas.
20140409 The dead are not behind us, but ahead of us.
20140323 The Mass is greater than the Gospels.
20140301
… neither do the spirits damn’d lose all their virtue;
Paradise Lost, II. 482–483