A journal of byzantine digressionS
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Retvrn!
How can you return to your God if you’re not yourself?
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Crazy 4 Jesus
What does it profit to gain the whole world and lose your soul? Who (or what) is dying on your cross?
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Silver Jubilee
The Domain is 25. How little has changed.
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Praying
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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Gala-had
ST DOMINIC’S had a fundraising gala on Saturday Night to celebrate our 150th Anniversary – and in benefit of our Tower Restoration process. I do not own formal wear so I borrowed something: The kilt, I’m told, is a regional tartan: a clan sort of fading away so, rather than have the tartan vanish entirely,
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What is IS?
What is the value of a human being? Of what is he made that he costs so little and so much?
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Who Chose Who?
Oil and water never mix. What about the Gentiles and the Chosen?
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Therapaedeutics
Do we have to “love ourself” first before we can love our neighbor? Note added 9/25/23 regarding self esteem.
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All Things?
When things are good, the will of God seems pretty awesome. How can we talk about the will of God around a dumpster fire like we have now?
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Restore Us
When God’s grace is compared to “watercourses in the Negev”. This is what they mean, btw. You don’t need to know Hebrew. God’s love is pouring down on us like this. Over and over. And Over.
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Wondrous Type
In the process of meditation literature, to be “fulfilled” is not to draw a 1:1 ratio between the accidents of a prediction and their “coming true”. Rather it’s to draw, as it were, a 1:10 ratio between the accidents of the prediction and the new, more-full way they are manifested.
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Asleep in the Light
How do we balance the idea of “doig good for all” with the secular welfare state and the need to just fiscally support people?
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St Raphael and the Episcopalians
WHEN I ENTERED THE Church in 2002, I took St Raphael of Brooklyn as my patron. The word “coincidence” like “luck” is something that Pagans use, but not Christians. But as an Episcopalian at the time, I stumbled upon or was led to find a letter that St Raphael had written regarding Episcopalians in 1912.
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Behold Your Mother
SOMETHING FR Vincent said in his homily last night… Jesus says to John, behold your mother. The Church has taught that at that moment Jesus was speaking to all of us, that Mary is our mother. But there’s more. For we are the Body of Christ, commanded to carry our cross. This cross is not
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Back to the Future
WAY BACK IN 1999, working for my first tech firm – called Online Partners – I was the first person in my office to get a flip phone. Sprint had these cool little models that looked like silver communicators from Star Trek. They had tiny little monochrome screens. I was walking by the store on
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