A journal of byzantine digressionS
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The Mask of Halloween
NB: I edit and repost this essay most every year, I know. Archive has this going back to at least 2006, although it says there that I was reposting it again, so, at least 2005? Anyway, it’s still good. On the Hill of Tara, seat of the High Kings of Ireland, there is a mound…
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The Calling of St Cletus
The Readings for Monday in the 28th Week, Tempus Per Annum (C1) Romans 1:1-7 Luke 11:29-32 Omnibus qui sunt Romae, dilectis Dei, vocatis sanctis.To all that are at Rome, the beloved of God, called to be saints. Romans is Paul’s most amazing letter. It’s also his most problematic. He will rattle of lists of forbidden things…
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St John the Melodist
St John Henry Cardinal Newman was a very accomplished hymn writer. Many of his hymns are here in the Hymnary. There’s also a long biography there. Praise to the Holiest in the height,and in the depth be praise:in all his words most wonderful,most sure in all his ways. O loving wisdom of our God!When all…
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Kerygmishpocha
You probably have a sepia-toned memory of one moment when someone pointed out an adult and said that was a family member. What were you? Two? One and a half? Four? What about the time before that? Can you know?
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Kerygamabob
My intent is to point out that none of us really means “my truth is only relative”. We fail in the logic of “relative truth” because we don’t actually believe it. At best we usually mean, your truth is relative but mine is right.
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Kerygmarsch auf die Feldherrnhalle
How something is bad is not always as important as why it is bad.
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In hope of less.
This is not a rant about the novus ordo but the next few words may sound like it. One of the things that annoy me about the Pre V2-Post v2 argument is the claim that the new lectionary (for mass and the office) has “more scripture” in it. This is usually offered without ever explaining…
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Kerygma My House, My House Kerygma
Not a part of the Kerygma series, but, hey community is part of the Kerygma. Come live with me and be my…
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Kerygmatic Checkin
An outline of the previous 6 “Kerygma” posts, typos and all.
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In which I find myself agreeing with Jack Chick…
The NABRE text might as well say, “Jesus only rolled his eyes and said ‘Oy’ whilst making a ‘W’ with his fingers.”
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War, Sex, and Weather
The more wealth Israel accumulated, the more injustice they practiced. The one begot the other which begot more of the first.
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The banquet is prepared.
Knowing that we are the prodigal, that Jesus is the father welcoming us home…
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Kerygmasonic
The choice we make – to build our own roadways out of the bricks we have forged – is an illusion. Those “roads” are really walls that cut us off from life, that cut us off from God, that cut us off from each other. We are the bricklayers of our own prisons.
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Kerygamour
Do you believe in love? Do you believe in romance? And now, out of left field, do you – like so many of my friends – believe in Soul Mates? Do you feel, deep in your heart, that there is someone out there for you that is your best match? So many of my friends…
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Put your Hand to the Plough
In our modern, rootless and cosmopolitan world, we need to be rootless to serve the God we follow, we are following Jesus.
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