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A recurring dream in which I am due to preach in a big cathedral and realize, upon arriving, that I am wearing cargo shorts or a bathing suit. Maybe that is why actual public speaking doesn't faze me. If I show up wearing trousers I figure I have already won half the battle.
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For anyone interested, the Merton Center has uploaded the audio of my talk at the Merton Society meeting in June: "The Gate of Heaven is Everywhere." Wherein I answer the questions: Will #ThomasMerton be canonized? *Should* TM be canonized? bit.ly/2Y4NwOI
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I also scored 100%. Unfortunately, that will profit me nothing on the Day of Judgment. Still, cool!😅
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Today's Gospel (Mt 12): "Whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother." Jesus call us to let go of a model of family based on exclusiveness, power, and kinship for the sake of a new family based on inclusiveness, humility, and discipleship.
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Inclusiveness: Jesus confronts a society divided by codes of clean/unclean, righteous/sinner. He upsets these divisions, restoring the broken and excluded to wholeness and community, inviting those outside to a place of special honor in the feast that God has prepared.
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Humility vs. power: Jesus is determined that the new family of God not reproduce patriarchal power structures of society in which the powerful lord it over the powerless. In this “family” the one who is first must be the servant of all. The oldest should become as the youngest.
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Discipleship vs kinship: He does not “belong” to his blood relatives. His true relatives are those who do the will of God. All of these points pose a challenge to the new Christian family. The first two, inclusivity and humility are obvious. But discipleship is crucial.
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“It is a bigger miracle to be patient and refrain from anger than it is to control the demons which fly through the air.”—St John Cassian
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When the President entertains the option of genocide as a sure-fire military solution, it is not totally reassuring that he “doesn’t want to go that route.”
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Yes, thanks for the assist. I didn't mean, "What if, instead of Peter..."
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Rather than respond individually to all on Catholic Twitter who have accused me of heresy or blasphemy let me try to put this another way: What if, instead of marginalizing Mary Magdalene as a penitent prostitute (per Pope Gregory, 6th cen), the church had fully acknowledged the
Feast of St Mary Magdalene. What if the church had been founded on the rock of faith of a woman who did not abandon Jesus when he was being killed, who went to his tomb to anoint his tortured body, who was the first to see the risen Lord, and the first to proclaim this good news?
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implications of her title (per Thomas Aquinas) as Apostle to the Apostles. A beginning in 2016 was the Vatican decree bit.ly/2M2jMdM that elevated Mary's feast to the same status as that of the other Apostles. Or perhaps per @kayaoakes: Patron st of the mainsplained.
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Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen of Seattle, who died July 22 last year. A prophetic pastor, he withheld income tax that paid for war, naming Trident nuclear subs as portable death camps. He paid a stiff price. bit.ly/32Gp8kU
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