"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
The other night I was watching Tim Allen on TV doing stand-up. He was talking about a car accident that he had and how the doctors had to remove 8 inches of his colon.
What was the *obvious* joke he should have said?
It’s now only a semi-colon…
In this last week before Advent, we celebrate the Solemnity of Christ the King. In the First Reading, through the Prophet Ezekiel, the Lord describes Himself as a shepherd who will gather together his sheep. The Lord ends by saying that He will judge the flock and this theme of judgement is picked up in the Gospel Reading where Jesus contrasts the “sheep and the goats”, those who loved Him through loving the afflicted and those who did not.
