"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
This week’s music offering comes courtesy of the Carmelites….
Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.
This month in the United States we celebrate Thanksgiving, so I thought it was a good time to do a post where I celebrate the top five things Americans say (or don’t say) which make me me raise my eyebrows, tut slightly and set about making myself a comforting a cup of tea 🙂
In my previous post, I recounted a little bit of my own story and how I came to reconsider the Catholic teaching concerning intercommunion. In today’s post I would like to present the two main issues around which this teaching revolves.
“Our Lord suggests that the Christian life is a battlefield. Only the squeamish and the cowardly return untouched and ‘whole’ from battle. If I find nothing in myself to discipline, it is because I suffer from an adolescent insecurity that wants nothing changed, and because I have installed myself in the illusion that everything about me is already perfect. Or I do not believe in anything worth defending, worth fighting for, more precious than my body and my ego in their splendid isolation. I clutch at the integrity and sovereignty of my body and ego as the ultimate treasure, little realizing that this body of ours has been given to us to engage it in adventure, in odysseys, in warfare, in heroic deeds for the common good.“
– Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis
A few of you have asked, so I thought I’d do a quick post to say that I haven’t had any more visits from the Jehovah Witnesses following my last meeting.
I went through the material they left concerning the Deuterocanon/Apocrypha. It wasn’t very good, just the usual objections. It was rather amusing though to find them trying to marshall St. Athanasius, particularly given that he vigorously opposed Arius who taught something similar to what Jehovah Witnesses believe about Jesus.