Please fast and pray every Thursday for the renewal of the Catholic Church in America. Please note: The Cybersociety will fast on Fridays beginning January 2013, in accordance with ancient custom.

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Interiority


An interior life-- perhaps we can revive that. All these plugged-in people walking around-- they're trying to connect to the world, but they only end up dismissing it. Trapped in their electronic selves.

"The kingdom of God is within you." Start there. With silence, even boredom. Move on to repentance. Sit in front of the tabernacle. Say the rosary.

Green salad, peach.



Thursday, July 19, 2012

Matthew 11:20-24

Heard a good sermon on Matthew 11:20-24, where Jesus upbraids Chorazin and Capernaum. "Woe unto thee..." One of those passages we want set in social-historical perspective, so to speak, lest we actually have to take it seriously. Why was Jesus being so hard on those people? Because they knew better. If even Tyre and Sodom could comprehend, then the people of the Law even more so.

Do our children know? Have we taught them? Have we passed down the law and the prophets, the traditions and the philosophy? The fear of the Lord? Or have we left them bereft?