"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset." Saint Francis De Sales

Friday, August 25, 2017

Fr. Jude, Disorder & Snoopy



1. Sunday’s Gospel is not an easy one to fully understand. I’ve always wondered if Jesus was testing the Canaanite woman, or teaching the Apostles a lesson in faith. Deacon Arthur provided some insight to the Gospel, referencing this from Fr. Jude Siciliano’s, “First Impressions.” 

“From this second perspective we might say that when Jesus encountered the woman and heard her request, he was expressing his first intention: to preach his message to "the lost sheep of the house of Israel." But when he saw the woman’s strong faith in him, especially after just being rejected by those who should have known better, the religious leaders, he then modified his mission plan.

The woman was a clear sign to Jesus that God’s salvation was meant for all people and all nations – not just for the Jews. Today’s encounter with the Canaanite woman shows a change in Jesus’ human consciousness and his human understanding of God’s plan for humanity. How does this change take place? By the woman’s persistence and unwillingness to accept a narrow and restrictive view of God. She realized birth and religious origins cannot hold back the outpouring of God’s love on all people. If we make God too small and puny in love we have not heard the gospel.

Thus, we have two general paths of entry into this story. One, with stress on Jesus’ divinity, seeing his behavior as the all-knowing Lord who draws out of a Gentile the faith that will be preached "to the ends of the earth." The other approach views the human Jesus in an exchange that helps him grow in his mission towards all nations.”

2. The eclipse of the sun brought people together last week. It took our minds off the violence and hatred. Perhaps God figured we needed a break.

3. We have had a large amount of rain over the past week. Probably too much because my grass is growing really fast. But, I’m not complaining because rain is good … I don’t have to water the lawn when it rains.

4. Brother Mike send me some quotes from a book, “Disorder in the Courts.” One of the quotes that I though was the funnest;

ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No..
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

5.
https://www.pinterest.com/jeanee2109/snoopy%7E%7Eliterary-ace/

6. “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— 
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— 
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

7. Toby Keith - “Should’ve Been A Cowboy.”



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