It seems I have been found by the mysterious Rome/Vatican City surfer that has hit some of my peers. Ciao!
...or maybe I should say: 
25 March 2008
The line...
"The line between good and evil, right and wrong, hope and despair does not divide the world between "us" and "them." It runs down the middle of everyone of us.
I do not want to talk about what you understand about this world. I want to know what you will do about it. I do not want to know what you hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle.
As the wagon driver said when they got to the bottom of the long, hard hill, "Them that's going with us - get out and push. Them that ain't, get out of the way." - Robert Fulghum
I do not want to talk about what you understand about this world. I want to know what you will do about it. I do not want to know what you hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle.
As the wagon driver said when they got to the bottom of the long, hard hill, "Them that's going with us - get out and push. Them that ain't, get out of the way." - Robert Fulghum
23 March 2008
Don't say you've never heard of it...
Dyngus DayThe High Holy Day of the Polish Catholic Calendar here in Buffalo
22 March 2008
Now that's my idea of a good time...
"My favorite image of Easter is one that one of the kids in Sunday school drew: The Easter Bunny standing outside the empty tomb. Eternal life and chocolate - Now you're talking!"
-Anne Lamott
-Anne Lamott
You need it...
"If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel."
-Hans Urs von Balthasar
-Hans Urs von Balthasar
21 March 2008
+GJB
"Your absence has gone through me like a thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color" -W.S. Merwin
This Friday...
"Don't you realize what today means? If it weren't for today, nothing else would matter. Because of today... nothing else does!"
19 March 2008
18 March 2008
Who visited YOUR church this holy week?
As first reported here.... and now here.... is it this?
Holy vision?
Updated: March 18, 2008 10:11 PM EDT
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - - Holy vision sightings have been around for years, the Virgin Mary on a garage door, in a window, her face on a grilled cheese sandwich recently gathered 28 thousand dollars on ebay.
Jesus images are just as common, on a frying pan, a fish stick and even a pancake and now, some Niagara Falls parishioners say his face is on the altar at St. John de Lasalle Church.
Rory Etopio, "Definately a vision, because it looked like christ to me."
Rory doesn't go to this church, but came by because she heard about the image.
Rory Etopio, "I came to stations of the cross to see it for myself, and I couldn't believe it."
But Father Lynn Shumway says there's a simple explanation for this odd appearance in his church.
Father Lynn Shumway, St. John de Lasalle Church, "There was an image because the way the altar cloth is folding in and the palms here are pushing back one part of it."
He's pretty skeptical that this might might have a deeper meaning, even during holy week.
Father Lynn Shumway, St. John de Lasalle Church, "They say that we find god in the everyday things of life and if we find him in folds of an altar cloth well that's fine and good."
On Monday nights stations of the cross service, around 100 worshipers showed up, a service that typically gets around 10-15 people.
But you don't think there's anything to this really?
Father Lynn Shumway, St. John de Lasalle Church, "If there was I'd take up a collection!"
Holy vision?
Updated: March 18, 2008 10:11 PM EDT
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - - Holy vision sightings have been around for years, the Virgin Mary on a garage door, in a window, her face on a grilled cheese sandwich recently gathered 28 thousand dollars on ebay.
Jesus images are just as common, on a frying pan, a fish stick and even a pancake and now, some Niagara Falls parishioners say his face is on the altar at St. John de Lasalle Church.
Rory Etopio, "Definately a vision, because it looked like christ to me."
Rory doesn't go to this church, but came by because she heard about the image.
Rory Etopio, "I came to stations of the cross to see it for myself, and I couldn't believe it."
But Father Lynn Shumway says there's a simple explanation for this odd appearance in his church.
Father Lynn Shumway, St. John de Lasalle Church, "There was an image because the way the altar cloth is folding in and the palms here are pushing back one part of it."
He's pretty skeptical that this might might have a deeper meaning, even during holy week.
Father Lynn Shumway, St. John de Lasalle Church, "They say that we find god in the everyday things of life and if we find him in folds of an altar cloth well that's fine and good."
On Monday nights stations of the cross service, around 100 worshipers showed up, a service that typically gets around 10-15 people.
But you don't think there's anything to this really?
Father Lynn Shumway, St. John de Lasalle Church, "If there was I'd take up a collection!"
Do you see what I see?
(or just what you want to see?)
My prayer for all of you this Holy Week isn't that you find some great spiritual insight that you've ben looking for, but that you see what God has been trying to show you (but that you've been missing) all along...
(watch it again, just to make sure) ;-)
h/t Br. Blue
17 March 2008
No Donkey? Ride a Hog!
Ugh! How bad is this? One of these days, someone with far more time than me should run a contest of the worst 'serious' depictions of Jesus, both in painting and in sculpture...
Anyone? Anyone? (Anyone from a state that has both a North and South version of it???)
16 March 2008
My God's bigger than your.... death?
Passover was celebrated at home. Jesus did this too. But after the meal he got up and went out, and he overstepped the bounds of the law by going beyond the Brook Kidron which marked the boundary of Jerusalem.
He went out into the night. He did not fear the chaos, did not hide from it, but plunged into its deepest point, into the jaws of death: as we pray, he "descended into hell". Faith always means going out together with Jesus, not being afraid of the chaos, because he is the stronger one. He "went out" and we go out with him if we do the same.
Faith means emerging from the walls to build places of faith and of love in the midst of the chaotic world by the power of Jesus Christ. The Lord "went out" - it is a sign of his power. He went out into the night of Gethsemane, the night of the cross and the grave. He is the "stronger man" who stands up against the "strong man" - death.
The love of God - God's power - is stronger than the powers of destruction. So this very "going out," this setting out on the path of the Passion, when Jesus steps outside the boundary of the protective walls of the city, is a gesture of victory. The mystery of Gethsemane already holds within it the mystery of Easter joy. Jesus is the "stronger man."
There is no power that can withstand him now; no place where he is not to be found. He summons us to dare to accompany him on his path; for where faith and love are, he is there, and the power of peace is there which overcomes nothingness and death.
Benedictus
Benedict XVI
He went out into the night. He did not fear the chaos, did not hide from it, but plunged into its deepest point, into the jaws of death: as we pray, he "descended into hell". Faith always means going out together with Jesus, not being afraid of the chaos, because he is the stronger one. He "went out" and we go out with him if we do the same.
Faith means emerging from the walls to build places of faith and of love in the midst of the chaotic world by the power of Jesus Christ. The Lord "went out" - it is a sign of his power. He went out into the night of Gethsemane, the night of the cross and the grave. He is the "stronger man" who stands up against the "strong man" - death.
The love of God - God's power - is stronger than the powers of destruction. So this very "going out," this setting out on the path of the Passion, when Jesus steps outside the boundary of the protective walls of the city, is a gesture of victory. The mystery of Gethsemane already holds within it the mystery of Easter joy. Jesus is the "stronger man."
There is no power that can withstand him now; no place where he is not to be found. He summons us to dare to accompany him on his path; for where faith and love are, he is there, and the power of peace is there which overcomes nothingness and death.
Benedictus
Benedict XVI
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