2011/12/31
by J. Randal Matheny
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2011/12/30
by J. Randal Matheny
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Have been going up to the office more this week, and today I stayed from 9 to 6. No Internet there, so you don’t hear much out of me when I’m there. I’ve experimented with the 1000 words per day … Continue reading
2011/12/28
by J. Randal
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“The wise man must not know after but know before.” —Epicharmus (460 BC), cited in C. Spicq, TLNT, 2:472
2011/12/27
by J. Randal
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From the ability to rest in God comes the power to act when the need or opportunity arises.
2011/12/27
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Erica Johnson asks, “If you were going to blog about one thing for an entire year, what would you choose?” It’s WordPress’s Project 365, to blog every day. Let’s turn that into a spiritual Project 365: What would you choose … Continue reading
2011/12/27
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Last night I watched the last Harry Potter movie with The Missus and The Maiden. They’d seen it before. They like repeats. Somehow I found the movie anticlimactic. Maybe I was tiring of the series? Can Harry Potter please fade … Continue reading
2011/12/27
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The Church offers itself as the human space of fraternity in which every believer can and must experience that union among men and women and with God which is a gift from on high. The Acts of the Apostles is a splendid example of this dimension of the Church: there we find described a community of believers profoundly marked by fraternal union, by the sharing of material and spiritual goods, by kindness and sentiments (Acts 2, 42-48), to the point of being of “one heart and soul” (Acts 4, 32).
If every vocation in the Church is a gift to be lived for others, as a service of charity in freedom, then it is also a gift to be lived with others. Therefore it is discovered only living in fraternity. via New Vocations for a new Europe
I might tweak that quote by saying that it is God who offers the church as this human space, but obviously she offers herself if the Lord does. Sometimes we’re ready to live for others, but not with others. Our gifts can be employed only as we do both. So I agree with the sentiments expressed here, in spite of its source.
2011/12/27
by J. Randal
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“… the bland leading the bland.”— Thomas Sowell.
Love that one. Especially considering to whom it refers.
2011/12/24 by admin | 2 Comments
2011/12/24
by J. Randal
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When I started blogging back in 2002, almost 10 years ago, I called my first weblog “Random Variables.” The adjective was an obvious play on my name, and the title served as a tip-off that no single theme would dominate. … Continue reading