2 Απριλίου 2017

Atheists with Signs “A fool says in his heart, ‘there is no God’.” Today I wore a “Billboard for Hell”, the self-professing atheist told me in the produce section of Costco.  I had turned from my cart for a small container of strawberries, and spinning around, I nearly opened them upon him, as he stepped between ‘me and mine’. “Terribly sorry—I didn’t expect anyo---,” I was saying as he interrupted me. “Well I suppose we’re all human—or at least you’d say so. And we all make mistakes, but here you are, wearing a billboard for Hell.  I am an atheist.  Do you want to debate me?” “No, but I will be glad to sit down and have a cup of coffee with you.”  I ...

“… her many sins have been remitted, because she loved greatly” Luke 7, 47.             On the Fifth Sunday of Lent, the Church honours the memory of a “street-walker”, a woman who led such a dissolute life that the word “prostitute” is more of a euphemism rather than an exact description of the depth of her sinfulness. The figure of Blessed Mary is highlighted on the last Sunday of Great Lent: on the one hand, to strike at our Churchy prissiness, since a common harlot is presented as a model of life; and, on the other, to provide an example and a ray of hope for repentance for all those who are slaves to their passions and continue to struggle to ...