I just wanted to send out a quick thank you to ladies at the Catholic Miscellany (Anne and Christina) for their help in getting out the word and opportunities to personally support worthy causes here in my town.
For those of you interested in reading the article, you can check it out in the May 1st Edition, or send me an email (listed on the top right of the blog) for a .pdf of it. It's also online:
http://www.catholic-doc.org/miscellany/
As far as news goes, you might find this source a little interesting:
http://www.catholicnews.com/
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I'm very upset. I just wrote a long comment with an excerpt from Anne Rice's Christ Our Lord: The Road to Cana. Somehow, it didn't post!!!!!! I'll repost later tonight.
Lies. All lies. You are just trying to look holy. :)
Haha. Got me John. Now I have to really read the book and post a comment. No really, I did write something. Oh well. Here goes Round 2.
I could pick lots of places from this book to discuss. My favorite, though, comes at the end. The scene is that Christ has just turned water into wine at the wedding in Cana. As a result, some of His family and disciples are insisting that He take the Seat of David--that He throw off the oppressors in the Holy Land--that He release the Jewish people. Here is His response:
"But I wasn't born for that. I was born to find the way to do this through Time. Yes, is the Time of Pontius Pilate. Yes, it is the Time of Joseph Caiaphas. Yes, it is the Time of Tiberius Caesar. But those men are nothing to me. I've entered history for the whole of it. And I won't be stopped."
I LOVE this passage. To imagine Christ trying to explain to His family and friends how the most important thing in their lives was really NOT the most important thing. The temple, the Holy Land, the tribes of Jacob--those things that connected the people to God--they only pointed towards something greater.
I love reading through the Gospels and seeing the single-mindedness of Christ. This passage only makes it more real.
I hope someone else has read this book. :-)
Haha, oh you two. Well Cari, to be honest, I didn't even know the second one was out til I ran across it at St. Anthony's in Greenville. But I would like to read them eventually, although, I won't have near the Anne Rice 'spider sense' that you have ;)
Taking off from the fact that we are blood, I figured that you would love some thoughts from other people so, I shall oblige my sister, haha.
This part caught my eye: "I've entered history for the whole of it." It reminded me of the reality portrayed in Revelation, of the Lamb put on an eternal altar before the Father. A singular event that is kept in sight perpetually...being part of, yet greater than history all at the same time. I guess that's why we call it all a mystery.
For those interested, there is a book called "Worthy is the Lamb" that takes a interesting view of it all and how it relates to us.
Ah yes, Rhett. But it is so much more. What I love about that one sentence (the one you picked out) is that it shows the purpose and audacity of Christ. It seems impossible. How could He come for our whole race? How could He seemingly reach back in time and redeem those who had come before Him?
He is the eternal lamb, once slaughtered to atone for the sins of all men at all times. But, at the same time, He is risen, whole. He is the High Priest. He sits at God the Father's right hand. He actively interceds for us, with God the Holy Spirit.
He does the impossible.
I feel like this is where I should break out into a Romans 11 doxology. :-)
In your next blog, maybe I will put up another idea Anne Rice uses in her books. It doesn't require that you have read the books to discuss.
Rhett,
I meant to tell you this earlier: Your CM article is posted all over Bishop England...nicely done!
pax,
priscilla
wow... really? Why? Who posted it?
I mean thats great, maybe I'll get some hits off of it from those interesting in doing some work down here.
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