This Sunday’s gospel was Luke 17: 5 – 10, and the homily around it was pathetic. Somehow, the Deacon tried to tie in global warming into the story’s meaning. Fabrication pure and simple. This repeated problem of misinterpretation of scripture or bending it to suit your needs is one of the main reasons that the …
A Note on Ezra Pound and James Joyce
The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce with Pound’s Essays on Joyce is an interesting volume. Between January 1971 and March 1972, I was reading everything, and this volume was one of them. Below are some of the excerpts I found interesting, and hope you do as well. Enjoy. _________________________ “My whole habit of …
Why You Need Hate to Find Jesus. Luke 14: 25-33
It’s hard to believe that the mistakes made in the interpretation of the Bible go unchecked generation after generation. But they do. Take the Gospel Luke 14: 25-33. It continues this trend of misinterpretations by doing a kabuki dance during homilies around the word “hate.” I listened to the explanation of what is one of …
LAZY MARY WILL YOU GET UP: What Really Happens in Luke 10:38-42
LUKE: 10:38-42 is an interesting, troubling passage for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is it is a story of hospitality, and the apparent breaking of the laws of hospitality – something not done in those days without serious consequences. In fact, that epic The Odyssey is all about good and bad …
Independence Day
July 4 is a day called Independence Day. Some municipalities are calling it a “summer celebration” because they don’t want to use the word Independence. That is a puzzle to me. The day is marked to commemorate the Declaration of Independence of the United States on July 4, 1776. It was a great day, and …
Another Letter
For I have seen him lying beneath the sun Reading Donne perhaps, Eyes upon the world, Laughing in a moment of a too long too narrow view; Speaking of a shelter in the coolness of your voice. Here, away from instinctive days of waging the “Civil War in the Cave” He came upon a tender …
Knowing
He saw the remains of a broken diety and hated. He, the Ethos, (Or so he believed often enough) Began to run, to sweat in the heat Of fashioning something different. In the strength of his hands he sang; Jealously, the painful passion , How others could go on… The violence found, the full …
A Bird of Prey
Sad and disheartened, taking notes On the approaching secret darkness. The owl watches. Retaining a gravely impressive manner Singular in wisdom and isolation, He excites admiration. His loss of spirit, his loss of hope Occurs in the night, Active only in the concealment of the gloom-dreary Remoteness of himself. Dejected from being alone, Wise because …
The Attic
In the attic along with the dirt and darkness Are the bones of children. Skeletons. A thousand individual sets Hiding from light. At night, while watchers and wishers assume Their death-like states, The children play with street signs And various stuffed animals. They laugh when one willfully falls apart; They build dreams made of wooden …
Benedict Emeritus or Benedict Arnold?
I didn’t even know Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI wrote a letter. I thought he retired. I called my friend to wish him a Happy Easter and he wanted to talk about two things: the letter of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, and the Mueller Report. I told him, “What letter?” and he sent me this link. …