Good Morning Locals Friends! Hello there Friends, Phamily, Triggeratti, Digital Neighbors, Refugees, Early Birds, Dawn Patrol, Later Dayers, Sun Chasers, Bigots and Fascinating People and the less Fascinating Scrollers. I am giving the parish family an update on things in life - changes that are a coming, ones that will be easy and ones that might be more unsettling.
One of my consist gripes is that humanity really does not like change. I contend that when someone states that they like change, are open to change or don't feel threatened by change they are either lying or don't possess much self-awareness. I guess the later is better to presume rather than the former. I think we all accept change that is of our choosing, other change not so much.
I try not to freak out anymore about changes beyond my control, but rather ask what I am going to do about it. It is so difficult to not get sucked into the moment and the hyped-feelings that often accompany change. Doom-casting, Panic clinging, distractive denial and resigned hopelessness are are tempting states of minds to embrace.
My antidote to such tempting states of mind are faith, friends and humble acceptance of what I can do. I spend enough time thinking of future scenarios that I hope never come to pass, I guess one good effect of 2020 is fear fatigue, I am so tired of seeing fear, or being told to be afraid, or constantly being provided with new subjects of fear. I can't call it courage as much as screw-it, I am not going to yield to those feelings. Whatever changes come personally, locally, nationally or globally I hope I can keep perspective and not surrender to fear, not yield to group-feel and herd-think.
Changes - The Sunday update from Fr. Tom
Steinway Piano - 57 donors, $61,000 collected
Sunday Mass Schedule 9:30 is changing to 10:00 beginning September
PSR Moving to Sundays along with Adult Formation
Additional Mass on Wednesday Evenings at 6:30 in September
Building Committee - Time line moved to 2023 by Archdiocese
Archdiocese Strategic Planning - BIG CHANGES
Silver-lining - I am at the parish at least 2 more years.
Hopefully it will all go well, I don't anticipate much negative pushback as much as I do questions and concerns especially about the Archdiocese. Happy Saturday Locals Friends! I hope you all have a great weekend! On to the Morning Quote - Far Side for the Triggeratti to appear a bit later. 😉
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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Kind of. This "explanation" tries to pin it on being a bit naive, being a bit too aggressive in their analysis...
No. Climate narrative was a global conspiracy to allow a global elite to rule the world. To delete 80% of the world population. To destroy all western governments by forcing them to ruin their economies. By forcing immigration to destroy the backbone of western civilization. By poisoning the world population with drugs and fake food and spraying them with chemicals. You will own NOTHING, not even your children. Their goal is to enslave and remove all rights for the rest of humanity, whomever survives.
They are doing a hell of a job implementing this. In the meantime, here's their shit mea culpa.
XIII
The Proud Minister
One day there came into the Garden a man in torn clothes badly bruised and cut, who said to the Lover, “In the name of the Beloved I demand your help.”
So the Lover and the Disciple let him in and dressed his wounds and prepared the best of the vegetables from the Garden for him to eat. When his wounds had been dressed and he had eaten and rested the Lover asked him how he had fallen into this plight, to which the man replied, “I was Minister of the Beloved in a city near this place, where I preached His gospel and expounded His doctrine to the people. I pointed out to them how their sins had made them wholly hateful to the Beloved and how therefore they were utterly beyond the range of His love and He would condemn them to eternal torments, whereon some fell into despair and wept bitterly but many were angry. One day the magistrates called me before them and begged me to leave the city and preach elsewhere for they said I had made many people so angry and desperate that they feared there might be a riot and they might not be able to protect me but that I might suffer some injury. I, however, very zealous for the Beloved and believing that the magistrates only feared that their own sins might be proclaimed, preached the more vehemently, denounced the magistrates and made it abundantly clear that the whole wicked city was foredoomed to eternal punishment by the just provision of the Beloved. Whereon a mob, stirred up no doubt by the corrupt and venal magistrates, fell upon me with sticks and stones, nearly killing me and driving me out of the city in the state in which I came to you.”
“My friend,” said the Lover, “this was not a good deed of yours, for besides denying the unfathomable compassion of the Beloved, you have by your obstinacy caused these people to commit a grievous sin, and this cannot be pleasing to the Beloved, that through you who profess to be His minister the people should become worse. Surely you remember that He Himself said, ‘If they persecute you in one city flee to another.’”
Therefore the man was very angry, and cursing the Lover, said, “I see that I have had a very false report of you and I do not believe that you are a servant of the Beloved at all. When I came to you so injured for the Beloved’s sake you set before me only herbs and fruits although the garden is full of birds which you could have killed to make me a worthy meal. I shall proclaim everywhere that you are no true servant of the Beloved but a mere falterer who dares not suffer in the cause of the Beloved. Be sure that you are foreordained to eternal torments who suffer nothing here.”
For the man was so blinded by his own pride that he could not perceive the scars on the hands and feet and the brows of the Lover nor how the cloth beneath the armpits of his tunic was dyed with a red dye. So he went out of the Garden cursing and shouting.
But the Lover looked sad and said, “A man like this does much harm to the cause of the Beloved, for by thus speaking falsely about the Beloved he may bring men to fear Him but none to love Him, and by love alone can any man approach the Beloved.”
