Says Fr. Mason: “Many bishops, seminary faculty and priests…suffer under this vice and are therefore unwilling or unable to recognize it as a vice and address it…. Does the seminary deal with a seminarian that sways when he walks, who has limp wrists, who acts like a drama queen or who lisps? It must.”
The truth of things hath revealed thee to thy flock as a rule of faith,
an icon of meekness, and a teacher of temperance;
for this cause, thou hast achieved the heights by humility,
riches by poverty.
MP David Bahati, the mover of Uganda’s kill-the-gays bill currently under consideration, continues planning to attend a meeting of The International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management slated for this week, despite having had his invitation withdrawn, Box Turtle Bulletin reports.
We all get a little tongue-tied in the pulpit, but the administration of vows, which we’ve all heard a million times, can still be tricky for either the overly nervous or the unintelligible. Let’s just hope Rowan Williams doesn’t channel Rowan Atkinson.
“The collegiality of Vatican II has gone out the window, the ‘literal’ translations from the latin are in no way our vernacular, some of the words used are difficult to understand, much less pray.”
Café commenter Bill Carroll asked back in August whether Fred Rogers was in Holy Women, Holy Men. Well, we’re with Bill; if Fred isn’t included, he’d oughta be.
Jeffrey John had big words to describe Slee – someone who was once called “such a fun, large, rude, honest man.”
I was swaddled in the fourth century again last week. Eyes filled with the detritus of the early monastic movement, we were moving through the feast of that western monastic pioneer Martin of Tours when I was struck forcefully by a basic reflection on the ways they thought and wrote about what they did. One of the strongest strains of the early monastic literature is the life. Not the treatise, not the argument.
Cultivate quietness in word, quietness in deed, likewise in speech and gait; and avoid impetuous eagerness. For then the mind will remain steady, and will not be agitated by your eagerness and so become weak and of narrow discernment and see darkly; nor will it be worsted by gluttony, worsted by boiling rage, worsted by the other passions, lying a ready prey to them.
If you are using the new NIV this year you may want to adjust the script slightly. The translators have done away with the word ‘inn’ in Luke 2:7 and replaced it with ‘guest room.’ Perhaps other translators will decide to follow.