Scribe on October 23rd, 2011

Through the book of the Revelation of St. John the Divine, the writer speaks of throngs of believers and angels singing the praise of God, and singing “the song of Moses.” (Rev. 15:2,3) That phrase points back through the Bible joining the circle from Revelation to Genesis-Exodus, and it reminds the reader of the great ...

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Scribe on October 17th, 2011

Prayers and meditations are not always spoken word. Sometimes they’re silent. Sometimes shouts of laughter. Sometimes the garbled incoherence of our weeping soul. Prayers and meditations are not always communication with God and Jesus, and are instead the expression through our body of our relationship with the world, with the universe, with that which we ...

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Scribe on September 22nd, 2011

One of the most difficult things for us to wrap our minds around is a universal creator with limitless love and acceptance. No matter what you do or have done, or will do in the future: you are loved. No matter where you are from, where you are, or where you will be: loved No ...

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Scribe on September 10th, 2011

(you need to turn up the sound for this one, and some of the exact words might not be audible, but you get the gyst.)   There now. Was that So Bloody Difficult?   “Three things will last forever: faith, hope, and love– and the greatest of these is love.” (1Corinthians 13:13, NLT)   Keep ...

Continue reading about Saturday Morning Videos – The Proposal

I knew this one was going to go wrong when I got an email forwarded to me from my mom, who got it from a friend who’d had it forwarded to him, etc. so many times that the indents for the forwarding put the actual text almost completely off the page. Let me mention here ...

Continue reading about Why do we care so much about the “religion” of our elected officials? – a homily against useless hate