Dinner party last night. Yet again the "New Age" talk about how the Church repressed and hid books that should have been in the Bible and that those books were the best ones....Gospel of Thomas and all that....

I bit my lip and remained silent.... finally.....

Then this am reread the Canons of the Council of Orange.... I wish they had been in the Canon of Scripture.... But the very ones that would take The Gospel of Mary would be determined not to accept the Council of the Church.... Heck, they really do not want to accept the Creed of Nicaea much less its canons. What is the fascination with Gnosticism?????

It's like condemning edition 1961 Britannica because it does not mention the walk on the Moon or George W. Bush.

Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts,
Whether our baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
From the bosom of the devastated Earth a voice goes up with our own.
It says: "Disarm! Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace,
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God.
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And at the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.

"Not by power, not by might, but by my Spirit," says the LORD.

Birthday of Coretta Scott King (1929 - 2006) - Grateful Living Calendar

It occurred to me during the reading/hearing of the Epistle (Efesios 4:7-8, 11-16) yesterday at the Hispanic Mass that the Holy Scriptures of the Universal [to use the Latin because everyone in the US freaks if one uses the Greek "katholicos"] Church are the Bath-qol [the "daughter of the Voice" or as translated in the Greek [to English] scriptures, the "echo" of of the Holy Spirit in the Church. Thus, it is when in the hearing of the words, the logoi, the Qol, the audible Voice the Spirit within us speaks to oneself and says "AMEN! This is true, the Voice of God."

It is common for those who argue for and against the existence of God to assume that the word God is used by believers to refer to something that we can point toward, distance ourselves from, and dispassionately reflect upon. However, one can reject this idea of God as nothing but a form of idolatry . . . This approach questions any expression that would reduce God to the realm of objects. Here no theistic rendering of God is allowed to lay claim to God, for God dwells above and beyond all names. God is rather approached as the ineffable source that is received but never conceived. God is thus not approached as an object, but rather encountered as an absolute subject who transforms our relationship with all objects. Just as the light in the room cannot be seen but rather allows us to see, so God is not directly experienced but rather is the name we give to a whole new way of experiencing . . . Hence, religious experience is not really experience as such but the opening into a different way of experiencing.

— Peter Rollins, The Orthodox Heretic and
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He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection