HeyJaredFr Cory's Ramblings
Just a parish priest dumping his homilies and talks into the aether, because why not.
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The Messengers of Strength, Healing, and Fear of the Lord (opens the original)
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What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare puts these words on the lips of Juliet. She addresses them to Romeo.And if we think about them, at least in contradistinction to the Christian tradition, we might say that these are words born out of passion. These are words born out of Juliet’s intense desire for Romeo. Whereas, if we look at the Christian tradition, the biblical tradition, we hear that names are actually quite important.Juli
I Refuse to Write “Business Secrets of Jesus.” (opens the original)
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Note: The transcription service I use sometimes can’t handle my rhetorical style, and so I end up with some weird spellings or punctuation. Occasionally, it’s so bad I can’t even post a transcript because there is no punctuation. But here, in memory of the professor who once told me that my run-on sentences would be the envy of St. Paul, I’ve left intact a massive block of text that apparently was me talking for one whole sentence with thirty-seven dependent clauses without taking a breath. Beca
To Serve, and So to See the Working of His Mercy Within Us (opens the original)
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There’s an ancient tradition that describes our growth in the life of prayer as being sort of three steps that we advance through as we learn to pray. The prayer of the lips, the prayer of the mind, and the prayer of the heart. The prayer of the lips is simply learning the words of our prayers.Learning to say the words until we don’t really have to think about it. It kind of becomes automatic. And then we progress to the prayer of the mind where having mastered the words, we think about what the
Stemus iuxta crucem cum María Matre Iesu, Cuius ánimam dolóris gládius pertransívit. (opens the original)
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Let us take our stand by the cross in company with Mary, Mother of Jesus, the sword of sorrow pierced through her own soul. It is by these words that the divine office for quite a long period of the history of the church began on this day, calling us not only to worship, but where to worship, at the altar of the cross and in communion with Mary, to worship in the sight of the sorrows that she endured. We commemorate the sorrows of Mary and we commemorate them as seven.We’re probably familiar wit
So that Christ Will Dwell in Our Midst (opens the original)
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I want you to go back into your memory and to think about the last time that you felt that someone had wronged you. You shouldn’t have to go back very far. It’s a good bet that within the last 36 hours you have operated a motor vehicle on a highway or gone to a retail establishment of some kind.It is a certain bet that within the last 36 minutes you’ve been within the parking lot of the church where many of the gravest sins in human civilization take place. So you shouldn’t have to go back very
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