from the cathedral of the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION in D.C. last night

[flordehinojos]

EWTN (i think it was) transmitted THE LORD'S SUPPER MASS.

For me, as i watched this Mass, there was such a sense of PEACE... what a contrast with all this war, and "terror is going to get you," and highly anxious paranoid world that bush presents to us and to the rest of the world.

There was also a sense of brokenness, as if the world was different, and not right (and this sort of "something is not the same feeling", came, for me, from the fact that the celebrants were foreigners who said the mass in english, but spoke with very heavy VATICAN ACCENCTS. They were envoys of POPE BENNY--and why would POPE BENNY BE SENDING ENVOYS TO SAY HOLY THURSDAY'S MASS AT THE CATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION? sO MANY POSSIBILITIES CAME TO MY MIND chief among them was the possibility that American priesthood may be severely dwindling, that the children's house needs to be set straight by the parental house, that ... so many more other possibilities

There was also a sense of unity between the past-and the present-and eternity, in that, for the first time in all of the many years of my life, I heard a homily which tied the Jewish Rite of Passover to the LAST SUPPER OF JESUS CHRIST who was also a Jew and needed to observe the Rite of Passover but also needed to bring about the happenings of the New Testament: the Gospel of Love as opposed to the Gospel of an eye-for-an-eye and a tooth-for-a-tooth...and who during that last supper washed the feet of his disciples symbolizing the fact that he had come to serve rather than to be served.

All so different from what some of these so called christian churches today believe ...

All so different also from what George Bush preaches, practices and fills the world with...all so different from the propaganda spewed by blitzer, matthews, heidi collins and all the others.

[rodeodance]

1. I am glad it worked for you. I, too, need a sense of peace at this time.

[flordehinojos]

4. hi there rodeodance ...

I hereby send many Peace thoughts your way ... and may you find many more comforting peace sign and a deep sense of peace today and on the days ahead.

:)

[lvx35]

2. Pope Benny?

That's the best thing I've heard all night! I've never heard him called that. I just think of all the union guys I know talking about their bennies, and Tom cruise's union buddy in "War of Worlds" named Benny..hehe.

Anyway, yeah. If you do your homework you can see that the Republicans put a lot of money and people into getting as much control as they have of Christianity in this country. It's not natural thing at all. I had a great professor in college who was exiled from the Southern Baptist convention (when it was formed by members of the Reagan administration) for being too liberal, because he attended Harvard divinity school and believed women had rights. He described the forming of the convention as a "coup", and from the evidence he presented he was right. I saw film of exiled members holding candlight vigils outside of the convention meetings, and I knew that what I was seeing was wrong, not Christianity at all.

And of course, if you dig into the philosophical background of this group in Washington, there is nothing Christian about it. Scooter Libby's bear rape novel is more in line with the spiritual inclinations of this group than the Holy Bible. But whether you like or hate the pope, the fact is that he still remains outside the control of Bush's group.

[flordehinojos]

3. interesting point.

thanks.:)

[QC]

5. The SBC was founded in 1845. Reaganites weren't around then,

but they were involved in the fundamentalist takeover, which made the SBC a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party.

[lvx35]

7. Thanks for the correction.

Should have paid more attention in class hehe...I guess I should have said "its current state formed". I wish I could remember the movie he showed us on it, it was really good.

[RB TexLa]

6. Peace be unto you n/t