Friday November 3

Tomorrow is my birthday. I will be 49 years old. Growing older doesn't bother me at all. For someone who wasn't sure he would live to see 30, 49 is a great age to reach. My only wish is that I was a more holy man. Alas, I am just me and that's all I can claim.

This morning while reading Arts and Letters Daily I came across this article. It's interesting because it challenges the efforts of science of reducing every human experience to measurement. It also points out how science and religion are not the same thing. In my own belief I see no problem with science. God never said that if we measured things we would find Him. God also never said that just beacuse we measure things we dishonor Him.


Today's mass readings are interesting, especially the gospel where Jesus asks if it is lawful to heal on the Sabbath. Jesus confronted the established religion with putting more faith in the rituals than in God. Modern Christian churches of every denomination are guilty of the same thing.