Upon Further Reflection

After a weekend of prayer and reflection, Mass at Gethsemani, a short talk with my confessor, and a meeting with my Lay Cistercian group, I feel more at east with the world, my place in it, and the Church. Does that mean I shall now let things such as I ranted about pass without a word? By no means, as St. Paul loved to say. I will merely start a new blog, so this one can remain focused on the love of God.

Romans 8:31-39

God’s Love in Christ Jesus

What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us.* Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written,

‘For your sake we are being killed all day long;
we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.’

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So there you have it. I am back to my normal self. My intolerance is for the intolerant and the agenda ridden. I will alert you to the new ranting and raving blog when I create it.

By the way, is anyone following the Office of Readings? Do we ever get out of Revelation? And what does it all mean? Sheesh!