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Tim Reidy
Do Rocks Go to Heaven?
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As I sit sore and tired, I cannot also help but think that the N.Y.C. Marathon for me is a thin space, a space where I can easily see God’s presence in the world.
Archbishop Domenico Battaglia of Naples has been named as one of the prelates Pope Francis will make a cardinal on December 7th.
“I will not vote for president this year,” Monica Brent writes. “I cannot in good conscience vote for Donald Trump, for many reasons. However, Kamala Harris’s stance on abortion makes her a no-go for me, as well. ”
Pope Francis, your encyclical on the Sacred Heart, “Dilexit Nos,” is beautiful and heartwarming. And for Catholics in the United States, the timing was perfect.
And what about this. If its true that we’re all “puffs of stardust” stirred up in the “Big Bang,” and because stardust, is a composit of mineral matter and is in fact the same stuff representatively that makes rocks, and the same stuff that the Resurrected physical body of Jesus and the Assumed physical body of Mary are made of in the Land of the Living, giving minerality a place in heaven’s Bliss, including also the incalculable number of “puffs of stardust” of Saints awaiting the yet to come “wake-up call,” of Gabriel’s trumpet, does this mean that at least in principle, Rocks do go to heaven? Really? Yes, really! Well, kinda!
What about Dogs? Do they go to heaven too? Listen to St. Augustine, “…plants, animals … all the delights that image God and lead us to Him in this life will do so even more perfectly in the next.” Then too, is it just metaphorical that in the Land of the Living, “the wolf will be the guest of the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat; the calf and the young lion shall browse together …” (Isaiah 11:6-8) I hope it’s “for real” and that the promised "new creation" allows for all of this. But P.S., no pooper scoopers needed!
Your Post on “Rocks In Heaven” is hilarious! I couldn’t stop laughing about that Southern lady so worried about being naked in heaven and my, oh my, in front of everybody and they in front of her, em-bare-assed to death? Her preacher’s GLOW-REE-LAAT solution probably didn’t help her much, but he was on target, in his “Lumen Gloriae” (Light of Glory) solution as the Catholic Church calls it. Maybe this has something to do with Jesus’ reminder that we have to become like “little children” to enter the kingdom, where we’ll all “splash” so to speak butt naked like little children do playing in the “holy water” of the heavenly Jordan, just happy little children clad in GLOW-REE-LAAT! Come to think of it, even on earth we’re often “clad in light” - light under-ware and light outer-ware as in summer time. Oh, such corn!!!
Never knew that the OT/NT have sewer treatment plant verses! Where? I know St. Paul told the Church that for the sake of Christ we must become as “dung” translated more accurately I was told in Scripture class as “shit” (excuse the bluntness) and else where translated as “refuse.”
I guess if we Christians are to be like “dung” etc., for the Lord’s sake, we do need sewer treatment plants along the way of our spiritual lives to the land of GLOW-REE-LAAT!
Thanks for the laugh!