Sunday Morning Juggling: A Postscript

The 7:30 Mass was no doubt meditative and the sermon restrained and educative. A blessing to those who were there. Meanwhile, or shortly after, Lady Gaga was on national tv before 10's of millions with her song, act and message touting sexual equality of any sort. Then, the NY Times had a paean to the recently deceased writer of, "Lesbian Nation". Meanwhile the "Talk Shows" were all abuzz about the recent put down of the attempt to squash, "Don't Tell". Lest anyone think this is all about sex in I Tim 2, I received in the mail today a notice that Food for the Poor can feed 4 children for a month on $12. Let's see, the USA has spent how many thousands of billions of dollars on wars in the last 10 years. A thousand divided by 12 is, what, about 80. So, 80 billions of children times 4 could have been fed for a month on what went to destruction. Meanwhile, we maybe tease I Timothy 2 to make it say what the culture wants or is told by the "big mouths" what is right. Surely, "we really do need to meditate, pray, worship, and yes, still think, if we are to live out the living Word today." The thing is, in the balance of things can the 7:30 Mass keep the scales balanced against the tremendous weight of opinion exerted on the other arm? Seems so. I recall Thomas Merton saying that the world was kept from self destruction by a few contemplative monks or something like that. Symbolic statement, but apt. Don't underrate the, Word of God"!