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13 February 2008

Witticisms - Are we becoming lesser by the day?

Do 21st century conveniences make you feel like becoming a lesser person by the day? Consider the things we have today...

Our communication - wireless
Our telephone - cordless
Our cooking - fireless
Our food - fatless
Our labor - effortless
Our education - valueless
Our politics - shameless
Our youth - jobless
Our dress - topless
Our attitude - careless
Our conduct - worthless
Our feelings - heartless
Our relation - loveless
Our follies - countless
Our arguments - baseless
Our job - thankless
Our salary - very less

1 comment:

Blue Eyed Ennis8:10 AM
Brilliant- and I love the rest of your blog too. Please know that you are in my prayers and thoughts. Amidst the distress and conflicts in your country at the present time your courageous ministry and faith are an inspiration.
Blessings from the UK
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“Good theology stimulates and inflames the intellect. Thomas Aquinas and Bernard Lonergan add that it also helps to move the will. The heart needs to have some intellectual vision. Good ideas play no small part in any healthy change. Thus, the Christian community is always in need of good academics. As history shows, every time the Church has compromised on its intellectual tradition, seeing it as unimportant, it has paid a heavy price. Good, sound, abstract, academic theology is perennially the great corrective within church life and spirituality.

More recently, we have been blessed with an abundance of good theology... We are not lacking for solid ideas. What we are lacking however, is fire, romance, aesthetics, as these pertain to our faith and ecclesial lives. What needs to be inflamed today inside religion is its romantic imagination. Solid ideas and solid programs alone are not enough. We need someone to re-inflame the romantic imagination of Christianity, a new Francis, a new Clare, a new Augustine, a new Thomas More, a new Ignatius, a new Therese of Lisieux.”

Ronald Rolheiser, "Secularity and the Gospel"