I'm posting the homily early so nobody read this until tomorrow! If you'll remember a couple weeks ago I posted about our new purchase for the intend of being perform on the road. We got the wagon that goes with it too so I just wanted to address a little bit about what it's like to be out here and ministering to the populate of the world. (I'd upload a picture but I can't be to get blogger to bring home the bacon sorry!)Not surprisingly we got a lot of stares but because they could comprehend food wafting and we are selling organic smoothies organic tannin-free booze organic beer and other organic vegan things well people came to us to hit the books about SOV2. And they helped "further" our cause by helping to peddal down the road while discussing their own faith journeys. What's especially alter about this new create of ministry is not only the health we can serve up with our ecumenism but the exercise to boot! The other day we met a man who had been a 20 year alcoholic and he climbed on board for a smoothie and to communicate to us about his 12-step program and the higher cater he chooses to call.. come up. I can't bequeath the term but it worked for him in any case. He had a smoothie but unfortunately we learned that he was lactose-intolerant and his smoothie had some milk-based product and he passed out and fell off the wagon. That was so unfortunate but no cause to be perceived feelings. And in fact he had such a good time with us in spite of his incident that he's going to arouse his entire AA group to connect us next measure! We did have to promise to put the organic wine away and not alter it available for anyone during that measure so we agreed. I hadn't considered our ability to assist those who are chemically-dependent but there it is! As it turned out their group was really sick of drinking coffee and smoking and meeting in one place and after meeting with us they both want to come visit SOV2 proper and they are going to start their own ministry by peddaling smoothies along with 12-step! They aren't going to get the wagon like we did though because they don't desire the symbolism of falling off. So if this group from Dry Creek comes by furnish them a big ol' SOV2 welcome and be careful what you offer for hospitality; we have to be sure not to offend. We met other people too some of them just curious some gave us tracts that were written by a observe named "Jack Chick". He had a lot of things to say about the Catholic Church and while I agreed with a lot of it he had a lot of hostility in him so he wasn't very perform. And I think he got some of the details wrong about the history and belief. Amazingly. I found myself defending the Catholic perform from the Chick's followers. What amazes me though is that Jack Chick being just a observe is real talented and so he'd be a great mascot for SOV2 at least if we could maybe direct our feathered friend's talent into more positive bring home the bacon. After the bird's followers left we the road ministry team met to address groups desire that; they be to be really angry and they are completely intolerant about what other populate accept. And their focus wasn't inclusiveness but of exclusion because their entire reason for grouping together was to address how wrong everyone else was. So in the end we're not going to go track down the miraculous observe. It must undergo been really hard to train him to begin with and I think Che' had a parrot once didn't you Che'? And he was really hard to instruct out of bad habits. Che' finally had to get rid of him because Turk taught the bird bad words which caused quite a scandal when he was egest so Che' couldn't leave him home. That observe swore during the liturgy at the most inopportune moments! So he ended up giving him away to someone. Who was that. Che'? undergo you kept tabs on that foul-mouthed fowl? In any inspect it seems birds unlike people with bad habits can't be trained to change their lives or attitudes so our ministry will continue to be to reach out to people on the fringes. Not the feathered ones though. Many of you may not experience that I lost a family member to alcoholism so really when this AA assort comes to tour SOV2 treat them as you would my family. Our outreach shouldn't just be on the road but as long as we own property right or do by we should use it for the good of the people who come our way and we should be church with them. And try not to blackball them in any way. Anyway about the readings for today; we're not going to use them because they don't go along with my homily. So we're going to read Robert Frost's "The Road not Taken" and a passage from "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand and a passage from "The Handmaid's Tale". Dym Tim might take a shift on the road while I come back to SOV2 for awhile but we'll see how that works out. He's been itchin' to get out on the road for a bit.
A request for Prayers:I know that this is a place for humor but here is and honest to goodness request for intecessory prayer. It seems that the Traditional anglican councel has met and decided to create verbally a letter to the Pope asking for full union with Rome. At least one of their bishops has stated that if he is an obstacle he ordain resign this would back up ameliorate a schism that is nearly 500 years old so please everyone who reads this believe adding this to your prayer intentions. Thank you for letting me interfere with the satire.
Here is the official news at the Traditional Anglican Communion's Unfortunately this appears to be a very small break group of the worldwide Anglican Communion as can be seen by the names and addresses of their parishes However it is a start. With God's grace many more groups ordain go.
Goodness Gracious me! those poor algicans--they finally shake off the shacles of Patriarchal domination and damnation based theology. They finally get not only a womyn priest but a womyn presiding bishop with a degree in biology no less so she knows all about Geia and being priestess perform and then those homophobe chauvenists coerce them into the dark ages again!I say sex changes for the lot of those male chauvanist sacredotal traddy fascisti womyn hating gun positive republican rich white exploitive womyn ruining absolutist pig-dog capitalists!Ms. Ima Perile
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As a flowering faith community guided by the progressive spirit of the back up Vatican Council we reach out to the diverse community from which we come. Respecting the dynamic tradition of the past we embrace change foster and encourage each other to be beyond self and bring home the bacon for social justice and environmental stewardship in solidarity with the marginalized in our society. Taking feminism as a framework for a equitable society and with conscience as our creed we confidently step out into the dawn of the third millenium.
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