I forget who said it, but, the world needs more court jestors.
Followers of The Way need to remember this: With issues like abortion, euthanasia, declining numbers of priests, scandals, and personal failures - the present-day Christian, alive in faith, can become a downcast, morose person who sees the world through very unhopeful goggles. In such a toxic atmosphere, laughter can be good medicine. And good medicine, like any medicine, helps make us more healthy.
Comedic giant Stephen Colbert shared the following observation recently with university grads:
The impulse to win. An incredible impulse. And in the fellowship of the Light-Hearted, with such serious issues closing in and such ground being lost - what are we to do? The impulse is to win. Win at everything. Annihilate every iota of personal selfishness, laziness, and sin. Yet we sometimes forget that we are not the authors of this victory.
I have learned this the hard way: Choking pressure is not a method used by God - it is NOT one of His techniques to help us!
Jesus IS the light-hearted Savior. He knows our human weakness. And while we are not to be oblivious to the evil - far from it! - nor are we to become dysfunctional Christians who sow anger instead of joy!
Our Savior is the Divine Fool, who is inebriated with the Fire of Love - so says a doctor of the Church - a woman ~ Catherine of Siena. Ignatius of Loyola - founder of the Jesuit order, prayed thus "blood of Christ -inebriate me". Exactly.
Christ wants to inebriate us. The Church is the bride of Christ, her lip is tinged with the freeing power of His blood.
Let us not be like those of old, of whom it was said,
"We played the flute for you...but you would not dance."
Cheers,
Father A
Followers of The Way need to remember this: With issues like abortion, euthanasia, declining numbers of priests, scandals, and personal failures - the present-day Christian, alive in faith, can become a downcast, morose person who sees the world through very unhopeful goggles. In such a toxic atmosphere, laughter can be good medicine. And good medicine, like any medicine, helps make us more healthy.
Comedic giant Stephen Colbert shared the following observation recently with university grads:
AFTER I GRADUATED I MOVED DOWN TO CHICAGO AND DID IMPROV. NOW THERE ARE VERY FEW RULES TO IMPROVISATION, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I WAS TAUGHT EARLY ON IS THAT YOU ARE NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN THE SCENE. EVERYBODY ELSE IS. AND IF THEY ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THE SCENE, YOU WILL NATURALLY PAY ATTENTION TO THEM AND SERVE THEM. BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS YOU'RE IN THE SCENE TOO. SO HOPEFULLY TO THEM YOU'RE THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON, AND THEY WILL SERVE YOU. NO ONE IS LEADING, YOU'RE ALL FOLLOWING THE FOLLOWER, SERVING THE SERVANT.
YOU CANNOT WIN IMPROV.
---------------The impulse to win. An incredible impulse. And in the fellowship of the Light-Hearted, with such serious issues closing in and such ground being lost - what are we to do? The impulse is to win. Win at everything. Annihilate every iota of personal selfishness, laziness, and sin. Yet we sometimes forget that we are not the authors of this victory.
I have learned this the hard way: Choking pressure is not a method used by God - it is NOT one of His techniques to help us!
Jesus IS the light-hearted Savior. He knows our human weakness. And while we are not to be oblivious to the evil - far from it! - nor are we to become dysfunctional Christians who sow anger instead of joy!
Our Savior is the Divine Fool, who is inebriated with the Fire of Love - so says a doctor of the Church - a woman ~ Catherine of Siena. Ignatius of Loyola - founder of the Jesuit order, prayed thus "blood of Christ -inebriate me". Exactly.
Christ wants to inebriate us. The Church is the bride of Christ, her lip is tinged with the freeing power of His blood.
Let us not be like those of old, of whom it was said,
"We played the flute for you...but you would not dance."
Cheers,
Father A
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