It's been a while since I plugged a blog, but this one's cool. Kristina dropped by NWW last night and left a few comments that lead me back to Letters from a Young Catholic (the name is taken from a book by George Wiegel, for those not in the know). It turns out that she's a lower mainland student, a Catholic, and has the makings of a very readable blogger. Well, that's if the blog lives very long. It seems she's busy being a student and teaching and stuff.
My new habit of almost bumping into other bloggers is now at two occurrences. We almost attended the event in Mission that Christina was at on Saturday, but we went to lector training instead. The week before that, I was on Mount Baker in Washington State the day after Peter of Diner Table Don'ts fame. He's got some nice pictures of the trip (especially the first one; blow it up) on his photoblog. And I'm not even slightly jealous about that shiny new Mustang convertible. Nope. Not me, uh huh...
Oh - my first job of reading at Mass was last night and it went fine. Next time up, I will work on tightening up microphone placement so as to be audible.
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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