i.

don't live the passion well

stood at Stone Palace

and would not be whipped

wiped their spittle from my face

turned 'round and walked away

the cross-ing would have been a pain

let Jesus take the stand

can't see myself as his ally

someone good for Calvary

ii.

i was whipped before i was born

whipped more once i came of age

whipped at passion's mini-stations

and other stops along the way

whipped black to white

whipped to red blue and white

being drained through the sufferings

and by the denials weaknesses bring

iii.

taking up a diff'rent cross

making up a diff'rent me

can't say i'll Jesus be

that he'll support me as a friend

but trod along his path i must

along dolorosas marked by stones

*There are times I find us Catholics to be sexually pure but morally evil.

*Whenever death occurs, "whatever" doesn't matter.

*There's always someone smarter than you in someway.

*Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

  -Whatever shows itself in the light of day begins as a passion in the consciousness of an individual.  None of us realizes our own resources.  The more we reach into the basket, the more bread there is. We give what we don't have.

  -Leaven has to be leaven: that's the only thing that will lift up the mass.  Pressure techniques are the worst kind of betrayal.  "Go, teach all nations" - but you have to preach inner change.

  -To want to bring the Gospel back to its source - to let it be difficult, to refuse to turn it into cultural gruel - is this showing scorn for simple people?  For how many years I've heard that refrain.  The simple people, it's worth saying once more, have a spontaneous affinity for spiritual things.  It is the enlightened ones, rather, who think they possess the meaning of the message and keep cooking up gruel for the unsophisticated.  They're the ones who show contempt by treating people like dunces and justifying the repression and guilt which consolidate their power.  When I hear them I think of an old man leaning over a child and using baby talk; there's an ironic gleam in the eyes of the child that says, "Lay off dummy!" 

  -Genuine love of men and women is shown first by rejecting the crowd as such.  That's what the Gospel does: it leaves the love of humanity to politicians.