"immaculate conception" people

we're a strange and eerie deity

failed virgins, without hearts

who'll touch us, bring charges

fault our spotted souls?

we bear the cross without nailings

nor fiat Jesus with responsive living

we nail others as our key to heaven

lay blame them on, avoiding self

free in Eden, standing tall upon others

we're bare of sin, the virgin's twin

pedestaled on high in the church of graves:

candles, incense, knee bends without tears

sadly blind to our mocking pride

sadly blind to the humanity of God

*Those who legislate punitive laws write themselves out of them.

*...forward is the challenge, the surprise, the discovery.

*If the sea catches fire, turn off the water.

*Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

  -...it is not enough to transform apostles into community organizers, to have Jesus enter Jerusalem on a motorcycle, or turn Simon Cyrene into an immigrant worker.  It's right to admire their generosity and rigor of activists and agree with their criticisms of Christian society.  But at the same time something is missing: they believe too much in their own analyses and proposals, they identify too much with human hopes.  It all lacks fantasy, humor, and ultimately, interior freedom - eternal life here and now. 

  -The Holy Spirit is not necessarily linked to miracles or prophecy, as Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians, but to active love and our general life-orientation.

  -Is it so terrible to enter eternal life while still alive?