Sol Invictus

Sol Invictus call it Christmas    allied with dollars    to get rich quicker

Feast of Lights    the Lord of Light    now forgotten    midst material delights

People prancing    dollars dancing    lots of buying    children crying

We seek a savior    in this punning    slow down people    he's a comin'

Christmas 'pon us    benefaction    pause from running    for conception

Sol Invictus    Jesus savior    born within us    if we let him

*Reflections of Alan Jones:

  -The liturgy is one of the instruments of God's loving cunning.  The sacrament of bread and wine unmasks us and feeds us at the same time.

  -Part of the church's task today is to be subversive, but subversion must be driven by gratitude and joy, not resentment and fear.

  -When you are in a world that you experience as a great lie, how do you change the "false truth" into a liberating one?

  -What do you do when you are born into a world where two distinct moral systems are in conflict?

  -One of our tasks is to steal the restored image of God back from those who diminish others.  What rules, for example, should we violate in obedience to the inclusive and subversive table of the eucharist?