Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote that "Christ plays in ten thousand places/Lovely in limbs and lovely in eyes not his/To the father through the features of men's faces." This blog is my record of some of the places I go and people I meet, and a hope that I (and my readers) might see Christ playing somewhere in their midst.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Cute theological moment
I ran into a friend of mine at All Souls' Day Mass yesterday. She had her daughter with her, who is about 2 and a half. The little one was a constant refrain "Mom, Mom, Mom, can we go home? Can we go home PLEASE? Can we go home NOW? Can we go home yet?" The mom was pretty frustrated, so I turned to her and said, "You know, that was a pretty good All Souls' Day antiphon, as though she was crying out for the poor souls in purgatory who are yearning for home/heaven." She replied, "That's so cute!" And I said, "That's not cute, that's theological reflection!"
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I actually knew some people on their death beds whose last words were "Take me home. I want to go home."
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