Thoughts on the Gospel for the Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, 23 November 2023

The Adventure of Living

‘Out of fear I went off and buried your talent in the ground.
Here it is back.'
His master said to him in reply, 'You wicked, lazy servant!
So you knew that I harvest where I did not plant
and gather where I did not scatter?
Should you not then have put my money in the bank
so that I could have got it back with interest on my return?
Now then! Take the talent from him and give it to the one with ten.
For to everyone who has,
more will be given and he will grow rich;
but from the one who has not,
even what he has will be taken away.
And throw this useless servant into the darkness outside,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.
Matthew ...
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Wrong Order

Last week it was suggested that everything matters because everything is properly an expression of the order of God’s own glory, with glory identified as the transcendent ground not only of ideas but of every event, action, and object, its ...
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/ Dr. Patrick, Text&Talk

Glory

We beheld His Glory the glory as of the Only Son of the Father.                                                                       I John 1: 1    We were witnesses to His majesty.  For when He  received honor and glory from God the Father and the voice ...
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Democracy and Danger

Mr. Eden in the house the other day expressed pain at the occurrences in Greece, ‘the home of democracy.’  Is he ignorant or insincere?  ‘Democracy’ was not in Greek a word of approval but was nearly equivalent to ‘mob-rule.’    ...
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/ Dr. Patrick, Text&Talk

Suffering and Glory

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us.                                                 Romans 8:18 The world has its glories; as Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, there is a goodness “deep down ...
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Chosen

Therefore, if you hearken to my voice and keep my covenant,
you shall be my special possession,
dearer to me than all other people,
though all the earth is mine.
You shall be to me a kingdom of priests, a ...
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Oppression and Its Victims in a Perfect World

Presented at Text & Talk with Dr Patrick – Saturday, 17 June 2023 Oppression and its victims are not to my knowledge topics heavily canvassed in Hebrew culture, classical or medieval culture.   It is remarkable that in the Old ...
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2023 Thomas Howard Lecture

CHANGE OF VENUE NOTICE: We will now meet in the Parish Center at Christ the King Church. Park and enter the building on the North Side of the church Register Now to Attend: Click Here to Register for the Thomas ...
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Felix Culpa, Happy Fault

Master, was this man guilty of sin, or was it his parents, that he should have been born blind. Neither he nor his parents, Jesus answered; it was so that God’s work might be made evident. John 9:1-3 There was ...
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