Am I bothering You too much? I’m sorry. As the good book says… aaahh, why should I tell You what the Good Book says? Tevye speaking, Fiddler on the Roof, film, 1971 Tevye, in the movie, had the right of it, “why should I tell You what the Good Book says?’ I can remember in my younger […]
Archives for February 2021
The last warrior standing wins
A brother asked Abba Sisoes, ‘What shall I do, abba, for I have fallen?’ The old man said to him, ‘Get up again.’ The brother said, ‘I have got up again, but I have fallen again.’ The old man said, ‘Get up again and again.’ So then the brother said, ‘How many times?’ The old […]
Excess is not the same as holiness
There is an old saying: “Excesses meet.” Too much fasting and too much eating come to the same end. Keeping too long a vigil brings the same disastrous cost as … sluggishness… Too much self-denial brings weakness and induces the same condition as carelessness. Often I have seen men who would not be snared by […]
Who are we really?
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? During […]
I am not as tolerant as I would like to be
As with many people in the USA, I like to think of myself as a person who responds graciously to others. My self-image of a priest may be based more on old Bing Crosby movies in which he played a priest than in the reality I experience. My behavior is certainly not as based on […]
