Thank you for your comments! (Your opening paragraph made me all gleeful and blushing.)
I didn't spend as much time on my sermon this week as I would have liked to, and I felt like it really showed -- that I hit a whole bunch of points but only glancingly -- so I'm so glad that it really worked for you.
"What does it mean to hope for something you have never experienced?" is one of the points I felt like I hit only glancingly, and I really like your answer to that question -- a spouse is something we can see others experience and so our hopes are shaped by that, but we know that our own experience will be unique and unknown; the world being put to rights is something that, as I said to Tiffany on Tuesday, will be beyond our comprehending but which nonetheless we are called to work toward the fulfillment of; and life beyond death is something I hadn't even thought of but which of course is an article of faith which I take for granted but which I also have little conception of what it will actually be.
The rare times that I've attended Catholic Masses, I always get thrown by the interruption in the Lord's Prayer, but I hadn't retained what the interruption consisted of. That's really interesting.
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Date: 2009-11-29 08:49 pm (UTC)I didn't spend as much time on my sermon this week as I would have liked to, and I felt like it really showed -- that I hit a whole bunch of points but only glancingly -- so I'm so glad that it really worked for you.
"What does it mean to hope for something you have never experienced?" is one of the points I felt like I hit only glancingly, and I really like your answer to that question -- a spouse is something we can see others experience and so our hopes are shaped by that, but we know that our own experience will be unique and unknown; the world being put to rights is something that, as I said to Tiffany on Tuesday, will be beyond our comprehending but which nonetheless we are called to work toward the fulfillment of; and life beyond death is something I hadn't even thought of but which of course is an article of faith which I take for granted but which I also have little conception of what it will actually be.
The rare times that I've attended Catholic Masses, I always get thrown by the interruption in the Lord's Prayer, but I hadn't retained what the interruption consisted of. That's really interesting.