SUNDAY.
Amazia said to Amos,
A. Get out of the country, hoss, before Caesar revokes your bail.
B. Hit the Road, Jack.
C. You better leave now before the heat wave.
D. Go make a living with doomsday predictions somewhere else, this place is holy.
But Amos replied, I am not a prophet, nor have I ever belonged to
A. a Prophets' Union.
B. A Prophets' Facebook page.
C. A prophet's party circuit.
D. A company of prophets.
God asked me to prophesy, while by trade I am
A. your bodyguard.
B. your guardener.
C. A landscape architect.
D. a tree trimmer and a dresser of sycamores.
This continues a long trend of vocational surprises, including Abraham, Moses, King David, the Blessed Mother, and the disciples, who were not
A. theologians.
B. doctors of divinity.
C. Magicians.
D. all of above.
Todays Gospel is from
A. Mark.
B. Moroni.
C. Mohammed.
D. Michel, the archangel.
MONDAY of week ELEVEN: EXODUS FROM EXILE TO EDEN.
well, not quite.
The Esodo da Egitto was not to Eden because there were people living in the promised land who did not consider the Israelites a welcome long lost tribe.
This is why asylum has to be universal but it takes a long time, and longer if we don't study God's will to understand it.
The people in Egypt quickly forgot that Joseph had saved everyone from
A. Famine
B floods
C vipers
D. Plagues.
They noticed the tribes descended from Joseph's brothers getting more and more
A. numerous.
B. ignorant.
C. wild.
D. angry.
Perhaps God was giving them a chance to
A. live in harmony.
B. Live on the moon.
C. build more towers of Babel together
D.Build more hotels in Dubai with foreign investment money.
Instead they treated the Israelites like
A. slaves.
B. second class citizens.
C. unwanted twits.
D. all of the above.
We see that Herod wasn't the only one who massacred huge numbers of innocent kids, since Pharoah ordered
A. the same thing.
B. too many trucks of cement.
C. a fancy coat from Joseph's tailor, who was still in business at the time.
D. a dozen wives from a Jebusite/Hittite mail order bride service.
TUESDAY OF WEEK ELEVEN. Exile in Egypt began a long time ago as we can see, the Israelites were exiled to Egypt for economic reasons, namely, bread which was in short supply, but then they ended up like a deer in the headlights and got enslaved.
Moses was an Israelite of the tribe of
A. Bejamin
B. Judah.
C. Levi.
D. Moses.
his mother hid him from Pharaohs executioners for three
A. moons,
B. Midrashes
C minutes
D Millenia
She then as it was an emergency, wove a basket of
A. linen.
B. Straw.
C. bean pods.
D. molten iron.
she sealed it off like a good boatwright with a mixture of
A. water and wine,
B. bitumen and pitch.
C. seaweed and kelp.
D. pressure treated shellack.
Pharaoh's daughter found the basket and what did she do?
A. saved the child.
B. sold the child.
C. ignored the basket and let it flow out to sea.
D. brought the child to the temple to serve the priests of Egyptian dog deities.
Years later, the hot tempered Moses slaughtered
A. A violent Egyptian slave driver.
B. Three goats.
C. his brother.
D. Pharaoh.
WEDNESDAY OF WEEK ELEVEN,
"Blessed are you father for you have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to children",Matthew chapter 11. Like Moses and Kateri.
KATERI TEKAKWITHA the lily of the
A. Valley B. Mohawks C pond D botanical gardens.
Moses was keeping the flocks in Midian when he saw
A. a wolf
B. a Burning Bush.
C. a caravan of camels
D. a vision of the last judgment.
Curious that the bush was not consumed ,he
A. enrolled in Uriel Univerisity to study Eternal Energy.
B. realized that Einstein was onto something after all.
C. came closer to understand the phenomenon.
D. ran away because he was terrified of fire.
Wait now said I AM,
A. Remove your sandals.
B. Call the fire department.
C. cook your supper.
D. this is all the fault of fossil fuel consumption.
The fire indicated the presence of
A. a pizza oven.
B. a firecracker gone wrong.
C. a campsite inhabited by the barefoot bandit.
D. The Spirit of the Lord, which is pure energy and love.
THURSDAY is the feast of Bonaventure of Bagnoreggio which indicated
A. He had a good aventure in a bath in Reggio mais pas le bain.
B. He was from Italy.
C. He liked the letter B.
D. we cannot assume any of these.
God told Moses his name was
A. I AM.
B. I was.
C. I will be.
D. I can't remember.
This indicates that God is the source of all
A. names.
B. Existence.
C. breath to speak.
D. ALl of the above.
Come to me cried Jesus all you who are labor and are
A. underpaid.
B. overworked.
C. unrecognized.
D. don't get any money because the job you do is not acknowledged by society, as in the case of 24/7 caretakers of the mentally ill.
My yoke is easy cried Yeshua and my burden is
A. 200 pounds of stone dust.
B. like a never ending shift at McLean's hospital.
C a cross which we will carry together up calvary until judgment day.
D. Light.
FRIDAY, THE SON OF MAN IS LORD OF THE SABBATH.
God instructs Moses as to how the escape from exile will be executed.
Pharaoh will see my power he says but will remain A. stubborn. B. kind. C. converted. D. Catholic.
Here is how you are to escape, at the evening twilight you shall slaughter a. An eagle. B. A dolphin. C. A goat. B. A lamb.
Eat the lamb and put the blood on the A. horse stable. B. hay bales. C. door posts. D. police station.
ON that night I shall pass through and slaughter every first born A. Philistine. B. Ethiopian. C. Egyptian. D. Chaldean.
And (like the Mass) you shall celebrate this day as a perpetual A. Memorial. B. ritual C. holiday. D. ALl of the above.
C. THESE ARE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR CONVERSATIONS AT COFFEE SHOPS, ON LONG WALKS AND SUCH.
JULY 13 is the Feast of Henry the duke of Bavaria. but also of the Rosa Mistica which purports to be a remedy for sexual impurity in the church, which is most certainly needed. However the apparitions of the Madonna to Pierina Gilli have not in fact been approved by the Church as far as we can tell and have been discarded instead. Is this because the church is ashamed of its sexual sins, or is the vision indeed a fake?. How does the Church apply phenomenology to faith, in other words, distinguish between fact and fantasy? or more properly, between fact and falsehood, since, the devils fantasy is false, but God's is in fact trueThe biggest error in University Education was to throw out the Baby with the bulrushes, meaning, since Satan fouled fantasy with his falsehoods, then everything supernatural was dismissed as.a fairy tale. This of course was his intention since he is miserable and wishes us all to be likewise.
He wants to wipe heaven from our hope and from our memory at the same time.The Pharao of course believd he was God, and thus had the right to massacre any child he pleased.
Socrates tried to teach the Greeks some rational thought to apply to their fairy tales but they executed him too.
God is God, satan is not, and neither are we it seems.
But let's get to the bulrushes.
Of course we could talk about MLK forever here but we wont. Or maybe we will. This section is only if we have already done the multiple choice questions which makes it possible to demonstrate online that material has been mastered to a certain level, so that the "accreditation" process may move forward.
Looking at the readings and then the pronouncement of Jesus, I desire Mercy not sacrifice, we see that the sacrifice he performed was not for its own sake, but to free the poeple from death.
mercy was the motive for the memorial.
THis is also the foundation of all non violent resistence, that is rather than kill your oppressors (vendetta and war) you leave them behind, and let God deal with them.
Of course MLK was killed, and Thoreau was rejected and died anyway.
Does that make the mission too dificult to undertake?