SUMMER BIBLE WEEK SIX

Bible begins with B, coming from the latin for book, biblio
But if we have Jesus, the living word, why do we need the written word at all? isnt' that "all so yesterday?"
DISCUSS.
Uriel University is concerned with the nature of Universities and their existential purpose.
One of the people involved had a strange experience about higher education, first getting waitlisted at Harvard due to the denial of sexual misconduct at St Pauls, then being denied a diploma at Wellesley because Wellesley was in denial about what mental illness does to the families of those affected by it
Aptly, the oldest continuously operating university in the western world is Bologna, IS THIS TRUE whose motto was "BONONIA DOCET."
(Why is this important? for the students guild who founded Bologna, st peter and not st paul was the father of the law.
But peter was not as educated as Paul, he got the main question correct: You are the Messiah, the son of the living God.)
Equally aptly, the foundational principle of Uriel's pedagogy is BS theory or BALONEY THEORY, proposed by Pasolini and translated for Americans by Frankfurt, professor of analytical philosophy at Princeton.
So just in case you think Uriel lacks credenziali...he just got a bad rap through the ages, courtesy of Lucifer's jealousy.

Now then, (ahem). Uriel University is a research university, researching "inter alia" or among other things, the way to connect the equation e=mcsquared to the eucharist.
For, if the story is true, there will be a way.
The energy of Mount Doom for example, the only way to unmake evil in Tolkien's universe, might be a useful example.
The eucharist is the energy that powers the world, much as gasoline powers a maserati or magma powers the eruption of a volcano.
While maseratis and volcanos put on a gigantic visual display, like fireworks or stars, and while angels are generally invisible, the eucharist is SEEMINGLY nothing more than a puny piece of bread, and a small cup of wine...not even containing enough calories to walk half an hour on a sunny day.
It emits no visible light. It is not hot to the touch
We know the word "calorie" comes from CALOR or heat...Abram came from UR of the Caldeans..URIEL is our patron...So discuss the following: how many calories are in the Eucharist?


Today The Monday of week five we hear the sermon on the mount again. Which mountain was it? Horeb. Olives. Zion. Katahdin.
Which is one of the beatitudes? Blessed are the celebrities, presidents, meek, billionaires.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called : Thoreau, Mandela, Ghandi, children of God.
Blessed are ye when men flog the bejesus out of ye for great shall be your A. hospital Bill. B. yen for revenge. C. war chest. D. Reward in Heaven.
Blessed are the meek for they shlal inherit A. all the dough. B. the earth. C. the house and the car. D. the island and the resort hotel.


BLESSED ARE THEY WHO MOURN, FOR THEY SHALL BE COMFORTED.
How does this happen? We have to continue to investigate and believe on the promise of God.
Jesus said you are the what? THE BOMB THE BOOM THE BONNANO CRIME FAMILY THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
If you want a light to shine you have to plug it into what?
An outlet.
B. the water pipe.
C. a supernova.
D. a volcano.
Nobody turns on a light and then A gets zapped. B wrecks the grid C. puts it under a basket. D. sends the electric bill to blasio.
What is the outlet that can charge our souls and make them shine? DISCUSS.
why dont the beatitudes make any sense? Do they work at all or are they just a beautiful dream? DISCUSS. mashup the song "only just a dream" unless you begin to weep too hard and if you do just forget it.

THE LAW KILLS, THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE.
As we have seen, the word of God made flesh in the Spirit is what contains energy.
Words on a page are not alive.
This is why going to a University in and of itself will not give you life.
But the light of Uriel is the fire of the Spirit.
According to St Paul in today's reading, Moses face became
A radiant with splendor.
B. bitten by gnats.
C. burned by the sun so why wouldn't it shine, let's not be bigotti
D invisible since the glory of God was so bright that nothng else could be seen at all.
So it would stand to reason that if we spend a lot of time in God's presence A our faces will have a certain light.
B. Our faces will get acne.
C. Our faces will disappear.
D. None of the above.
The written law does what?
A. Kills,
B. smells bad.
C. is kept in St Paul's restroom as reading material.
D. ALl of the above.
I have not come to abolish the law said
A. Ralph Lauren
B. Jesus.
C. Blasio
D. The Godfather
He who relaxes the law will be least, he who promotes it will be great. Where?
A. Chicago.
B. Shanhai.
C. Sheherezade.
D. The kingdom of God.


todays' gospel is form St Matthew.
ONE;
Interestingly when Pasolini had his conversion experience in Assisi and read all the gospels, he chose Matthew for the movie becasue he said Luke was too refined, Mark was too crude and John was too
A. scatalogical.
B. Mystical.
C. overstuffed with needless graphic depictions of a volcanic eruption on Mount Sinai.
D. written in a bizarre dialect the provenance of which has never been reliably ascertained.
TWO.
Today St Paul continues to discuss light and veils, which is natural since God blazed in glory and
A. struck him blind like Tobit.
B. Struck him dumb like Zacariah.
C. Struck him crazy like Saul.
D. Swung low in a sweet chariot of the sun to pick him up and take him to Paradise, like Flo Rida in a gold Bugatti.
THREE.
Today's gospel is from Matthew and advises that it is more important to forgive, even than to offer sacrifice, thus placing the mercy of God at the head of all his attributes as was noted by sister
A. Alacoque
B. Soubirous.
C. Dos Santos.
D. Kowalska.
FOUR.
Forgiveness on a large scale will prevent war, As Father Hehir above quoting who? says better JAW JAW than WAR WAR A. Osama Bin Ladin.
B. George Herbert Walker Bush.
C. Marx and Engels.
D. None of the above.
FIVE
The gospel also advocates mediation in the legal sense, because if you go to court
A. Carruth will get off easy and Van Brett Watkins will kill you with his bare hands.
Trump will ask the DOJ to defend him in a rape allegation.
your adversary will lock you up in a cell with Ghislane and Shorty, "take custody of " all the duffle bag money, confiscate the beet farm and sell it at auction, and throw a big party at Weinsteins manse.
Stansfield will be in a bathroom trying to kill Matilda and Leon will break in and you might get trapped in the crossfire.
practical activity: Do something today that promotes pacifism, peace, forgiveness understanding or the like, and make yourself "great" in the kingdom of God.


SACRED HEART OF JESUS
The Feast of Javelins, or the piercing of God's heart to reveal just exactly how much love there is in there which is --DISCUSS.
A LEGEND oF THE LANCE OF LOVE.,br>In fact the readings of today reveal again the love of Christ which is a mystery just like any love, because all love comes from the sacred heart.
If the legends are true, Hitler was obsessed with the lance of Longinus and sought it far and wide.
This could be because satan could not figure out A. God's love. B. the square root of pies. C. how to make a good baklava.
When he fell from heaven why did he bust his behoolah so bad.
IN the first reading, Hosea, God seems to treat Israel like a child and also like a beast of burden, and cries, I will not destroy you as I did Admah and Zeboim.
these two forgotten kings used to be kings on the borders of Canaan but were destroyed along with A. Sodom B. Gomorrah. C. Both and and B. D. Neither A nor B.
In the second reading, Ephesians, Paul notes that he the least of the saints is supposed to explain A. the mystery of pine trees. B. the mystery of the Bermuda triangel. C. The mystery of the haunting of Maudsley estates. D. The mystery of God.
In the Gospel, Jesus was already dead so the soliders put a spear into his heart and what came out?
the sounds of a symphonic convervence.
B. a lightning bolt which struck them dead.
C. Blood and water. D. Bread an dwine.
There are 12 promises associated with the image of Sacred HEart given by Sister Alacoque and among them are A. you will receive at least one million dollars. B. You will never cry again. C. Everything will be great. D. you will go to heaven.
Practical thing: find an image of the sacred heart or draw one and put it up in a place of honor on the wall and test out the promises to see if they are really true. That's the only way to find out.