"It is not peace..."

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth: it is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword.
For I have come to set son against father, daughter against mother, daughter-in-law against mother-in-law; a person's enemies will be the members of his own household." - Matthew 10: 34-36

That passage has been on my mind lately.

For a while now I have been estranged from two of my daughters because of their rejection of Catholic teachings - and their view of me as a religious fanatic because I uphold those teachings.

More recently, on social media people who had been friends have been critical because of disagreements over such things at homosexual marriage, abortion, ivf, contraception, foul language, and such issues as how best to deal with immigrants in this country illegally, "pride" events, the use of hyperbolic language such as "concentration camps," and support for candidates/political leaders who espouse things in conflict with Church teachings. Some have cut me off, and, to be honest, I have reduced my interaction with some to avoid conflict. 

It hurts, but I must remain true to the teachings of the Church and their application.

Pax et bonum

Ruby

 

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Silly papal cinquain

The pope,
infallible
when it comes to matters
of faith and morals, but not the
weather. 

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Dang

Christians need to stop cussing.

https://churchleaders.com/outreach-missions/outreach-missions-articles/256761-christians-need-stop-cussing.html/2?fbclid=IwAR0IVr3qKaQCzbTp4tT2LVqvi7Jbwe6XUlq1ygfTOds0dYPJHD4RudNgfoE

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Some clerihews published

For more than five years, my favorite magazine stopped publishing my clerihews, even though I submitted a number. That came after years of the magazine regularly publishing them.

The editor at the time and I had sparred a few times on social media, so I wondered if I was out of favor. When I contacted him about some I'd sent, he claimed they'd gotten lost. I resubmitted them. Still, none saw print. After a few more tries, I gave up.

The editor and the magazine eventually parted ways, and I mentioned to the new editor that I'd submitted a number of clerihews and that none had not gotten in. He asked me to resend them. I did,  and suddenly, my clerihews began to get published again.

Today I got the latest issue of the magazine. There were six of my clerihews in it. They were ones I  had submitted a long time ago. I checked my records. Sure enough, they were ones I'd sent in back in 2015, during the "blackout." Oddly enough, some had already been published after the blackout - so maybe the current editor found one of the e-mailed submission letters that had gotten lost, and forgot that some of them had been published?

Whatever the case, I'm glad to see them in print.

When he was young St. Polycarp
religiously practiced the harp.
When a musical career proved a non-starter
he instead became a martyr.

At Nicaea, St. Nicholas
slapped a naughty Arius.
Since then he's found a list does fine
to help keep those who stray in line.

Jackson Pollock
facing possible painter's block
discovered that what matters
to the critics were his splatters.

Titus Oates
liked wearing heavy overcoats.
When it simply got too hot
he alleged a papist plot.

When Alexander Pope
slipped on a bar of soap
the couplet he muttered was neither stoic
nor heroic.

Steven Wright
Is right:
Boycott shampoo,
demand the real poo.

Pax et bonum

When I'm Sixty Four

Well, I'm there. Still have my hair, though.




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