Scott Dodge

A Roman Catholic deacon seeking to foster Christian discipleship in the late modern milieu in the diakonia of koinonia, plus enjoy social media.

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For now, I am content doing what I'm doing. I am still assessing, still discerning.

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@KSPrior It's just a money-making thing. Analytics show what her audience wants and that's what she provides. There is no moral calculation or even concern about coherency and consistency. It's mostly about fomenting outrage.

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Some thoughts on today's second reading:

In 1920-1921, Martin Heidegger gave lectures on 'The Phenomenology of Religious Life.' In these lectures, he used 1 Thessalonians to show how religious life can be understood phenomenologically.

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A reflection on the longer version of the second reading for Sunday: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

We still confess in the Creed that Christ will return to judge the living and the dead, do we not?

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@thescottbarber I recommend 'Dietrich Bonhoeffer: 1906-1945: Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance' by Ferdinand Schlingensiepen. Great Bonhoeffer bio, plus great author name!

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Our traditio rolls on.

"The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person" Pope Leo XIV

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On All Souls Day:

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An All Saints reflection:

Holiness is our baptismal vocation. To be holy is to be like Christ. To be like Christ is to love perfectly.

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An All Hallows Eve eve traditio:

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Some non-preaching thoughts on today's readings:

Like Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18b, our reading from Exodus can be taken as the locus in the Law where the answer the question "Who is my neighbor?"can be found.

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With this, I am moving forward.

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Some thoughts on today's first reading but with implications for our Gospel:

Like Terry Jones longed for Finland, God's mountain is where I long to be.

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Still processing, but making progress:

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Travelogue with a scriptural reflection:

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Return to 'traditio'

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My homily for yesterday:

A long time ago, someone told me that God doesn’t care as much about what happens to you as he does about how you receive it and how you handle it. That's hard to process. I still think God cares about what happens to me.

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My homily for today:

Both the call and the response are grace.

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My homily for today's ancient and universal feast:

Nearly two thousand years on, the cross of Christ remains a scandal not only to non-believers, but to many Christians as well.

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My homily for today:

As C.S. Lewis observed: “Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive” ('Mere Christianity,' Book III, Chap. 1, sec. 7).

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@mfjlewis Me, too!