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Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Fr. Benedict & Fr. Jude
Another monk has died from St. Gregory's Abbey. Fr. Benedict, the first Abbot, had departed the monastery years ago; we never met him. He resigned as Abbot and left to pursue other types of prayer/ministry. He would have been a hundred on April Fool's Day, 2021. He brought change to the Abbey, including the move away from a Latin Divine Office.
We knew Fr. Jude, and will miss him. He called us foreigners when we visited. It was cute. I'm sure he was in his 90s when he passed away in 2019. I remember how week his voice was when he celebrated Mass. He reminded me of a little old turtle, God rest his soul. I recall with delight, now as I remember, his silent pointing toward the breakfast foods during The Greater Silence on my first visit. In a way, he reminded me of my own paternal grandfather. It's sad that he is gone.
Lord have mercy. Jesus have mercy. Christ have mercy.
Let's Jump To Conclusions Together!
It's everywhere now. Even though I'm not on Facebook and don't watch the news, I have heard, which makes me qualified to comment on the subject. We are making a lot of assumptions:
• The children were killed or died from abuse and,
• Abuse/malnutrition was uncommon in those times in any institution
• The graves were recient
• Unmarked graves were so because of hate or,
• Wooden crosses don't rot
• They were mass graves
• They were treated exceptionally hard by the standards of the day, orphanages were much better by comparison
• The Catholic Church was a business, not a charity helping when others would not, that had unlimited pockets
• Other institutions didn't have graveyards, like the Stratford Jail for example
• The value placed on human life wasn't less then
• Erasing the culture of Native people was the goal, not the result, of those schools
• Non-Native children wouldn't have been delinquent for truancy
• Those involved couldn't have had good intentions and,
• Those involved did not believe "if only we could educate everyone, we could end poverty and bring about equal opportunity"
• The media isn't fanning the flames for profit
• Nobody does what is politically expedient
• Everybody involved was evil
Every time I post, I think it is the most controversial thing I have ever written. This fits that hypothesis.
P.S. I wish I could find my Treatise on White Privilage or my rant on Feminism. Alas, lost on Facebook cyberspace, the are gone.
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It could be worse; at least I got the vaccine before I was told I had to get it. That would have been a major philosophical problem for me, and a theological one too.
...countrymen, lend my your ears.
So, I was speaking with an Indian man today. To his credit, he shows me great respect. He likes me. I like him. I questioned him regarding one of his countrymen. He said that they didn't know each other in India. They were not from the same part of the country. I said that it was the same with me; I am from this country, but not this part. But that, I feel I have lost my accent, and that nobody can tell. To which he replied that, it all sounds the same to him anyway and he wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
I thought, "wow! I wouldn't be able to get away with a statement like that. That'd be racist." Tollerance, remember? Tolerance is what we need. I asked him how his friend was doing. I had mistaken a woman with a head covering as his friend. His eyes narrowed.
I could almost hear him exclaim in his mind, "do we all look the same to you, you racist White pig?" It was an honest mistake.
But, the thing is, we live in a society that rewards victims (and--all to often--scapegoats the descendants of former oppressors). As such, there is tremendous gain to be had by attacking the majority for advantage. If you don't think a majority can be discriminated against, explain the evil of the Apartheid to me please?
But, we--he and I--were civil with each other, which is all I ever hope for (and--much--more that you can even ask for today in this Postmodern Neo-Marxist world).
We don't have to play this tit for that game. That is so shallow. Understanding, tolerance, peace, unity, that is what society needs.
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