A PROTOTYPE OF A URIEL U. CLASS
This is offered by the divinity department of Uriel's, it is a good prototype for anyone who is curious about the school. Also, there are no prerequites. Jesus is often undervalued as a teacher by professional academics, just as he was in his own day becuase there is no record that he possessed an advanced degree from a university such as Athens, so how was it that at the age of 12 he was able to debate in the temple?
It must have made the scholars uneasy even then, and later, even more so.
COLLEGE CREDIT FOR THIS COURSE.
College credit may be earned if the mass readings are followed for 16 weeks, the quizzes are taken, and a presentation of some question presently being debated in theology is made, or some similar project undertaken such as working in a community garden, school, homeless shelter, prison, hospital, refugee camp, or a domestic violence shelter, etc.
If you listen to the Mass every day for four years, you have heard every reading in all four cycles. And, it's free.
PEDAGOGICAL STYLE OF CHRIST
As this is an exegesis coourseIt should be noted for historical and cultural context that like Socrates, Jesus was a "walk the walk and talk the talk" sort of teacher.
He rarely resorted to the written word, and when he did it was often to shake people from their reliance on it, as in the famous scene where he reads from the scroll of the prophet Isaiah.
The implication is, you dont need to be literate to hear and believe the message of eternal joy.
This is not to say reading is bad, simply that it must be placed in the proper perspective, which intellectuals at times omit to do in their enthusiasm.
PRICE PER CLASS OF A CHRIST CLASS
Jesus did actually teach for free, there seems to be no record of him demanding tuition for his lectures or Q and A sessions.
Was he being foolishly funded by the fish of Peter, just as Marx was funded by a hapless and naive Engels? Or is something greater than Marx at work here?
(this is kind of rhetorical, kind of tongue in cheek and kind of, just funny, becuase the real engelz bring the message of Jesus, whereas Marx apparently did not believe in God at all.)
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1. You shall not go up and down the town and
litter
slander
fart
Please, do not be so scatalogical, which is different from ESCATALOGIIAL. one is probably the antithesis of the other: scatalogical, earthly escataological, heavenly? is that right?
2.You shall not hate thy brother in. thy heart, instead:
take two aspirins and call Herod in the morning
take a vacation down by the Sea of Galilee
poisson, or, none of the above
3. when Jesus makes reference to the story of Namann, the people in the synagogue:
are insulted
are angry
try to kill him
all of the above
God told Jonah, arise and go to A. Nineva. B. Miami Beach C. Taco Bell.
For the outcry I have heard against her is A. there are too many rich people lording it over wage laborers. B. there are too many beta kittens saluting Beelzebub on youtube music. C. God desnt erally put it that way but you get the picture.
Jonah went dead opposite, probably because A. prophets usually get stoned, and we don't mean marijuana.
Prophets don't get paid combat pay while they are usually in combat with somebody. C. Both A and B.
I think I'll join the Baal prophets union, siad johan true or false.
When Jona finally obeyed GOd and the poeple converted, Jona ran out in the desert because he figured A. people would say he was a fake prophet since y2k never came after all.
The ship captain at joppa had lent him a few millions which indeed he never paid back. C. He was looking for the eil demon asmodeus to see if Rapahel the angel had beaten him in an epic rap battle.
Babs, Battisti and Bugnini. Ok maybe later...something serious perhaps needs to be mentioned in the cloaca thread. There is much, much to say about the Latin Mass controversy and people blame bugnini --they focus a lot on tradition but one thing that seems to have been less talked about is the language of things that Pasolini loved to use in his cinema of poetry.
If Jesus is the word of God then the word was translated into a human person, and then a piece of bread is also "translated" into the word of God. which is God
it's metaphysics, it's translaion disrupting what we think is that natural law. This is the power of language...the power Tolkien whose mother converted to the Roman Mass and lost so much money by doing so... spent his life studying.
We have seen before that the mass is about rememebering, just like the Rosary. Because mass memes are about mercy, they interject God's living love into the dead past.
Jesus said "I am the alpha and the omega" he used letters.
So if the Roman language is used to remember and recount the story of Jesus being executed, and this same language is used to honor him as a victorious veteran of the var with Beelzebubb, then...the language truly is being cleaned up in the most accurate sense of the word.
Jesus was condemed --the ultimate blasphemy, killing God--with words spoken by a Roman judge in latin. that was the language that was used. If that same language is now used to glorify and love Jesus, then the hatred is washed away. It's like a global apology to God.
TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2022.
Gospel
You have to admit this DOES sound a bit like anarchy, except instead of "no law" it's "God's law".
But when you consider how this sounds, it really isn't much of a surprise that the poor man got the death penalty.
MATTHEW 23:1-12
1Then said Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples, 2"The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat; 3so practice and observe whatever they tell you, but not what they do; for they preach, but do not practice. 4They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger. 5They do all their deeds to be seen by men; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, 6and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues, 7and salutations in the market places, and being called rabbi by men. 8But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren. 9And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. 10Neither be called masters, for you have one master, the Christ. 11He who is greatest among you shall be your servant; 12whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
The scribes and the pharisees sit in the seat of A. the CEO of some fortune 500 company. B. the back of the theater, where theres' gum everywhere. C. Moses.
However they preach, but they do not A. make any sense. B. use the dialect of the Kidron Valley. C. pracitcie what they preach.
THey love to show up at fancy banquets wearing A. Balenciaga. B. Versace. C. Probably both A and B.
They love to swagger around town followed by A. celebrities. B. Baloney billionaires.C. likely, both A and B.
Yet they make life hard for people and do not lift a finger to A. lift a finger to help them. B. flip the bird, and we dont mean magpies. C. help anyone.
As to question 4, This is not meant to criticize Italian fashion in and of itself--art is good-- but a certain attitude which Jesus was criticizing in the political and religious leaders of his times. Beauty after all has the same root as Beati.
March 17, 2022, THURSDAY OF WEEK 12, SPRING TRIMESTER.
yesterday we omitted the quiz, so let's do a quick recap. "Non ministrari, sed ministrare" (you may google it if you wish, that is not cheating) is the motto of which college?
A. Wells.
B.Wellesley.
C. Wesleyan.
It comes from a famous teaching of Jesus which was a response to his students fighting over
A. who would get the best grade.
B. who would get the highest salary. C. essentially, both A and B.
But Jesus, ever the radical (ie returning to the roots of Eden) corrected the whole catty, competitive crew by saying "yes, the childrne of this world are petty and mean, but in my kingdom "the greatest is the one who serves.
The one who has the best bible.
C. The one who follows me around shouting "Lord, Lord, I am so Holy" like a political sycophant.
---Again, we must be aware that according to the internal logic of the story of Christ, this sort of revolutionary behaviour is what got Jesus dragged before the empire sentenced to die. Sad, but true.
The truth is, the haters of the world wish to divide people, like their Pal Satanas the "divider and the accuser."
they then blame God for all their bad behavior. "its on him" they say and they are correct, all the weight of their waywardness is on his shoulders.
But then again, the government is on his shoulders, too.
Fear not, little flock for it has pleased God your fahter to GIVE you the kingdom, and "the accuser of the world has been thrown down."
In todays' gospel, the poor man Lazarus suffers and starves to death but ends up in heaven.
The rich man who hoarded money goes to hell. This is a teaching of Christ so somehow we have to make sense of it.
As Jesus describes this so graphically, we may assume being unintentionally greedy is one o his pet peeves.
the rich man does not seem like a bad person.
Yet, Jesus does not tell a story of hell so specifically for any other sin, does he?
For those who were listening to the un minuto with Pio, feel free to research former freemason Attorney Festa of Genoa, and his friendship with Padre Pio. Amen.
Friday of week 12, spring trimester.
Jacob was also known as Israel becuase he A. boxed the angel. B. wrestled the angel. C. beat up the angel with a baseball bat.
Jacob often referred to the angel as A. blowhard. B. a brujo. C. A dingbat, no no wait that's a different story altogether.
As a result of wrestling the angel, Jacop was always A. lame. B. dumb. C. deaf.
Joseph was sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, but he ended up A. being rich. B. forgiving his brothers. C. both a and b.
For extra credit which gibb brother played Joseph? A. Andy. B. Barry. C. Maurice, and that's my last ofFer.
On the feast of St Joseph we note that Abraham, David and Joseph the husband of Mary show a progression in the plan of God. Abraham has a child with the slave woman, but God maintains the covenant with the child of his wife.
In David's case the covenant is with the child of the woman whose husband David murdered!
but God's mysterious and prodigious mercy doesn't stop there...Joseph although Mary seems to be cheating on him does not wish to harm her...and this time, the covenant is fulfilled with a virgin birth, the strangest miracle yet.
Auguri, Padre Rinaldo!!...
An article on Pope Francis and his pastoral style
1. In today's readings, Namaan the Syrian has come down with:
leprosy
the "rona"
bizarre fruit allergies
poisson
2. Elisha the disciple of Elijah advises him to:
check himself into Bellvue
take two aspirins and call Herod in the morning
take a vacation down by the Sea of Galilee
poisson, or, none of the above
3. when Jesus makes reference to the story of Namann, the people in the synagogue:
are insulted
are angry
try to kill him
all of the above