[lit-ideas] Re: St. Patrick
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:17:32 +0900
My ancestors were Scots-Irish, bloody Orange Protestants.
John
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:01 AM, carol kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Someone's been hitting the bourbon. Yes, I have, but another someone who's
> imagination is ignited by firewater. Mine mind is happily dulled. but I've
> been wearing green all day. Tonight I'm in orange. Equal time for all
> gnostics.
>
> ck
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
>> I trust everyone either wore green or drank green beer in honor and
>> appreciation of our own St. Patrick, he who help ensure that the Irish
>> would become a "priest-ridden race." Having once been a true and
>> devoutly dubious believer of Holy Mother the Church, I am now fascinated by
>> the attraction of rituals and beliefs that are NOW for the most part alien
>> to our culture -- no, not alien, but extraneous to -- outside the life
>> experiences of the believers. I'm talking especially of the belief in a
>> magic priesthood capable of such miracles as changing a piece of bread into
>> the "essence" of God, of course, this is believed despite the fact that the
>> bread still retained the accidents of bread and still tasted like
>> (unleavened) bread even though it was now the real true essence of God's
>> body and thus of God himself -- the host was now the real, true body of
>> God. And the same priest could and would turn wine into the essence of God
>> -- (it would become the real, true blood of Christ -- of God. The essence
>> of bread turned into the essence of Christ's flesh, and the wine turned
>> into essence of Christ's blood -- BUT each was God in his totality. One
>> didn't need to receive both species to participate in the sacrament of Holy
>> Communion. They were each individually the essence of God and also together
>> they were the whole essence of God. I don't know how many essences of God
>> there can be at any one time, but there you are. What happened to the
>> essence of What puzzled my adolescent philosophical mind was: "What is
>> the essence of God?" Isn't he the essence of essence? The one essence
>> that incorporates all essences. Isn't it all just God? Isn't that just
>> all that God is -- essence itself or, isn't God the"isself". St. Patrick
>> chased the snakes out of Ireland so that it would be safe for God to just
>> walk along and sing a song side my side with us all.
>>
>
>
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