Rob – Page 27 – Chewing Glass

Paging Doctor Dolittle!

Oh those crafty Chinese! Not content to steal America piece by piece and then sell it back to us at a profit, now their counterfeiting animals!

This is a lion.

What’s that you say? It’s a dog? No, no, you’re mistaken! Take a closer look.

Whoa! Not too close.

That’s very clearly a vicious lion straight from the vast plains of the Kalahari.

Why, if not for the attentive and highly trained handler keeping the terrible beast at bay, it might, at any minute, run amok, leap over the yellow line painted in front of its enclosure and ~~lick~~, I mean maul a park visitor to death!

I ask you, where else can you see such a superb specimen of the king of beasts? Now, if you’ll please excuse us, Simba needs to go walkies.

The Feast of the Assumption

dormitionicon — In a very touching reversal of Nativity icons, Christ is pictured here holding his mother.

Had another existential discussion with a friend yesterday. Yeah, that’s all we writers do, sit around, sip absinth, and wax philosophical about all manner of ephemera.

Except in this case the subject wasn’t ephemeron. It is something that bears on my identity as a Roman Catholic Christian and it bugs me.

Before you click away to something less…um, cosmic, let me entice you with the promise that I’ll keep it short. Hey, if Heaven & Hell didn’t get me excommunicated, maybe this will.

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Happy Feast Day Miriam!

Happy Birthday Cheese!

Many happy returns of the day!

Heaven & Hell

A friend of mine borrowed my copy of the first part of Dante Alighieri’s triptych, the Divine Comedy. This sparked an interesting discussion of heaven and hell.

Thinking about it forced me to confront what I really believe about the hereafter, in the context of my faith and Church teaching, so I thought I’d share it with you.

Now, this post isn’t intended to be a theological dissertation, just my musing aloud. If I say something that offends, please write it off as my honest attempt to communicate what is in my heart in 600 words or less.

At every Mass, the faithful recite a “profession of faith,” which in most cases is the Nicene Creed, the seminal statement of the Christian faith proceeding from the first ecumenical council convened in the fourth century. In it, we proclaim, “He (Jesus Christ) will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and His kingdom will have no end.”

This speaks of the great, last judgment. But what about my own particular judgment? It may be that I will die before Christ’s return. I will meet Him face to face. What will He say to me? Where will I spend eternity?

That’s THE question isn’t it? The bottom line of life is what will eternity be for me?

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