President Woodrow Wilson famously said, “If I’m to speak for 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation, if 15 minutes, three days, if half an hour, two days, if an hour, I am ready now.” Jesus was ready too. Today’s Gospel story begins the Passion of Our Lord with the words: “When the hour…
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In one of the “Bloom county” cartoons by Berkeley Breathed, Opus the Penguin is confronted on the stairs of his boarding house by the well dressed Mr. Binkley. “on behalf of the voting majority of our boarding house residents,” Binkley says, “I have been asked to speak to you. Brother Opus, we all know that…
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One comic strip shows a cat wearing vestments and a Roman collar standing behind a pulpit, emoting to his congregation consisting of one little kitten. She stares in rapt attention at the great orator. Later, a passer by hears screeching and yowling and finds the preacher trying to immerse the kitten in a washtub. “Hey!”…
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