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holystormfire · 2 months

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John 2:13-25

He was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body

Saint Paul Preaching in Athens,

Drawing by Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-1765),

Drawn in 1734,

pen and black and gray ink with gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on tan prepared paper

Gospel Reading

Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting at their counters there. Making a whip out of some cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, cattle and sheep as well, scattered the money-changers’ coins, knocked their tables over and said to the pigeon-sellers, ‘Take all this out of here and stop turning my Father’s house into a market.’ Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: Zeal for your house will devour me. The Jews intervened and said, ‘What sign can you show us to justify what you have done?’ Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary: are you going to raise it up in three days?’ But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the words he had said.

During his stay in Jerusalem for the Passover many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he gave, but Jesus knew them all and did not trust himself to them; he never needed evidence about any man; he could tell what a man had in him

Reflection on the drawing

Today’s gospel reading suggests that Jesus was looking beyond the physical Temple. When he says, ‘Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up’, the evangelist comments that ‘he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body’. Jesus was saying that the real place of God’s presence on earth was now no longer the magnificent temple but himself. His risen body is the new sanctuary of God’s presence, the new true temple. It is no longer necessary to enter a sacred building such as the temple in Jerusalem, to meet with God. We need only to turn to Jesus, our risen Lord, and he is not confined to the physicality of a temple or a sanctuary or a church. He can be found anywhere.

In fact, after Jesus’ resurrection, the followers of Jesus who lived in Jerusalem continued to worship in the temple, but they also worshipped together in one another’s homes. The communities of believers to whom Paul wrote his magnificent letters all lived a long way from Jerusalem. They gathered together for prayer and the Eucharist in the homes of those members of the community who had the space to accommodate others. There would be no church buildings for almost another three hundred years when Christianity was officially recognized by the Roman emperor Constantine.

Our drawing, executed by Giovanni Paolo Panini in 1734, shows Saint Paul preaching in Athens. The group is not seated in a temple but among ruins. Yet they are in the temple because they are listening to the Word of God. Panini was an Italian painter and architect who worked in Rome and is primarily known as one of the vedutisti ("view painters"). He is best known for his vistas of Rome, taking a particular interest in the city's antiquities. He painted small figures set in vast ruined landscapes. Though Panini could capture the crumbling columns and arches, the Temple of God remains ever unshaken, a testament to a foundation that no brush can tarnish. For in the gallery of the heart, where faith hangs, the Temple of God is an eternal masterpiece, its beauty never in ruins.

by Father Patrick van der Vorst

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frmartinshomiliesandreflections · 6 months

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9th November >> Fr. Martin's Gospel Reflections / Homilies on John 2:13-22 for the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica: ‘He was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body’.

Gospel (Except USA) John 2:13-22 Destroy this sanctuary and in three days I will raise it up.

Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money changers sitting at their counters there. Making a whip out of some cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, cattle and sheep as well, scattered the money changers’ coins, knocked their tables over and said to the pigeon-sellers, ‘Take all this out of here and stop turning my Father’s house into a market.’ Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: Zeal for your house will devour me. The Jews intervened and said, ‘What sign can you show us to justify what you have done?’ Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary: are you going to raise it up in three days?’ But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the words he had said.

Gospel (USA) John 2:13-22 Jesus was speaking about the temple of his Body.

Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as the money-changers seated there. He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables, and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.” His disciples recalled the words of Scripture, Zeal for your house will consume me. At this the Jews answered and said to him, “What sign can you show us for doing this?” Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews said, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his Body. Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they came to believe the Scripture and the word Jesus had spoken.

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(i) Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

The Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome is the Cathedral church of the Pope in his role as Bishop of the Diocese of Rome. It is called ‘Saint John’ after the two monasteries once attached, dedicated to Saint John the apostle and Saint John the Baptist. As the Cathedral Church of the Pope it has the title ‘Mother and Head of all the churches of the City and of the World’. It is sometimes called the Lateran Basilica or the Basilica of Saint John Lateran; the ‘Laterani’ were an old Roman family who probably once owned the land on which the Emperor Constantine, the first Christian Emperor, built this Basilica. It is one of the most important religious buildings in the Catholic Church. The most important religious building in the time of Jesus and the early church was the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. In the words of today’s responsorial psalm, it was ‘the holy place where the Most High dwells’. At a time when this Temple was still standing in all its glory, Paul makes the extraordinary statement in today’s second reading, ‘Don’t you realize that you are God’s Temple and that the Spirit of God is living among you?’ Paul is declaring that the Most High now dwells in the community of believers who gather around the risen Lord. The focal point of God’s presence is no longer a building, no matter how magnificent, but the community of those who have responded in faith to the preaching of the gospel. Paul declares that the foundation of this building is the one he has laid, namely, Jesus Christ. A little later in this letter, Paul declares that each individual member of the church is a temple of the Holy Spirit, in virtue of baptism. In today’s gospel reading from John, which was written perhaps thirty years after the Jewish Temple was destroyed by the Romans, Jesus speaks of himself as the temple of God, the focal point of God’s presence. The Word who was God became flesh in Jesus; to see Jesus is to see God the Father. The risen Lord is the primary temple of God and the church can only be God’s temple if the risen Lord remains its foundation. As individual believers, we can reveal God’s presence to our world to the extent that we allow his Son, our risen Lord, to live out his life of love in and through us.

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(ii) Feast of the Dedication of Basilica of Saint John Lateran

The Lateran Basilica is one of the four great Basilicas of Rome. The original Basilica was erected by the Emperor Constantine, the first Christian Emperor. It is the Cathedral church of Rome and, so, is the church of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope. For that reason, it has come to be known as the mother church of Christendom. Before the time of Constantine there were no public buildings called churches. Christians met in ordinary spaces, such as people’s homes. Writing to the church in Corinth about thirty years after the death and resurrection of Jesus, Paul says to them, in the words of today’s first reading, ‘You are God’s building… God’s temple’. For Paul, it was the Christian community, rather than any physical building, that was the place of God’s presence in the world. In the gospel reading, Jesus points to himself as the Temple of God. He, more than any human being, is the place of God’s presence in the world. As individuals and as a community we look to the Lord to help us to be the place of God’s presence in the world, to be church, in that sense. We gather in a building we call a church, to open ourselves to the presence of the Lord, so that we can become more fully the church of God, the body of Christ, in our world.

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(iii) Feast of the Dedication of Basilica of Saint John Lateran

In the early fourth century the first Christian emperor, Constantine, had a church built on land that once belonged to the Laterani family. That church of Constantine was the precursor of the present Basilica. This Basilica is now the Cathedral of the Diocese of Rome. It is the church of the Pope in his capacity as Bishop of Rome. For that reason, it has the title, ‘mother and head of all the churches of the city and the world’. Our local parish churches are much more modest building that the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome, and, yet, both are equally monuments to people’s faith. In today’s first reading Paul tells the Christians in Corinth, ‘you are God’s building… you are God’s temple’. Paul is reminding us that more fundamental than the building we call church are the people we call church. The church building is there to help us to express our identity as a people of faith, called to worship God through Christ in the Spirit. If our worship is to be authentic, the shape of our worship must become the shape of our lives. Our whole lives are to be a movement towards God, through Christ and in the Spirit. This is what it means to be church, to be the temple of God in the world, the living sign of God’s presence. In the gospel reading Jesus points to himself as the temple of God in the world, the one through whom God is present in the world. This is the heart of our own baptismal calling, to become temples of God through whom God’s loving presence touches the lives of others.

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(iv) Feast of the Dedication of Basilica of Saint John Lateran

In the early fourth century the first Christian emperor, Constantine, had a church built on land that once belonged to the Laterani family. That church of Constantine was the precursor of the present Basilica. This Basilica is now the Cathedral church of the Diocese of Rome. It is the church of the Pope in his capacity as Bishop of Rome. For that reason, it has the title, ‘mother and head of all the churches of the world’. Every church building tells a story about the faith community who gather in the building. In that sense today’s feast is less about a church building and more about the people we call church. Paul’s words to the Corinthians this morning are addressed to every parish community: ‘You are God’s building’. For Paul, the local faith community is the Temple of God, where God’s Spirit is dwelling. The local parish church is most itself when it is filled with the people who are the church, the baptized and believing community. Paul in that second reading reminds us that the foundation of the believing community is Jesus Christ. As individual believers and as a community of faith we are called to build our lives on the person of Jesus, by keeping his words and by remaining open to his Spirit. That is our shared baptismal calling. In attending to that calling we give meaning to the building in which we gather.

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(v) Feast of the Dedication of Basilica of Saint John Lateran

Today’s church celebrates the Cathedral church of the Diocese of Rome. It is one of the four major Basilicas in Rome and as the Cathedral church of the Diocese it has a special association with the Pope in his role as Bishop of Rome. It is as Bishop of Rome that he is Pope of the Universal Church. It is a beautiful building the origins of which go back to the first Christian Emperor Constantine. Today’s second reading is from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. At the time Paul wrote that letter there were no Christian churches, big or small. The Christian community gathered wherever it could, sometimes in the home of one of its members. In that reading Paul says to the community of faith in Corinth, ‘you are God’s building’. ‘You are God’s temple and the Spirit of God is living among you’. In the gospel reading for today’s feast, Jesus points to himself as the sanctuary or the Temple of God. He is the one in and through whom God is present in a special way. Paul reminds the local church in Corinth that they are now the Temple of God, in and through whom God is present in the world in a special way. Rather than a focus on a building, Paul puts the focus on the community. As a faith community we come to this building which we call a church. Yet, more fundamentally, we are the church, all of us, and the Lord wants to be present in the world in and through us as a community of faith. We are called to live in a way that reflects that wonderful identity in which we all share.

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(vi) Feast of the Dedication of Basilica of Saint John Lateran

We don’t often celebrate the feast of the dedication of a church. However, the basilica of Saint John Lateran is a special church. It is the cathedral church of the Diocese of Rome. Like any diocesan cathedral, it is the church of the bishop of Rome, who, of course, is the Pope. The Basilica is the church of the Pope in his role as Bishop of Rome. For this reason, this particular church has been given a rather long title, ‘Mother and Head of all the churches of the city and of the world’. Why is it sometimes called the Lateran Basilica or the Basilica of Saint John Lateran? The ‘Laterani’ were an old Roman family who probably once owned the land on which Emperor Constantine, the first Christian Emperor, built this Basilica in the early decades of the fourth century. The present Basilica retains the plan given to it by the Constantine but it has been rebuilt and restored over the centuries, and its interior was transformed in the mid-17th century by the famous sculpturer Borromini. If you happen to be in Rome, it is a Basilica well worth visiting. Of the three readings for this feast, only the first reading focuses on an actual building, the Temple in the city of Jerusalem, understood as the place of God’s living presence in the world. In the gospel reading, even though Jesus is present in the Temple in Jerusalem, he places the focus not on the building but on himself, Speaking of himself, he says, ‘Destroy this sanctuary (this temple) and in three days I will raise it up’. Jesus is saying that he is the place where God is truly present in the world, not some building, no matter how sacred. When Paul was writing to the church in Corinth in today’s second reading, there were no Christian buildings in existence. Paul’s focus in that reading is not on any building but on the community of faith, the church. He says to them, ‘You are God’s building…you are God’s Temple’. Paul is saying that the Christian community, the body of Christ, is the place where God is to be truly present in the world. The church is a spiritual temple. Later on in that same letter, Paul addresses each individual member of the church as a temple of the Spirit. If Jesus was the supreme expression of God’s presence in the world, we are each called in our own way to be living expressions of God’s loving presence in our world today. The Lord, now risen, continues to be God’s presence in the world today through each one of us in all our rich diversity.

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(vii) Feast of the Dedication of Basilica of Saint John Lateran

The church of Saint John Lateran in Rome is one of the four great Basilicas of the city, the other three being Saint Peter’s Basilica, Saint Mary Major’s Basilica and the Basilica of Saint Paul outside the Walls. It is the Cathedral church of the Pope in his role as Bishop of the Diocese of Rome. It is called ‘Saint John’ after the two monasteries once attached, dedicated to Saint John the apostle and Saint John the Baptist. As the Cathedral Church of the Pope it has the title ‘Mother and Head of all the churches of the City and of the World’. There are many wonderful churches in Rome and throughout the world. Yet, we are all very aware that the church is not primarily a building, no matter how grand. The church is the community of faith who gather in the building we call church. That is why at the beginning of today’s first reading, St Paul says to the community of faith in Corinth, ‘you are God’s building’. The most impressive physical building of worship among Jews in Paul’s time was the Temple in Jerusalem. Yet, in that same reading, Paul says to the community of faith in Corinth, ‘you are God’s Temple’. Interestingly, in the gospel reading, Jesus, while standing in the magnificent Temple in Jerusalem identifies himself as the Temple or sanctuary of God, ‘Destroy this sanctuary and in three days I will raise it up’. Jesus was claiming to be the place where God dwells among humanity, not the physical Temple in Jerusalem. Paul reminds us that we, the community of faith, are the place where God wishes to dwell among humanity. As living stones in God’s building, God’s Temple, each one of us is called to reveal God’s loving presence to others. One of the reasons we gather in a building like this, a church, is to receive the grace and strength we need to be true to our calling to be living stones in God’s spiritual building. The Lord needs us to make tangible his loving and merciful presence in our world today.

Fr. Martin Hogan.

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 11 months

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"Convicts Have Own Ideas of Life's Values," Montreal Star. June 7, 1933. Page 3 & 11. ---- Words Of Wit And Wisdom Are Gleaned From Evidence In Recent Trials ---- THE trials of various St. Vincent de Paul convicts, in connection with last November's rioting at that institution, which have just been completed before Mr.Justice Wilson, in the Court of King's Bench, were not without their words of wisdom and various offering of humor and sarcasm from various prisoners from the great convict station heard in the witness-box.

One after another they took the oath and told their respective stories, either for the Crown or for the defence. Some of them appeared to be human derelicts indeed, but others, either by smart bearing, a flashing smile, a turn of phrase or evident ambition to ingratiate themselves, gave proof of light undimmed by long years of imprisonment.

To begin with, they are not "convicts"; the word is never used. They are "Inmates" to officialdom and "cons" to one another. There are some 1,100 of them in the great penitentiary just outside Montreal and it is very evident that social scale exists within its four grim walls, in just as marked a degree as "outside."

The "stool," or stool-pigeon, for whom the "con" has a name not used in polite society, bears the brand of Judas among his fellows. Then,too, your ordinary, common-or-garden criminal, thug, stick-up man, burglar, thief or what have you, has a bitter contempt for the man committed for statutary offences and unnatural crimes. A man with a long record, even among hardened criminals, stigmatized one of these degenerates from the witness-box.

CHESTER Crosley, with 10 previous prison and penitentiary terms to his discredit and self-admitted ringleader of part of the trouble, who pleaded guilty to setting fire to the trades' building of the penitentiary, provided the court with a bright 20 minutes while he told his own story of the affair. He gave his crime record with pride, but staunchly insisted that he had never committed perjury and did not intend to.

Asked by the Court what had happened to him after the fire broke out and he had seen to its spreading by sprinkling gasoline, Crossley said: "Then I got cut off. I was taken out of there two hours later, with my body all burned. The remains stand before you now!" "Pretty solid remains," said Mr. Justice Wilson, when the laughter had subsided.

Incidentally, "Jazz" Crossley, as his fellow-prisoners call him because there is always a song on his lips, lays all his troubles at the feet of fate. "You have not been very lucky," said the Court when the negro's history had been told.

"That's what comes of being born at midnight," answered the witness, showing two perfect rows of teeth. GEORGES BOIVIN, serving life term for manslaughter, star witness for the Crown in several cases, came under fire of defence counsel for his very apparent willingness to help the authorities. He had just finished a somewhat dramatic recital of one of the incidents of the trouble and of his own share in it. "You read detective stories; Sherlock Holmes and that sort of thing?" suggested the lawyer. "Oh no, Sir," retorted the "lifer" fixing his interrogator with a knowing eye, "I would not go as far as that!"

A BURLY negro, who, according to his own evidence was beset with "breakin' an' enterin'" was being loaded into the patrol wagon of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for the ride from the penitentiary to the court house. He lagged in the line. "Come on, Rastus! Get a move on!" said the red-coated corporal in charge of the party. "Who is you callin' Rastus?" was the smiling retort.

When the party unloaded at the court house cells, the police officer asked the convict "What is your name, anyway?" The answer came in the same clear, slow modulated voice in which the man later gav eevidence in court. "Ma name is Arthur Morton an' I may tell you that I was very much offended when you call me Rastus!"

Another bright spot in a sordid business was Howard Macdonald, who began a considerable career of crime in Calgary, some years ago. He broke out of Burwash and in prepared to "argue the point" with almost anyone who wants to discuss his affairs; even judges. But there is something about this 6 foot 1 3.4 ins. giant that catches the eye and the sympathies. Here is a bad lad, but with the indefinable "some-thing," which one saw in "king's hard bargains" overseas: the same "something" which brought them from detention to be star performers in tight corners. "Mac" will be heard from, yet!

#montreal #court of king's bench #prison riot #st vincent de paul penitentiary #sentenced to the penitentiary #1933 prisoner trials #chester crossley #black canadians #words from the inside #long criminal record #prisoner autobiography #great depression in canada #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada #1932 laval pen riot

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This book is probably the single most important book I've read about God as I was looking into Orthodoxy.

I think the supposition among most Orthodox Christians, is that most converts buy into the idea of the "Christian God", and just need to be convinced that the Orthodox Church is merely the most accurate and original way to worship "that God".

I seriously can't remember the number of times I was told to read, The Orthodox Church, by the same author.

Since I had been studying the history of Christianity for some time, there was very little in it that I think was very new to me. Mostly a rehashing of various historical points that have been well documented in other areas. There was a bit of triumphalism towards the end with numbers of practicing Orthodox worldwide organized by various patriarchates, but by and large, if I hadn't already had an inkling by then that the Orthodox God was radically different from the pigeon-holed God I grew up with, I would have continued my quest elsewhere.

Let me restate this again, in different words then I may have used before.

I was basically a cultural Adventist, much like a cultural Jew is a cultural Jew. I was functionally a Stoic. I did not believe that the God of St. Paul and St. Steven were the same God that was being worshiped in the vast majority of "church" congregations worldwide. He was too small. He could be Zeus, or Odin, or any other number of Sky Gods worshiped historically by the Indo-Europeans. Some "Christian communities" (2) even made me think of Bacchus.

Fortunately, I had read a little more than what, "The Orthodox Church", offered. So, on my own, after obligatorily reading "The Orthodox Church", and with some mild caution offered, I bought and read this book.

This book was what I needed at the time.

It's been awhile, so I'm going to re-read it again.

Lord, Have mercy upon me, A Sinner.

#Eastern Orthodox Christianity #Bp. Kallistos Ware #Phronema

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45: Félix Leclerc // ...et sa Guitare No. 3

Félix Leclerc et sa Guitare No. 3 Félix Leclerc 1959, Epic

Félix Leclerc was an iconic figure in Québec for the better part of four decades. Like a lot of folky, “regional” Québécois artists of the era he was a giant in his home province but received relatively little notice out of the francosphere. Among French artists, he is most comparable to a Georges Brassens. Among North Americans, while neither comparison is perfect, he is probably closer to a Woody Guthrie than a Pete Seeger, more noted for his original songs than as an interpreter of an existing folk tradition. He composed prolifically, not only as a songwriter but also as a poet, novelist, and playwright, and his work contributed significantly to a culture that was in the process of defining itself in opposition to both France and English Canada. Like Guthrie he was a leftist, aligned with the left-wing of the Québec separatist movement, and his frequently aphoristic prose leaves little doubt as to his opinions about the government in Ottawa and cultural critics who dismiss art oriented towards the working class.

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Even as a young man, Leclerc had a gusty, grandfatherly voice—he was probably capable of delivering a really satisfying “ho ho ho” sort of a laugh. It’s easy to imagine him sitting on a stone bridge in a small village called Sainte-Hyacinthe-sur-les-Quatorze-Montagnes-des-Neiges or something, a troubadour narrating day-to-day life as he sees it. Seldom sexy but often soulful in an earthy sort of way, he had a feathered touch as a vocalist, crooning and sighing in the French chanson tradition.

He began recording in the 1950s, when singles were the principal outlet for pop musicians, so his LP discography is a mess of quickie compilations with a lot of overlap. On some early recordings, like his uncharacteristically cool debut “Le Train du Nord,” his producers made some primitive attempts to replicate the innovative delay effects being popularized by Les Paul, but within a few years he’d settled into the simple arrangements he’d rely on for the rest of his career: vocals and acoustic guitar out front, often supported by accordion, occasionally by clarinet or strings.

The disc I’ve got here is 1959’s Félix Leclerc et sa Guitare No. 3—confusingly, both …et sa Guitare No. 1 and No. 3 are typically listed as studio albums, whereas No. 2 is evidently a compilation. Comme mon français est exécrable, I asked francophone correspondent, friend-of-the-podcast and Leclerc fan Mea to give me a general idea of his affect (the earlier stone bridge description is hers). She described a stolid everyman, given to penning anecdotal fables with a clear moral in a tradition not far removed from the English murder ballad. He’s more matter-of-fact than theatrical, but not without wit (sample lyric: “If you think I love you, you’re stupid as a pigeon… but if you left, I would die”).

While many Français de France (French-from-France) people feel a passionate cultural pride in someone like world-historic-sex-pervert/horny ashtray Serge Gainsbourg, it makes sense that someone with Leclerc’s specific characteristics, in his particular time and place, could come to embody something more fundamental to the people of Québec. On the cover of …et sa Guitare No. 3 he has the grin of a man being held at gunpoint, but from about 1960 onward he looks endearingly like someone who either does not know or does not give a shit that he is being photographed.

Squinting, rumpled, hair matted like he just woke up on a beach, old man Leclerc is not looking to impress, and for the most part the wider world failed to look past his apparent provincialism to see the major talent he was. But this is precisely what makes a folk hero: Félix Leclerc was for Québec and, in his time, Québec was for him alone.

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noirandchocolate · 2 years

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‘Fine body of men,’ said Lady Ramkin. ‘The good old rank and file, eh?’

‘The rank, anyway,’ said Vimes.

Lady Ramkin beamed encouragingly. This led to a strange shuffling among the men. Sergeant Colon, by dint of some effort, managed to make his chest stick out more than his stomach. Carrot straightened up from his habitual stoop. Nobby vibrated with soldierly bearing, hands thrust straight down by his sides, thumbs pointing sharply forward, pigeon chest inflated so much that his feet were in danger of leaving the ground.

‘I always think we can all sleep safer in my bed knowing that these brave men are watching over us,’ said Lady Ramkin, walking sedately along the rank, like a treasure galleon running ahead of a mild breeze. ‘And who is this?’

It is difficult for an orangutan to stand to attention. Its body can master the general idea, but its skin can’t. The Librarian was doing his best, however, standing in a sort of respectful heap at the end of the line and maintaining the kind of complex salute you can only achieve with a four-foot arm.

‘‘E’s plain clothes, ma’am,’ said Nobby smartly. ‘Special Ape Services.’

‘Very enterprising. Very enterprising indeed,’ said Lady Ramkin. ‘How long have you been an ape, my man?’

‘Oook.’

‘Well done.’

--Terry Pratchett, “Guards! Guards!” (illustration by Paul Kidby taken from the 2021 Dunmanifestin edition)

(Once again Kidby has put some very nice detail into his illustration. Nobby especially looks exactly as described in the text.)

#terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #discworld #paul kidby #guards! guards!

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fatehbaz · 3 years

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hope these might be interesting. round 1. round 2:

Titles and short descriptions below:

-- The Platypus and The Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination (Harriet Ritvo -- 1998 -- The Victorian-era craze for taxonomic classification, dichotomies, human-animal separations, monsters, and hierarchization of animals among formal institutions, naturalists, Euro-American scientists, etc. Showmen, media, scientific professionals, and folk cultures vying to establish hierarchies and definitions of life through language and animal-naming systems.)

-- An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation (Micha Rahder -- 2020 -- Human and other-than-human relationships, multitude of knowledge systems vs. monoculture of knowledge, the tension and negotiation between multiple coexisting “ways of knowing the world,” and conflicts involving dispossession, extractivism, state violence, Euro-American conservation groups, and local Indigenous people in the Maya Biosphere region of Guatemala.)

-- Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation (Ikuko Asaka -- 2017.)

-- Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction (Natania Meeker and Antonia Szabari -- 2019 -- “Imagining new worlds” in contrast to modernity, dualism, and rigid distinctions and hierarchies between human and other-than-human by engaging with plant lifeforms.)

-- Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species (Edited by Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson -- 2013 -- Uncomfortable or unsettling interspecies relationships; includes writing on wolves, carp, rattlesnakes, pigeons, etc.)

-- Singing the Turtles to Sea: The Comcaac (Seri) Art and Science of Reptiles (Gary Paul Nabhan -- Comcaac relationship with reptiles of the Sonoran Desert and Gulf of California.)

-- Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World (Edited by Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan -- Anthology of articles/essays about the central role of plantations in imperialism and the role of botanists as “agents of empire”, edited by one of the field’s most respected scholars, Schiebinger.)

-- Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal (Edited by Cary Wolfe -- 2003 -- Collection of a few essays about the boundaries and borderlands between the animal and the human.)

-- No Species Is An Island: Bats, Cacti and Secrets of the Sonoran Desert (Theodore Fleming -- 2017 -- Text and illustrations exploring the decade-long research into nighttime lives of bats, moths, and cacti in the Sonoran Desert. With info about the relationship between moths and senita cactus, and the essential role of long-nosed bats in pollinating cacti.)

-- A World of Many Worlds (Edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser -- 2018 -- Anthology from multiple scholars about different conceptions of ecology/the cosmos and the tension between Indigenous and Euro-American scientific ways of knowing, with extra focus on multispecies worlding/ways of knowing from Latin America.)

-- Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind (Eileen Crist -- 1999 -- How language and animal-naming conventions are not innocent or neutral; how language used to describe animals and their experience can deny the sentience of, autonomy of, or compassion for other-than-human creatures.)

-- The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856 (Ralph O’Connor -- 2007 -- Fun look at how the storytelling, showmanship, and display of dinosaur and Pleistocene fossils in Europe and the US reinforced existing colonial/hierarchical narratives about “progress” and had a heavy influence on how media and pop-sci disc0urses have framed science, deep time, climate change, and natural history ever since.)

-- Centering Animals in Latin American History (Edited by Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici -- 2013 -- Collection of articles/essays from multiple scholars “seeking to include” other-than-human creatures as “social actors in the histories” of “colonial and postcolonial Latin America” including writing on dog funerals, use of animal in colonization campaigns, the commodification of animals, and animals in political symbolism.

-- Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands (Andrew Stuhl -- 2016.)

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misscrawfords · 3 years

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17+32, Catherine and Henry (Northanger Abbey)?

War AU + Pregnancy fic

My anon, are you sure about this? Because this sounds hella angsty and if Catherine and Henry are anything, it's not angsty!

So I'm really sorry for completely ruining your desire for angst here.

Catherine goes to war in maternity leave.

Not literally, don't be ridiculous. She's an English teacher; what on earth would she be doing in a war zone? (She did once fancy herself a member of the Royal Navy but she had been 13 and mostly inspired by going on a high ropes adventure course on a school trip. The craze had not lasted.)

No, maternity leave is simultaneously boring and freeing. Since she started as a teacher, she's never had so much free time to just think. Henry's around some of the time, of course, but he has sermons to write and parishoners to see and tedious parish council meetings to chair. She flits in with cups of tea (waddles, really, at this point) and homemade cake that they at least pretend to like. (Sometimes she likes to give in to all the stereotypes of a vicar's wife. It makes her feel strangely cosy.) But when she isn't baking, she's at war.

At war on the internet. With the dog over her feet and a cup of tea at her side.

It started with a fun looking show on Netflix. Henry pointed it out to her one evening. "It's aimed at people who really loved Twilight when they were teengers and now lead depressingly generic lives in suburbia. People like you," he added pointedly.

Catherine narrowed her eyes and didn't let on that she'd already seen the trailer. "You're going to make fun of it."

"I mean... yes... obviously, but also, I really want to see whether the Dawn Angel gets together with the..." He squinted at the summary on his phone. "Immortal Night Demon or with her high school ex-boyfriend turned firefighter, Jordan. Golly, tough choice there, right? It's going to be compelling drama - breathtaking fight scenes, symbolic dark and light imagery, the epic highs and lows of high school football. You name it!"

They binged the whole thing in two days. Henry's next sermon, on the possibility of redemption even for demons and the devil himself, had been written in a fever dream by both of them at 2am after staying up far too late on Saturday arguing over the fate of the Night Demon and other related topics.

Old Mrs. Evans was heard to mutter sourly to her daughter Carys after the service, "That'll put the cat among the pigeons, that will alright. Too much Milton, not enough St Paul!"

"I always find Milton very inspiring!" Catherine replied bravely and loyally, as she helped them to a cup of tea in the church hall. She smiled at Carys, whom she'd taught Paradise Lost to at A Level a couple of years earlier. "St Paul too, of course," she added quickly, quailing under the mother's righteous glare. "Very inspiring."

But without marking or admin or driving to and from the high school in the large town half an hour away and without groups of teenagers to debate books with on a daily basis, Catherine found herself bored.

So she booted up her tumblr once again, abandoned since teaching had taken over her life and spending time with her wonderful, clever, funny, loving husband had seemed more interesting than scrolling aimlessly through social media, and discovered to her gleeful pleasure that fandom had not changed much and neither had she.

Or so she thought. Nowadays, she realises, everyone is moralising. The prevailing view seems to be that teenage girls in fandom aren't capable of distinguishing fact from fiction, that if they want a fictional heroine to rule hell with a sexy demon overlord at her side that must mean that that's what they want in real life. That the only moral thing to do here would be to marry the nice but boring guy who's been there for ever.

Catherine is an English teacher married to a vicar. If anyone knows anything about morality and fiction, it's her. This is all sounding very similar to the male critical outrage at women's novels in the 18th century. It seems nothing ever changes except that this time it's girls doing it to each other. Catherine writes several essays explaining all of this. She gets sent death threats and called an abuse apologist.

"It's so strange," she muses to Henry, as they eat homemade Thai curry in front of the aga.

"What is?" he replies. (She's told him everything, of course.) "The teenagers sending you anonymous death threats on tumblr? Because-"

"Nah, that's just standard for tumblr. I mean, it's so strange that anyone would want Griselda to be with Jordan. He's just so... normal and not in a good way. Just always going on about football and how great he was in high school. He really peaked then and he's a firefighter so that should make him brave but he never seems to actually do any fire fighting. He just talks about it as if we're meant to be impressed. We all know a Jordan and nobody wants to date him."

She'd know. Her first boyfriend had been a Jordan. They'd dated for five minutes. (Literally five minutes. Then she'd realised she'd been asked out and not to do a singing gig. Thorpy had been so subtle as to be unintelligible. Then she'd run for the hills, more disappointed in not having her vocal talents finally recognised than in being asked out by such a bore.)

"So a literal demon is a better bet?" Henry asks. "Just asking for clarification. Next year's Halloween costume depend on it."

"He's interesting and sexy and treats Griselda as an equal. What more do you want?"

"Well, speaking as a clergyman...." Henry begins with faux pomposity as he often does, his expression very fond.

She leaves him to do the washing up and lecture the dog. (She frequently hears him discussing doctrinal issues with the dog from the other room. It's adorable. She wonders if he'll be like this with the baby too. She can't wait.)

Back in her study, she boots the kitten off her chair and settles down for a long evening of defending a fictional relationship against antis, maybe reading a bit of a 52 chapter fanfiction where the Night Demon owns a tattoo parlour in New York City, and continuing to work a little on her new scheme of work for Year 9 when she eventually returns to work. It has the working title of "Sexy villains through history and why we should stan them".

She might need to edit that before she pitches it to her Head of Department.

There's a wonderful smell coming from downstairs: Henry is spontaneously baking apple cake. If she glances behind her computer monitor to the window, the graveyard looms dark and comforting in the autumn night, illuminated just by one of the outside lights on the old church. On a cushion by the bookcase, the kitten is lightly snoring and twitches in her sleep. She feels the baby shift slightly within her.

Shipping wars and the thrill of being so engaged in a fandom once more might fill a current space in her life, but goodness, she knows the difference between fact and fiction! Why would she want anything other than what she already has? Life is good.

#northanger abbey #jane austen #fanfiction #henry tilney #catherine morland #henry x catherine #i am strangely overcome by emotions at this sickly sweet and fluffy slice of life for modern married Henry and Catherine #I LOVE THEM SO MUCH #and sorry not sorry for the fandom meta #i actually love how modern AU Northanger Abbey just has to be about fandom #and attitudes towards certain kinds of YA fiction #and it just blows my mind that anyone doing a modern NA might think it was about anything ese #*else #rose writes

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colasupernova · 2 years

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I guess I’m doing all of the boys tonight.

Third is Marko, since I’m going by age. Some may argue with me, but this is based on my fic, in which I am god, so Marko is third eldest.

Oh Marko, my beloved. Yes he’s my favorite. It’s Alex Winters, of course he’s my favorite.

- born sometime in the 1900s, turned in 1922

- Russian, but was adopted as a baby by an American man

- apart of his adoptive father’s traveling sideshow

- sword swallower, among other things

- autistic, because I am and I said so

- gender apathetic

- powerful telepath

- aka he can hear the thoughts of others, human and otherwise

- can’t really turn it off though

- he can focus in on particular people though, just takes more effort

- due to his telepathy, he’s usually not aware of what’s happening ‘in the now,’ which leads to the other boys tapping him or talking to him to get him back down to earth

- picks at his skin, especially on his hands, which he also bites

- David gave him gloves so he wouldn’t draw blood

- style is based on 60s-70s punk

- made all of the boys’ jewelry

- mirrors the other boys’ behaviors in public, but acts more like himself when it’s just them

- the reason why Paul was turned

- is equally as feral as David

- the two of them hunting together is just a bloodbath

- steals, and is super good at it

- uses Paul as a distraction so he can fill his pockets

- really likes birds

- not just pigeons

- he just likes how misunderstood pigeons are

- same with raccoons, opossums, crows, rats, and spiders

- hates being touched, but is fine with any of the boys touching him because he trusts them

- known to take the other boys’ clothes

#the lost boys 1987 #the lost boys #marko the lost boys #ao3 fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic #lost boys headcanons #headcanon

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deathbystereo87 · 3 years

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Good evening~♡ Had a kinda sappy request but could there be a prompt where TLB stumble across the diary/journal of said S/O and just sneak a peek of what she wrote about them, perhaps something "special" about each of them?

A/N: I really liked this prompt, and wanted it to be so much longer. I hope you enjoy

Word count: 987

Warnings: fluff

Paul always took the longest to get ready. It didn’t matter where he was going or what he was doing, he took literally forever. He always had to make sure his hair was styled just right, and eyeliner was extremely hard to do (especially considering he couldn’t see himself in the mirror).

Making one last run through the house, he decided to stop into y/n’s room to steal some of their bracelets. They had just left to go food shopping, so he wouldn’t be caught in the act of stealing their accessories. Rummaging through the drawers of their dresser, his hand caught on an odd shape. Pulling it out, Paul had found a book in the bottom of y/n’s sock drawer.

The book was a pale blue color with seemingly no engravings or title on the outside. Curiously opening it, it seemed to be no other than y/n’s diary! Without a second thought, Paul found himself mindlessly flipping through the pages.

Before he could start reading, he was interrupted by Marko coming into the room. “There you are! Come on! David’s getting antsy.” He started, before looking at the book. “What’s that?”

“It’s y/n’s diary,” Paul said in a hushed tone.

“And you’re reading it?”

“Not yet, because someone decided to rudely interrupt me!”

“Bro, I don’t think you should be reading their personal diary!” Marko urged, “It’s not something you’re supposed to do.”

Letting out a groan, Paul protested, “Yeah, but what if it has stuff in there about us?”

Marko hesitated, “I mean, if it’s about us, then I guess we can,” He slyly supplied.

The two flipped through the pages together, most of them contained mindless doodles of different things around the cave or the boys. Some were filled with song lyrics of the newest pop hits that were catchy. However, nearing towards the middle, there seemed to be four sections, each one with a different name on it.

Marko’s section came first, and the pair didn’t wait to read it.

Paul read it out loud, “Marko is the most artistic out of the four of them. He loves to spend his time painting and sewing new pieces of fabric onto his jacket. His face always pulls an interesting expression when he is focused as he pays attention to the intricate details. While he can be rambunctious at times, he always knows when to calm down. When he’s caring for his pigeons, he always takes the time to be so gentle with them. When we cuddle, he also makes an amazing little spoon,”

Paul started to laugh, “Ha! You’re the little spoon!”

“Hey! I’m short! What do you expect?” Marko fired back.

“Whatever, I want my section next,” Paul replied.

Marko rolled his eyes and flipped through the pages. “Paul is definitely the craziest one of the group. Sometimes, he can be a little too crazy. I admire his ability to not care what other people say, as he enjoys his own personal style. His music taste is immaculate, and he always shows me the newest songs. Sometimes, he takes me to concerts in town, too. I don’t have the heart to tell him that his singing voice sucks, but it’s okay. He never fails to make me laugh, and is the iconic joker among us. “

“At least my singing voice doesn’t suck!” Marko nagged.

Paul stuck out his tongue in response, quietly pouting.

Both Dwayne and David walked in.

“What are you two losers doing in here? We’ve been waiting out there for like 20 minutes!” David grumbled, crossing his arms.

“David thinks he’s going to starve to death,” Dwayne complained. “What are you reading?”

“I found y/n’s diary! Marko and I were just reading it.” Marko elbowed Paul in the stomach.

David furrowed his eyebrows. “Aren’t you not supposed to read through anyone’s diary, especially your partner?” Paul scratched the back of his neck.

“I guess neither of you wants to hear what y/n said about you,” Marko countered, shutting the book and sending them a sarcastic smile.”

David and Dwayne shared a look, “Well, we never said all of that, did we?”

Opening the diary back up, Marko opened up to Dwayne’s section and started to read it out loud. “Dwayne is very simplistic with his lifestyle. He prefers to spend his time either reading or writing. Sometimes, we just like to read together and enjoy the company of each other. He likes to read to me occasionally, his voice is very soothing. I love falling asleep listening to him. I also get to braid his hair sometimes, and he doesn’t complain like the others do.”

Dwayne didn’t say anything, but a wide smile spread across his face in appreciation.

“Alright, pick up the speed,” David said impatiently.

Paul looked up at him, “Aww, is little Davey-Wavey excited to see what is written about him?”

“I will cut off your hands again, they’ll take at least a week to grow back.” David threatened.

Paul’s eyes went wide as he turned to David’s page without hesitation. “David is definitely the most commanding out of them. He prefers order and enjoys his seniority and status. He can be extremely eccentric, but I like that about him. His taste in clothing and fashion is classical but enjoyable. His trench coat is very comfortable, and I love when he wraps it around me on cold nights. He also seems to leave me little gifts around my room, like things I’ve taken a liking to on the boardwalk or things I’ve made comments for. He never says anything, but I just know it’s him. It’s an extremely sweet gesture. His hugs are always the best, too.”

David looked prideful, but none of them got to enjoy the moment for too long. Footsteps coming into the cave interrupted them.

“Boys! I’m home! Come help me put away the groceries.” You yelled.

#the lost boys #lost boys #david the lost boys #paul the lost boys #marko the lost boys #dwayne the lost boys #fluff #horror #the lost boys imagines #the lost boys x reader

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breadboylovin · 3 years

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This is kind of a vague ask but what are some of your general headcanons for TLB and/or Michael? Like what’s just true about them for u?

[cracks knuckles] oh i love spewing some random bullshit lets GO (under the cut bc it got long)

- michael has more of a strongfat body type. like we see him with vague abs in the movie but in my head hes just Fucking Huge so being strongfat would reflect that

- i also think david has like a little bit of chubbiness on him and i can say that because his gay ass trenchcoat and all black clothes make it so hard for me to discern a body type from him

- we know marko owns pigeons but i think he also has influence among the crow and raven communities of santa carla. they bring him trinkets that he will occasionally add onto either his jacket or pauls. hes basically this guy but with no moral qualms about it

- adding onto that. marko loves animals in general. like he doesnt fuck with humans too much but he loves a good creature (ESPECIALLY a good bird). yes this is me projecting because im a biology nerd

- paul will routinely pretend not to know what specific animals are just to piss him off. he has asked if butterflies are birds multiple times

- paul loves reptiles though. i think if he owned any pets they would all be snakes and geckos

- ive already drawn dwayne with his giant california condor and the tag about him being a leading figure in condor conservation was a joke BUT it would be really funny if they let a random hot shirtless man named dwayne keep a condor because he takes very good care of it

- david could not give less of a shit about fun animals but he has seen bearded vultures (pictured below) and wishes he had one for the swag of it all. however they are old world vultures so the only way to acquire it would be by stealing from a zoo and if the local animal lovers (marko and dwayne) found out they would beat the shit out of him for inconveniencing conservation and education efforts

- marko is the most reckless driver on his bike and rides at the speed of light. i have no clue when ill finish my dating sim but one of the routes involves going on markos bike and immediately throwing up from motion sickness

- marko loves to draw but its mostly cartoony doodles and stamps. paul cannot draw to save his life. dwayne can draw very well and would sit down looking at you and moving his pencil for like an hour and then come over and show you a masterpiece. david has tried to become an artist multiple times and given up within an hour because he cant draw a circle right (dwayne has told him multiple times that circles are hard to draw and he does not care)

- in a lost boys live au where they reach 2021... david loves taemin from shinee. i put three taemin songs on my 95060 playlist just for him. all of his songs either have ‘im an evil whore >:-3′ or ‘im being seduced by another evil whore 0___0′ energy and david would LOVE IT

- fuckin uhhhhhh im trying to think of one last one. paul likes lollipops i think he would have the biggest sweet tooth out of all of them

#ask #the lost boys #i have some about parko specifically but i will post them when i get to the trans parko anon #tiptapricot

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frmartinshomiliesandreflections · 1 year

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9th November >> Fr. Martin’s Gospel Reflections / Homilies on John 2:13-22 for the Feast of The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica: ‘He was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body’.

Feast of The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

Gospel (Except USA)

John 2:13-22

Destroy this sanctuary and in three days I will raise it up.

Gospel (USA)

John 2:13-22

Jesus was speaking about the temple of his Body.

Reflections (6)

(i) Feast of The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

The church of Saint John Lateran in Rome is one of the four great Basilicas of the city, the other three being Saint Peter’s Basilica, Saint Mary Major’s Basilica and the Basilica of Saint Paul outside the Walls. It is the Cathedral church of the Pope in his role as Bishop of the Diocese of Rome. It is called ‘Saint John’ after the two monasteries once attached, dedicated to Saint John the apostle and Saint John the Baptist. As the Cathedral Church of the Pope it has the title ‘Mother and Head of all the churches of the City and of the World’. There are many wonderful churches in Rome and throughout the world. Yet, we are all very aware that the church is not primarily a building, no matter how grand. The church is the community of believers who gather in the building we call a church. That is why at the beginning of today’s first reading, St Paul says to the community of believers in Corinth, ‘you are God’s building’. The most impressive physical building of worship among Jews in Paul’s time was the Temple in Jerusalem. Yet, in that same reading, Paul says to the church in Corinth, ‘you are God’s Temple’. Interestingly, in the gospel reading, Jesus, while standing in the magnificent Temple in Jerusalem, identifies himself as the Temple or sanctuary of God, ‘Destroy this sanctuary and in three days I will raise it up’. Jesus was claiming that the place where God dwells among humanity was no longer the physical Temple in Jerusalem but himself. Paul reminds us that we, the community of faith, the members of Christ’s body, are now the place where God wishes to dwell among humanity. As living stones in God’s building, God’s Temple, each one of us is called to reveal God’s loving presence to others. One of the reasons we gather in a building like this, a church, is to receive the grace and strength we need to be true to our calling to be living stones in God’s spiritual building. The Lord needs us to make tangible his loving and merciful presence in our world today.

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(ii) Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

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(iii) Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

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(iv) Dedication of Basilica of Saint John Lateran

In the early fourth century the first Christian emperor, Constantine, had a church built on land that once belonged to the Laterani family. That church of Constantine was the precursor of the present Basilica. This Basilica is now the Cathedral church of the Diocese of Rome. It is the church of the Pope in his capacity as Bishop of Rome. For that reason, it has the title, ‘mother and head of all the churches of the world’. Every church building tells a story about the faith community who gather in the building. In that sense today’s feast is less about a church building and more about the people we call church. Paul’s words to the Corinthians this morning are addressed to every parish community: ‘You are God’s building’. For Paul, the local faith community is the Temple of God, where God’s Spirit is dwelling. The local parish church is most itself when it is filled with the people who are the church, the baptized and believing community. Paul in that second reading reminds us that the foundation of the believing community is Jesus Christ. As individual believers and as a community of faith we are called to build our lives on the person of Jesus, by keeping his words and by remaining open to his Spirit. That is our shared baptismal calling. In attending to that calling we give meaning to the building in which we gather.

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(v) Dedication of Lateran Basilica

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(vi) Dedication of Lateran Basilica

Fr. Martin Hogan.

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