Here's a sheet with the text we are moving into today - not a big deal, it's really just the introductory verses in the synoptic gospels, but I have translated Luke's in a way you may not be familiar with - you'll see why. We are going to finish up John's prologue material, and then touch on the intros to the other gospels. As noted earlier, we will not be reading through the genealogies, but if time allows I will comment on them a bit. And then, next week, The Annunciation!
By the way, in one of our Piazza gatherings I recommended the book Prayer and Temperament by Chester Michael. This is a great book, mapping the different Myers-Briggs Personality types onto different spirituality types. Another thing it does is connect the 4 gospels with the 4 major personality types, on the assumption that one of the reasons we get 4 different perspectives on the gospel story in our canon is that the authors of the gospels were in fact each of one of the 4 main personality types, and each wrote a gospel for that personality type - so if you have a favorite gospel, it's likely that your personality type matches that of the author. Anyway, I found it to be right on.
See you soon... (and if you are not a supporter yet, there is time to become a supporter before we begin this morning - just sayin') - Jim
Dear friends - Please take 10 minutes to watch this personal update from me:
I mentioned in The Journey that I wrote a song based on Isaiah 2, which is one of my favorite OT passages:
In days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest mountain, and raised above the hills.
All nations shall stream toward it. Many peoples shall come and say:
“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, That he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations, and set terms for many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!
I hope you like the song!
in this book - I contributed a chapter called Rigorism in the Early Church: The First "Fundamentalists"
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTRS5QMM
The title is Faith in Crisis: Critical Dialogues in Catholic Traditionalism, Church Authority, and Reform - it's based on the idea that finding the truth (and indeed the development of correct doctrine) is a navigation of the middle way, and avoiding the extremes - and it covers pretty much the whole history of the Church.
