tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post6716237821798183148..comments2023-07-05T08:17:21.505-04:00Comments on Getting to the Point: Sentimentality Leads to the Gas ChamberFr. Denis Lemieuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01049723287624178155noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-86114124543666737652013-01-24T15:55:17.543-05:002013-01-24T15:55:17.543-05:00I absolutely agree with you. I wish I could find t...I absolutely agree with you. I wish I could find time and space to write more of my reflections about all these matters - they take us into very deep waters indeed.<br />I do believe we are male or female, and that it is our bodily structures that determine this... but clearly this is only the beginning of the story, not the end of the discussion. What does it all mean? What of the people who find these questions excruciating or their own gender identity conflicted? Not easy, not simple... much prayer and much love is needed all around here.<br />God bless you.Fr. Denis Lemieuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01049723287624178155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-81334137447646406952013-01-18T16:21:22.246-05:002013-01-18T16:21:22.246-05:00Yes... I love Leonard Cohen very much. He comes so...Yes... I love Leonard Cohen very much. He comes so close, so very close to the truth of things - a real poet.<br />Thanks for the kind words - the blog is a bit of an ongoing miracle, to me at least. Never thought I would find so much to say... yoiks!Fr. Denis Lemieuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01049723287624178155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-58964136503815685652013-01-17T07:40:40.922-05:002013-01-17T07:40:40.922-05:00I loved you for your beauty
but that doesn't ...<i>I loved you for your beauty <br />but that doesn't make a fool of me: <br />you were in it for your beauty too <br />and I loved you for your body <br />there's a voice that sounds like God to me <br />declaring, declaring, declaring that your body's really you</i><br /><br />Yeah, talk about your insightful lyrics. Maybe I'm just projecting, but I hear a lot about the failures and evils of sexual libertinism in that song.<br /><br />Fr. Denis - I read this blog religiously and every single post is quality, both for the Ratzinger source and for your reflections. The length is excellent and the level of intellectual engagement is excellent. Thank you so much.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09110479766941442049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-43478372651216685962013-01-16T01:28:46.485-05:002013-01-16T01:28:46.485-05:00Father Denis
Lenoard Cohen also said "the tr...Father Denis<br /><br />Lenoard Cohen also said "the truth unsaid, the blessing gone if I forget my Babylon". There is something deep within all of us, a Babylon, that is given to us to discover. We have to discover it within ourselves before we can truly be free. Gender issues / differences are not something that we can overlook in order to become a good catholic, they are something we must work thru in order to become ourselves, to become holy, perhaps become great saints. Truly, that kind of freedom , and love and support in the journey is what we all are seeking? Yes?<br /><br />I read somewhere...I wish I could rememember now that this verse Romans 2:14 is said to be entrance for natural law theory into Christian thought. "Indeed when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law , they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them". <br /><br />Yes, sort of a paradox.<br /><br />Yes, I agree, we can never be fully free until we can give ourselves - to one another . Another paradox- we can only do this by grace.<br /><br />...Just wanted you to know, I'm trying to stay with you...Bless you. Catherinenoreply@blogger.com