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3rd Quarter 2010 QV - Quarterly Voice
Soon I began calling myself a “quiet Catholic,” one who stopped attending Mass and rarely told anyone my religious background as a gay man. After all, how could I belong to a church that blamed members of our gay community for [the sexual abuse] crisis?
Quarterly Voice File: 3rd Quarter 2010 QV - Quarterly Voice Content Highlights:- My Journey with DignityUSA
- My Journey in Faith and Cultures
- How I Was Energized by Dignity/New York and DignityUSA
- Renewed Faith through DignityUSA
- How Can DignityUSA Members Welcome and Engage Young Adults?
- A Critique on Misogyny and Homophobia Article in QV: Quarterly Voice for First Quarter 2010
- Book Review--That Undeniable Longing: My Road to and from the Priesthood
SEPTEMBER 12, 2010: TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
Students of Scripture must always be conscious of what’s going on when a sacred text is being written. Those contemporary events not only motivate the author to write, but divine inspiration only kicks in when he or she addresses them. This is certainly the case in today’s Exodus reading. Though our Elohistic author is narrating a 1,300 BCE event, he actually has his eyes focused on something happening during the 8I century BCE - the period in which he composed today’s pericope.
SEPTEMBER 5, 2010: TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
It would help our Eucharistic communities today to tell our lectors to put aside the lectionary when it comes time for the second reading, pick up a Bible and proclaim Paul’s entire letter to Philemon. I’ve found through the years that it takes far less time to read the whole 25 verse letter than it takes for me to explain how the 9 verses of our liturgical selection fit into the context of the other 16 verses.