New wineskins

An excerpt from today’s Gospel of Luke is a parable I like, as it symbolizes our changes in a way almost designed to catch an alcoholic’s attention: Luke 5:36-39; And he also told them a parable. “No one tears a piece from a new cloak to patch an old one. Otherwise, he will tear the …

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Not destined for wrath

Since this passage from the First Reading from today’s Mass refers to being sober and drunk, I could hardly pass it up: 1 Thessalonians 5:6-11 Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober. Those who sleep go to sleep at night, and those who are drunk get …

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Twitter

As an experiment, mainly as I have no idea how useful it is, I signed up for Twitter. Twitter is a “nanoblogging” tool, become recently popular. Each post, or “tweet”, is a maximum of 140 characters, and is used to inform people of what you’re doing at any given time. Tweets can be written from …

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