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To: siunevada
That's dishonest.

Even Our Lord couldn't find kind words for religious hypocrites.

85 posted on 01/29/2004 8:20:11 AM PST by heyheyhey
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October 3, 2003 - The Sacraments and Human Sexuality by EUGENE CULLEN KENNEDY
Like us, the sacraments are sexual, filled with the exhilarating creative energy that brings and enlarges life that touches, now softly and now transcendentally, the strings of every human sensation. Should we be surprised at the passions put to use in God’s giving himself for us in the sacraments, would we be dismayed -- although neither John of the Cross nor Teresa of Avila -- were, at the ecstasy, at least partly sexual, that exploded out of their wholehearted surrender of themselves to God or in his response to them? We humans are never moved thoroughly without, even outside our awareness, being moved sexually. We can never create anything without engaging our sexuality in the process. We, and the sacraments, in the curious but commonplace harmony of all things human -- more often like the disjointed everydayness of Charles Ives than the melodic high tides of Ludwig van Beethoven -- are thoroughly spiritual as well.
This rather lengthy rant basically says that the author loves the Eucharist so much that he wants anybody to be ordained a priest (not just celibate males) so that he can go to daily Mass.

I think, this dude is not telling the whole truth. I doubt he cares about daily Mass.

86 posted on 01/29/2004 8:56:43 AM PST by heyheyhey
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