Pensieves
Episcopal News Service. [83181]
Ven. Erwin M. Soukup, Editor of Advance, Diocese of Chicago
We've heard that an agnostic is one who believes in God when it is convenient. Supply-side religion?
We recognize that the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham is truly mysterious and other-worldly. But since vestments have begun to disappear from its sacristy and not returned, the Church Times, the English church newspaper, reports, "Shrine officials clearly think that there is an all-too-wordly explanation for these vanishing acts and that the agency of them is all-too-human."
Have you ever been "traught"? Then why do people say they are distraught? Or perhaps other word roots might bother you as much as they do us. What about junct, or shevel, or ture, or cisive, or dulate, or even descript? The whole thing whelms us!
Sign seen on a radio station's studio wall:" The firings will continue until morale improves"!
United Press International reports that the Reader's Digest Bible, the condensed version of holy writ, has reached England. There it is known as The Reader's Bible, shortening the title as well. One English newspaper's tongue-in-cheek comment was: "In the beginning was the word, and the word was too long."
His magazine carried an item about the generic church in which a tithe is only 9%.
Illinois Center Concourse, the newly finished underground mart of shopt, restaurants, offices, fast-food counters and game rooms, caused one critic to note that it has "everything you need except an undertaker." And, we might caustically add, a church.