tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post2132697319220713054..comments2023-06-28T07:58:56.909-04:00Comments on PERGE MODO: On the 89th Anniversary of the canonization of Joan of ArcTony Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10091330901996916966noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post-15758541963260332922009-08-09T22:07:53.553-04:002009-08-09T22:07:53.553-04:00Have you read the minutes from the Canonization Ce...Have you read the minutes from the <a href="http://www.maidofheaven.com/joanofarc_canonization.asp" rel="nofollow">Canonization Ceremony</a> for Joan of Arc. Very inspiring.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post-17329342470165477682009-05-16T23:38:00.000-04:002009-05-16T23:38:00.000-04:00Thanks, Gordon, you're hired.Thanks, Gordon, you're hired.Tony Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10091330901996916966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post-52379453911445687752009-05-16T23:36:00.001-04:002009-05-16T23:36:00.001-04:00Thanks, Gordon, you're hired.Thanks, Gordon, you're hired.Tony Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10091330901996916966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post-76582020687959088512009-05-16T23:36:00.000-04:002009-05-16T23:36:00.000-04:00What a magnificent post! Taking an event eight ce...What a magnificent post! Taking an event eight centuries ago and making it mean something personal to me today. I, too, hope I can cheer on the saints and heroes, even if unwilling to be one myself.Ken in MShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14813268581101875608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post-51000480613251950952009-05-16T23:10:00.000-04:002009-05-16T23:10:00.000-04:00"road into battle" ?!"road into battle" ?!Gordonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139328.post-13100492971640834032009-05-16T19:28:00.000-04:002009-05-16T19:28:00.000-04:00I immensely enjoy your topics as they make me thin...I immensely enjoy your topics as they make me think and always make me reflect on my strenghts and weakness as a man. I know your imense intellectual ability and admire same. <br /><br /> I was born of Irish DNA and raised a Catholic and for many reasons and I stand with many of its teaching I enjoy the reading of the scriptures and it reminds me to be good. Yet at Church as I shake a persons hand and say " peace be with you" , I know many disaprove of who I am. Am I a phony for being inside the Church.<br /><br />Your post reminds me that a gay catholic man my personal peace seems to be a perpetual and metaphysical task. <br /><br />Despite my unhappiness with the Church I still see good. And I don't join the pop culture of gay men and women who seek its armegendon.<br /><br />In the South Bronx where I work and serve, I see so many clergy, of all deonominations who play a primary and substantive social support for thousands residing in the other N.Y.C. the underclass.<br /> <br />Far from the Chelsea Boys,Club lemmings and trojan horse club owners and promoters who operate in the vanity circles and pimp drugs of destruction in our community along with Wall Street profiters,and hipsters. Yes they have fancy fund raisers and give monetary assistance, but they never get there hands dirty. <br /> <br /> Why am I confused Father Tony. For me it was after my City and our Nation was attacked on 911. I found myself as a first responder present in the clouds of dust caused my evil persons who justify their actions in a "Holy War".<br /><br /> However in the days following the attack I find myself in the aftermath enganged in the rescue effort to find if anyone is buried alive, I am besiged by despair and a sense of extreme loss. And as I try to rationalize the events and seek t exception of some twisted steel everyting else that remains is a grey dust.<br /><br /> And all I can think of is Ash Wednesday and a priest annointing me with grey dust and saying "dust you are and dust you shall return".<br /><br />God rest Joan and her ashes, as I will follow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com