tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post8039506347748657997..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: Love is cruel, possessive, & easily angeredFr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-31589637974495073482007-02-28T13:28:00.000-06:002007-02-28T13:28:00.000-06:00Thank you for your homilys! This is the first homi...Thank you for your homilys! This is the first homily I heard from you and it blew me away! I would have to say that you have the best homilys of any priest I've ever heard! They help me out alot and everytime I hear them I'm like "Wow!...(Then there's the silence in which I reflect on it)". It's priests like you that give me motivation to become a priest! Thank you and God Bless!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-44295082089889052272007-01-29T08:40:00.000-06:002007-01-29T08:40:00.000-06:00Fr. Philip, I have two comments for you. Not that...Fr. Philip, I have two comments for you. Not that I could really add anything substantial to your homily, but when you finished the reading from St. Narcissus it made me think of a passage from C.S. Lewis: <br /><br />"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one... Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless-it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell." C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, p.169.<br /><br />Secondly, I was quite moved by your comment about the politicians and priest. For I always seem to be one of those people who are always calling out for those "evil doers" (jk) to be called out and silenced. But, I don't think that I would really want them using me as an example of Christian Love. Thanks for preaching the Word.MMcBridehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11405931100318542370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-13203553721784608222007-01-28T21:14:00.000-06:002007-01-28T21:14:00.000-06:00Father Powell, I read words like this and I realiz...Father Powell, I read words like this and I realize how far I have to go. Thank you.Adorohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.com