I STILL WANT IT (He’s BA-ack . . .)

posted by: wljewell
December 2, 2006
11:11 am

Clearly, I enjoy all that CE and the roundtable offer. I am all over the map. However, it is a little like nibbling at the appetizers as if it is the whole meal . . .

I have asked and ask again for a forum for Christian and adult discussion of the Bible, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the books all about us, the more modern media (exactly absent television, which I abhor) such as film of its cultural aspects – the intellectual side of this exchange and roundtable. Exempli gratis, the lively and vivid discussion about The Nativity Story belongs there.

I am at heart an intellectual. I was married to a woman quite precisely because she was the most sophisticated intellectual – well read, a devoted student, a pious Catholic – I ever knew. (Protestant ministers considered her a theologian of the first water; her Marianism was at once seriously thought-provoking and cheerfully kind, like her (and our) very Queen Mother herself would want . . .)

I am cerebral in all and with all. And, of Bible, etc., I make my way through the rest of this life left to me. For me, of ritual, dispense the absolution for my Confession, grace and bless me with my Lord-Eucharist, and you can have the insipid music and alleged communiality. I KNOW that the average pew-dweller not only cannot name Ten Commandments or Seven Sacraments – he doesn’t seem to care to know, or know why he should know. The intellectual challenge is snuffed out in absolute and nearly despairing shock.

Here, at Catholic Exchange and among the company at the roundtable, of what matters to me, there are opportunities to discuss that which ‘reason’ does for ‘faith’. And, if I stand to one side, arms akimbo, and blast with ridicule at SPORTS?!?! of forum and headline, it is in part because I find no forum that my intellect wraps itself around. (Wanna talk of Bears? After 1985, what? Of baseball Cubs? After Ernie Banks helped me to set racism into the trash can with his classiness on and off the field, what else, of any import to salvation? Even in SPORTS?!?!, my intellect holds forth over my ‘fan-dom’; I am not a partisan as much as an arm-chair coach; a strategist, not a hot-dog hot dog.)

That said, keep your SPORTS?!?! . . . I suggest in cold storage of a December afternoon at Soldier Field. I want a forum for and of and about the Bible, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the books all about us, etc. I will even talk of TV if I but slur and slam it.

I have found in ‘Pristinus’ that ‘Sapienter’ is a great and avariciously curious drive in me. Please, hear me this one last time, and I will simply and silently wait to see the results . . .

I remain your obedient (and crabby) servant, but God's first,

Pristinus Sapienter

(wljewell @mail.catholicexchange.com or ...yahoo.com)

PS: Does any other CERT regular think that I am out-of-line, here? Do you think that I ask for something we already have, somehow? Would such a forum interest you or turn you aside to other things?
And, why DON'T we dress little boys in pink? (Bring the 'Little Lord Fauntleroy' look back . . .)