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Brother Bill, as I understand today’s TCT essay, it’s about “The Entire Mystery of Christ” (as the author clues us in the second paragraph). Pointing to the suffering, death and resurrection of our Lord, each paragraph cites, touches on, or alludes to concepts such as ‘strange(ness)’, uncertainty, mystery, difficulty of explanation, irreducibility, the singular and challenging nature of the event(s), the why of the bloody prelude (but note, not the ‘why’ of the need for redemption), the why of the Incarnation, the oddness of that event, paradoxical statements etc., etc. The point is being driven home that we ought to plunge into this mystery, especially this week, this holy week. Its aim is to encourage reflection. The essay calls attention to these mysteries, simultaneously contrasting them with the high degree of ignorance or indifference or pitiful inadequacy of non-believers’ or secular society’s (MSM’s) thoughts on the subject. This is an essay inviting us to contemplate, in this holy week, God’s action, through his only Son, His almost humanly incomprehensible attachment to us, in spite of our sins. Speaking of reading, did you really read the essay? Sin is covered quite adequately. Did you see Mr. Royal’s statement? “The older I get the clearer sins – mine and others’ – appear, and the more terrible their consequences in myriad ways, subtle and not.” Given the timbre of other comments of yours in TCT, I believe the six disobediences you cite are mundane, been-around-sins-from-the-get-go (of the original exile), proffered by you to allow you to bring up the seventh human frailty you preoccupy excessively, ‘the flaccid church.” Even that limpness visited the Apostles as they absented themselves from the Master, before the crucifixion. Yes? Personally I grow tired of your ‘sinners in the hands of an angry God’ approach to the Church. I am under no delusion that anything I say here will help you seem less out-of-sync to me. Nevertheless, I do suggest you read Benedict’s recent book, mentioned most positively in Mr. Royal’s essay. I am doing so. Maybe our Pope will bring you some peace. Oh, and brother, I will remember you in my prayers. - Howard

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