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In 2014, I am facilitating a 12-week interactive online course in contemplative prayer and action for priests with Saint Luke Institute. Please visit SLIconnect.org to learn more: https://www.sliconnect.org/product/living-god-program-contemplative-life-2/
In 2014, I am facilitating a 12-week interactive online course in contemplative prayer and action for priests with Saint Luke Institute. Please visit SLIconnect.org to learn more: https://www.sliconnect.org/product/living-god-program-contemplative-life-2/
Welcoming
Ceremony
St. Luke’s
Institute
March 10,
2014
Clue
GAME
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Ø Remember the game Clue?
Ø Board game where a murder’s been
committed & players figure out which 1 of 6 is perpetrator
Ø And in which of 9 rooms in mansion
deed was done
Ø And w/ which of 6 weapons crime
carried out
Ø Was it Professor Plum in parlor w/ gun?
Ø Or Colonel Mustard in conservatry w/
candlestick?
Ø There R as many resolutions 2 mystery
as R combinations of suspects, rooms, & weapons (324)
Clue
Movie
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Ø Years ago, there was a movie based on Clue
Ø Went into different theaters w/ different
endings
Ø In 1 version, Mrs. Peacock, the
villain; another, Miss Scarlet, and in another, almost all were guilty
GOSPEL STORY ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø Can imagine different endings to story
in Gospel
Ø Prodigal son might have come home to a
sullen father who refused 2 speak 2 him
Ø Or might have come home 2 a ranting &
raving father who swore he’d never trust his son again
Ø Or a know-it-all father who welcomed
the son home, but never let him forget his foolishness
Ø Might even have come home 2 find his
father had died & there was no chance 4 reconciliation
GOSPEL A DIFFERENT STORY +++++++++++++++++++++
Ø But Jesus’ parable of prodigal son not
story about a wayward young man coming home 2 human father
Ø It’s a story about how things work in
K of G
Ø How things work when turn away fr God,
& life falls apart, coming crawling back, fumbling 4 wrds 2 say
Ø Unlike Clue, this story always has same ending
Ø G runs 2 meet us w/ open arms & warm
welcome
Ø Always / It happens over & over &
over
Ø G never fails 2 forgive repentant
sinner
Ø In welcoming each of you today, we hope
to be that presence to you
CONCLUSON ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø We need not be clueless
Ø When the story is about conversion,
the surprise ending is that there is no surprise ending
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R. (8a) The Lord is kind and merciful.
