RBWords - Volume 24 - Number 1: January 2011
Something to Think About
This twenty-fourth volume of RBWORDS begins a new year that has already been an active one. More of that in a moment! I need to give the big news first and get that out of the way. I’m moving again! Do I hear a chorus of “Moan! What else is new?” While moaning, please take down this new address which I hope will be good for a long time to come! (I know, I know! I’ve said that before!) As of February 1, 2011, I will be resident at HOLY ROSARY PRIORY, 3600 TRAVIS STREET, HOUSTON, TX 77002. My land line number will be (713)526-6322 plus an extension I don’t know yet. My cell phone (210-241-2906) and E-mail (rbwillop@gmail.com) will remain the same. Holy Rosary Priory is a large new building with ten friars in the community. The move has been “in the making” since last August, and I initiated the discussion that led to the change. I’m pleased with the results. I will have more room, a larger community and a more central location than I currently have in Austin. I will continue my itinerant preaching ministry. My departure from Austin is amicable, but I do admit that my preaching schedule has made it difficult to get to know this city very well.
Once I get “settled” in Houston, I will begin a project that friends have been urging me to do for some time. I will go back and look at the back issues of RBWORDS and begin to identify some to put together in a book. I’ll also be doing that for my daily preaching, THE WORD TO THE WISE. Obviously, 23 full years of RBWORDS multiplied by 12 is about 276 editions of SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. And I’ve been doing THE WORD TO THE WISE since 2003, which means 7 years of daily homilies - by my calculation, 2,555 homilies to look at! So this won’t all happen over night! But now that I’ve said it in print, I’ll be honor-bound to follow through. Having an itinerant ministry won’t make it any easier, but I’ll do my best and see what happens. If you’ve saved any that you like especially, let me know which ones!
In the meantime, pray for me and my itinerant ways! IT’S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
It Has Been Said
“Each time an unexpected discovery is made in the world of knowledge, it shakes the religious establishment of the day. Now, we are often taught that it is unfaithful to question traditional religious beliefs, but I believe that we must question them continually – not God, not Christ, who are at the center of our lives as believers and creators – but what human beings say ABOUT God and about Christ; otherwise, like those of the church establishment of Galileo’s day, we truly become God’s frozen people. Galileo’s discoveries did nothing whatsoever to change the nature of God; they threatened only man’s rigid ideas of the nature of God. We must constantly be open to new revelation, which is another way of hearing God, with loving obedience.
From WALKING ON WATER by Madeleine L’Engle