The students were talking the other day about a television play called “The Biggest Loser.” We don’t get very good reception in Hell, so I’m not sure what’s been lost, but it reminds me of a parable about our gifts. Three servants are given valuables by the master. The most talented is given 5, the less talented 3 and the…
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Good & Evil in Politics
Dear Sister, I’m confused by politics, how do you tell who is good and who is evil?” – I don’t usually talk about politics, because politics have no place in the church. But the simple answer is that evil people are those who place a burden on others; good people do their best to take the burden away. Whether…
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Heavenly Reality
What if people arrived in paradise only to come face to face with people they’ve spent their lives trying to avoid? Oh golly, wouldn’t that make a nifty reality TV show? To see people from all countries, with different languages and degrees of wealth, a rainbow of ethnicities, together for all eternity–oh golly, what a wonderful show to “binge watch”…
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Rewind … Be Kind!
We do love the movies here at the convent in Hell. Hope down at the library sends us wonderful video cassettes each month, and recently we watched “A Star Is Born,” a 1937 movie set in Hollywood (the students tell me there’s a new “Star Is Born” in the cinema right now, so we’ll expect to see that in a…
