Correspondence
RILEY, ANN & D'ERRICO, (REV.) ANTHONY O. & Maguire, Marjorie Reiley
Correspondence Gagging on 'Diner' New Haven, Conn. To the Editors: I have been enthusiastic about your screen critic until, seeing Din-er , I discovered that he has a black hole in his...
...Whether we have been "ransoming slaves" or working in prisons we have always grounded our lives in prayer...
...He even swallowed the women's acceptance at this...
...Prayers are offered for those enrolled daily...
...ANN RILEY The power of a mother Milwaukee, Wise...
...We will still accept donations...
...How could males ever have been expected to attribute even relative impo-tence to their male God...
...That, at least to me, is not "celebrat-ing the Eucharist" for fundraising...
...Our Order has always from its founda-tion in 1198 to the present day, involved itself in works with marginalized and so-cially disenfranchised people, the very concerns which the readers of Com-monweal espouse...
...To the Editors: It is not enough to say with John Garvey [Nov...
...5], I would merely like to apologize to him, to you, and to anyone who might have been offended by the advertisement...
...Paul saying to the church of Ephesus or Corinth, "Timothy needs money, so urge donations' for your prayers, hold a raffle, and start BINGO...
...This is to continue "forever" in the sense that the Order continues to exist and the world has not come to an end...
...That made me realize that perhaps the reason we have never been able to adequately address the problem of evil in theology is because our theologizing has been done by males to whom the idea of "impotence" is threatening and abhor-rent...
...If anything, it is revitalizing the of the church and opening the Gospel mandate to others...
...We will be content to hope that the God whom we believe had the power to start the fantastic process of Creation can rescue its personal product from the finality of death...
...Muccilli that forces us to rethink our practices and grow toward a fuller stature in Christ...
...That is the way we, here at the monastery, view our prayerlife...
...A few years ago I suggested this idea at a parish talk...
...To the Editors: In response to Mr...
...It is the viewpoint of dedicated Chris-tians such as Mr...
...Perhaps feminist theologians will help us to be content with a God who has no power over Creation except the power that we give Her/Him...
...Generations of Christians have shared in our life of prayer and service through their generous support of our friars...
...Thank you, Mr...
...It may then be enough for us to accept a God who is simply like a mother who cannot forget the child of her womb...
...However, in a real sense, any Mass said by our friars and certainly all of our prayers are for the whole church and for the whole world...
...It is more truthful to our experience, more respectful of God, and more honest simply to say that God is not omnipotent...
...MARJORIE REILEY MAGUIRE A Trinitarian response Baltimore, Md...
...We take that commitment seri-ously...
...Donations are not nec-essary for our prayers, nor, at least I would hope, for any religious congrega-tion (including the local parish) that of-fers "Mass cards...
...I thought that Barry Levinson made a point- meant to make a surprise point?-which was as important to notice as the rest of the movie...
...We have to be content with an impotent God...
...But we will cer-tainly be more conscious of the way this custom could be interpreted and we will, I am sure, be even more careful that our life of prayer never degenerates to an exercise in fundraising...
...As he talked, it became clear that the cause of his worry was not that I had suggested the radical idea that God is not all-powerful but that I had chosen the word "impotent" to describe God...
...REV...
...God bless you...
...these prayers certainly enrich our own life...
...Muccilli, for helping our awareness of our own spiritual life to deepen...
...Wes-terbeck swallowed [Aug...
...It is a common practice throughout the church...
...To save God's goodness and God's exis-tence we have to sacrifice God's power...
...Can one imagine St...
...13], without comment, the period's total acceptance of women as cheap sex objects, only...
...I had never dreamed it would be offensive to anyone...
...That dynamic prayer life has given successive generations of Trinitarians the stamina to continue working in extremely different aposto-lates...
...ANTHONY O. D'ERRICO, O.SS.T Order of the Most Holy Trinityder of the Most Holy Trinity...
...When the donations do come, however, in our case, they are applied to "noble ends," and the lay person is given the opportunity to share in the mission of liberation that is the challenge of the whole church...
...Often that support has come through the common custom of making donations and asking our prayers...
...Most com-munities, our own included, have developed a "perpetual Mass association" The "perpetual" aspect means merely that as long as there is one Trinitarian priest alive, he will continue to re-member those who have been enrolled in his Masses each day...
...5] that perhaps God is all-powerful but that God's power "is not as human beings understand it...
...He overlooked, (or didn't sit through) the final scene-the fade-out...
...To the Editors: I have been enthusiastic about your screen critic until, seeing Din-er , I discovered that he has a black hole in his vision-maybe even in his mind...
...Levinson's beginning...
...The end may have been Mr...
...We will still be praying here at the monastery...
...Muc-cilli's letter of concern regarding my ad-vertisement for Masses which I placed in Commonweal [Nov...
...However, since we have been serving the church for almost 800 years, our record is probably consid-erably better than most entities promising a service for a long time...
...Perhaps we will take more seriously our religious lan-guage which speaks of us as partners and co-creators with God, when we become convinced that God only has power through the good that we are and the good that we do...
...When we realize that God cannot make macho forays into history we will not have to write the presently much needed theological treatises on Di-vine Impotence...
...But come to think of it, if viewed in a certain light, it is a strange custom...
...At the break a man ap-proached me who was very troubled by my comment...
...Enthusiastic about local color and period music, etc., in Diner, Mr...
...I would never wish to demean the Eucharist or the church...
...We hope that our prayers of inter-cession are helpful to others...
Vol. 109 • December 1982 • No. 22
