Have a Listen 18.0

A great song, with a lot of great things to think about. Here, have a listen...

And if you're interested, and you dare, read what I just read that made me remember this song:

"For [early believers], 'church' did not refer to a scattered aggregate of individuals, each of whom had professed faith in Jesus. There certainly was such an aggregate, if one wanted to count believing noses, so to speak, in Smyrna and Philadelphia and Sardis and Ephesus. But 'church' was a word that referred to an entity -- a mystery, really -- with a specific content and with an embodied visibility. It was, on one level, the Body of Christ, or the New Israel of God, or the Bride of Christ. All these terms pointed to the mystery, hidden in God from former ages and now disclosed, of a new people, 'born again' by the Spirit of God, citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven even while still here in history. But on the level of the (literally) mundane, this mystery could be seen in Smyrna or Sardis. Where? How?

"One found 'it', not by canvassing the shops for believing shopkeepers and their families or hunting through the legions for believing soldiers... and then tallying the list...

"You can find 'her', they would have told you, by finding our bishop and by observing us at our worship, that is, at the liturgy" (On Being Catholic, Thomas Howard, p. 44-45).