True, He had a meteoric career : worldwide fame within decades that has lasted millennia. But the word is derived from “eora”, Greek for “hovering in the air”. Jesus was beyond (“meta”) merely hovering (“eora”). He ascended right up there, alone and unassisted like the Man from Snowy River’s part-Timor pony. Thought you’d like to know. Just another of those tidbits you’ll find on this Blog and nowhere else. Banjo in the prelude to his best-known ballad was speaking of his poems but he could have been talking of this Blog and its pearls :
” . . . scant is their worth.
Though their merits indeed are but slight,
I shall not repine
If they give you one moment’s delight,
Old comrades of mine.”
RIDENDA RELIGIO
Thom said:
Those in the know would know (obviously) that Jesus’s meteoric rise is celebrated in Catholic ritual as the “Feast of the Ascension”, a Holy Day of Obligation, which obligates Catholics to attend at Mass (the Catholic ritual of the reenactment with transubstantiated bread and wine of the sacrificial death of Jesus on the cross at Calvary) under sentence for non-attendance of eternal damnation in Hell’s fires for all eternity.
Seems like the Cross offering was ineffectual for the vast hordes who will end up down below.
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frankomeara said:
I don’t know if Banjo would be proud of you but I am.
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