I'm so glad my mother lived long enough to see Pope Francis. With all due respect, I can't remember John Paul II ever suggesting people stop taking pictures of him. If someone can point out to me where he did, I'll revise.
I'm thinking of spending at least one day a week totally unconnected to media. As Walter Brueggemann said not long ago, that's one of the hardest things for us to do, these days.
"Lift up your hearts."
ReplyDelete"We lift the to God."
To whom do we lift our cell phones?
Thanks for that. It was wonderful. I'm so out of touch, I had no idea anyone was so crass as to bring a cell phone to a worship service and treat it like an entertainment, a spectacle, as Francis said. It's really more comforting being naive, sometimes.
I bought a nice sports jacket on my limited funds just before my last trip to the USSR in '90. Sole purpose was to be worn once at an Orthodox service.
ReplyDeleteI also recall that my 2 friends and I were the only Americans not wearing shorts in the churches of Roma, Assisi, and Fiorenze in '95.
Some people just don't know not to keep their hands in their pockets in Lenin's Tomb.