Tag: being human
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Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Celebrating Our Bicentennial II)
This was the big day. This was a long day. People arrived early, to attend to last minute preparations, like putting the tree to be decorated during Sunday school in place, making copies of the program for the day, dropping off food for the buffet table. People stayed late, cleaning up, clearing the tables, putting […]
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All Interpretation, All the Time
One of the insights of hermeneutics is that human beings are doing interpretation all the time. It’s why we can fit in to the “real world” around us. We “read” things correctly, we know what things mean when they present themselves to us in familiar contexts, and know how to respond to them properly. And […]