And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, Pope Leo. Isn’t he brilliant. Pope Leo listens. I watched him when I was invited to his recent mass and he was definitely listening. He’s the direct successor of St Peter you know, appointed by the particularly invisible third of the Invisible Magic Friend.
The Big Book of Magic Stuff suggests some listening, before rather a lot of telling you what to do. Listening is so important. Listening and silence. God I love silence. Big, long stretches of just calming, soothing, silence.
Archbishop Tutu listened as well. Which just goes to show how wise Pope Leo is to listen.
So let us pray, that you will continue to listen to the wisdom of we Catholics on thought for the Day.
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Platitude of the Day 
Pope Leo was a missionary. We all know that a missionary’s role is listening. Going in to the living places of native people’s of Asia, the Americas and Australia, Christian missionaries did nothing but listen. They listened without judgement about how the rain gods could be appeased by offerings. They listened to learn how the people lived in balance with nature, and above all they listened to dark skinned people as equals.
Yes, listening is one of the church’s proudest offerings to mankind.
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And anything that they didn’t understand was obviously satanic and needed to be completely destroyed.
Stonyground.
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Goodness me; this sermon – for that is all that it was – rivalled Rhidian Brook for its faux-solemnity and unintentional bathos.
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That’s the way to occupy two and a half minutes of prime time on Radio 4: speak…very slowly…with long gaps between sentences…and long gaps between words…and repeat yourself solemnly every now and again. If AAA adopted this strategy her Thoughts could go on for half an hour or more.
A conversation is a dialogue between two or more people, not a monologue or lecture. Similarly, listening is a two-way process and not just a passive exercise by one party. Has Papa Lennie really been listening, or just biding his time? And if he does listen, who to? There are plenty of people, even within the loyal Catholic community, who feel that they haven’t been listened to nearly enough.
Lennie hasn’t had the opportunity to do much yet. When he gets round to doing something, we might find out who he’s been listening to.
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