" Father Abraham,dip your finger in water and put it on my lips...". Abraham and Isaac. Sacrifice and the Sacrament of Reconciliation with God. The Paschal Lamb and the New Covenant. On the Eve of the Twelfth of July. (or "Read the label first").

 

A message to the multi-millionaire businessman,the self-made man and the carouser and gambler and the big  emplloyer and the carouser and high-stakes gambler.

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The kindness of strangers. CONTRITION 

 There are many forms in which we can serve God,prayer, good works,helping someone in need,  self -denial, sacrificing ourselves for the lives of the Little Ones or saying goodbye to a child taking the emigrant plane. 

In Northern Ireland? You never can tell!

Let us remember then the words of the Brookeborough ORANGEMAN before we follow well-tred paths of suspicion and hatred against our Protestant neighbours....

"I'M THE BLACK BASTARD WHO YOU GOT OUT OF BED AT HALF-ELEVEN AT NIGHT AND DROVE ALL THE WAY TO DUNGANNON  TO FIX YOUR DOOR WHEN THE POLICE SMASHED IT IN AND ARRESTED YOU.."

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Society's and my real antagonists?

The police. 

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As Sean Mc Hugh  would say,

"The less you have to do with the police,the better.."

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The police and their rich friends? What does the Bible say?

The Bible says,

" Jesus was praying when the The Traitor Judas and the POLICE came to arrest him."

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The police force's antagonists?

A memo for the riff-raff Sinn Fein and the mafia who they nurture..

Like the drunken followers of every nationalist politician both Gerry Adams and Sean Lynch,they were men with very serious reservations about me and my suitability for the role of ....of  ...in 2015,a role Mc Guinness assigned to me.

Lazarus? A human sacrifice?

Justice for the poor .

A related theme of non-violence and the Coming of Christianity

Pointing to Roman soldiers refusing to fight at Baalbek in 251AD,only armed men Engels said in March 1895 can prevail against the God of War.

Here? Let us remember  both the rich man's callous disregard for the beggar at his door as well as the Irish News reader's indifference to the suffering of his Orange neighbour ....

The graveyards of the North of Ireland are full of the evidence of the war of absolutely relentless violence against the RUC/PSNI. No amount of counter-insurgency bluff or legal poison can conceal the evidence of revenge on the reserve policemen, soldiers and loyalist militiamen.....