My Dad was headhunted by McKinsey in the late 1980s straight out of a PhD. He has stories. The chief thing is your customers. They want what they want. Take Purdue- they commissioned McKinsey to tell them how to get more bang for their oxy-buck and McKinesy boffins came back to them and said, here’s what you want.. but here’s six things from your RnD department that could make you more and solve a real problem. And Purde said, thanks for the oxy advice. We’ll go with the sure thing. And well… there’s only so much you can do as an outside consultant clients don’t want to think differently.
He quit when I was conceived and moved back to Australia and helped found a small management consultancy that allowed him to knock back clients like Purdue who’s economics were exploitative and he’s been able to do good work that makes the world a little better.
I liked your focus on people trying to "instrumentalize" the Eucharistic Pilgrimmage. Using Jesus for anything is evil (just as using any other person is evil). I guess it is the bureaucratic mindset of having to produce results that infects us and we miss the point--be with Jesus.
When I was in San Francisco I was surprised at how beautiful I found the Cathedral of the Assumption, since I usually don't like Postmodernist architecture at all. It really does have an ethereal, uncanny quality to it, like being in a wind tunnel. It also reminds me of this El Greco painting -- the same rush upward https://i.pinimg.com/originals/71/4d/91/714d91900ee25bbefa97ae177984c4dc.jpg
I've increasingly felt the same way about the cathedral over the years. It's almost as if it's a thing that was built ugly but is being loved into being beautiful. Like God is transforming it without changing it.
You should have heard the analogy we got today at a parish in the Diocese of Raleigh concerning the Holy Trinity. I have not cringed that much during a homily in a long time.
I argue that people who ask "what is this going to do" have lost sight of the supernatural and also they have lost sight of fun; and also do they frequently dig up seeds that they have planted to see if the seeds are sprouting yet? Some thoughts: 1. I don't know what it's going to do, but if there is a Eucharistic procession near me and I am free then, of course I am going to show up for it... there are not a lot of things that are more fun than *literally* "to follow the Lamb wherever he goes" for however far is on offer (around here there are usually opportunities on Corpus Christi and at the start or end of 40 Days for Life. Like, it is literally the meditation on the two standards and you are literally marching into battle behind your king. Good times.) 2. What it's going to do is primarily to change *me*, I assume, because that is what prayer is basically guaranteed to do in addition to anything else that we might think of prayer as more-obviously doing. So we ought to be willing to be radically altered and also do not be surprised if it is not immediately obvious how (it might be evident later in hindsight if a person habitually examines their life for "when, exactly, did I ask for *that*?"). 3. It will also do something extraordinary other than to the people who are immediate participants (how could it not?? if people go to this much effort? How would God *not* respond? It is he who moved us to plan all of this in the first place for his greater glory and because he wanted *to give us something in return*; that is how things work in the spiritual life), but I cannot guess what it will do (it will either exceed or be *radically different from* whatever we have imagined) or on what timetable (months, years, decades). But it will be super fun!, whatever it is.
The history page for St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral states that, at the time, the design was praised as "The first cathedral truly of our time and in harmony with the liturgical reforms of the Council."
I cannot think of a more accurate, comprehensive or full criticism of the "spirit of the age", the implementation of the "liturgical reforms of the Council", and the architecture itself.
My Dad was headhunted by McKinsey in the late 1980s straight out of a PhD. He has stories. The chief thing is your customers. They want what they want. Take Purdue- they commissioned McKinsey to tell them how to get more bang for their oxy-buck and McKinesy boffins came back to them and said, here’s what you want.. but here’s six things from your RnD department that could make you more and solve a real problem. And Purde said, thanks for the oxy advice. We’ll go with the sure thing. And well… there’s only so much you can do as an outside consultant clients don’t want to think differently.
He quit when I was conceived and moved back to Australia and helped found a small management consultancy that allowed him to knock back clients like Purdue who’s economics were exploitative and he’s been able to do good work that makes the world a little better.
I liked your focus on people trying to "instrumentalize" the Eucharistic Pilgrimmage. Using Jesus for anything is evil (just as using any other person is evil). I guess it is the bureaucratic mindset of having to produce results that infects us and we miss the point--be with Jesus.
When I was in San Francisco I was surprised at how beautiful I found the Cathedral of the Assumption, since I usually don't like Postmodernist architecture at all. It really does have an ethereal, uncanny quality to it, like being in a wind tunnel. It also reminds me of this El Greco painting -- the same rush upward https://i.pinimg.com/originals/71/4d/91/714d91900ee25bbefa97ae177984c4dc.jpg
I've increasingly felt the same way about the cathedral over the years. It's almost as if it's a thing that was built ugly but is being loved into being beautiful. Like God is transforming it without changing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQLfgaUoQCw
Listening to the end of The Game...
Ed is either British, or a Community fan, or both?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCktKQKXNWg
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought that Ed might be referencing Community.
You should have heard the analogy we got today at a parish in the Diocese of Raleigh concerning the Holy Trinity. I have not cringed that much during a homily in a long time.
I argue that people who ask "what is this going to do" have lost sight of the supernatural and also they have lost sight of fun; and also do they frequently dig up seeds that they have planted to see if the seeds are sprouting yet? Some thoughts: 1. I don't know what it's going to do, but if there is a Eucharistic procession near me and I am free then, of course I am going to show up for it... there are not a lot of things that are more fun than *literally* "to follow the Lamb wherever he goes" for however far is on offer (around here there are usually opportunities on Corpus Christi and at the start or end of 40 Days for Life. Like, it is literally the meditation on the two standards and you are literally marching into battle behind your king. Good times.) 2. What it's going to do is primarily to change *me*, I assume, because that is what prayer is basically guaranteed to do in addition to anything else that we might think of prayer as more-obviously doing. So we ought to be willing to be radically altered and also do not be surprised if it is not immediately obvious how (it might be evident later in hindsight if a person habitually examines their life for "when, exactly, did I ask for *that*?"). 3. It will also do something extraordinary other than to the people who are immediate participants (how could it not?? if people go to this much effort? How would God *not* respond? It is he who moved us to plan all of this in the first place for his greater glory and because he wanted *to give us something in return*; that is how things work in the spiritual life), but I cannot guess what it will do (it will either exceed or be *radically different from* whatever we have imagined) or on what timetable (months, years, decades). But it will be super fun!, whatever it is.
The history page for St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral states that, at the time, the design was praised as "The first cathedral truly of our time and in harmony with the liturgical reforms of the Council."
I cannot think of a more accurate, comprehensive or full criticism of the "spirit of the age", the implementation of the "liturgical reforms of the Council", and the architecture itself.
Thank you very much for giving such an insightful analysis of Pope Francis's actions and opinions. Thoughtful and charitable. Thank you.