Jack’s Winning Words 6/8/18
“If you want peace, work for justice.”  (Pope Paul VI)  PP VI was Pope during the 2nd Vatican Council which dramatically changed the Roman Catholic Church.  This October he’ll be named a Saint.  A sign of sainthood is to be an advocate for peace and justice.  Even folks such as you and I can be saints,,,when we work for peace and seek justice in a world of injustice.  Doesn’t it say somewhere in the Bible, Blessed are the peacemakers (and the justice-seekers)?    ;-)  Jack

FROM WALMART REV:  Spoken like a saint, Jack===JACK:   Is this song in the AG songbook?
I sing a song of the saints of God,  Patient and brave and true,
Who toiled and fought and lived and died  For the Lord they loved and knew.
And one was a doctor, And one was a queen, And one was a shepherdess on the green:
They were all of them saints of God – and I mean, God helping, to be one too.
You can meet them [saints] in school, or in lanes, or at sea,
In a church, or in trains, or in shops, or at tea.
For the saints of God are just folks like me….
You can meet them in school, on the street, in the store,
In church, by the sea, in the house next door,
They are saints of God, whether rich or poor
.===REV:  It is not, but certainly would be a good one, especially the line about “meeting them in the lanes”. I’m sure it must be speaking of the bowling lanes” I encountered early on in life?!?! ===JACK:  I wonder if you ever bowled at Ten-Paw Alley where bowling shoes are not required.  Flip-flops will do.  They also have bowling balls small enough for 2-yr-olds.

 FROM FACEBOOK LIZ:  he was a cool guy====JACK:  Agreed!  Pope John XXIII was a favorite of mine, because he (unexpectedly} started the modern reformation of the Roman Catholic Church.

FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:  I thought we were saints?====JACK:  Biblically, saints are the Christians in Paul's time.  We have transferred it to mean that saints are the Christians of the past and today...and those who are (and will be) in Heaven.  And, only God knows for sure who they are.

FROM RS IN TEXAS:  ...for they will be called children of God"   Matthew 5:9  ====JACK:  Thanks for completing the thought.