Quotes about Celebration

Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.

A wedding is an event. Marriage is a life time. Invest more in your marriage than your wedding and success is inevitable.

The conclusion affirmed by the narrative is that wherever YHWH governs as an alternative to Pharaoh, there the restfulness of YHWH effectively counters the restless anxiety of Pharaoh. In our own contemporary context of the rat race of anxiety, the celebration of Sabbath is an act of both resistance and alternative. It is resistance because it is a visible insistence that our lives are not defined by the production and consumption of commodity goods.

For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

My identity in Christ is more important than my identity as an American or as a Coloradan or as a white male or as a Protestant. Church is the place where I celebrate that new identity and work it out in the midst of people who have many differences but share this one thing in common. We are charged to live out a kind of alternative society before the eyes of the watching world, a world that is increasingly moving toward tribalism and division.

So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”

And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.