One has to admire the merciless way Mark exponds on mercy!
Cool!!!!
Brilliant.
The sleight-of-hand, for those missing the point, is this psalm is David speaking directly to God. Psalm 51 is not a press release.
Psalm 51 is a liturgical document, intended for use by the whole community. As are all the psalms.
King David has a blog?!?!
This is priceless! Excellent!
Didn't JPII say something at a WYD about us not being the sum total of our sins, but the sum total of God's love for us? I've been trying to find the exact quote ever since people started talking about our true, hidden, depraved selves.
Mark *might* have a point after God kills Mel's son.
Mark *might* have a point after God kills Mel's son.
Gee UC, couldn't He just take the kid’s driver's license away?
"Cranial-rectal inversion"
That's a good one - must remember it and use it in a situation where others will think I'm clever 
Psalm 51 is a great psalm - I say it several times a week.
Not that I've committed adultery, then killed the woman's husband.
In the medical biz we call it "CRI" Don. It's a fairly common phenomena!
Hilarious- especially the part about now he's blaming his mother!
It's also right on target- that's the way we act a lot of the time, myself included.
Create in us new hearts, O God.
priceless Mark!
one of your (all to rare in my esteem) examples of why this blog is called Catholic and Enjoying it!
pax
some prize should be awarded to John Hearn for his 6:40 comment.
From a comment I posted at Bettnet.com:
When I heard of the incident and read the great apology all I could think was Thank God!
You see I know now Gibson hasn’t sold his soul to the devil.
Think about it:
1. Mel doesn’t get to be just an American (God’s greatest gift of citizenship); he’s also an Australian (God’s second greatest gift).
2. He grows up to be a handsome leading man in the movies.
3. Many of his movies are some of the biggest box office hits.
4. Mel gets married once to a woman who can handle all his faults.
5. Mel and his wife have many children.
6. Mel doesn’t just act he also becomes an Oscar winning director.
7. Gibson risks his own money on a movie all the experts tell him will bomb and hits the jackpot.
8. Mel gets to have a meeting with JPII.
A guy with all this and more, I figure he’s in league with Satan.
Not now. Mel’s a regular King David.
Posted by inhocsig on 07/31/06 at 07:37 AM
So did I give you the idea or do great minds think alike?
The church is a hospital for sinners. I'm still in treatment myself. This whole episode makes me think of all my own careless words.
Gibson's career may be down the tubes now, however. LIBERTAS is taking the route that Mark prophesied: http://www.libertyfilmfestival.c...l.com/libertas/
scroll down for the Gibson piece.
*Snerk*
Well done.
My seminary class had to suffer through a presenter on sexual abuse (she was a UCC minister too) whose take on Psalm 51 was very much like this pseudo-fisk. Life imitates art.
Here's an interesting take on the notion that we reveal our true selves when drunk.
The fisk to end all fisks. Brilliant!
Its a fisk of a potential/percieved fisk! How much more avant-garde can you get?
LOL--this is great.
BTW, back in 1997, after Envoy Magazine published my reversion story--in which I described, among other things, my repentance after abortion--some guy wrote to Patrick Madrid complaining that Envoy (as a good Catholic magazine) shouldn't publish stuff like that from notorious sinners like me. :p
Ironically, what had sparked my reversion was Divine Mercy in My Soul, St. Faustina's Diary relating private revelations re Our Lord's "fathomless mercy."
Some people really have a hard time with that Mercy Stuff, it seems....
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