<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Bill,</div><div><br></div>I spend almost every Sunday morning “demythologizing” the sermon at my local more-or-less progressive oriented church in real time as it is being delivered. Those sermons often sound very much like the Pope’s message. <div><br></div><div>On the rare occasions these days that I am asked to deliver a spiritual message, I try to follow the methodology of RS-1, i.e., share insights that spring from life experience before connecting them with traditional religious symbols. See attached (but only if you’re really interested) when I was asked to do the children’s lesson on Transfiguration Sunday a few years ago.</div><div><br></div><div>Terry<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 20, 2025, at 11:00, Bill Schlesinger via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Or did you want the Pope’s comments ‘translated?’ Lots of stuff on the God lecture – popping balloons. Things that fall apart and don’t sustain meaning. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">A sense of a centeredness about being embraced/accepted and living from that perspective.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Damage done by living out of ‘lesser gods’ and the willingness to do violence.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">At least that’s what came through for me.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Bill<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(225, 225, 225) currentcolor currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>OE <<a href="mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>James Wiegel via OE<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Saturday, December 20, 2025 7:46 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Order Ecumenical Community <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>James Wiegel <<a href="mailto:jfwiegel@yahoo.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">jfwiegel@yahoo.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Oe List ...] A message from Leo<o:p></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Can you translate to ICA EI jargon? Can you translate to every day? <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1BKcL27HyT/&source=gmail-imap&ust=1766846944000000&usg=AOvVaw3aIear5BU7MbdOvGwcZT7y" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1BKcL27HyT/</a><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Jim Wiegel</span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div></div><div></div></body></html>