Rocky
The religious allusions in this film were anything but subtle. Lections: The Seventh Sunday After Pentecost ( Lectionary 15 ), AD 2026 A Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for you know his sins are great. Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of the life of faith is persistence in doing the right thing, the good thing, the true thing, even when it doesn’t appear to produce the intended effect. We have this tendency, especially in our own culture, to judge a person based on their success or lack thereof. Wealth, power, fame, we assume to be the result of virtue; whereas poverty, homelessness, unemployment, lead us to blame the victim. But it isn’t only money, and it isn’t only other people. We judge ourselves by our accomplishments: by our degrees or our salaries or our vacations or other milestones. Youth provides a litany of successes. We grow, we change, we strengthen, we learn; we be...
