Chapter 45: Angels

[Terrance]

David Morris wrote:
> 
> *Sex?* (no marriage anyway):
> Mat 22:30   For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in
> marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

I think this is a misreading. It's a common enough passage, Jesus is
talking about the resurrection and not about the marriage and sexual
exploits of angels. 


> 
> *Sin Potential* (Lucifer is the fallen, sinning arch-angel):
> Mat 25:41   Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from
> me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels

I think, can't remember, but I was taught that Lucifer took two-thirds
of heaven with him. 

> 
> But then again, what does orthodoxy have to do with anything anyway?  This
> is Pynchon.
> 
> DM
> 

see JUDE. 

Anyway, the RC is ministering and I think he is a very open-minded young
priest in some regards. He's struggling with his own faith and the dogma
and doctrine of the CE, which is, btw, caught in a struggle too. He is
not always welcome, not even by members of his own church, but he seems
to be welcoming all sorts of cross-cultural and cross religious ideas.
Way back when he holds up the mango as the body of christ. He's rather
Catholic and catholic in his approach, at least as a young man he is. 

Here on the line he may be assuming that the men he is ministering too
(not Anglicans with the exception of Captain Mason) hold certain
beliefs.