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T<\/span>he comic strip “Unstrange Phenomena” is usually pretty silly and surreal, but this morning the author published something far above his normal goofiness.<\/p>\n

\"Unstrange<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a worthy subject for meditation, for the image depicts man toiling, his image producing a shadow of words in the shining light of God’s glory. Pope Benedict XVI once described himself as “a humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord”, and I think this comic echoes that image to some extent.<\/p>\n

Though perhaps the farmer here is Christ himself, who exists at the focus of God and man as True God and True Man himself.<\/p>\n

Every time I look at this, I find another possible interpretation. That, my friend, is poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The comic strip “Unstrange Phenomena” is usually pretty silly and surreal, but this morning the author published something far above his normal goofiness. This is a worthy subject for meditation, for the image depicts man toiling, his image producing a shadow of words in the shining light of God’s glory. Pope Benedict XVI once described himself as “a humble worker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditations","category-pope-benedict-xvi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-7m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46065,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/who-will-take-up-the-keys-of-peter\/","url_meta":{"origin":456,"position":0},"title":"Who Will Take Up the Keys of Peter?","author":"Thom","date":"19 February 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Vatican Insider magazine online has produced a really great infographic on how a Pope is elected. 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