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Oldest Living Person Dies In Connecticut... Woman Was Oldest For Only Two Weeks. Now that's a job with limited potential. And there is always some snot-nosed 112 year old understudy waiting to take it from you. - Ellyn of Oblique House
Our parish priest has told us many times: We know how to fast. We look forward to it. We feel holier when we do. We do not know how to feast and be joyful. We have no experience of true feasting, so we overdo it with material giving at Christmas, trying to reach some high point. I happen to think he is right. Other than a meal at Easter, what will your family do to celebrate the great Feast? Yes, go to mass. Celebrate the liturgy (my favorite liturgies of the year are Holy Week ones). But how will you be bringing it home as celebration? The most wonderful thing in the world has happened! Do you look like it? Do you act like it? Could people tell? So, yes, spend time in these last days before Lent preparing for the fast. But spend some time during Lent preparing for the feast. And rejoice! - MamaT of "Summa Mamas"
Copyright 2006 by Erik Keilholtz
Every day I conform to my role in society, being a social animal…’Live they neighbor as thyself’…so, religion too locks me into this daily struggle between my natural tendencies and what is fitting and proper and right to do.” – runner/philosopher George Sheehan
He who attempts to act and do things for others without deepening his own self-understanding, freedom, integrity and capacity to love will have nothing to give to others. - Thomas Merton
It is rather his blithe assumption that anyone able and willing to read [Professor Dimaond's] book would share his views on things that have little to do with the the subject. When I was an undergraduate, I was persuaded to meet with a young man only a few years older than myself, who wished to sell me life insurance. As part of his sales pitch, he mentioned another customer of his: "He was just like you and me--he liked to hustle chicks." I decided at that moment that regardless of the merits of his product, I would not buy it. Professor Diamond and his kind are just like that salesman. - Henry of "A Plumbline in the Wind"
Mo Chenna, Blath bulid,- Félire Húi Gormáin (The Martyrology of Gorman) via 'Aliens in this World'
Cronan cian o chintaib,
Dallan mac fial Forgail,
Papias, Maurus milidh,
tri clarenich cardair:
Ualeir co n-aeib ordain,
Segein ro siacht toethir,
la Boethin nar’ borbaig.
My Cenna, blooming Blath,
Cronan far from crimes,
Dallan, Forgail’s modest son:
Papias, Maurus, the soldiers.
Three table-faced ones are loved:
Valerius with dignity’s beauty,
Segein who reached the silent land, [ie, Heaven]
with Boethin who wrought no rudeness.
The ordinary people who buy into global warming the most normally don’t know whether the evidence is accurate. They just read the scientists who have proven unreliable in the past. It’s a question of authority: how much and what type of authority do you need?...It may sound odd (or stupid), but I’ll rely on the Vatican statements on this issue. Although the Vatican has no special graces when it comes to science (its binding authority on Catholics is limited to faith, morals, and discipline), it has some of the best scientists at its disposal, and it normally (not always) has no agenda to protect when it comes to scientific questions. - Eric of "Daily Eudemon"
Alas, we can always depend on the pathetically earnest New York Times to find political content in it all - apparently the "cartoonish violence" and other elements of various commercials are reflections on the Iraq War. Yeah, you heard that right - the hitchhiker, the dream sequences, etc., all interpreted through the lens of the war. This is what the "Paper of Record" has fallen to: pseudo-political analysis of SuperBowl ads. - Phil at "Umbrae Canarum"
Ever wonder if the chaos in your life will clear up in favor of some smooth sailing for once? I know we’ve all had a thought similar to that one...Lucky for us, we have our faith. Our deep, abiding faith in Jesus, the Divine Physician. The Lord, who can heal our ills and soothe our spirits, even in the midst of chaos. Good thing, too, ‘cause I have a feeling that just when we think we’re in the clear, something else is bound to happen. It’s just part of life. After all, if we don’t have a little trouble on earth, we won’t long for heaven. - "A Catholic Mom in Hawaii" reminds us that even Hawaii isn't paradise
To feed the hungry, to give wine to the thirsty, to not look at the naked, to visit the imprisoned, to shelter the homeless, to visit the sick, to bury the dead. - a funny (wrong) answer to "What are the chief corporal works of mercy?" from a quiz found via Via Bill White.
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