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A few thoughts while returning from liturgy this evening
Here I went to mass with Samantha, happy as a man could be, ate Christ and held him to his word, if you eat me you’ll have life in you, so I had life in me. After mass we’d walk home to Paradise through the violet evening, the evening star hard by the red light of the TV tower like a ruby and diamond in the plush velvet sky, and I’d skip with ( Read more... ) -
For Veteran's Day
Or Armistice Day, if you prefer.
HT TAC
It is poor business measuring the mouldered ramparts and counting the silent guns, marking the deserted battlefields and decorating the grassy graves, unless we can learn from it some nobler lesson than to destroy. Men write of this, as of other wars, as if the only thing necessary to be impressed upon the ( Read more... ) -
Maximilian Kolbe
Today is the feast day of Maximilian Kolbe, a Franciscan friar who died at Auschwitz. The passage in today's Universalis page is particularly striking:
Maximilian Kolbe’s martyrdom is the least important thing about him. We are none of us likely to find ourselves in a position to emulate his sacrifice, and speculation as to the heroic way in ( Read more... ) -
Tattoo You
We just got back for our vacation at the beach. My in-laws have a small house in Delaware that our family uses during the summer. One of the things I noticed was how many people have tattoos now. When I was a kid, you would only see a few men with them. Now many women have them as well, some of which are very elaborate ( Read more... ) -
For Holy Week
Via Fr. Z
From St. Gregory of Nazianzus:
I am terrified by the left hand of the divine Judge, the goats, and his rebukes from his seat on the throne: they are judged and put at his left not because they stole, committed sacrilegious robberies or adulterous acts, or perpetrated some other forbidden act, but because they did not take care of ( Read more... ) -
Idea stolen from The MCJ
I swear, I have several actual posts in mind, but life as they say, gets in the way. This may or may not have to do with son #2's suddenly newfound desire to not go to bed before 10:30 PM, and with his abilty to resist efforts to get him to go to sleep earlier with a tenacity that the Occupy people would admire. In lieu of an actual post, I ( Read more... ) -
We all have our cross to bear
Ongoing exchange with Ben the last few days:
Ben: Mommy/Daddy!
M/D: Yes Ben?
Ben: I got a big problem!
M/D: What's wrong?
Ben: Ummm...I don't know.
He seems to be a bit young for having existential crises.
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