Monthly Archives: June 2016
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All hands brace for impact!
Look, sometimes you just can’t save the ship. So you concentrate on saving everyone aboard that you can. You keep calm, you count heads and you man the lifeboats. Eventually you have to admit that you’ve done everything you could have done to prevent the
Guys, it’s a purge (…as I think I’ve said a few times…)
I’ve been saying it for some time. This is their time to get rid of us. There are so few Catholics left who believe what the Church teaches that it shouldn’t really be that hard for them. But make no mistake. They understand exactly the
Ho hum… another plane presser, another “SHOCK!! HORROR!!!”
Pope’s on a plane! DOWN! Errybody GET DOWN!!! Seriously, anyone, particularly any priest, “IN SHOCK!!!” and freaking out today are just going to get a smack upside the head from me and a stern talking-to. What wearies me most is not the pope; it’s the
Internet’s dry; let’s take a break
I’ve run out of gigabites on my internet stick for this month, and there is a lot of work to do in the garden and some other stuff, so I won’t be posting for a bit. Let’s take a break. It’s summer (or would be
Romance with sunflowers
Dear Lord, You know that I’m not very wealthy, but I know that you own absolutely everything. You own quasars. In fact, you own all the quasars. Even Richard Branston doesn’t own a quasar. Whereas I have three nice cats and quite a good collection
Fight back
Yesterday I was having a chat with one of the monks, who don’t generally spend a lot of time on the innernets, and he was asking me what was happening in Orlando. He’s lived in Europe for a long time and isn’t quite as delicate
Gas bill PAID…
Booyeah! Six months worth. The cold rainy ones. In total, about 1400 Euros. I paid the last 900 today. And I want to run around in a circle, high-fiving all the people who helped me in the last year. Hit a bad financial patch this
Seeking the Peaceable Kingdom: All of Catholic social teaching in one sentence
Today is the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, and the collect – the little prayer that summarizes the intentions for the day and the week to come – is probably one of the best summations I’ve seen of the Catholic teaching on how our civilization is
A dream of paradise: quam dilecta
There is one psalm that I keep coming back to again and again. Something about it simply describes the idea I have in my mind of paradise. I’m sure my mental image of heaven comes from medieval paintings like the one above. I had a