I ended up with a lot of arthritis pain, visited the doctor, and got distracted. So a few random comments today. First -- a lovely quote “Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who know other beings as true, who loves them as good, and who enjoys them as beautiful.” from Etienne [...]
Saints of June 10 — a great cloud of witnesses
My sister Mary’s birthday was June 10, 1947. She has another birthday now on November 21, 2020, the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lady. I was thinking of her, yesterday, and wondering idly which saints had a feast day on June 10. I knew that June has some amazing saints. A simple saint calendar [...]
Dante and the Feast of Corpus Christi
In his Divine Comedy, Dante describes an awesome procession that occurs after he and Virgil reach the earthly paradise at the top of the mountain of Purgatory. Here are some excerpts from Canto 28 ** When round toward me the Lady wholly turned, And said: “My brother, look and listen now!” And lo, so [...]
Surprising and beautiful traditions
Several years ago I went to a “pinning” ceremony for a nurse. The pinning ceremony is specifically NOT a graduation ceremony, if you go read about it. It is a special celebration of becoming a nurse and remembering nurses before you. Some websites claim that the pin tradition goes back to the Middle Ages. The [...]
Hubris personified?
I read a remarkable article (and by remarkable I mean, written about some incredibly self-deluded and weird people) the other day from the Guardian, an English source that I occasionally see links to.https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/25/american-pronatalists-malcolm-and-simone-collins Although the story is from an English journalist, it was about an American couple with three children, living in the country. They [...]
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