Is the eye doctor Catholic?
We cannot see the past in a single, communicable picture except from a point of view, which implies a choice, a personal perspective. —Pieter Geyl, Napoleon: For and Against, p. 15
Pieter Geyl on the Criminal Past
All revolutions are moved by the conviction, which causes them to be so incalculably dangerous, that it is bringing a new world, a new order; that, therefore, all the standards, all the laws, of the past have become antiquated; and that it has on its side not power only, but right, so that everything must give way and all opposition, if not contemptible, will be criminal. —Pieter Geyl, Napoleon: For and Against, pp. 8–9
O you petty believer, why did you doubt? Sc. 46, Matthew 14:31, today’s Gospel Reading
Not in the wind.
Not in the earthquake.
Not in the fire.
A tiny whispering sound.
—from Today’s First Reading
celibacy > marriage > adultery
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Question for the vaccinated:
Don’t you fear God now that we’re dying? Sc. 87, Luke 23:40
Trader Joe’s cacio e pepe ravioli given to us by a friend. Quite good.
Large hibiscus outside the Hudson Avenue Community Garden in Albany NY.
I embarked very badly on the Spanish affair, I confess ; the immorality of it was too patent, the injustice too cynical. —Napoleon, quoted in Hazen, Modern Europe, p. 278
Napoleon’s court resumed the manners and customs which had been in vogue before the Revolution. —Hazen, Modern Europe, p. 253
Searching for videos of Perret’s Église St.-Joseph, I came across this 12-year-old video of his Église Notre-Dame du Raincy, made by Father Barnabas Stephan CMM (David Zweitausend) from photos we took when in Paris 12 years ago
In the box: pork katsu + salad from the SUNY Schenectady Food Truck
Lord, when did we see you? Sc. 78 , Matthew 25:37, 44
An important point for some of us – both Christians and non-Christians – is that Christ wasn’t recognized.
Before him all the nations will be gathered. Sc. 78, Matthew 25:32