“Pepsi, no Coke. —Old-time comedy
Black Beauty
In the matter of sex, assignment is not causation.
We all deserve to go to hell. Some will and some won’t.
It isn’t dentistry.
I was first attracted to the Blackshirts because I saw in them the courage, the action, the loyalty, the gift of service and the ability to serve which I had known in the suffragette movement. —Mary Richardson in 1932
Tweet of “Dr. Peter Paul Rubens”
“Not in word list.” Grrrrr.
We expected to see artificial intelligence, and we find natural intelligence. We are astonished and delighted. —after Pascal
Richard White, grandfather of the groom, died at 5:15 this evening. May he find rest in God.
“Gender-affirming” is a euphemism for “sex-denying”.
“Trans” means “over”, “across”, “beyond”, or “on the farther side of”, so whatever “trans-woman” means, it probably doesn’t mean “woman”, and whatever “trans-man” means, it probably doesn’t mean “man”.
A greeting from our daughter this morning.
Agnes Repplier, A Happy Half-Century and Other Essays, 1908 (IWP Books 2023)
Just as the fall of Rome helped religion, so does the fall of the West help religion.
Not only love your neighbor: love your neighbor in a manner that your neighbor loves you.
Everyone will know you are following me, if you love each other. Sc. 82, John 13:35
What I say is: today you will be with me in paradise. Sc. 87, Luke 23:43
[Not only in Paradise, but with Him in Paradise.]
Focus
This chapel was once a great space bringing one to Christ. The renovation, with its semicircle of chairs and its altar table, made it less effective for that purpose.
Mass at the CSJ St Joseph’s Provincial House in Latham.
