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Eric Scheske

Something for Sunday Morning

"To work well we must first of all work hard, using our time well. It is difficult, impossible even, for a person to live a spirit of sacrifice and remain spiritually alert, practicing the basic human virtues, unless he uses his time well." Francis Fernandez

Saturday

From the Notebooks I've read a fair amount writing by St. Thomas Aquinas, at least when compared to what I've read of other authors. When compared to how much he wrote, I've read only a little. I have, however, read a lot about Aquinas.

BYCU

"IT'S OFFICIAL: Canned craft beer is no longer evil." Link [http://articles.philly.com/2013-03-22/news/37906513_1_cans-boston-beer-small-brewers] . I'm glad to hear that. I always enjoyed drinking out of a can. I was also a beer can

Thursday

Weather Woes The weather has been atrocious. How atrocious? Check out the following, and also note the prediction: it's going to continue to be atrocious: "Just-completed March did an end run around historic temperature trends here by becoming one of only 8 in the past 142

Wednesday

Since the 1980s, I've heard that the NBA is crooked, and I've heard it from reputable sources. The refs supposedly fix the games. The question is, do they fix games for their personal profit or at the direction of the League? I incline to the view

Tuesday

Trifles The backyard garden is beginning to take shape. I went to the city compost site and grabbed over 500 pounds of decomposed wood chips yesterday. I mixed a chunk of it with "primo" compost (mostly, kitchen scraps) to balance out the carbon and nitrogen, dumped about 200

Easter

"When the disciples saw the risen Christ, they beheld him as a reality in the world, though no longer of it, respecting the order of the world, but Lord of its laws. To behold such reality was different and more than to see a tree or watch a man

Holy Saturday

Nyssa, Tolkien, and Gibson By killing Jesus, Satan had swallowed God's bait. He didn't know he had swallowed the Godhead, thereby inviting Full Being into his fortress of nothingness and bringing about the ontological fall of his nothingness. In the words of St. Gregory of Nyssa:

Good Friday

“The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His.” George MacDonald "The cross cannot be defeated. . . For it is Defeat." G.K. Chesterton On those who hate Christianity: "They do not dislike the Cross

Holy Thursday

"[I]n the agony of Gethsemane the ultimate consequences of our sin had their hour. . . . God permitted his Son to taste the human agony of rejection and plunge towards the abyss. . . Gethsemane was the hour in which Jesus' human heart and mind experienced the ultimate odium of the