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Eric Scheske

Monday

Ah, the small pleasures. Better yet, the free pleasures. Especially the free pleasures that help defeat a shortcoming. Here's the situation: I'm reading an article or a book that makes reference to a book that sounds really good. For the past ten years, I've

Something for Sunday Morning

“Without humility, there is no way of conquering anger.” St. John Climacus

Friday

BYCU Man, if I'm ever cool again, I'm going to buy a beverage refrigerator. Two of my neighbors have 'em in their garage, but with seven kids, my garage is devoted to a regular fridge (with top freezer) and an extra freezer. I'm

Wednesday

Making Land "They ain't makin' more of it." I hear that statement at least twice a year, usually when a client is buying real estate. I normally nod in sage agreement. Which has always been an ingenuous thing to do, since I agreed with the

Tuesday

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly Gasoline has significantly dropped in price. When priced in silver. Not a bad way to think about prices, according to the Founding Fathers . . . more>> [http://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-silver-bullet/87316/] Mainlining? Is that when heroin selling goes mainstream? No, but

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

Wednesday

Lethal Occupation and Other The fatal-accident rate for fishermen and related fishing workers is 200 per 100,000 full-time workers . . . compared with a rate of 13.1 for police and 4.4 for firefighters. Farming is also more dangerous: 38.5 fatal occupational injuries per 100,000 full-