Something for Sunday Morning
“Serenity is the principal happiness in this world. Without peace of mind,
nothing is pleasant to us.”
Tikhon of Zadonsk
Eric Scheske
Brews You Can Use
This might be a 2009 first: Drinking while writing BYCU. I used to do it
regularly. Truth revealed: in the early days, BYCU was normally written after a
few hours at the drinking club or, at a minimum, a few hours of front porch
drinking. After I felt sufficiently steeled,
The Post-Christian Age?
Have we really entered the Post-Christian Age . . . or do few Christians
recognize Ash Wednesday that, for all practical purposes, it doesn't exist
anymore, except as a weird-looking symbol on some people's foreheads?
I have five children that are old enough to participate in organized
Ash Wednesday Miscellany
When you fast, do not put on gloomy faces, like the hypocrites do. "Today God
asks us also for a rather special mortification which we offer up cheerfully . .
." (Francis Fernandez).
Those are hard words, knowing I'll be cringing by 8:45 a.m. with hunger stabs.
Looting Bush
I listened to a fascinating podcast at Lew Rockwell yesterday: Russ Baker on
The
Looting Bush Family
[http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?p=episode&name=2009-02-16_101_the_looting_bush_family.mp3]
. Baker has written a polemic against the Bushes. The book's basic premise: the
The Sign of the Coward
“A brave man is also patient.” Thomas Aquinas.
Those two chairs–bravery and patience–don't go together in most people's
intellectual living room, but if you consider them for a few minutes, you see
they match. What prompts impatience? The fear of loss: loss of time,
Something for Sunday Morning
“Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to
believe, to know what he ought to desire, and to know what he ought to do.”
St. Thomas Aquinas
Received in an Email
In honor of the mother of the octuplets, Denny's is offering a new breakfast
meal called the Octo-Slam. You get fourteen eggs, no sausage, and the guy next
to you has to pay the bill!!
Brews You Can Use
A real lady's man, there. Men will say just about anything to get a beer. Let's
see, there's also "I'll give you a thousand bucks if you get me a beer," and
"I'll stop making fun of
A Catholic Blog?
How Catholic is this blog? I asked myself that question yesterday morning. My
wife called me to say that she thought the Sirius Radio appearance on the
Catholic Channel went well. We chatted for awhile and then I blurted out, "Dang
it! I forgot to plug The Daily Eudemon.