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Eric Scheske

Good Friday

Slacker me. I missed the Maundy/Holy Thursday service/Mass for the first time in 42 years (if I missed as a younger person, I don't remember it). My absence resulted from a confluence of events: I was exhausted from staying up late the night before; our church

Abbreviated Holy Thursday Post

Happy Holy Thursday, so to speak. May your Triduum be reverential and holy. __________ Readers of this blog know I'm a John Zmirak fan (1 [https://thedailyeudemon.com/5865/], 2 [https://thedailyeudemon.com/5951/]). Well, I recently learned that he has moved to New Hampshire, where he is writer-in-residence

The Wednesday Eudemon

Blogging will be light the next couple of days. I'll be struggling with a time trifecta: jammed at the office, Holy Week, and NCAA basketball tournament. I hold my 16th annual basketball team auction tonight, which usually keeps me up about two hours past my bedtime, then I

Tuesday Trifles

Dalrymple has written a short piece about Spitzer and morality in the public sphere [http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0314td.html]. It contains fundamental truths that anyone interested in morality and law needs to understand. It'll take you three minutes to read. Excerpt: > [M]an is a

Monday Moanin'

Netherlands to allow public sex in its Central Park? Alderman Paul van Grieken has plans to allow public sex as part of this summer's new rules of conduct for the country's best-known park, Vondelpark. [http://snafu-ed.blogspot.com/2008/03/amesterdam-to-legalize-sex-in-public.html] Alright, it's

Something for Palm Sunday Morning

Instead of palms, use our lives: "Let us run to accompany him as he hastens towards his passion, and imitate those who met him then, not by covering his path with garments, olive branches or palms, but by doing all we can to prostrate ourselves before him by being

Something for Sunday Morning

Thomas takes a shot at abusive methods of centering prayer: "Occupy your minds with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones. Unoccupied, they cannot be." St. Thomas More

Saturday Stuff

The National Catholic Register has started a Pope watch blog: Pope2008.com [http://www.pope2008.com/]. It'll cover the Pope's trip to the United States. The cyber-place to be this papal visit. __________ A few jokes I received yesterday: 1. A man with a gun went into

Brews You Can Use

Washington lawmakers have approved a pilot program that will allow beer and wine tasting in 30 grocery stores statewide in an effort to market local products. . . . But opponents contend the program sets a bad example by exposing children to alcohol consumption. [http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Feature_

Thursday

A neighbor says he wasn't bowled over when he heard: Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for two years – so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the boyfriend finally