Sunday 19:00 Mass

 

Dollar Tree

 Do I look like I’m 70?

Some 73 year old  guy thought I was.  So I had to take off the hat.

Sunday 8:00 AM

 Beautiful sky.  How does it compare to this?

This was the view from my Jiangyn apartment.

Compare and contrast and protrast.

Reading

 Some things snatched from this morning’s reading:

When nothing is worthy of our respect in society, we

must carve out for ourselves new silent allegiances in solitude.

Resignation should not be the gymnastics of a stoic

but surrender into the hands of God.

I will not dance to every fool's pipe.

I will not keep a dog and bark myself.

—Más que la inmoralidad del mundo actual, es su creciente lo que incita a soñar en un claustro.

—More so than the immorality of the contemporary world, it is its growing ugliness that moves one to dream of a cloister.

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—Es moderno lo que sea producto de un acto inicial de soberbia; es moderno lo que parezca permitirnos eludir la condición humana.

—Something is modern if it is the product of an initial act of pride; something is modern if it seems to allow us to escape the human condition.

David Warren:

…  It is time for the Church to forget this appalling stretch of her history — this “progressive” experiment, and most of the events in the last century of “reforms.”

Instead, we should gather to celebrate Christ the King — today, not wherever it was moved to by the “reformers.”

We are going to take a beating, as Our Lord has taken so many beatings over the last twenty centuries. But He tells us to stand, and take the beating yet again.

'The whole point about St Francis of Assisi is that he certainly was ascetical and he certainly was not gloomy.’

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 This number has some significance for me.  So I proclaim it!

Saturday 8:01 PM

 The moon is in the sky like a big pizza pie.

Found these images while cruising the Andis company site:

Not outside

 That’s a relief.  But I’m still going to have to drag myself to the finish line.

I did 8 hours. Only took a pee break.

Saturday 8:20 AM

 It’s windy. I have a cold. I’m scheduled to probably be outside for eight hours…

Friday Mass

 Having a cold, I didn’t take communion.

But I will be making a confession.

 Reconciliation was at 14:00. I had to wait. I sat there.

I was third in line to make my confession.

My confessor was the priest with the bad English pronunciation.  I didn’t understand his instructions.  I assumed he wanted me to pray the Rosary, and pray more in general.

 

Friday 8:23 AM

 

Beautiful Sky.

No subbing today because it is PD day in the BSD.  Which is just as well since I have a bad cold.

I am still working this day however. I just had a class with my Xinjiang student.  I have two classes booked on the Twenix with a chance for more.

I may go to Friday Mass.  I won’t take communion because I have a cold.  I would like to go to confession.  But this bloody cold.

I have online classes this evening.

I wonder if we’ll ever get the truth about Wainwright.