Sunday 6:36 AM

 

The true reactionary is not a dreamer of bygone

times but a hunter of sacred shadows upon the

eternal hills.

 

 

“All such knowledge as this,

whether it comes from God or

not, can be but of little profit

to the soul in the way of perfection,

if it trusts to it: yea, rather,

if it is not careful to reject it,

... it will bring upon it great

evil; ... for all the dangers

and inconveniences of the supernatural

apprehensions, and many

more, are to be found here.”

The Ascent of Mount Carmel.

— No viviría ni una fracción de segundo si dejara de sentir el amparo de la existencia de Dios.

—I would not live for even a fraction of second if I stopped feeling the protection of God’s existence.

312/365.

Hope keeps a man from hanging and drowning himself

Many live like angels in the midst of the world. Why

not you...?

All Saints Day 6:08 AM

 

I missed out on all the candy giving last night because I worked till 7:00 PM.

I wasn’t outside.

I have a bad cough and a runny nose.

Cross my fingers that I can keep the #2 position.

She is in love with Death, she pursues him, honours him,

extols Him. 

there was never a man who looked into those brown burning eyes without being certain that Francis Bernardone was really interested in him;

I will never stoop so low to take up just nothing at all.

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.

#2,833

—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.’

Readings

 NGD:  Our bodies lodge comfortably in the technological

chambers of modern buildings, but our souls have no

other dwelling than the ruins of ancient buildings.

Deep beliefs are communicated in silence.

Berry;   It does not hesitate at the destruction of the life of a family or the life of a community. 

Fuller;  If any fool finds the cap fits him, let him wear it.

Reading

 Fragments:

—El moderno cree vivir en un pluralismo de

opiniones, cuando lo que hoy impera es una

unanimidad asfixiante.

—Modern man believes he lives amidst a pluralism of

opinions, when what prevails today is a stifling

unanimity.

Virtues are no less contagious than vices. 

the ablest young people of this place have gone away to receive a college education, which has given them a “professional status” too often understood as a license to become the predators of such places as this one that they came from.

Giving in to anger, says Ephrem the Syrian, leads straight to hell. Christ endured every insult so that we could be preserved from wrath.

Do not keep anger in your soul. Do not hold fury in your soul. You have no power over your soul except in doing what is good.

If pains be a pleasure to you, profit will follow.

Padre nuestro que estás en el cielo,

santificado sea tu nombre;

venga a nosotros tu reino;

hágase tu voluntad así en la tierra como en el cielo.

El pan nuestro de cada día dánoslo hoy;

y perdónanos nuestras deudas,

así como nosotros perdonamos a nuestros deudores;

y no nos dejes caer en la tentación,

mas líbranos del mal.

Amén.

One step, and lo! the Cross stands gaunt and long

Detachment. How hard it is! Oh, to be fastened by

nothing but three nails and to have no more feeling

in my flesh than the Cross I

Who cannot condemn without fear cannot appreciate

without foreboding.

Wednesday 5:27 AM

 I do my Duolingo first thing:

Normally those who take part in a political movement are

unaware of its aim, its motive, and its origin.

Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But, when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.

The tripod that supported the framework of Bushido was said to be Chi, Jin, Yu, respectively Wisdom, Benevolence, and Courage. 

Learning without thought,” said Confucius, “is labor lost: thought without learning is

perilous.”

…evidently regard country places in exactly the same way as “the economy” does: as sources of economic power to be exploited for the advantage of “better” places.

If the niggard should once taste the sweetness of giving,

he would give all away.

Tuesday 7:19 AM

 The dawn.

If you in every thing fear, you shall not do well, you

will come to do ill in all things.

5:48 AM View

 Last evening, I was able to get Tony to the Wheat Kings home opener.

I went to sleep early.

Today; Bulk Barn and an online class with Beijing, and then sleep.

Gas prices are crazy.

How can you think yourself the wiser for pleasing fools ?

A movie poster that I think is hilarious:

Another profound quote from NGD:

• Sus contradicciones definen menos al individuo que la manera como se acomoda en ellas.
• An individual is defined less by his contradictions than by the way he comes to terms with them.

222

 It’s the 222nd day of the year!

He's a fool that is not melancholy once a day.  

Fuller

 He who sleepeth all the morning may go a begging all the
day after.

A few people I know should heed this.

Friday 6:53 AM

 It rained early this morning.  Weather app tells me it is going to clear up and it will be a scorcher.

I have a 7:30 AM class this morning with Spain, a woman named Maria

Some time this morning, we drive to Riding Mountain National Park.  It will almost be a complete day off for me.

You are suffering! Listen: 'His' Heart is not smaller than ours. — You are suffering? There is good in suffering.

For while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord (2 Cor. 5:6).

He that would have fruit, must climb the tree.

—Pensar como nuestros contemporáneos es la receta

de la prosperidad y de la estupidez.

—To think like our contemporaries is the prescription

for prosperity and for stupidit

Sunday 6:09 AM

 I’ve been coming upon lots of news of towns in the area, towns that I have been to, preparing for swollen rivers by putting up sandbag dykes.

I’ll be working at a place near one of these dykes today.

“Winter’s thunder and Summer’s flood never boded Englishmen good.”

—Nadie tiene capital sentimental suficiente para

malgastar el entusiasmo.

—Nobody has so much sentimental capital that he can

afford to squander his enthusiasm.

Lord! Cure me of my contemptible disease of judging others. In the words of your Servant, Saint Patrick of Ireland, let me always recognize myself as “a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful, and despised in the eyes of many.”

Aubade: a poem about the early morning.