You've already been reminded to "Keep Christ in Christmas." If you've read D.G.D. Davidson's blog, you've been reminded to "Keep Mass in Christmas."
So would it kill you if I told you to "Keep Satan in Christmas?"
Merry Christmas, all y'all!
Since I won't be posting tomorrow, I figured I mind as well put this up. I was about to give a little dissertation on patriotism, but lo and behold! the Catechism of the Catholic Church reared its head.
Read the whole article - it places patriotism in its larger context, namely in the Fourth Commandment. After all, it is accurate to call our country "fatherland," even when describing the country in feminine terms.
ARTICLE 4 - THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT
A low-intensity flu bug - and a tornado - cut off the supply of blogposts.
We now have the pipeline running. It will launch at 1700 today.
I'm not actually in the NRA. H.L. is.
We haven't heard, seen, or osmoted anything concerning the Church of Jumbuck for quite a while. As you remember, the last news was that the Sucrose Inquisition was after them. Perhaps they got sick in mid-attack.
Here's some pictures:
The "Hatchet Window" of my parish.
The enclosed bit rather looks like a knife, does it not?
More pictures in another post. It's hard to handle these pictures and text.
Important News! I read The Wealth of Nations! Many the time I feared they would find my bones by the eBook I was reading it from, but I finished it. All five books. I grew to like it, but I'm not reading it again until they make me study classical economics in college. And it's got five stars now. Once I get back on my feet, I'll write a review.
Another Important News! I will be visiting Christendom College in July. When it comes along, you'll hear all about me and Crawdad's adventures in real time, via this blog! You'll hear all about the quaint customs of the locals of Virginia, the incidents and studies at Christendom, and (hopefully) a bit on Washington, D.C., where I hope to visit. Speaking of the locals, aren't they the ones who invented wampum?
Maybe I should stop making fun of Virginians. They started the Civil War, and I've got relatives up there.
I read America: The Last Best Hope by William J. Bennett while I was sick. It's a history, but only the first installment is published. It goes from discovery to World War I. It gets five stars (although the style occasionally is annoying). And it's awful informative.
Well, that's all. Happy belated St. Patrick's Day and Erin Go Bragh!
I just cracked the 1000-visit barrier! As of today, I have had 1,001 people visit my blog.
Even though 10 percent of them were probably visits by me or my blood relatives...
So far, I have had folks from Italy, France, England, Brazil, Australia, China, New Jersey, Nevada, and, of course, the US of A. Many of whom are both from the Great State of Texas and not related to me.
Some folks were lured in by those who maliciously entice web-surfers into blogs like mine. (Raulito? Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex? Are you listening?) Others were searching for stuff:
stamps geese - Dude, stamps are so yesterday. Does "e-mail" mean anything to you. But I love geese. Man, how I loooooooove geese, roasted!
chesterton was a bigot - Probably not, if you except his crass views on cheese and crackers.
Diogenes "off the record" - That's an uberblog, far above me. I am not worthy to undo the RSS...aw shucks, I am too!
militaria - Well, yeah, I like military stuff and all that, as agonized readers can tell...
Others have randomly gotten to my site, occasionally from blogs which (to judge from the names) I should be glad I don't know about.
And, of course, there are those who wondered about some guy named Delta who commented on their blog.
To all y'all: Thanks! And come back, by the bolts of Zeus!
On a different note:
It's almost Lent, and (other than an overinflated ego from my breaking the 1000 barrier) I am all ready for it, complete with family-mandated sacrifices and a resolution to read "Divine Intimacy." (Hey, it can't hurt.) It occurs to me that, even though Lent is not fun, those who practice it have an edge over those who don't.
It would be healthy to, every now and then, sit around and meditate on your death and sinfulness and deliver Hamletesque speeches on the subject. But, it's not healthy to do that continually. (Besides, it would get annoying to your relatives.) However, refusing to have any dark moods at all means you will go crazy. Lent is a period designed specifically for these dark moods, meditation on how everything in this world will pass away, all earthly happiness is straw, your soul is in eternal danger of hell, etc. However, it has a specific end, where Jesus (figuratively speaking) announces: "Snap out of it! I'm alive, I'm commanding the winning army, and My recruiting office is open!" (That's why we baptize RCIA candidates on Easter.) We get a healthy dose of gloom and doom (and fasting), in which we contemplate how bad everything really is. Then we get reminding how good everything really is, on account of the Resurrection.
If you don't have Lent, you have no specific time for gloomy pessimism. So, either you continually think about the evil of mankind (pessimism) or you completely ignore it (optimism). If you choose the first, you will eventually want to kill yourself. Choose the second, and you will kill yourself, once you realize how many lies you've told yourself. Either way, you will be monstrously wrong. All because you weren't moderate in your gloomy pessimism!
So, memento mori and pass the meatless sandwiches!
...and if not...: A Joint Statement
I'm a Dallas-area blogger, and henceforth I'm signing on to it.
I also urge y'all to fast and pray on First Fridays (c'mon, there's only 12 of them, isn't there?) for the end of abortion.
Think of it - it's your opportunity to thwart the continuance of a civilizational curse!
(By "fasting" I assume you mean the current Church standard on fasting, and by "praying" I assume a decade of the Rosary at least.)
DO IT!
