Category: Blithe Spirit
The good and the bad, emphasis on Trib and Sun-Times
Wisdom here
Northwestern’s AD wrote a book of advice to young men trying to make their way in football, Chi Trib features it as a sign of what’s wrong at NU, where horrible hazing is reported. Let us give that a look.
Questionable, eh? Like this, from Chi Trib?
In his book, Gragg . . . calls women “man’s greatest distraction,” criticizes the portrayal of women in music videos as “booty-shaking sex-kittens,” and provides his take on serious crimes like rape and sexual assault.
Booty-shaking sex kittens is inaccurate? He made it up, there’s no such phenomenon? Or: You dasn’t mention such things in civilized society?
Gragg said in an email to the Tribune that he wrote the book as a reflection of his own experiences as a young Black man “fulfilling my dream” of playing Division I football.
It’s a “black thang,” as a Roosevelt Road hanger-on in the ’60s said proudly of various styles and behaviors. The book’s title, “40 Days of Direction: Life Lessons from the…
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In-N-Out Burger is more rational than US Hospitals
Communion on the Tongue through the ages . . .
At Mass, a 2nd-rate experience is imposed by Novus Ordo? Aka new mass, standard offering in RC churches worldwide.
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
Moments of silence rare or absent, depending on priest’s preferences, which can vary day to day.
Head trip for all: instruct, instruct, instruct. Less experience than lesson.
All to meet “pastoral” needs, which can also vary day to day.
Closes off possibilities of interior life, mimicking the world as it is.
Who needs it?
Plus distractions.
Reader lady, who reciting the closing line says alarmingly, repeatedly, “Let us pray TO the Lord,” as if to fend off the heresy that says we can pray only about the Lord, because He can’t or won’t listen to us and/or we dare not make bold to do so.
Part of the great preposition war raging in today’s church.
Not just prepositions. Priest intones “ALL the saints,” lest we be choosy in the matter. And not just on All Saints Day.
Can (maybe) solve this problem with meditation on and prayers to the saint(s)…
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Pro-gay James Martin SJ to the fore in U.S. synodality lineup. Francis picked him. He’s F’s fair-h aired boy, all in for DISCERNMENT, a wonderful vehicle and a demanding one . . .,. . . with long Jesuit history and nothing to pull out of a hat, ignoring its demands and history.
What Pope Benedict said about clapping at mass, it’s not an option if you know what’s going on. It’s not a party or even entirely a commemoration or a rejoicing in one another’s presence . . .,. . . or entirely a holy meal celebrating sisterhood and brotherhood per membership in the Mystical Body . . .
Regrets
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
Regrets are a pain in the behind. And lots of other places. They can consume you if you don’t watch out.
Solution lies somewhere between accepting God and accepting God very much.
Don’t worry about overdoing it. That won’t happen. In a million years it won’t, which is short for never.
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