“It is no secret that Planned Parenthood and the Democratic Party are the double helix of political partisanship.
The DNC makes sure that Planned Parenthood is flush with cash and then Planned Parenthood returns the favor by supporting Democratic candidates.
(And the mainstream press certainly gives them a helping hand.)”
The mother-in-law account in Luke, recounted also in Matthew and Mark, is a homey item. Burning fever dispatched, she got up and went about rustling grub for the itinerant preacher and others.
Simon Peter’s mother-in-law, of course. I suppose not too much is to be made of that as regards centuries-old discipline in the Western church, but still it’s a nice touch. Those were real people. The gospels are full of them.
Translations matter, as I have noted. In addition to the wonderful Ronald Knox version from the mid-’40s, we have the St. Paul Catholic edition of the mid-’90s, the work of the very helpful and near-anonymous Mark Wauck.
Today’s reading is another triumph of selectivity.
1 Thes 5:1-6, 9-11 is the menu for first reading. Why not verses 7 & 8? Is there something subversive there? Something offensive to pious ears? Improper? Distracting? Peculiarly first century and misleading if read to weekday mass goers?
Let’s have a look.
7Those who sleep go to sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. 8But since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation.e
Well. The point is to be of the day.
5For all of you are children of the light* and children of the day.
Yes. That’s settled.
But the skipped-over part, as in getting drunk at night. That’s a reference that would make pewsitters sit up. It’s good, earthy talk, direct, which is good.
Let us be sober — take it several ways. One is not to be silly. Or foolish. Not act like damn fools if we can help it. Don’t be a jerk, taking on the breastplate of love and the helmet that is hope. Again plain talk and vivid.
Do the liturgical editors shrink from that? Do they think pewsitters shrink from it? I say put it out there. But what do I know?
Denver airport people feel “morally obliged” to bounce Chick etc. because its CEO differs from them on same-sex marriage.
Morality, is it? Hmm.
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Before I do one more thing in this late-starting Tuesday morning, a word from Mr. Hickey of Leo Catholic HS:
In my lifetime, I witnessed the euthanizing of Latin and the Death of God by academics and churchmen. Latin was deemed irrelevant, the vernacular ascended to Parnassus and the Vatican dome. That is too bad. The mystery of learning has gone the way of sacred liturgy -no mystery and no beauty. Education means punching one’s ticket for entry to something else.
Such a mournful mouthfull. Congratulations, Hickey.
Typically good stuff from this enterprising writer. Bias evident, but it’s everywhere, so what? My question: Without savings, disaster (= not just cuts but end of payments). Dems have led us down a garden path, refuse to help.
Nigh Inconceivably Stupid Would Be a Fair Phrase For Clinton’s Tax Hike – The New York Sun.
The worst sectors of the worst recovery since World War II are business investment in new plants and equipment and new business start-ups. These are the biggest job-creators, and their slump is a key reason for the sub-par labor recovery, with low participation rates and high involuntary part-time workers.
So if investment is the problem, what does Hillary Clinton go out and do? She proposes jacking up the tax on investment. It’s almost inconceivably stupid
via Nigh Inconceivably Stupid Would Be a Fair Phrase For Clinton’s Tax Hike – The New York Sun.
