Christianity, Culture, Vocation
For some people, the portent of spring, with it promise of new life and new beginnings, is the first robin or the first flowers to bloom. For baseball fans, it’s spring training. And I am happy to say that spring training has started! Hope springs eternal in the human breast, and now the fans of every team are full of hope. I’ll tell you my baseball hopes for this next season, and you tell me yours. [Read more…]
Roman Catholics may not eat meat on Fridays during Lent, though they may eat fish. The Archbishop of New Orleans has declared that alligator is “in the fish family” and “is considered seafood.” Therefore, Catholics can eat alligator on Fridays. [Read more…]
This is the day (Friday) that the asteroid we blogged about earlier will be passing the earth closer than the orbit of many of our satellites. The rock, the size of half a football field travelling 8 times the speed of a rifle bullet, will be visible from Europe, much of Asia, and Australia, but not the United States. [Read more…]
You must read Rev. Joseph Abrahamson’s post on the origins and history of St. Valentine’s Day. It’s part of his series that we’ve often linked to on Christian holidays that are mistakenly claimed to have pagan origins. He shows that St. Valentine’s Day is not based on Roman festivals but on a day commemorating the death of a Christian martyr, though which of many saints with that name is a matter of some confusion. The question, though, is how this saint’s day became associated with love and romance.
It turns out that the connection comes from one of my favorite authors, Geoffrey Chaucer! [Read more…]
Here is a Valentine’s Day topic, sort of: The Family Policy Institute of Washington cites a bi-partisan effort in socially-liberal Washington State to extend the waiting period to get a divorce from 90 days to a year:
A bill aimed at lowering divorce rates by extending waiting periods for divorce was introduced in the Washington State Senate last week and is scheduled for a hearing this Friday, February 15th, at 8 am in the Senate Law and Justice Committee.
Currently Washington State requires a couple to wait 90 days before a divorce can be finalized, but SB 5614 would extend that to one year. [Read more…]
From Ash Wednesday by T. S. Eliot
If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unspoken, unheard;
Still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard,
The Word without a word, the Word within
The world and for the world;
And the light shone in darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the centre of the silent Word.
via Ash Wednesday by T. S. Eliot.
(“The still point of the turning world” is from Eliot’s “Burnt Norton,” the Four Quartets.)
What is Eliot saying about the Word? about the Word in an age of unbelief? What does this have to do with Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent?
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