{"id":45308,"date":"2013-06-19T00:46:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T07:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=45308"},"modified":"2014-12-29T22:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T05:54:09","slug":"the-chesterbelloc-drinking-and-debating-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/06\/the-chesterbelloc-drinking-and-debating-club.html","title":{"rendered":"The ChesterBelloc Drinking and Debating Club…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

met on June 14 (Feast Day of I\u2019m Pretty Sure One Day St. G.K. Chesterton) to drink home-brewed ale and eat a bunch of stuff and have a wonderful time.\u00a0 It was in Illinois someplace and nobody bought my airfare so I could come.\u00a0 So they had their stupid dumb party without me.\u00a0 But that\u2019s okay because I\u2019m not bitter and I didn\u2019t even *want* to go to their dumb stupid party anyway.\u00a0 I had *way* more fun with my crossword puzzles and sudoku and I\u2019m not burning with envy *at all*.<\/p>\n

Sean Dailey files the following report:<\/p>\n

Dear friends,<\/p>\n
Thank you, all of you, who were able to come to the ChesterBelloc Drinking and Debating Club last Friday. And to those of you who could not come, you were missed, and I hope you can make it next year. It was truly a glorious evening of comradeship and serioius joy. Speaking of which, quotes by our two patrons, G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, I think sum up the joy of companionship and the sorrow of parting:<\/p>\n
\u201cComradeship and serious joy are not interludes in our travel; but rather our travels are interludes in comradeship and joy, which through God shall endure for ever.\u201d \u2013G.K. Chesterton<\/p>\n
\u201cBut as I walked along I looked furtively first to one side and then to the other, judging my companions, whom chance had given me for these few hours; and it seemed to me (whether from the mist or what not) that they were taller than men; and their eyes avoided my eyes. \u201d \u2013Hilaire Belloc<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I have attached a picture, taken by Joe Grabowski, of everyone listening to me read Chesterton.<\/p>\n
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Or else you\u2019re all stunned at my appalling illiteracy and are too shocked to move. Also, my dad \u2014 in the far right of the photo \u2014 took about 30 or so pictures and is going to get them put into a database \u2014 a disk or a flash drive or something \u2014 and get them to me. Either I\u2019ll load them onto facebook or I\u2019ll find some place to host them, and you can all take a look.<\/p>\n
By universal acclaimation, the official video of the CBDDC is \u201cSt. Patrick\u2019s Bad Analogies,\u201d here:<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n\u201cCome on, Patrick!\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cYeah get it together, Patrick!\u201d<\/p>\nI thank all of you for coming, especially those of you who came great distances, at big expense and little sleep, to be here. I cherish you all. I thank you for helping me to keep Lee and Julie\u2019s home in some semblage of order so that they didn\u2019t walk into a total disaster when they arrived at 10:40 \u2014 20 minutes early! And I especially thank Lee and Julie for their amazing generosity in loaning us their house for the evening.<\/p>\nUntil next year, I leave you with the words of St. Patrick, as he abandons bad analogies:<\/p>\n\u201cOk! fine! The Trinity is a mystery which cannot be comprehended by human reason but is only understood by Faith and is best confessed in the words of the Athanasian Creed, which states that we we worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the substance! That we are compelled by Christian Truth to confess that each distinct Person is God and Lord and that the Diety of the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit is ONE, equal in glory, co-equal in majsty!!!!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWell why didn\u2019t you say so Patrick?\u201d<\/p>\nPeace, brothers,<\/p>\nSean<\/p>\nSean P. Dailey \nEditor-in-chief \nGilbert Magazine<\/p>\n\u201cIt is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.\u201d \u2013G.K. Chesterton<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThere were a number of others who couldn\u2019t go either.\u00a0 I\u2019m just as not envious as they are,\u00a0 Right guys?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"met on June 14 (Feast Day of I\u2019m Pretty Sure One Day St. G.K. 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