a little ignatian exercise

That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity with the Church herself,   if she shall have defined anything to be black which appears to our eyes to be white,   we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black.    For we must undoubtingly believe,   that the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ,    and the Spirit of the Orthodox Church His Spouse,   by which Spirit we are governed and directed to Salvation,   is the same; ....            Ignatius Loyola  SJ  (founder of the Society of Jesus) .

nyt blues

Breaking News: Senate Backs Legislation to Raise Taxes on Wealthiest Americans

Breaking News: Talks on Fiscal Crisis Face Setback That Threatens Deal

Today's Headlines: Senate Leaders Set to Work on a Last-Minute Tax Agreement

Today's Headlines: Summoned Back to Work, Senators Chafe at Inaction

Today's Headlines: Real and Virtual Firearms Nurture a Marketing Link

Today's Headlines: Search for Way Through Fiscal Impasse Turns to the Senate

Today's Headlines: For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall









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from a c.s. lewis perspective...

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When Catholicism goes wrong it becomes the world-old,
world-wide religion of amulets
 and holy places and priestcraft;
Protestantism in its corresponding decay,
becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes.






               - i just hate it when they start attacking our jewelry

anonymous observations

there should be placed
a teacher or two
in every gun store








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a little way

"Part of understanding the notion of Justice
 is to recognize the disproportions among which we live...
it takes an awful lot of living with the powerless
 to really understand what it is like to be powerless,
to have your voice, thoughts, ideas and concerns
count for very little.
We, who have been given much,
whose voices can be heard,
have a great duty and responsibility
to make our voices heard
with absolute integrity for those who are powerless."

        -John  O'Donohue     (+2008)




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poised as we are

The rarity of clear exchange
       is due to the rarity of what can cross
                      intact
     the frontier between timelessness
                                                    and time.


                      - John Berger   Hold Everything Dear







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sursum corda !

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that goddamn vance morgan thinks he's so clever