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Open Thread
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The first one that came into thought was;
“What’s foul is fair and what’s fair is foul.”
I suppose that it’s because I see hoards of people who call good, rotten and despise the good, yet honor and exalt despicable activity at any means possible.
I am surrounded by honorable people however. They are fellow parishioners, my extended family.
TAC falls into that category as well.
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
I think I have papal exhaustion, again.
I’ve got two (for the season)
For All Hallow’s Eve:
Round about the cauldron go;
In the poisoned entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter’d venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first in the charmed pot.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
And for the Feast of All Souls:
… And my ending is despair, unless I be relieved by prayer
which pierces so that it assaults mercy itself and frees all faults.
As you, from your crimes, would pardon me, let your indulgence set me free.
“Prospero’s epilogue”, Loreena McKennitt
“By the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes” Macbeth. Describes how I feel whenever I see a headline about a new statement on synodality from Rome.
“The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones.”
To paraphrase the next line, ‘So let it be with Francis’.
The play’s the thing in which we’ll catch the conscience of the king.
Out damed spot!
Double double toil and trouble
I had to read Romeo and Juliet in English Lit in 9th grade. Not my favorite reading and I have nothing to quote.
Mr.McClarey …I read with grat interests your posts about your train trip out West. When you make your visit to Gettysburg, may I offer you this information …
You can take Amtrak from Chicago. I would recommend the Floridian, which was the Capitol Limited. You can take this to Martinsburg, West Virginia, which has hotels and rental cars near the train station. From Martinsburg you have a short trip to Harper’s Ferry, Charles Town, WV, which has a Traditional Latin Mass in a tiny but adorable church, and Antietam and Gettysburg are not a far drive. From Charles Town, Arlington National Cemetery is less than an hour away as well.
The Floridian makes its way through the Laurel Highlands of Western Pennsylvania and there is a Horseshoe Curve at Mance, PA.
You could take the Amtrak to Harrisburg from Chicago, experience the Horseshoe Curve near Altoona and disembark there to go to Gettysburg but the other places I mentioned are farther away.
Just thought I would mention it.
I’ve heard that Shakespeare is more popular in non-English-speaking Europe than in the US, because they translate it. There’s a cost in losing the original language, but also a benefit.
“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.”
“To be or not to be, that is the question.”
“Deny thy father or refuse thy name…or Ill no longer be a Capulet”
We few, we happy few…
I wonder, are we in the Agincourt of the Church?
We did not seek this fight but we also shall not flee it…
Many thinks are done that would distress Fluellen as being “expressly ‘gainst the rules of war.”
At any moment will the modernists try to buy us off with “this tun of treasure” that turns out to be tennis balls?
” Friends, Romans, countrymen – lend me your ears”.
“Okay, cut the soft stuff- whada ya got in that sack ?”
“Ears”.
Take off of 1960’s Wayne & Schuster 😆
“their Creator” endows the newly created soul of every human being at procreation with free will and intellect. In her free will and intellect the Blessed Virgin Mary desired Perpetual Virginity to do the will of God perfectly even before conception. Almighty God granted Blessed Mary Perpetual Virginity.
The newly begotten soul endowed with free will and intellect conceived, is denied freedom of Religion and is prevented from exercising freedom of conscience through abortion, death being imposed through abortion.
The aborted soul still has endowed Faith and reason and has endowed Faith and reason unto eternity.
One woman told me that I ought to be pro-abortion because abortion sends so many souls to heaven. My response was that abortion makes a murderer of her.
And yes. The Pope’s Mass for celebrating the Jubilee of Synodality of Teams had a woman reading St. Paul’s letter to Timothy 4:6-8
“As for me, I am already being poured out as a libation, and the time of my departure has come. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 From now on there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have longed for his appearing.”
She sure was.
A woman reading this bible text causes a fissure between the text and hearing the text, that is, speaking for Saint Paul.
A woman speaking for Jesus is nearly blasphemy.
Clinton:
Francis did good?