The Desert Fathers, Sunday, March 13, 2011

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The Lord's Day is a mystery of the knowledge of the truth that is not received by flesh and blood, and it transcends speculations. In this age there is no eighth day, nor is there a true Sabbath. For he who said that `God rested on the seventh day,' signified the rest [of our nature] from the course of this life, since the grave is also of a bodily nature and belongs to this world. Six days are accomplished in the husbandry of life by means of keeping the commandments; the seventh is spent entirely in the grave; and the eighth is the departure from it.



St. Isaac of Syria, The Ascetical Homilies.I

Founders Friday, Friday, March 11, 2011

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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?


James Madison, Federalist No. 51, February 8, 1788

Ash Wednesday, 2011

Since it's Ash Wednesday, I forego the weekly Wacky Wednesday, of course.  I wish you all a blessed and prayerful Lenten Season.

The Desert Fathers, Sunday, March 6, 2011

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They used to say of Pambo that in the hour of his death he said to the holy men standing round, ‘From the time that I came into this solitude, and built my cell and lived in it, I do not remember having eaten anything I have not worked for. I have not said anything that I regretted saying. But still I go to the Lord, as one who has not yet made a beginning in the service of God.

Sayings of the Desert Fathers, Benedicta Ward

Quote of the Week, George Will

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To progressives, the best thing about railroads is that people riding them are not in automobiles, which are subversive of the deference on which progressivism depends. Automobiles go hither and yon, wherever and whenever the driver desires, without timetables. Automobiles encourage people to think they—unsupervised, untutored, and unscripted—are masters of their fates. The automobile encourages people in delusions of adequacy, which make them resistant to government by experts who know what choices people should make.


Time was, the progressive cry was "Workers of the world unite!" or "Power to the people!" Now it is less resonant: "All aboard!"

George Will, Newsweek, 2/27

Founders Friday, Friday, March 4, 2011

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But where says some is the King of America? I'll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain...let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING.

Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Wacky Wednesday, Wednesday, March 2, 2010, George Burns and Gracie Allen

It's Wednesday, we've made it half way through the week, time to kick back and relax a little.  Here's a clip from the George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, from back in the 1950's.