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What I’ll be Doing for the Next Seventeen Days

So my wife and I, being old farts, but adventurous old farts, have decided, now that the kids no longer particularly need us around, and given that I can work from literally anywhere, to embark on a Grand Adventure! Starting today, we are getting in our van, putting a big air mattress and some sleeping […]

Death be Not Proud

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so; For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow, And soonest […]

“Good Friday” by Christina Rossetti

Am I a stone and not a sheep, That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross, To number drop by drop Thy blood’s slow loss And yet not weep? Not so those women loved Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee; Not so fallen Peter weeping bitterly; Not so the thief was moved; Not so […]

Sonnet for Easter

My latest over at The Catholic Weekly.

Connecting the Dots for Easter

Why I think the Resurrection actually happened:

Holy Thursday

Holy Thursday is all about the institution of the Eucharist, and therefore all about the priesthood. A priest is a go-between.  He mediates God to human beings and human beings to God. A couple of years ago, Garry Wills wrote a disastrous book trying to argue that the priesthood was rubbish.  It was disastrous for […]

Spy Wednesday

Today commemorates the day Judas Iscariot went to the Sanhedrin and asked for money to betray Jesus. This is one of those passages in Scripture where the sacred author is obliged, of necessity, to reconstruct, rather than report what Judas said to the Sanhedrin for the very good reason that he was not there, nor […]

Tuesday Meditation for Holy Week: What is Caesar’s?

This appears to have happened on Tuesday of Holy Week, as the local poobahs were looking for some way to put the screws on Jesus. Since, to the impure, everything is impure, the politicos and wheeler dealers in the Temple elite naturally assumed Jesus was a purely political animal like them. So they asked him […]

Rattling the Tin Cup

Soooo… did the taxes and things are mighty tight right now between Income, Estimated, and Property taxes, insurance bills, medical costs (since we have no health insurance and just took a wallop) and sundry other stuff. I haven’t rattled the tin cup in years, thanks be to God. But if you appreciate my work, I […]

History was Made on Saturday

On Saturday, March 24, the Feast of soon to be St. Oscar Romero, a colossal number of (((Soros)))-paid “crisis actors” swamped 836 cities to destroy our Republic and render us naked and exposed to FutureHitler–in the delusional minds of the Gun Cult and its Christianist court prophets. For everybody else, it was a volcanic eruption […]