Counted up all the things she was afraidButter & Sugar
of one night & it took so long she fell
asleep from exhaustion
I like butter & sugar & being alive aFrom StoryPeople here and here.
whole lot & today I'm kind of sad
because with all the latest studies I
figured out I'm going to have to choose.
Borukh Ato Adoynoy Eloyheynu Melekh Ho-oylom Asher Kiddeshonu Be-mitsvoysov Ve-tsivonu Lehadlik Neyr Shel khanuko.Second Blessing
Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, who has sanctified us by His commandments, and has commanded us to kindle the lights of Hanukkah.
Borukh Ato Adoynoy Eloyheynu Melekh Ho-oylom She-oso Nissim La-avoseynu Ba-yyomim Ho-heym Ba-zzman Ha-zze.Third Blessing
Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who wrought miracles for our fathers in days of old, at this season.
Borukh Ato Adoynoy Eloyheynu Melekh Ho-oylom She-hekheyonu Ve-kiymonu Ve-higgi'onu La-zzman Ha-zze.The blessings are lovely.
Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, who has kept us alive, and has preserved us, and enabled us to reach this time.
The third blessing is recited only on the first time the Hanukkah menorah is lit. Called the Shehechiyanu, it is an important blessing that thanks God for sustaining us and reminds us to appreciate the goodness in our lives.
O Oriens, splendor lucis æternæ, et sol justitiæ:Isaiah 9:2
veni, et illumina sedentes in tenebris, et umbra mortis.
O Dayspring, Brightness of the everlasting light,
Son of justice, come to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death!
The people who walked in darknessText from Fish Eaters.
have seen a great light;
those who lived in a land of deep darkness—
on them light has shined.
O God, the strength of the weak and the comfort of sufferers: Mercifully accept our prayers, and grant to your servant Dale the help of your power, that his sickness may be turned into health, and our sorrow into joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
O merciful Father, who has taught us in your holy Word that you do not willingly afflict or grieve your children: Look with compassion upon the sorrows of your servants for whom our prayers are offered. Remember them, O Lord, in mercy, nourish their souls with patience, comfort them with a sense of your goodness, let your face shine upon them, and give them peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
Thats how it goes
Everybody knows
This ends my comments about Trinity on this blog; OWS has more important things to confront now. As my fellow arrestees said in the holding cell, "This should be over with them; they had their chance." It was that chance I will miss because I'd seen it grabbed for meaning in the past.And then I read the post by Jim Naughton at The Lead which quotes and links to a fine article in America, the Jesuit magazine, by Tom Beaudoin, a professor at Fordham University.
Some in Occupy use religious language of “sanctuary” for Occupy in their appeal to Trinity, because we were forcibly evicted from Zuccotti and have been hounded out of other public places since then. A religious organization like Trinity, many argue, ought to appreciate a basic point from the theological tradition: ongoing material space that is artistically curated, ritually inhabited, and safely overseen is essential for an ongoing witness to a more deeply flourishing reality.The church as sanctuary, the church as a place of refuge resonates strongly with me. As I said at The Lead, the question is not whether TWS had the right to refuse the use of their property. Of course, they had the right, but was the refusal by TWS the right thing to do in this situation?
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On Saturday I was part of a protest that sought to draw further attention to the appeal to Trinity – as part of the larger drawing of attention to injustice in economic policies in the United States and beyond that has been central to Occupy from the beginning. Several dozen among the protesters went over the fence into Trinity’s property, in a nonviolent symbolic occupation, and were promptly arrested. Among those arrested were clergy and at least one religious, including an Episcopal bishop, a Catholic priest, a Catholic sister, and other clergy and religious leaders, as well as other lay protesters with or without any particular connection to religion.
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At the risk of sacrificing nuance, and for the sake of brevity, let me be succinct: I think we have a very important theological matter before us when Occupy, through its religious-leader allies, is saying to Trinity Wall Street: We in Occupy -- as a multifaith, interreligious, spiritually pluralistic movement that is also and equally a nonreligious, secular movement -- can better meet your mission as a Christian church in this particular time, and this particular place, with negligible negative financial impact (Trinity is a very wealthy community), and with a rare and time-sensitive influence, by using this particular private property to host the next stage of Occupy Wall Street, and let’s meet to talk about the liability issues and any other concerns you have, let’s have that dialogue starting immediately, but in principle we have a substantial theological point worthy of your consideration.
The presumption in this theological claim, which I think is correct, is that no Christian church is – on the very terms of its theological existence – permitted to fall back on the mere invocation of “private property” without also a theological conversation about the spiritual significance of what that concept means and how it is being used.
One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the wicked behavior going on.Now what kind of 'friend' would send such an email? Since Paul (A.) sent the sassy note to me, what else could I do but send it out to you?
He sent one of his angels to earth to look into it.
When the angel returned, he told God, "Yes, it is bad on earth: 95% are misbehaving and only 5% are not."
God was not pleased, and so he decided to e-mail the 5% that were good, because he wanted to encourage them and give them a little something to help keep them going in the right direction.
Do you know what the e-mail said?
NO?
Okay, I was just wondering because I didn't get one either.
Cheers,
Paul (A.)
The Carlson School of Management received a surprise visit from a saxophonist...and nearly 300 of his friends from the University of Minnesota's School of Music this November.Since two people sent me the link to the flash mob video, I decided I could post the Christmas song. Thank you, Doug and Paul (A.).
In this house, I pronounce --Advent is over, our waiting is accomplished. We have a new birth, a living hope --an inheritance imperishable --not in silver or gold --by no means... but a holy invitation to join a people in ministry --a new life, a new way...Read the rest at leave it lay where Jesus flang it. May God bless margaret and Joel as they venture to a new place to begin a new chapter in their faith walk. I am more pleased for them than I can say.
O Clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel;Isaiah 22:22
qui aperis, et nemo claudit; claudis, et nemo aperit:
veni, et educ vinctum de domo carceris, sedentem in tenebris, et umbra mortis.
O Key of David, and Sceptre of the house of Israel,
that openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth,
come to liberate the prisoner from the prison, and them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death.
I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David;Text from Fish Eaters.
he shall open, and no one shall shut;
he shall shut, and no one shall open.
