This game was winnable. Not saying we win that 80/100, but it was at worst a coin toss. Don’t let them rewrite history. We got scared (individual mistakes galore) and lowkey out coached (created almost nothing from our patterns of play).
your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbour, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat—the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.
- C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors
no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner—no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself,
St. Jerome loved Christmas. He had a great and enduring love for the baby Jesus.
He used to tell a “childish but charming story,” as the Lutheran bishop, Bo Giertz, once put it.
Bishop Giertz relays Jerome’s story:
“This is our Creator, is it not?”
“Yes, He has come to visit us.”
“Why do you think He lays Himself in a manger?”
“I suppose He has come to offer His flesh as food for Man.”
Well, just got fired for posting about politics. It sucks man.
My boss is an Anti-Revisionist Marxist-Leninist and he saw me defending Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. He called me a Dengist and told me to clean out my desk.
When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my [political agenda] may cease to want war, but above all that my own [political coalition] will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.
- Thomas Merton (1961)
When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my country may cease to want war, but above all that my own country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.
- Thomas Merton (1961)
You cry about unjust killings in foreign countries.
But at home you cheer the assassination of people you disagree with.
You are no different from the foreign killers. You just have different targets.
All your heart is filled with hate.
Not usually a big Matt Jones guy but Cal played all the hits tonight… Great effort by DJ Wagner but he was let down by some questionable coaching decisions.
My favorite stanza of any Christmas hymn:
Hail the heav'n-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all He brings,
Ris'n with healing in His wings.
Mild He lays His glory by,
Born that man no more may die.
Born to raise us from the earth,
Born to give us second birth.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
Glory to the newborn King!
Wesley