Justin

What did I know, what did I know / Of love’s austere and lonely offices? ☧

[Anthony Esolen @AnthonyEsolen]

I've just re-read the Didache -- in Greek and in a very good English translation -- and man, is that work powerful. It is steeped in the gospels, and it marks out with severe yet cheerful clarity the stark difference between the way of Christ and the way of the world. There is no middle term, no compromise.

C. S. Lewis understood the same, which he sets forth with a similar clarity in The Great Divorce. You can't have a little bit of hell in heaven. For people want hell: they choose it. If you don't believe that, all you need to do is to scroll through the posts here on X, and find people delighting in thinking the worst of their fellow men, fault-finding everywhere but in themselves, rejoicing when there is cause to attack an enemy, engaging in slander and detraction, laughing at virtue -- the usual stuff for man when he doesn't have to look his enemy in the eye, and when he's not in the habit of examining his own conscience.

Whose sins are the worst in the world? For each of us, the answer in the first instance is, "Mine are." And it is true, too. That is what Father Zossima teaches. That is essentially what Raskolnikov accepts at the end of his self-delusion. It is what that most cheerful of saints, Philip Neri, instilled in his followers. It is what Father Cristoforo, in I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed), believes, and lives -- and he gets my nod for the most powerful and radiant and TRUE portrait of a priest in the history of literature. When you work on your OWN sins, you find you have a lot less time to get all uppity about this or that other person's.

[Tara Ann Thieke @TaraAnnThieke]

The erosion of the liturgical year was a critical step in de-hallowing time and shifting mass man into a flattened calendar. Nature abhors a vacuum so box store buying seasons replaced it, and the result is waste, stress, and nihilism.

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

What if we built cities that put children first? Streets without cars, ample courtyards, human scaled, meaning you walk to work instead of commuting. Cities where being a parent is easy and being a child is fun. Cities where you feel the future is worth fighting for.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

Autumnal
by Ernest Christopher Dowson

Pale amber sunlight falls across
    The reddening October trees,
    That hardly sway before a breeze
  As soft as summer: summer's loss
    Seems little, dear! on days like these.

  Let misty autumn be our part!
    The twilight of the year is sweet:
    Where shadow and the darkness meet
  Our love, a twilight of the heart
    Eludes a little time's deceit.

  Are we not better and at home
    In dreamful Autumn, we who deem
    No harvest joy is worth a dream?
  A little while and night shall come,
    A little while, then, let us dream.

  Beyond the pearled horizons lie
    Winter and night: awaiting these
    We garner this poor hour of ease,
  Until love turn from us and die
    Beneath the drear November trees.

[Justin @jdschmitt10]

@CoffeewClassics Viper's Tangle

[Justin @jdschmitt10]

@Zebbart Thinking of you, Zeb. Know of prayers for you and your family.

[A.M. Juster (with Amazon's #1 #Canzoniere!) @amjuster]

My essay is out:

https://t.co/vKx00T6sQj

[Jeffrey Bilbro @jeff_bilbro]

It's taken a lot of work over the last few months, but the new FPR website is now up and running. I took this occasion to take stock of the strange "organization" that FPR is. Thanks to all those who make up the Porch!

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

The Epistle for today, Quinquagesima (the Sunday before Lent) in the 1662 Prayer Book. One of the greatest passages ever written in English, now forgotten or horribly bowdlerised in modern bibles.

[Dante’s Divine Comedy @read_dante]

Is it because we place a higher value on logical propositions as a mode of communicating truth? Is it because we are uneasy with the demands of beauty?

Beauty requires training, intuition, and a comfort with symbol and allusion. Poetry does not define what is true; rather it invites you into an experience of the true.

It does not tell, it shows.

[A.M. Juster (with Amazon's #1 #Canzoniere!) @amjuster]

@alfred_nicol & #RhinaEspaillat, blessedly together again:

https://t.co/yhtJ2rx6O8 via @YouTube

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

A moving depiction of the Massacre of the Innocents from a 15th-century Book of Hours. Mary and Joseph flee with their baby, while behind them - tiny and vulnerable in the distance - other mothers try to save their children from Herod's soldiers.

https://t.co/mGng5eLS5q

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

The Advent season has many rich and ancient hymns of its own - songs of prophecy, hope, light and life springing up in the dead of winter.

Here's one example: some medieval English versions of the beautiful evening hymn, 'Creator of the stars of night' https://t.co/FzkwW16HX4

[Justin @jdschmitt10]

@FoundationDads @ForrestDickison Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran; Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

[Justin @jdschmitt10]

On Millennial Snot https://t.co/iexfWQGoeJ

[Justin @jdschmitt10]

@BowTiedGatorDDS Is biom’s Swish just as good as this tonic? (Just had an extraction and was prescribed chlorhexidine. I’m a daily Swish user.)

[Justin @jdschmitt10]

@oldbooksguy Mud

[Justin @jdschmitt10]

@jonnysaysOMG

[Justin @jdschmitt10]

@nootropicguy Thanks for the thread …
after 1-2 weeks at 5-10g, is it best to no longer supplement glutamine? – I’ve seen 5g/day (up to 10g/day) rec’s for pre/post workout supplementation?