Anáhuac Incredible readings in Church today, and relevant to the moment. The sin of David with Uriah (I must confess I think about this story all the time, since Jung pointed out to me that Uriah is a figure of Christ), Paul’s letter to the Galatians (always amazing), and the following from the Gospel, on the […]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Divine Mercy.
14-Jun-10Merton.
11-Jun-10Now looking at a book by Merton. Everyone tells me I should be into Merton. But I find him careless with words – so many of them, I find myself skipping them and flipping to the back of the book to see how many more I have to read – and then he sets up […]
Lead Us Not Into Penn Station.
11-Jun-10Lots of reading getting done here. One book I read last week was Jill Jonnes’ Conquering Gotham, about the construction of Penn Station (ugh these titles; can’t we just call it “The Building of Penn Station”?). The book makes a good read for the NYC enthusiast; part of the pleasure is deepening one’s knowledge of […]
Kerouac, the unideal husband.
11-Jun-10Kerouac’s first marriage: he married a girl and moved out to Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and worked at his father-in-law’s ball-bearings factory. It lasted two months: At home Edie and her mother, anxious to see Jack as a competent husband, were alarmed that he spent most of his free time in the bathroom, reading Shakespeare and […]
Saint Paul.
11-Jun-10Still so explosive a religious figure. “Beyond good and evil,” really – Paul’s message, if understood and preached, could gobble up Nietzsche, and relativism, and modern amorality, and the like, rather than running away from it. “No one robs the strong man’s house, without first tying up the strong man.” He forgave us all our […]
Physicality.
11-Jun-10Wracked with pains the past couple of nights, apparently from overworking my body. I am mystified to report that after two years in the woods my body appears to be more fragile rather than less; I had hoped for rather the opposite. I suppose I may attribute it to aging. It is a shame how […]
A Walk In the Woods.
08-Jun-10About six weeks ago, I walked along on old woods road, out of sight of any man or building, and on my return to the main road, was met by two police officers, one of whom carried an M-16. They knew my name and where I lived, and were looking for me. Apparently the owner […]
Sully and Christianity…
06-Jun-10An interesting post by Andrew Sullivan particularly relevant for the tendency of religious people today to look backwards to some previous era as purer or more holy than what we have today. As someone who has spent much of his life with Latin and people who love Latin I know this tendency well. The sum […]
The Israeli Raid on the Flotilla.
06-Jun-10The aid flotilla to Gaza that Israel intercepted is one of the most promising things I have seen out of the Middle East in my memory. It indicates an entirely new way of fighting the battle, a way that has some chance of success. Israel’s policies are dependent on the idea that Israelis are morally […]
FIFA.
14-Jun-10buy generic accutane online cheap My favorite thing about World Cup season is having to listen to people who decry the homogenization of the world, destruction of diversity, and conformity of consumerist culture complain that it’s embarrassing to them that the United States doesn’t like a sport that everyone else likes.