Notices by Daniel Johnson (ossobuffo@deacon.social)

@gemlog I found the American so grating that I just clicked through to watch the original. I can’t imagine he added any value.

@dsg @selzero While Chan Chan is itself delightful, you need to hear it as a reggae song!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9y4ktyA5X2o

@gemlog Your city has a little more than 1/10 the population as mine, but you get your own commercial airport!

One of these years I will go on pilgrimage to Sitka to see the former cathedral over all of Russian America. It’s a very small wooden church. I shan’t be too far from you then!

@gemlog Nope! Not a priest, not Roman Catholic, never been in Canada except inside Vancouver airport in 1995.

@gemlog I’d love to come visit, but it’s a bit pricey. My Vancouver stopover was on my way home from my brother’s wedding in the UK. (I think I may have been in the plane on the ground in Calgary too.)

There was a baptism at church this morning, so the services started an hour earlier than usual. Today was also a day on which I was assigned the homily. My runny nose and post-nasal drip had gotten so bad that I could barely vocalize at the beginning of the services. I could tell that folks in the congregation were praying for me, though, because by the end of Liturgy I had about half of my voice back.

I came home exhausted afterward and fell into bed. I just now have woken up. It is almost 4pm.

@mpjgregoire @gemlog Both named for St. Dominic?

@octade @theology @christianity @religion @academicchatter @infostorm
1. 1 A.D. is the traditional year, though many historians think 3 is more likely.

2. Tradition has it that she was about 14. (See the Protoevangelion of James.)

3. The Gospels indicate that the Holy Spirit provided the paternal impetus. There is (obviously) no historical opinion on where the paternal half of the chromosomes came from. I would presume that they were created; I would not be surprised at all if they were identical with Adam's, since Christ is the perfect Second Adam.

4. Bethlehem was the city of David, his royal forbear. Thus he fulfilled the prophecies that the King must come from David's city.

5. The Magi are the first example of the nations bowing before him. They are a foreshadowing of Pentecost, when all the nations began hearing about Jesus in their own language.

6. It was crucial that Mary consent to the conception. When Gabriel told her what had been pre-ordained before the world began, she replied, "Let it be done to me according to your word." It was this "yes," this obedience, that began to unbind the curse of disobedience which had begun in the Garden of Eden. God always respects human free will, and will never force himself on anyone, because he desires to be loved, and love must always be a free choice.

I've posted this before, but in light of political goings-on in the USA, I'm going to re-post.

“The way to God lies through love of people. At the Last Judgment I shall not be asked whether I was successful in my ascetic exercises, nor how many bows and prostrations I made. Instead I shall be asked did I feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick and the prisoners. That is all I shall be asked. About every poor, hungry and imprisoned person the Savior says 'I': 'I was hungry and thirsty, I was sick and in prison.' To think that he puts an equal sign between himself and anyone in need... I always knew it, but now it has somehow penetrated to my sinews. It fills me with awe.”

— St. Maria of Paris, who died in Auschwitz because she helped smuggle Jewish children out of Paris

[This is as close to politics as I am likely to allow myself to be on Fedi.]

@golemwire I doubt it has been in use for the last 25 years, probably longer.

@golemwire I always like using 'uce@ftc.gov'. The FTC used to actually monitor that one for a while in the 90s — you'd forward them Unsolicited Commercial Email aka spam and they'd (theoretically) take action.

@royal @dan @RevEricBurrowsStone It is useful to stop using the overloaded term hell, and start referring to the following:

– Hades: the generic abode of the dead. In Greek mythology, both the evil and the good crossed the Styx and arrived here. The righteous inhabited the Elysian Fields within Hades.

– Sheol: the Hebrew cognate of Hades; simply the abode of the dead.

– Gehenna: The place of judgment after death. This is a hellenization of a Hebrew word.

– Tartarus: The abyss of eternal punishment in Greek mythology. This term is also used in many patristic writings.

– Abaddon: the Hebrew cognate of Tartarus.

So Hades and Sheol are synonymous, Tartarus and Abaddon are synonymous, and Gehenna usually carries roughly the same connotation as Tartarus or Abaddon.

In Norse mythology, Hel is a person/place pretty much equivalent to Hades (also both a person and a place); but in English usage hell has taken on the meaning of Gehenna.

@seanbala I am in the process of making longaniza pork sausage for the Paschal feast. Meat and fat have been carved into chunks and are resting in the freezer while I take a brief nap. Then I will grind them, add non-meat ingredients, rest again, and finally stuff into casings. I’ll cook them up Saturday afternoon and leave them in a slow-cooker to stay warm. That will make me exceedingly happy at about 2:30am on Sunday morning!

"Lord, save us from fools, somehow!"

— St. Sophrony of Essex (d. 1993)

@paulisci This one's got to be in the running. Apologies for injecting politics into anyone's lighthearted timeline.

https://www.mind-war.com/p/wheres-president-musks-birth-certificate