I think I begin to understand why poets write love poems and lovers write letters and how they seem to contain such ridiculous effusions because in reality they are honest effusions and love is silly but true.

that is not why I am making this post.

I am making this post because this morning I went to morning prayer at church, and the priest read the homily from today's Office of Readings, and I wanted to post it here for people to see. If Holy Thursday is Christ in the Garden and Good Friday is Christ on the Cross, then Holy Saturday is Christ in the tomb, and that always struck me as a sad empty thing--the Lord is no longer on earth but nor is he in heaven; he descended to the dead.

And then he read this homily to us, and I realized that even in our earthly emptiness, for one day there is joy in hell:

From an ancient homily on Holy Saturday
The Lord descends into hell

( Something strange is happening here. )

again, email, comment, message, however you feel most comfortable leaving them. Also taking requests for positive vibes/warm fuzzy thoughts, if that's what you prefer. :-)

okay so I'm only watching the broadcast I'm not actually there because getting a ticket was harder than like a cell bio class (okay maybe not quite that hard), but I would just like to say.

PRESIDENT JENKINS

IS A BAMF

AND I LOVE HIM.

surprise of the day? President Obama's speech was awesome, but Fr. Jenkins's was better.

one dude tried to disrupt the speech, and people booed him, and President Obama said it was all right, we weren't going to avoid difficult things, and then when the guy kept talking, the seniors stood and chanted WE ARE ND.

you hear that, crazy people?

WE ARE ND.


eta:  Dude even frickin' Judge Noonan, whose speech I was doubting at the beginning, turned out to be TOTALLY AWESOME.  Like duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude.  Truth will out.  I am unspeakably satisfied, even in my dissatisfactions.

I would just like to end by sharing the second reading and the Gospel today, because they are even more awesome than all of the awesome that was these commencement speeches combined.


( we have been told, we've seen his face and heard his voice alive in our hearts: live in my love with all your heart. as the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. )

♥

Psalm 100

A psalm of thanksgiving. Shout joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;

worship the LORD with cries of gladness; come before him with joyful song.

Know that the LORD is God, our maker to whom we belong, whose people we are, God's well-tended flock.

Enter the temple gates with praise, its courts with thanksgiving. Give thanks to God, bless his name;

good indeed is the LORD, Whose love endures forever, whose faithfulness lasts through every age.

I’ve already made my thankfulness list; but know that I’m thinking of every one of y’all today.

Look at what was outside the window on Monday :

I hope you spend the day with loved ones, or at least feeling loved, and that you have a chance to say thank you, to somebody, somewhere. Even you non-Americans.   :-)

Thanks to...sartorias ? for linking to the Catholic Bibliophagist, who linked to this:

http://ironiccatholic.blogspot.com/2008/02/twisted-lenten-drama-of-green-eggs-and.html

I can die and go to heaven happy now, thanks.