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from Conciliar Post
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to spend a week in Taizé, an international, Christian ecumenical community in central France that is known for its meditative prayers and chants. It was a powerful experience, to say the least. Before visiting, I knew that Taizé was an international destination for pilgrimage, but it wasn’t until actually visiting that I understood why.
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from Faith & Freedom blog.faithandfreedom.us
"He," of course, is President Trump. The person evaluating "He" as "not worth it" is Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Her political party has been shrieking "impeach him," impeach him" since the day after the election---weeks before he actually took office. Why was he worth impeaching then, but is not worth it now? A closer look is very revealing.
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from Forbes
My last two posts (Part 1 and Part 2) were a challenge to they way we define homelessness and claims about the causes of homelessness, most of which are not well supported quantitatively and formulated to serve political agendas. The established definitions and causes are rhetorical devices to grab political power, money, and limit the use of private property. More disturbing is that the conversation about the “crisis” of homelessness, how it is defined, measured, and the solutions to it, is mostly between and among people who are housed and comparatively well off in our economy.
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from Laudable Practice Blog
ON THE EMBERTIDE FASTS
Three fasting days, four times a year, at the beginning of each season. The Ember Days provide a means of restoring the simple but serious practice of fasting as a regular occurence within the Christian life. As such, they also ensure that we are not unused to the practice of fasting and thus are more open to the call of the Lenten fast. That the Four Seasons are marked by fasting also brings us to experience the grace of fasting. The seasons open not with consumption, and grasping, and frenetic activity, but with the practice of fasting, orienting us to discern with gratitude the gifts bestowed in Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, opening us to the Real and the Good. If we want to renew the practice of fasting within Anglicanism, restoring the Ember Days is a good place to start.
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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
ST. JOHN CASSIAN’S INSTITUTES: GLUTTONY
How our first struggle must be against the spirit of gluttony, i.e. the pleasures of the palate.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Shawn Vestal: ‘Constitutional sheriffs’ who reject new gun laws are a threat to democratic principles
What’s happening in a lot of rural Washington counties – as well as rural counties around the West – is a bad old idea from the radical, anti-government right that is seeping dangerously into the offices of elected sheriffs. It’s an ideological outgrowth of the “constitutional sheriff” movement, which holds that county sheriffs are the ultimate authority and can act unilaterally as a bulwark against the overreaching federal government by simply refusing to follow laws or regulations they believe are unconstitutional.
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Shawn Vestal: ‘Constitutional sheriffs’ who reject new gun laws are a threat to democratic principles
What’s happening in a lot of rural Washington counties – as well as rural counties around the West – is a bad old idea from the radical, anti-government right that is seeping dangerously into the offices of elected sheriffs. It’s an ideological outgrowth of the “constitutional sheriff” movement, which holds that county sheriffs are the ultimate authority and can act unilaterally as a bulwark against the overreaching federal government by simply refusing to follow laws or regulations they believe are unconstitutional.
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