If I was EWTN I’d market displays and inflatables of the Saints for lawn display so a Catholic like me can decorate his house at Halloween and when people ask I can remind them that All Hallows Eve is about it being the Eve of All Saints Day celebrating those in heaven & love of God.
Now THAT would be a radical display
Today Halloween would have been my father’s 104th birthday. He didn’t live to see his 66th birthday nor my wedding (although he rather unexpectedly turned up at the rehearsal the night before which is a story I’ll tell another time). He had managed a single social security check before dying and had bought my mother a car that he didn’t live to drive in once. She kept that car running till her death 25 years later.
It’s very hard to be the son of a great man. My father was a great man who you likely never heard of. He was the living example of Christ’s charge to not let your right hand know what your left hand is doing when doing good.
I’ll likely outlive him in years but never in honor or goodness, although my sons are well on their way to being his equal and have easily surpassed me both in honor & goodness.
That’s a great comfort.
I was listening to the Screwtape letters at work yesterday and noted Screwtape’s dream of the materialist magician who believes in “forces” and “demons” but not in God.
Looking at his words from 84 years ago and society today all I can say is: Boy did Lewis call it or what?
The most amazing thing about the modern left is their total obsession with Donald Trump.
While I understand that there are a fair amount of people who make a living off of this the sheer number of folks who carry an obsessive hatred of a man who they will never meet and has at best a tangential effect on their lives is astounding. One would think that they would consider actually living their own lives.
Its hard to imagine a life that empty and devoid of purpose but then again I find it hard to imagine parents spaying their children to gain social status so what do I know.
Finally watching the left unable to sell the media on the idea that they are not responsible for the government shutdown & media members calling them out of it brings me to mind on of my favorite movements from Matt Smith’s excellent run as Doctor who:
Young Kazran Sardic: Are you really a babysitter?
11th Doctor: I think you’ll find I’m universally recognized as a mature and responsible adult.
(He shows Kazran the psychic paper which makes people see what he wants)
Young Kazran Sardic: It’s just a lot of wavy lines.
11th Doctor: (looks at the paper) Yeah, it’s shorted out. Finally, a lie too big.
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carrol 2010
There are a fair amount of Trump haters who still buy this line but nobody outside of the bubble does and the bubble has been getting smaller and smaller.
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