Brother Wolf

Brother Wolf, is Eleanor Bourg Nicholson's second novel with Dominican Father Thomas Edmund Gilroy.  I don't know why I started with the second novel, rather than the first, anymore than I know why I've put off reading them until now.  Well, I do know; I'm a fool, that's why.  I thought they'd be silly.

Mea culpa! Mea Culpa.

I loved it.  I couldn't put it down.  All day I rushed to get home to reading.  I dreamt about it. I talked about it.  Did I mention that I loved it?

It's an easy, fast read, probably because the reader wants to see what's ahead.  It's a gothic novel, set around the turn of the 19th century.  It has vampires, and werewolves, and romance, and gypsies, curses, demons, exorcists, and whatever else you want.  

Athene is the young maiden who you will be rooting for.  Her father is oppressive.  Her mother is deceased.  Her father is an ex-priest and joins the group of werewolf hunters to find and save the brother of one of the nuns.  Yes, there are nuns, monks, friars, priests, brothers, professors, believers, and not...  

Athene and everyone do battle against the forces of evil.  And you know who wins.  Light always overcomes darkness.  

I'm hooked and I'm reading Nicholson's first novel and any sequels forth coming.  

Hello There

 

If you enlarge the license plate on this car in front of me, you can see that it reads 

2 John 13.  I couldn't look it up at the time, while I was driving, but I did look it up when I had the chance.

It made me smile.

The children of your elect sister greet you.

Hasta Luego, Jorge.

 It is the worst.  One of my "cloistered brothers" has died.  It is shocking.  People talked to him hours before he died.  He did have a little stroke a few weeks ago and was on medicine.  

It's so sad.  He was fairly young and looking forward to this being his last Thanksgiving and Christmas, inside.  We were all grief stricken. 

We had Mass today, which was called our Thanksgiving Mass.  Of course, Mass is a Thanksgiving, anyway, so we added prayers for Jorge.

It will take us a while to process this tragedy.  

Good Guys Finish Last

https://aleteia.org/2023/11/16/video-a-staggering-fortune-and-the-servants-odd-way-of-using-it/ 

I can't get the video, but you can by clicking on the link.  I'm posting this take on Matt: 25:14-30 because I came across a different and unusual look at this parable.

The Master is a crook.  Matt 25: 24

I knew you were a demanding person, harvesting where you did not plant and gathering where you did not scatter...

Jesus is saying the Master is not an honest person.  Also, the amount of money he gives to his servants is incomprehensible.  Who does that!
      Anyway, the servants, imitating their master, extort, or rob, or whatever, increase the amount of money their Master gave them and are praised for it.  Because they are like their Master, dishonest.

The only honest man in the bunch is the accused lazy servant.  He was given a certain amount of money and returned the exact amount he was given.

Imagine the activities of the first and second servants.  They were praised because they were like their boss.  But the third servant was prudent to a fault and he was punished for it.  Since this parable is supposed to be about the parousia, perhaps the message is not to sit around waiting.  We have to keep working for the Second Coming.  What else could be the message?

That Foolish Shepherd

 There's a parable in Luke 15: 1-7, where Jesus goes after the lost sheep.  I know that leaving 99 sheep just to go after ONE, is silly.  But thinking that way is missing the point.  

We expect God to forgive sinners, but going after us, searching for us, and then joyfully forgiving us, proves that He must truly love us.

Caution

 A friend sent me an email asking me to watch this video.  I consider it alarmist and smacks of a conspiracy theory.  It's also familiar.  You see this type of theory every time there's a tragedy.  It's scapegoating, gaslighting, and unoriginal.

I first saw this type of intrigue when I was in college.  We read about people who believed that President Roosevelt purposely put the entire naval fleet in Pearl Harbor to be bombed by the Japanese.  He as Secretary of the Navy wanted new ships and Congress wouldn't vote the money.  So when president, and he had news that the Japanese were rattling swords, he put the naval fleet in Pearl Habor.  Budda Bing/Budda Bang!  He got a brand new navy.

When you watch this video, you will see that the Israel Defense Force deliberately left the Gaza border open.  Why?  So Netanyahu would have an excuse to attack Gaza.

Get it?

Roosevelt=evil.  Netanyahu=evil.

Do you believe it?  As for me, I leave it all to God.  He knows what's going on and He has a plan.  Psalm 112: 7

https://stopworldcontrol.com/

Christ's Precious Blood

 Blood?  What?  Do you think this is disgusting?  Not to Catholics, although I can see where you are coming from.  When I was teaching at a school called, Most Precious Blood, my husband and I were purchasing a house.  When I filled out the application, the broker couldn't believe that I worked for a place called "Something BLOOD?"  It was so abhorrent to him. 

Whatever.  Here's the story.