monday

I've got a very early start today.I'm picking my workmate T up about 3.45 to clean the creche which RBB says isn't a kindergarten. I guess he'd know.

I went and visited the graves of a lot of mothers yesterday. Of course I did more than just visit. Those in purgatory desperately need our prayers. Of course those that insist on rejecting God have to go to hell where there is no hope and our prayers are of no use to them. Many such march blindly to their doom.

(The Banksy is courtesy of Petone Ponderer, London).

Have fun and its never too late to repent in this life.

First day of the week

 It's Sunday, which means Mass and church shop and collecting money off the congregation. In a way I'm a tax collector. Be the tax voluntary. 

Something went down at lunch yesterday in Thorndon but I'm not a gossip. There are some humorous people who have a knack for using swear words in a non offensive way; and I think you have to be a bit precious to get upset.  Ricky Gervais, Jimmy Carr and yes, RBB come to mind.

In the first reading the writer (Luke?) describes unclean spirits exiting people shrieking from those who were possessed. Acts 8:5

The second reading gives sage advise about being ready to give an answer with a clear conscience to those who slander you that they may be proved wrong in the accusations that they bring.

In the Gospel Jesus says that if we love Him we will keep His commandments...He loves those and they will live and He will show Himself to them.

I had a nice day indoors rearranging the couches and cleaning up and restocking the aquarium. The fish levels had got a bit low (three tetrons and one bottom feeder). I purchased ten more baby tetrons and a Chinese fighting fish as a 'show stopper'

(that's what the helpful sales lady called it). I had a snail investation from a live plant I had once; so removed a couple of dozen of them. Overfeeding seems to be a fault I have and encourages them plus blocking the filters with nasty brown algae. She says a fishes stomach is only as big as its eye. I don't think she was deliberately being aphoristic.

I better get moving ....

Have fun and don't stress.

Sabbath

 Shtuyot is a good Ieraeli word that means "bullsh*t". If I was intelligent I might say it is an onomatopoeia. But I would be wrong in both.

In today's Gospel Jesus warns us that as the world rejected Him it will also reject His followers. I see this in comments here.

I watched a film last night called "Remarkably bright creatures" with Sally Field. Not that I've ever heard of her but it sounds bright to say that. It wasn't about commenters on this blog either; though they can be remarkably bright. I saw parallels with myself. She played a cleaner for an aquarium who fell off a ladder and sprained her left foot! She wore a moon boot too. That's where the similarities end. A nice story, and possibly a good chick flick for a cozy evening; though my darling L prefers action movies. I'm lucky.

Better go and read the other two blogs.

Have fun and follow the commandments and will of God.

Fish day

 Had an early call out to work yesterday. It was to help clean a creche. In RBB's day they were called by a German word...kindergarten. Why aren't the children  taught to tidy up after themselves? But here's an SOS*

I didn't waste any time practising but spent it fruitfully praying in front of TBE** after work. That was half an hour. If reading the Bible pleases God and deserves an indulgence I think that would get some grace or time of purgatory. Not that there is time in purgatory. Time is dependant on several things anyway. A chap who seemed to know about science said, on a video, that if Sun suddenly disappeared, not only would its light still take 8 minutes to reach us but for 8 minutes we would still have its gravity holding us in orbit. After that we would whizz off in a straight line like a stone thrown from a sling. He seemed to think we wouldn't all immediately die because the earth would not loose all its heat from radiation for a few days. After a year Earth would be frozen solid.

Last century the Russians drilled the deepest hole to about 12 kilometres. They surprisingly had to stop because they struck water and it got too mushy. How can there be water that deep? The pressure is so intense that Hydrogen and Oxygen fuse. So maybe the great flood really could have happened.

Better go. Don't listen to RBB. Sin does exist.

*Same OLD Sh*t

**The Blessed Eucharist

Wednesday sixth

 May the 6th be with you. On the fourth people said may the 4th be with you.  If you were a Christian I could say may peace be with you. Which is something we all want so makes more sense. I'm not sure having a force to lift people in the air and stop lasers is that good.

I read the government is forcing councils to amalgamate. I'm sure there are lots of arguments for and against. Maybe TC will fill us in in a post. 

Hanatavirus is in in the news. It started on a cruise ship of course. It comes from dried rodent's excrement. Three have died. Not rodents. I wonder if RBB kills mice. He likes flies which also carry desease.

In the first reading they are arguing about circumcision. Acts 15:1-6. It leaves us in the air. Spoiler alert, I think Paul convinces Peter that it is not necessary anymore. It's not really a health concern but regards the gentiles and observing the old Jewish laws in general. 

In the Gospel Jesus gives RBB another analogy of his relationship to us since RBB has issues with the shepherd and sheep. In John 15:1-8 he says He is a vine and we are the branches. This time the Father is the gardener with the pruning shears cutting off branches that don't bear fruit. Those branches can do nothing without Jesus and wither and are thrown on the fire. I'm sure RBB wont have any problems with that as he does cut grass and prune the trees in his front yard. 

That's about all. I have work today. That doesn't mean I didn't have work yesterday. It's like how it says that the BVM was a virgin 'until' she had Jesus. It doesn't mean she wasn't afterwards!

Have fun and try to find peace on your own. Good luck with that.

Tuesday

 Sorry. Running late listening to Gavin Ortland and Trent Horn.

https://youtu.be/GB6kQi50hS4?si=ULBbSfQWy_0qNG2C

Hi ho hi ho....

 In today's reading Paul tell's a man who had never walked to get to his feet and he did. So everyone there thought Paul was a god and called him Hermes. They called Barnaba 'Zeus'.

Jesus tells us that anyone who loves him will keep his (Jesus' ) word and the Father will love him too.

Well I'm getting back on my feet and returning to work. My supervisor text yesterday indicating she would like me back so I went to the after hours and got a med cert to return today. It'll save some sick leave and be good to get back into the rut.

I drove up and went to Mass at St Bridgets in Feilding yesterday and had KFC with my darling L. 

Better dig out my uniform and have some muesli.

If you sin, repent and go to confession to a Catholic priest. Though you probabaly have to be Catholic, which everyone should be anyway.