Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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A song (or two) for Saturday
Hearing this underscores something . . . We are still here, still relevant. Despite the chaos enveloping our lives, it has not devoured our souls. If you are from that specific kind of place, absence even if lengthy doesn’t matter all that much. If you find some quiet and settle in with some really good bourbon, this music speaks directly to your soul. I so enjoyed this. Thanks for posting, Treeper friend benzy . . . 🙂
✝️ Posting for WP
“I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”
– Phillipians 1:20-21
The Weekly Flashback:
“Let It Be Jesus”
“Make My Life A Prayer To You”
“Above All Else”
J
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Ordinary Time: June 13th
Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
In the midst of the World War II, Pope Pius XII put the whole world under the special protection of our Savior’s Mother by consecrating it to her Immaculate Heart, and in 1944 he decreed that in the future the whole Church should celebrate the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is not a new devotion. In the seventeenth century, St. John Eudes preached it together with that of the Sacred Heart; in the nineteenth century, Pius VII and Pius IX allowed several churches to celebrate a feast of the Pure Heart of Mary. Pius XII instituted today’s feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for the whole Church, so as to obtain by her intercession “peace among nations, freedom for the Church, the conversion of sinners, the love of purity and the practice of virtue” (Decree of May 4, 1944). The devotion is symbolized by the physical heart of Mary, but actually involves meditation and attempts to live Mary’s example of love, virtues, sentiments, and interior life.
Immaculate Mary | Lourdes Hymn
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Late one night, after a gig in a tiny little coffee shop, we’d retired to the little apartment of my soon-to-be girlfriend and future wife of some 55 years. Townes was a notorious hard drinker, claimed he wrote his best songs when he was drunk . . . We were settling in when Maggie, in her best stern teacher’s voice firmly told us she had classes to teach the next morning . . .
We were all a little embarrassed. Townes politely asked if he could sing one more song. Sitting on the floor of her tiny apartment with a few good friends, he gave us “If I Needed You . . .” This brings back some fond, long ago, memories. 🙂
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Thank you! I agree . . . 🙂
From tonight’s European Conservative site. There’s no need to introduce or this . . . it’s inherent relevance is to starkly clear for anyone here on the Treehouse to see. (edits mine).
Belfast, Northern Ireland, was engulfed in violence this week, following the alleged ‘attempted beheading’ of a local man by a Sudanese asylum seeker. Vehicles burned, roads were blocked with flaming bins, and terrified families were led from their homes under police protection.
These disturbances follow civil disorder in Southampton, England, provoked by the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak by Sikh man Vickrum Digwa, and the release of truly scandalous police bodycam footage revealing despicable treatment by the cops of a clearly dying Henry.
But in the modern ‘Yookay’ the political class thinks condemning the riots is enough. And it has learned absolutely nothing. Condemnation is easy. It lets ministers, commentators, and officials strike a morally superior pose while sidestepping the public anger, grief, and alienation behind these scenes. That is not leadership. It is cowardice. Sure glad I live in Texas . . .
happy caturday open thread ♥️
Another night of it.