Subjects for Prayers

Over the holy days, please pray for my employment.

Please pray for peace in Israel throughout the Passover.

And please pray for those who will be joining the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 04/17/03 02:28:48 PM
Categorized as Religious.

Worthy the Reading III

City Journal et al.

Your Faithful and Humble Blogster has been informed, once again, by no less than the Senior Editor himself of City Journal that the latest issue is available, drawing my attention to several articles in particular. (Of course, his e-mail was probably sent en masse to 4,818,732 other webloggers, but I digress.) Here are two eye-openers:

• ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities
• Queering the Schools

Also, this remarkable article, Behind Jefferson’s Wall, both informative and beautiful.

Articles elsewhere worth your attention:

• Victory Misunderstood: What the [First] Gulf War Tells Us About the Future of Conflict
• Anatomy of the Three-Week War
• Why a Liberal Supports Bush's War
• Political Shock and Awe
• "I'm Right, You're Wrong, Go To Hell"
• Bringing Islamic Extremists Into Our Schools

And this important breaking news: Tom Daschle's Duty to Be Morally Coherent.

(Thanks,... everybody.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 04/17/03 01:28:54 PM
Categorized as Social/Cultural.

Ecclesia de Eucharistia

"On the Eucharist in Its Relationship to the Church"

The pope's new encyclical, promulgated today, is available at New Advent.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 04/17/03 09:25:19 AM
Categorized as Religious.

John Donne: Holy Sonnets XIV

Batter my heart, three person'd God; for, you
As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow mee,'and bend
Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new.
I, like an usurpt towne, to'another due,
Labour to admit you, but Oh, to no end,
Reason your viceroy in mee, mee should defend,
But is captiv'd, and proves weake or untrue,
Yet dearely'I love you,'and would be loved faine,
But am betroth'd unto your enemie,
Divorce mee,'untie, or breake that knot againe,
Take mee to you, imprison mee, for I
Except you enthrall mee, never shall be free,
Nor ever chast, except you ravish mee.

[The Complete English Poems, ed. C. A. Patrides, p. 443.]

(See also modernized.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 04/17/03 09:02:22 AM
Categorized as Literary & Religious.