Mr. Misanthrope

She got me in trouble with the Prof in French class by copping my translation of a passage from Baudelaire or some such leaving me hanging on the subsequent passage I was a little shaky on.

He ranted on and on in high gay dudgeon trying to embarrass me with my ineptitude and lack of idiomatic fluency.

I threatened her with violence if she ever did shite like that again and then asked her to coffee at the Union.

I knew before the third cup. Nearly fifty years ago.:LOL:

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I just replaced the version I have with this one, thanks!

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Your welcome.
I stumbled on that a few years ago. Good set. Minimal accompaniment. Stunning vocals. Powerful message. Great music for Advent and Christmas.
I’m glad you liked it.

Forgot one. It’s my favorite version of Mary, did you know?

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You have it backwards

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Explain why.

Does waking up on the sunny side of the dirt count?

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Dad got this right and does not want mom taking the child to some snake-charmer evangelical cult.

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Come on man, surely you don’t believe he’s right and the church is a snake handling cult?
You don’t have a personal beef with Jesus Christ like the girl’s Dad evidently does?

The Dad’s a monster risking irreparably harming his own daughter. He’s using her to inflict emotional, mental and spiritual duress on her mother under the subterfuge of being concerned for the child’s mental wellbeing. And, very likely destroying any chances for the three of them to have a halfway healthy family relationship in the process.

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“ Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.“

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It was Captain Jack Sparrow, not Captain Jack Swallow

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:casty::Lol:

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All ICE resources should be redirected towards deporting anyone who puts up Christmas lights before Advent or keeps them up after Epiphany.

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:Cheers: to the hardcore orthodox traditionalists yet among us-backs bowed, brows furrowed, stiff jointed, limping down straight paths worn deep over ages past by faithful sojourners before them.

I admit I compromised years back and started doing my outdoor lighting on the Fourth Sunday in Advent and lighting it all up on Christmas Eve and turning everything off on Epiphany at midnight.

It’s disconcerting and discouraging -this rush to Christmas-mostly treating Thanksgiving as a bump in the road in route to the great secular mid-winter commercial festival.

I’m in KC with Mrs M visiting/helping our youngest daughter, son in law with newest grandson, our tenth.The KMart near us is essentially already out of Christmas stuff having what’s left on picked over discount shelves. Maybe more is on the way but it doesn’t seem so.

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I have a theological issue with this because I believe that without a literal fall of man that the death and resurrection of Jesus doesn’t make any sense.

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Quite right. An astute observation well stated.

I believe you are essentially saying your reliance and belief (faith) in secular anthropology and cosmology overrides your reliance and belief (faith) in Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection. Your anthropology and cosmology render moot and effectively nullify, at least for you it seems, Jesus’s entire life, ministry, and mission as effectively as though they never happened.

Jesus’s anthropology and cosmology are obviously quite different than your own insofar as he spoke authoritatively about the fall of man in several contexts and the plight we all find ourselves in thanks to Adam.

I believe a sounder approach recognizes Jesus’s physical death by crucifixion and his bodily resurrection validate his anthropology and cosmology, and his appreciation of the literal cataclysmic fall of man; not the other way around. Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me, Said differently, “if you don’t believe my words believe the miracles. They confirm who I am and what I say is true.”

St. Paul’s take was similar.

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But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.

For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

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irrespective

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Irregardless of the situation?

But seriously folks, mine is limited in frequency but almost presents 100% failure to remember when required and applicable.

Wisteria.

There it is. Sad. Shameful. A black mold infested spot in the Misanthrope anterior temporal lobe.

Hippocampus is a close second.

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as a roman catholic, this really doesn't concern me as i believe the entire protestant reformation, was the inspired work of satan, so the fact that it's dying it's natural death just 400 scant years later is not surprising good riddance! it's dying in america too!

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I’m generally supportive of Roman Catholics on this board. I suggest to you that Rome has troubles aplenty. You need to think about the state of your Magisterium. The Pope has enraged the TradCons because he has decreed it inappropriate to accord Mary the titles of Co-redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces. It’s not a decree of caution or prudence, it’s doctrine. And now TradCon Bishops, Priests, and media are up in arms and carrying on like Luther’s, Calvin’s, and Zwingli’s soldiers hundreds of years ago.

The unworkable and unscriptural notion of the Magisterium brought this on itself with previous Popes according Mary the very same titles Leo XIV has removed this past October.

So maybe pump your brakes and slow your rejoicing at your Protestant brothers’s and sisters’s serious misfortunes lest a worse thing befall you and yours. That’s Sola Scriptura talking there, the best Magisterium of all.