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domingo, 24 de diciembre de 2017

Optative olio of observations...






The following posted on Raewald's blog: For Hope, and our Future; I apologise in advance for using his words but he has a way with them! With no further comment from me , well worth a read:



"It's now eighteen months since that momentous referendum, and we're still leaving. With every single day it becomes more and more difficult for the saboteurs to derail the process. The global corporates, their Federast and globalist dags, the Euro bien pensants, has-been politicians, are daily nearer to meltdown and daily more furious. This also makes them daily more dangerous; the dags are being goaded into petty acts of spite, with Remoaner HMRC officials prodded by the Treasury now demanding tax from private Leave referendum donors whilst the vastly richer global corporates escape scot free for their Remain gifts. We may have sighted land, but it will still take some skillful pilotage before we're tied up alongside."...

More snippets:



"More than anything else, social media has enabled the idiocies of neoliberalism, the insanity of distorted morality, the fake news, lies, distortions and deceits of the malign, to be exposed to the disinfectant of sunlight and to laughter. "



"At home and abroad we still face human challenges... ...Do not, I beg you, direct hatred or vituperation towards these people, no matter how devious, dishonest, manipulating or self-interested their behaviour."


"At home we are still failing our own people; ex-armed forces living rough, enduring hardship and privation without complaint. They stood on the line for you and me. We owe them. For our semi-feral urban children, victims of gross sexual abuse and exploitation, victims also of failed official care, of moral relativism, and of our selfishness. We must help them. And heartfelt thanks to all those who keep the law, demand nothing, discharge their social responsibility and ask only for a little pride, a little identity and a little recognition. We owe them, too."

"As each day grows a little brighter I am inspired with hope. Not a surge, but a fleeting butterfly shadow of hope that flickers over the heart and soul. There is a future, a good future, and we can all help shape it. God really is with us if we allow him to be."



Suffice to say I agree entirely. The rest HERE. Merry Christmas. 

Optative olio of observations...


The following posted on Raewald's blog: For Hope, and our Future; I apologise in advance for using his words but he has a way with them! With no further comment from me , well worth a read:
"It's now eighteen months since that momentous referendum, and we're still leaving. With every single day it becomes more and more difficult for the saboteurs to derail the process. The global corporates, their Federast and globalist dags, the Euro bien pensants, has-been politicians, are daily nearer to meltdown and daily more furious. This also makes them daily more dangerous; the dags are being goaded into petty acts of spite, with Remoaner HMRC officials prodded by the Treasury now demanding tax from private Leave referendum donors whilst the vastly richer global corporates escape scot free for their Remain gifts. We may have sighted land, but it will still take some skillful pilotage before we're tied up alongside."...
More snippets:

"More than anything else, social media has enabled the idiocies of neoliberalism, the insanity of distorted morality, the fake news, lies, distortions and deceits of the malign, to be exposed to the disinfectant of sunlight and to laughter. "

"At home and abroad we still face human challenges... ...Do not, I beg you, direct hatred or vituperation towards these people, no matter how devious, dishonest, manipulating or self-interested their behaviour."
"At home we are still failing our own people; ex-armed forces living rough, enduring hardship and privation without complaint. They stood on the line for you and me. We owe them. For our semi-feral urban children, victims of gross sexual abuse and exploitation, victims also of failed official care, of moral relativism, and of our selfishness. We must help them. And heartfelt thanks to all those who keep the law, demand nothing, discharge their social responsibility and ask only for a little pride, a little identity and a little recognition. We owe them, too."
"As each day grows a little brighter I am inspired with hope. Not a surge, but a fleeting butterfly shadow of hope that flickers over the heart and soul. There is a future, a good future, and we can all help shape it. God really is with us if we allow him to be."

Suffice to say I agree entirely. The rest HERE. Merry Christmas. 

jueves, 21 de diciembre de 2017

O Oriens...






O Oriens, 

splendor lucis aeternae, et sol justitiae: 

veni, et illumina sedentes in tenebris, et umbra mortis.



"The sun of righteousness shall rise." ..."I am the light of the world". ..."Hence it is that He was born on the day which is the shortest in our earthly reckoning and from which subsequent days begin to increase in length. He, therefore, who bent low and lifted us up chose the shortest day, yet the one whence light begins to increase."



Winter Solstice... Saturnalia... Dies Natalis Solis Invicti... Yule... Noel... Father Christmas.



Still waiting but it's all happening! 

O Oriens...


O Oriens, 
splendor lucis aeternae, et sol justitiae: 
veni, et illumina sedentes in tenebris, et umbra mortis.

"The sun of righteousness shall rise." ..."I am the light of the world". ..."Hence it is that He was born on the day which is the shortest in our earthly reckoning and from which subsequent days begin to increase in length. He, therefore, who bent low and lifted us up chose the shortest day, yet the one whence light begins to increase."

Winter Solstice... Saturnalia... Dies Natalis Solis Invicti... Yule... Noel... Father Christmas.

Still waiting but it's all happening! 

domingo, 22 de diciembre de 2013

Ovine observance...






Whilst shepherds watched...Craig writes "Did you know that only one Christmas carol was legally permitted to be sung in the Church of England following the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660? ...That carol was When Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night." No, I didn't know that nor most of the rest that he tells us summarising Jeremy Summerly's 'A Cause for Carolling' on BBC Radio 4. An excellent post and ironic when you see the raison d'être of his blog. "Only in 1782 was the legal monopoly of When Shepherds Watched revoked as Hark! The Herald Angels Sing and O Come all ye Faithful joined it in the licit embrace of the Anglican communion."  The carol, really a hymn - 'Song of the Angels at the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour' - based on the Gospel of Luke (Luke II. from v. 8. to v. 15) in which angels tell shepherds about the birth of Jesus; the words, written by poet Nahum Tate, appeared in Tate and Nicholas Brady's 1700 supplement to their New Version of the Psalms of David of 1696 ('before 1700 only the Psalms of David were permitted to be sung').


...Good-will, henceforth, from heav'n to men, 

        " begin and never cease.


Ovine observance...


Whilst shepherds watched...Craig writes "Did you know that only one Christmas carol was legally permitted to be sung in the Church of England following the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660? ...That carol was When Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night." No, I didn't know that nor most of the rest that he tells us summarising Jeremy Summerly's 'A Cause for Carolling' on BBC Radio 4. An excellent post and ironic when you see the raison d'être of his blog. "Only in 1782 was the legal monopoly of When Shepherds Watched revoked as Hark! The Herald Angels Sing and O Come all ye Faithful joined it in the licit embrace of the Anglican communion."  The carol, really a hymn - 'Song of the Angels at the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour' - based on the Gospel of Luke (Luke II. from v. 8. to v. 15) in which angels tell shepherds about the birth of Jesus; the words, written by poet Nahum Tate, appeared in Tate and Nicholas Brady's 1700 supplement to their New Version of the Psalms of David of 1696 ('before 1700 only the Psalms of David were permitted to be sung').
...Good-will, henceforth, from heav'n to men, 
        " begin and never cease.

lunes, 24 de diciembre de 2012

Opportunities or optimism...




Or both. Merry Christmas Everyone. It's been such a good year in many respects and I hope it continues into 2013. Not all good of course; and by all means call me bitter and twisted but I'm glad to see some things are as they should be...best wishes to you and yours.

Opportunities or optimism...


Or both. Merry Christmas Everyone. It's been such a good year in many respects and I hope it continues into 2013. Not all good of course; and by all means call me bitter and twisted but I'm glad to see some things are as they should be...best wishes to you and yours.