After a particularly intense week, involving a fair amount of emotional battery, I was due to give a lecture in the unit "Life and Death in Scripture."

Just before beginning the lecture I received an e-mailed apology from a student. He was not able to make class because his cousin had died at 36.

About two hours of lecturing on the tragedy of death, and Christ's defeat of death, I am fairly wrung out. I needed to come back and listen to this a few times. I hope I have figured out how to put an MP3 widget on my blog without forcing people to listen to it. That is, I want them to be able to click it, but not play automatically.

It is an old favourite, but sung like this it restores my flagging emotional reserves.
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It is no secret I am a fan of Rev Dr Paul Mankowski so, when I saw his latest offering on Biblical translations online at Adoramus, I just had to share it with you all!

Not ashamed to be in-your-face to make a point, Mankoswki cites a translation of the Lord's Prayer as an example of the state of play.

A belated CONGRATULATIONS to my soccer playing son on being an important part of a Championship and Premiership team, and contributing to his Dad's continuing struggle for self control.

God bless you son!

I'll be picking you up from Cricket training next week.
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Further to my post below on not trivialising sexual need by offering simplistic solutions, ("offer it up" etc) I feel the need to clarify my point further.

Where below I was referring to any emotional need a man or a woman might have which is habitually unfulfilled, I think it is necessary to give sexual need particular attention. I am well aware that, in doing so, I risk being misunderstood in many ways.
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The latest stoush in the Great Mate Debate involves a discussion of affairs and sexless marriages. To bring you up to speed, Dan Savage has suggested that "there are times when cheating is not just permissible, but ethical", to which Wendy Shalit responds

The dichotomy Dan presents, of a sexless marriage versus a fulfilling and very necessary affair, I see as a false dichotomy.
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Though I am not always a fan of John Saffron's mocking look at religion, I always enjoy reading his transcripts. With a HT to CMR - who HTs The Dawn Patrol in turn, check out this snippet from a show where he reads a quote and asks the people on the street to guess which religious leader penned it.

I can't help laughing when I think of all those Latte Buddhists who claim to be spiritual and follow the Dalai Lama's teaching rather than the 'rigid dogma' of Catholicism.
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Several friends have, of late, admitted they send their children to Protestant bible classes because "there is nothing Catholic" or "the Protestants are much better at this" and the old "at least they are getting something."

I surprised them by advising they remove their children immediately and take steps to remedy the damage done so far. "But isn't it better that they know Scripture? Isn't that what you've been saying all along?" they protest. My point wasn't about knowing Scripture.
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Some time ago I looked at my work schedule and predicted that I would be fairly run down about this time of the year. In an attempt to be conscientious about my health and sanity, I organised a weekend by myself in a different place with not a single event planned the whole weekend.
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Karen from Some Have Hats has tagged me for the Facts and Habits meme. (Her meme makes more interesting reading than mine.)

"The rules are simple…Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed.
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I've been thinking through the matter of how to present the doctrine of the real presence in a way that clearly denounces the merely 'spiritual' or 'symbolic' interpretations, but avoids the problematic term 'physical'.

I heard a story about a priest refusing to purify the sacred vessels on the basis that the fragments were not Christ. It occurred to me that this is a great way of expressing the real presence within the Church's regular language.
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