Sunday's Day by Day Post

Day by Day – Volume I, 2. 8.11, 2013

GOSPEL- Luke 12:35-40

 You also must be prepared.

“Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, 36like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. 37It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them. 38It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak. 39But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. 40You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not 35expect him.” (Source: Biblos.com)

PRAYER: Lord, may the Eucharist you give us bring us to salvation and keep us faithful to the light of your truth. We ask this in the name of Jesus the Lord.

RELIGIOUS – Pope Francis: A New Direction on gays? During an impromptu press conference on-board the papal plane last week, Pope Francis indicated about those serving in the priesthood: “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him?” he declared. Commentators from far and wide took thses words to mean that Pope Francis was changing the direction of the Church. As a faithful practicing Catholic I believe these commentators are all off-base. Homosexuality is and will remain a disordered behavior; it is a grievous sin which our loving Lord, Jesus Christ, will forgive.

CURIOUS NEWS – Why is Huma still defending Wiener? This, obviously, goes beyond marital loyalty. Her connection to Hillary Clinton as an aide seems connected to the power that might manifest. The trappings of the presidency are undoubtedly more powerful than the effects of her husband's perverted public declarations.

A.D. HISTORY- Dead Sea Scrolls – Back in 2006 my wife and I visited the Quamrán Caves on our two-week pilgrimage to Israel. I took a few key shots of the Dead Sea, the Mitva facing the cave-mountain shown in the pic shown here. I was about two-hundred yards away when I took this picure. The scrolls were found in the Spring of a 1947 by some Bedouins of the Ta'amire tribe. Currently, the Dead Sea Scrolls are stored one-half in the US and half in a museum in Jerusalem.

 There are many stories about the true circumstances surrounding the discovery, but scholars say the truth about this amazing antiquity find

will have to remain a mystery. To the right the second picture is of a Mitvah where the Essenes used to cleanse themselves in the 100 A.D.'s. This particular Mitvah is about 100 yards from the edge of the Dead Sea. All of the area surrounding this region is completely barren, because the salt prevents the growth of any plant life. Our visit to this area was truly amazing. I have never seen anything like what I have described here. Later we visited the museum and saw some of the scrolls shown under glass.

OLD MOVIES: They used to say that art imitates life, but it is also true that the artist or writer/producer in this case twists it around. In the case of The Bridge of the River Kwai (1957, Alec Guinness, William Holden, Sessue Hayakawa)

The movie plot: British POW;\'s in WWII Burma are forced to build a railway bridge for their cruel Japanese captors. Using superior British savvy they succeed. Brithis commander, Col. Nicholson takes so much pride in the construction that he first defends it from the saboteurs, but then comes to his senses and blows it up himself.

The real scoop: The POW's actually built two bridges. They then used Japanese savvy, not the British. The Japanese were not at all cruel. Actually, the British Commander, Lt. Col. Toosey, testified on behalf of Japanese Commander Major Saito at his war crimes trial, saving him from a death sentence. The bridges were destroyed two years later, by the RAF, not the saboteurs.

Remember keep Holy the Lord's Day.