Posted on 04/22/2005 5:24:59 AM PDT by Slip18
Friday, April 22, 2005
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
Subbie Slip has her whip, handcuffs and legcuffs today.
The rest of the stuff is locked up in my drawer. I’m just letting all the new students know that we behave as if we were ladies and gentlemen in here. Those two words “as if” can get you an A if you make the subbie laugh.
Adj
Pronunciation: Sin/i/ster.
adjective: (heraldry) on or starting from the wearer's left
Example: "Bar sinister"
adjective: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
Example: "The scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him-Thomas Hardy"
adjective: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
Example: "Sinister storm clouds"
There was a moment during the senate foreign relations committee meeting re: Bolton Confirmation, when I was tempted to purchase and mail some Neuticles to Sen. Lugar.
Mass is still the union with Jesus at the moment he died on the cross - whether it is in Latin or English, it's still the same. God is present, communion happens, it is eternal. Just as the sacrifice Jesus made is. I will celebrate it either in English or Latin, doesn't matter to me. Wouldn't miss it for anything.
LMAO! You should have sent him he artlcle-that is priceless.
I nearly almost go anyway, but it is really not the same for me-I'm mostly of Mexican/Indian ancestry and I grew up in a very traditional Catholic family.
No, I think the little fake balls themselves are more of a statement...if your going to hang with the big dogs, you've gotta have a pair, and his are definately missing. We witnessed a pissing contest and our side lost.
I think Lugar should be required to go sniff Dodd's and Kerry's butts.
This has gotten me thinking of that scene in "The Last Emporer" when the eunuchs (government workers) are laid off and demand their (mummified) testes back...apropos of nothing....
I've got to go light the grill for steaks, bake potatoes, get asparagus ready to steam, feed deer and feed and bring the refugee kittens I rescued into the kitchen in the pet carrier to be "socialized"-read: get used to humans, TV and noise and interact with Kitty boy and Husky girl from the safety of the pet carrier-back later...
What I cannot understand is why stop all the Latin masses. They used to allow them occarionally or for high mass, now all masses seem to be low masses. Must be the newer priests cannot even say mass in Latin.
My grill is lit, the chicken is about to go on it -- mixed vegetables are steaming, and corn casserole is in the oven. Mmmm, I am hungry.
I did burgers on the stove...even worse, I made my sister some strange fake "garden" burger, alongside the sirloin patties. Dilbert is now two hours late without calling...I am about to feed his burger to the dog.
lucky dog. I had the broiler pan out and ready, but hubby relented and got the grill going for me. It's a little cold out there, but I have my coat on to run in and out. wish I had thought of dessert, maybe we can go for a cone, we have few ice cream places open already.
The one(s) who don't pay into The Lottery get thrown to lions?
(Solve a couple of fund-raising problems...)
The running and in and out to the grill does not sound relaxing. Dessert--ice cream in the cold? Maybe with hot fudge and a warm brownie...
That crashing sound thingy just a few seconds ago?
I didn't do it!
Yeah, I hate staying after school on a Friday too.
he could use them more than Loosh!
Preferring Mass in latin, and wishing for its return on a more routine basis, as it used to be said, doesn't mean that one doesn't go to Mass or that Christ isn't present. no one said that was the case. those that weren't accustomed to it, obviously don't miss it and for them it doesn't hold the same meaning. i was baptized in the Greek Catholic church, which is even MORE orthodox, and it wasn't til 1st grade when i attended Catholic school, that my dad had to convert from Greek Catholicism to Roman Catholicism and us with him (My mom was roman catholic, but my brother and i were baptized in the Greek Catholic church) in order for xsbro and i to attend the RC school. That also meant that i was never confirmed as a teen, because in the Greek Catholic church you are baptized and confirmed simultaneously as a infant. When i was in 6th grade and the rest of the class was getting confirmed, there was a handful of us that had to learn all the lessons etc from the catechism, but we didn't experience the sacrament again, because once you have it, you don't get it again, apparently. All of that to say that, like T5, who was raised in the more traditional church, it is where i came from.
remember when all three tall candles were lit on the altar and that meant it was HIGH Mass and that when there were only the shorter candles or only one, that meant it was LOW MASS? outside of a tridentine Mass, you don't see that distinction made anymore.
We have a service where if someone was previously confirmed, they are received instead. It's very similar, acknowledging the earlier confirmation but sounding almost exactly the same. Since both of us had been confirmed before, we were simply received when we converted over. We still had to find sponsors though...
High Church and Low Church are fairly common in our denomination. AAM can explain the difference better than I can, even though she has converted out. I guess one has more smells and bells than the other. ;)
oh i remember the difference distinctly! as a kid one hoped for LOW!
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