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Post #3 in the 2008 Advent series on the O Antiphons. The master-post for this series is here and the text of all the Great O Antiphons is here.

 Radix Jesse, qui stas in signum populorum, super quem continebunt reges os suum, quem gentes deprecabuntur: veni ad liberandum nos, jam noli tardare. Root of Jesse, who [...]

Post #2 in the 2008 Advent series on the O Antiphons. The master-post for this series is here and the text of all the Great O Antiphons is here.

 Adonai, et Dux domus Israel, qui Moysi in igne flammae rubi apparuisti, et ei in Sina legem dedisti: veni ad redimendum nos in brachio extento. Adonai, and [...]

Post #1 in the 2008 Advent series on the O Antiphons. The master-post for this series is here and the text of all the Great O Antiphons is here.

 Sapientia, quae ex ore Altissimi prodiisti, attingens a fine usque ad finem fortiter, suaviterque disponens omnia: veni ad docendum nos viam prudentiae. Wisdom, who proceeds from the [...]

T THE Recovery Centre – and in 12 Step Programmes around the world – the definition of “insanity” is “Doing the same thing repeatedly expecting different results.”
This is seen, especially, in the addict’s attempt to recreate her world over and over doing the same drug and ending in chaos every time.
I’m exploring a second definition [...]

I’ve just noticed that I’ve developed an inability to trust people in dealing with religion. This is not a problem I had before.
When I moved to A’ville, the folks at St Nicholas parish reached out to me: the Deacon took me into his own house and fed me every weekend. His kids [...]

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I was amazed at the anti-drug posters in SF. I’m so used to the drug problem being a country, poor-of-all-race issue (western NC gave up the stills for meth labs and supplies a large portion of the stuff to the world). I had forgotten that, outside of the rural areas, [...]