Kid's books are so weird

Marioneta para la película rusa «Que viva México», Sergei Eisenstein, 1932.

What the entire country would look like if we repealed Hart Celler.

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Each edition of The Chicagoan had a section called "Talk of the Town" filled with a couple pages worth of pithy little observations and it really is just like reading 1924 Chicago Twitter

The most profound America 250 commemoration is the arrival of a bunch of Europeans for the World Cup, who enthusiastically and instinctively embrace American culture.

When I was a kid there was a push to say "you can like girl/boy things and still be a boy/girl, let no one tell you otherwise" and now we've reached a whole other extreme of determinism where preferring things socially labelled as male makes you, in essence, a male

Saint Augustine on the middle path between hope and despair and how even hope can lead one astray: “From both, then, men are in danger; both from hoping and despairing, from contrary things, from contrary affections. Who is deceived by hoping? He who says, ‘God is good, God is merciful, let me do what I please, what I like; let me give loose reins to my lusts, let me gratify the desires of my soul.’ Why this? Because God is merciful, God is good, God is kind. These men are in danger by hope. And those are in danger from despair, who, having fallen into grievous sins, fancying that they can no more be pardoned upon repentance, and believing that they are without doubt doomed to damnation, do say with themselves, ‘We are already destined to be damned, why not do what we please with the disposition of gladiators destined to the sword.’ This is the reason that desperate men are dangerous: for, having no longer anything to fear, they are to be feared exceedingly. Despair kills these; the others, by hope. The mind is tossed to and fro between hope and despair. You have to fear lest hope slay you; and, when you hope much from mercy, lest you fall into judgment: again, you have to fear lest despair slay you, and, when you think that the grievous sins which you have committed cannot be forgiven you, you do not repent, and you incur the sentence of Wisdom, which says, ‘I also will laugh at your perdition’ (Proverbs 1:26). How then does the Lord treat those who are in danger from both these maladies? To those who are in danger from hope, He says, Be not slow to be converted to the Lord, neither put it off from day to day; for suddenly His anger will come, and in the time of vengeance, will utterly destroy you (Sirach 5:8-9). To those who are in danger from despair, what does He say? In whatever day the wicked man shall be converted, I will forget all his iniquities (Ezekiel 18:21). Accordingly, for the sake of those who are in danger by despair, He has offered us a refuge of pardon; and because of those who are in danger by hope, and are deluded by delays, He has made the day of death uncertain. You know not when your last day may come. Are you ungrateful because you have today on which you may be improved? Thus therefore said He to the woman, ‘Neither will I condemn you;’ but, being made secure concerning the past, beware of the future. ‘Go and sin no more:’ I have blotted out what you have done; keep what I have commanded you, that you may find what I have promised.” From Tractates on the Gospel of John, Tractate 33.8

Put on the whole armor of God.

🔸 June 15 - The Holy Prophet Amos 🔸 Yesterday, we also commemorated the Holy Prophet Amos. He lived during the 8th century before Christ, and is the author of the Book of Amos. At that time, the Hebrew nation was divided into two kingdoms: Judah in the south, ruled by King Uzziah, and Israel in the north, ruled by King Jeroboam II. Jeroboam was an idolater, and at Bethel he had set up a golden calf to which the people offered sacrifice. The Prophet Amos was from Judah and was born at Tekoah near Bethlehem. Simple and uneducated, yet zealous in his faith in the One True God, this former shepherd and dresser of sycamore trees (Amos 7:14-15) was chosen by the Lord for prophetic service. He was called to preach in Bethel, where there was a royal sanctuary, and to proclaim the coming downfall of the ruling dynasty and the northern kingdom because of their apostasy and idolatry. After the chief priest Amaziah denounced him to King Jeroboam II, Amos was ordered to leave the kingdom and was prevented from publicly proclaiming his message. Amos therefore committed his prophecies to writing so that they would be preserved for future generations. In this way, he became the first of the literary prophets, being the earliest prophet to record and preserve a collection of his own oracles as a structured prophetic book. Amos fearlessly rebuked King Jeroboam and the priests of Bethel for their idolatry, calling the people away from the worship of the golden calves and back to the worship of the Living God. He also condemned the oppression of the poor and the corruption of the powerful. For this reason, the priest Amaziah came to hate Amos. Amos prophesied that the Assyrians would conquer Israel, that the king and the sons of Amaziah would perish, and that Amaziah’s wife would be dishonoured because he had led the people into spiritual adultery through idol worship. Enraged, Amaziah had Amos beaten, yet these prophecies were fulfilled. Hosiah, the son of Amaziah, struck the Prophet on the head with a club and mortally wounded him. Still alive, Amos managed to return to his native village of Tekoah in Judah, where he reposed two days later around the year 745 BC.

*waves crashing*

We’re undoing the Civil Rights Era

So hope, patience and prayer is as a triptych, the most powerful weapon for a Christian. — Elder Ephraim of Arizona

One day without daily prayers

finally I can wait for my train in luxury

This Encyclopedia Britannica commercial from 1987 was ahead of its time

Can't see out of one of my eyes because of a migraine and I have work later. Please consider me in your prayers. 🙏🏻❤️☦️