Ha, my friend, nobody has cared about me for a long time, I am a grey man. No one directs their comments towards me! I am an Orthodox Christian, but I am not adverse to heterodox opinions. I believe that the book tells me to make an honest apologia for my faith when questioned. I also believe that just being honest about what I know, and what I don't, is a good policy when leaving comments online. We have so much information at our fingertips, but we seem to have lost the tools to work with it. No one puts down weapons and picks up tools when attacked, how could I expect you to, if I attacked you? There is so much information, the intensity and aggression over not knowing is terrible. It is far more important, to my way of thinking, to spread the knowledge of Love, temperance, virtue, and forgiveness. It is my duty to put away malice and anger and slander. I fail, every day, but I try. We have so much in common, we are human, we are all wounded. I think our wounds are what bind us together as human beings. Sometimes, we want other's to feel how we feel to make them understand us. Christ intuitively understands what we are, and when I go to communion, I come into contact with the divine and experience a portion of divine healing, the same with the other sacraments. I understand your position though, I was raised evangelical and I have a lot of experience with hypocrites that do not read or act out what they say they believe. I hope you have a blessed day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmtyYqq11Qc
You are missing the High Day Sabbath on Thursday. Tuesday Jesus celebrated Passover, went to the mountain to pray, was arrested overnight. Wednesday, trial and crucifixion Thursday, High Day - Yearly holiday Friday - the women go to the market to buy spices for embalming his body. Saturday -Weekly Sabbath Sunday - Christ is risen.
One more for you, brother. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYwnhXCZ_lY
You do not have to jump into the deep end, it is a discipline, like working out. If I told you that the only way to work out was to start with an Iron Man, you would never start! There are much smaller fasts on Wednesday and Friday of almost every week that help train you for Lent. Do not, I repeat, do not start fasting for Lent as if it is commandment! It will make you miserly and fill you with hate. Just some words of encouragement, that is all. Speak to your spiritual father about it. God Bless!
Nice, I usually find them in PDF and download them. Especially if the author is dead. I do not think it is my citizens duty to support publishing houses long after and author has kicked it. The information is valuable, but not at the prices they charge! I will check the ISBN search.
Ya, try Sister Mirium Joseph's book The Trivium, you can get it on Amazon, and then learn to diagram sentences from https://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/ It will give you the high level stuff. If that is too sophisticated, try YouTube for video's on exactly what you don't understand. You will probably have trouble with relative pronouns (who, which, whom,) because everyone does. Also indirect statements are tricky, as are conditional statements. (He said that...; if this, then that; tricky in Greek and Latin because they often come in different tenses). But the best part, in my opinion, is once you start, it is like you realize that there has been a conversation going on in philosophy for over ten thousand years. The systems of writing just picked up what they had said so far about three thousand years ago. Once you start reading what they actually wrote, and you know how they spoke, it makes a huge difference in understanding. I will always feel so connected to Caesar just because of his De Bello Gallico. Every kid in the US used to read that book, up until the fifties, anyway. If you want that story, go listen to John Taylor Gatto (Underground History of American Education, What an Elite Education Is). Anyway, the conversation takes place in a whole slew of books, from every culture, over two and a half millennia. It really is amazing. Did you know every major work of philosophy from before Christ until after Newton was written in Latin? It seems a shame to throw away such a tradition. The only way to keep it alive is to do the work. It is not even that hard, it really is a joy to read and study what they wrote. They were the wisest men of the age. Cicero, Cato, and Boethius. From Augustine to Giovani Pico Della Mirandola, Erasmus and Martin Luther, and Melanchthon, from Machiavelli to Payne, even Benjamin Franklin, Washington, and Justice Clarence Thomas, all read and write Latin. Besides, once you start reading Latin, your going to have to learn Greek, because the Romans wanted to be Greek. Then you learn all the myth is transposed, and so you will read all that. Ovid's Metamorphosis is a brilliant beginners book (Also in Latin). And it expands your mind and all of a sudden you can landmark where we are in our civilization and what we need to do.
It's a great book, there are tons of people on line that help. If you need more help, get a cheap copy of Wheelock's Latin too, it is grammar based and works well if you want to get a classical education. Learning grammar is what makes one a better English writer. lol. I also think that Mortimer Adler's, How to Read A Book, is an invaluable resource, in fact, it should be the very first book in anyone's library. I am still reading my way through the reading list at the back of the book. It is extensive and amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=locW-9S00VU
Happy Pascha!
I agree that the Protestants had an outsized influence. I have studied this period and I attribute it almost exclusively to Martin Luther and his Letter to The Councilmen of All German Cities That They Establish Christian Schools, which is not a long letter, but in it Luther succinctly points out how advantageous learning Latin, Greek, and Hebrew is for children. I do not have time to go into it right now, but if you have time to read the letter, you will see what I mean. It is available in Pdf for free. Also, I almost forgive Gibbon on account of Chesterton, hahah. I think if more people studied Latin and read Bastiat, Sowell, and Chesterton, just for a start, there would be major improvements in education almost overnight.
**The Paschal Homily of Saint John Chrysostom Is there anyone here who is a devout lover of God? Let them enjoy this beautiful bright festival. Is there anyone who is a grateful servant? Let them rejoice and enter into the joy of their Lord! Are there any now weary with fasting? Let them now receive their wages! If they have toiled from the first hour, let them receive their due reward; If any have come after the third hour, let him with gratitude join in the Feast! And he that arrived after the sixth hour, let him not doubt; for he shall have sustained no loss. And if any have delayed until the ninth hour, let him not hesitate; but let him come too. And he who arrived only at the eleventh hour, let him not be afraid by reason of his delay. For the Lord is gracious and receives the last even as the first. He gives rest to him who comes at the eleventh hour, as well as to him who toiled from the first. To this one He gives, and upon another He bestows. He accepts the work as he greets the endeavor. The deed He honors and the intention He commends. Let us all enter into the joy of the Lord! First and last alike receive your reward; rich and poor, rejoice together! Sober and slothful, celebrate the day! You that have kept the fast, and you that have not, rejoice today for the Table is richly laden! Feast royally on it, the calf is a fatted one. Let no one go away hungry; partake, all, of the cup of faith. Enjoy all the riches of His goodness! Let no one grieve at his poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed. Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave. Let no one fear death, for the death of our Savior has set us free. He has destroyed it by enduring it. He destroyed Hades when he descended into it. He put it into an uproar even as it tasted of His flesh. Isaiah foretold this when he said, You, O Hell, have been troubled by encountering Him below. Hell was in an uproar because it was done away with. It was in an uproar, because it was mocked. It was in an uproar, for it was destroyed. It is in an uproar, for it is annihilated. It is in an uproar because it is now made captive. Hell took a body, and it discovered God. It took earth, and encountered Heaven. It took what it saw, and was overcome by what it did not see. O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? Christ is risen, and you, O death, are annihilated! Christ is risen, and the evil ones are cast down! Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice! Christ is risen, and life is liberated! Christ is risen, and the tomb is emptied of its dead; for Christ, having risen from the dead, is become the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep. To Him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen!
If I can add my two cents, it is simply an education problem. In the fifties, people learned sentence diagramming and Latin. In the sixties, they scrapped all that. Latin opens up your mind to many things. It is kind of like the Karate Kid, you start learning Latin and then all of a sudden you have all this history, philosophy, geography, theology, and economics because you are translating the greatest works of literature of all time. For almost 2000 years, all great works of literature were written in Latin. The founding fathers all understood Latin, and the constitution was written because they, the fathers, were trained in it. That being said, I tutor Latin online. It is super easy and rewarding to learn. The idea that things will get better when the government changes are erroneous, because things will get better when people take responsibility for the education and learn how to read, by learning to read, you learn to think. To learn to think, you learn to write, because you will keep notes. The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory. This method of education is really old, it is called the Trivium, the study of Gramm, Logic, and Rhetoric, or Dialectic. It really is the missing link.
She is scared for her life so she gives the jogger her number. lol