Link to yesterday’s post.
Holy Father, thank You for how well the next days situation is untangling itself, allowing for the perspective of a short but warm family time. I pray You that everyone has an at least as joyous Christmas week as mine. May the Kabbal collapse soon.
AGENDA
Today we celebrate Saint Thorlak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Thorlak
Born in 1133 at Hlíðarendi in the see of Skálholt in southern Iceland, Thorlak was from an agrarian family. He was ordained a deacon before he was fifteen and a priest at the age of eighteen. He studied abroad at Paris with the Victorines, where he learned the Rule of Saint Augustine from roughly 1153 to 1159, and then studied canon law in Lincoln. Returning to Iceland in 1165, Thorlak founded a monastery of Canons Regular at Þykkvabær after refusing to marry a rich widow. There he devoted himself to a strictly religious life, refusing to marry (many other Icelandic priests were married) and devoting himself to reciting the Our Father, the Creed, and a hymn, as well as fifty Psalms. Thorlak was consecrated a bishop by Augustine of Nidaros and worked to regulate the Augustinian Rule in Iceland, as well as eradicate simony, lay patronage, and clerical incontinency. Thorlak's life and dozens of his miracles are described in great detail in the Icelandic saga Þorláks saga helga (the Saga of Saint Thorlak), republished in Icelandic on the occasion of John Paul II's visit to Iceland in 1989. It seems likely that Thorlak's informal sanctification in the Church in Iceland, promoted by Latin texts on which this was based, "was arranged in Icelandic ecclesiastical circles, clerics of both dioceses being conspicuous in reports of early miracles". Thorlak was officially recognised as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on 14 January 1984, when John Paul II canonized him and declared him the patron saint of Iceland.
YouVersion Bible verse of the day
- Isaiah 40:31: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
THE NUMBER 781
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/700_(number)#780s :
- 781 = 11 × 71
- sum of powers of 5/repdigit in base 5 (11111)
- Mertens function(781) = 0
- lazy caterer number (sequence A000124 in the OEIS)
NETBIBLE ENTRY FOR INDEX #781
- asophos: (1) unwise, foolish
Matching Bible verses
- Eph 5:15: Therefore be very careful how you live – not as unwise but as wise
BIBLE VERSE MATCHING 71:11
- Psalm 71:11: (In You, O LORD, I Have Taken Refuge) …[For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life conspire,] saying, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.” [Be not far from me, O God. Hurry, O my God, to help me.]…
Q DROP #781
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See you tomorrow, Frens!🤓
Amen.
Mary!🤗❤️💐
Hitting the road now. House is warm.
See you later.Have a blessed day!🙏🏻
Good deal! I just awoke to a sliding glass door with snow up it about 2 inches. Had to let the dog out. Door froze so I had to work it loose. Then had to shovel snow away from door. The temp is now -3 degrees F. Have a wonderful blessed day.
Stay warm MARY. What is your dog's name?
Izzy. She's half Jack Russell and half Beagle. She is 15 years old and she was 2 years old when George and I got her. She is a very loving dog. She wakes me up every morning to be let out; just in time for me to get up and get ready to go babysit. She's very punctual. Haha.
Please give a hug to Izzy for me. She sounds like the perfect companion.
I will. Every night/evening when I get home I can no longer sit down and take off my shoes that she doesn't make a b-line to me so I can pet her. She has seperation anxiety and so she will whine and trot about until I acknowledge her.
She is 15, she has put in the Good Girl Time. She gets her hugs and acknowledgement on her terms. :)