Harvey Millican's Blog: Musings of a Trad Dad

I’m off to lower the Texas flag to half-staff now…

“To understand how ardently God desires the salvation of souls, it is enough to consider what He has done for the redemption of man. Jesus Christ clearly expressed this desire when He said: I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized, and how am I straitened until it be accomplished!(Luke xii. 50). Jesus felt as if fainting away through the ardour with which He longed to see the work of the Redemption accomplished, so that men might be saved. From this St. John Chrysostom justly infers that there is nothing more acceptable to God than the salvation of souls. And before him St. Justin had said that nothing is so pleasing to God as to labour to make others better. Our Lord once said to a holy priest: “Labour for the salvation of sinners, for this is most pleasing to Me.” So dear is this work to God that as Clement of Alexandria says, the salvation of man is God’s sole concern. Hence, addressing a priest, St. Laurence Justinian says: “If you wish to honour God you can do no better than to labour for the salvation of souls.” According to St. Bernard, a soul is more valuable in the eyes of God than the whole world. And, according to St. John Chrysostom, you please God more by converting a single soul, than by giving all your goods to the poor. Tertullian asserts that the salvation of one sheep that has strayed is as dear as that of the whole flock. St. Paul wrote: I live in the faith of the Son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me. (Gal. ii. 20). By these words is signified, as St. John Chrysostom says, that Jesus Christ would have died as soon for a single soul as for all men. And this Our Lord gives us to understand by the Parable of the Lost Groat. “He calls together all the Angels,” says St. Thomas, “not that men, but that He Himself may be congratulated, as if man were God’s God, and His own Divine salvation depended on man; and as if without man He could not be happy.”

https://www.religiousbookshelf.com/meditations-and-readings/day/2141-Friday-after-Fourth-Sunday-of-Lent.html

Where we stand…

I don’t know if Bibi Mielekowki is dead. I do know his office put out multiple AI videos of him. I dont think Trump saw Joe Kent coming. I don’t know what the hell is going on anymore.

And fire is literally raining from the sky in parts of the country (see earlier post about meteors).

Stay confessed.

Check out this video.

https://youtu.be/JcZ_vu4fN9s?si=q62yQyPyKmEShn-H

This past Saturday night around 11:00 PM CT, my entire neighborhood noticed something eerily similar in the Dallas area. It was a loud rumbling noise dotted by explosive sounds that lasted about five minutes and was accompanied by flashes of light over the southern horizon. oddly, there was no report on any news source. I even checked with a friend on the city council and he heard it but couldn’t find a police or fire report. My son and I at first thought it was a thunderstorm, but there was nothing on the radar and no rain. My wife thought it was fireworks, but it would have to have been an entire factory of fireworks all blowing up at once. 

What on earth is hapening?

Shoutout to St. Lawrence for his assistance. I always ask his help before I do anything in food prep. I also drop in a tiny bit of Epiphany water.

Here now, sourdough rye bread infused with goat cheese.

Couldn’t help myself. This is our project for the weekend:

Rye bread!

Because I was feeling extra special today, I went ahead and sprinkled goat cheese int the mix. I forgot the drizzle of honey. Too bad because it’s bourbon honey from Kentucky. I’ll let you know the final results.