Harvey Millican's Blog: Musings of a Trad Dad

Been to confession lately?

Boarding a giant aluminum tube with “wings” always helps remind one of his mortality.

I’m not actually on United but they are a dominant carrier at this airport.

Prayers for safe travels are always appreciated!

St. Raphael, pray for us!

Over a decade ago I wrote the following regarding a flight I took to my hometown of Newark.

“I spend the next half-hour on the line for security only to be touched in ways no one should be by a woman twice my size.  Past security, there is no lounge for me.  There is only the dull passenger waiting area where there are absolutely NO seats to be had.  I am last to board a plane that smells like popcorn and urine.  I do believe the lady sitting next to me is drunk.  Well, that’s a given, she just threw up.  And… OH!  She missed the vomit bag.  I’d hate to be the owner of that jacket she just soiled.  Oh wait, I AM the owner of the jacket.  “Miss, you can keep that jacket…”  The flight takes off with all the gracefulness of an elephant leaping from a waterfall.  It is turbulent for twelve hours until finally crash landing at the wrong airport.  “Ladies and Gentlemen, I know we were supposed to be flying into Newark but our pilots both fell asleep for a while. It happens.  You’ll be enjoying a nice weekend in Manchester, New Hampshire!”  And, oh yes, they lost my luggage.  Meanwhile, I still have not been handed a single drink by a stylish stewardess.”

This afternoon’s flight was markedly better. Probably because I had my daughter with me for company. We watched episodes of Air Disasters together. Other than that, not much has changed.

When you ask for it and you get it…

It hurts.

In the meantime, I would appreciate prayers for safe travels. This time I am happy to take my teenage daughter with me on my work trip.

Give it a watch and boost his stats. They’re both great.

October 17 is the feast day of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and a perfect day (as is any day) to make an act of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

https://www.catholictradition.org/Two-Hearts/consecration.htm#2

“As all this unfolds, the Vatican proudly offers a prayer room for Muslims inside the Apostolic Library. The same curia that forbids public listings of the Latin Mass now provides a carpet for Islamic prayer. Ecumenism has swallowed evangelization whole. They’ll call it hospitality; it’s really surrender. The one religion that once converted the world now apologizes for its exclusivity.”

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