The restaurant across the street from St George, Cleburne’s Cafeteria, had a big Do yesterday, rolling back prices to 1941 — to celebrate 65 years. (Dinners were 45 cents, desserts 08 cents, etc. Click here, scroll down.)
They hosted live entertainment all the day long.
Here’s Helen with an Elvis impersonator.
Actually, I think that is Elvis.
While I have your attention … here’s the funniest thing you’ll read in the next few minutes (maybe all day).
Former Episcopalian, Orthodox Priest in Dixie, frequent Commentor on Pontifications, a fine pastor and all-round good guy, Fr Stephen Freeman …
now has a blog.
I beseech You, O God, send me help from your highest heavens so that I may keep afar from my heart every evil intention and every carnal wish.
Do not cast me, Lord, from your protection lest my adversary find me.
0 name of Jesus, key to all gifts, open up for me the great door to your treasurehouse so that I may enter and praise you with the praise that comes from the heart in return for your mercies which I have experienced in latter days; for you came and renewed me with an awareness of the New World.
I give praise to your holy nature, Lord, for you have made my nature a sanctuary for your hiddenness and a tabernacle for your Mysteries, a place where you can dwell, and a holy temple for your divinity.
0 Mystery exalted beyond every word and beyond silence, who became human in order to renew us by means of voluntary union with the flesh, reveal to me the path by which I may be raised up to your mysteries, traveling along a course that is clear and tranquil, free from the concerns of this world. Gather my mind into the silence of prayer, so that all my wandering thoughts may be silenced within me during that luminous converse of supplication and mystery-filled wonder.
— Saint Isaac of Nineveh
Taken from a Mysticism e-list.
The choice is between those who understand, even if they are poor specimens of Christian devotion, that the very existence of the Christian God must relegate politics to the status of a temporary and at best secondary good, and those who do not understand this, those for whom politics or sex or material status or some poisonous chimera amalgamated from them all — a creature with the head of a CEO, the claws of a bond trader, and the groin of a streetwalker — has rushed in to fill the empty niche above the altar.
1) An imprisoned bishop.
2) Being a fake priest is big business in Japan.
3) Dr. Alveda King, MLK’s neice:
“Please, I urge you, do be distracted by political rhetoric. The most pressing civil rights issue of this season is the protection of the lives of the pre-born.”
“Your vote counts. Please cast it, for life!”
Finally …
4) At Duke University, there were four sophomores taking chemistry. All of them had an “A” going into their final exam. These four friends were so confident, that the weekend before finals, they decided to visit some friends and have a big party. They had a great time, but after all the hearty partying, they slept all day Sunday and didn’t make it back to Duke until early Monday morning.
Rather than taking the final then, they decided not to show up for it and explain to their professor afterwards why they missed it. They explained that they visited friends, and on the way back they had a flat tire. As a result, they missed the final. The professor agreed they could make up the final the next day. The guys were excited and relieved. That night they studied for the exam.
At exam time, the Professor placed them in separate rooms and gave them each a test booklet. Each quickly answered the first problem worth 5 points. Cool, they thought! Each one in separate rooms, thinking this was going to be easy…. then they turned the page. On the second page was written …
For 95 points: Which tire? _____
