Hey ABS, you seem to know everything but you posted your Friday Fun on Thursday. What gives?
Thank you for the question pretend interlocutor.
As religion circles the drain and paganism surfacing from the sewer, everything is discontinuity, novelty and chaos and so ABS was just subtly reflecting that reality with a Friday Fun post on Thursday.
He will return to the right days right away beginning Saturday.
Nostradamus and his curious prophetic poem # 666
"The End"
First cometh the smear test by a man named Pap;
Then an expensive store for kids is opened by Gap.
Then the drunken writer Mailer takes a dirt nap;
After Injuns make a sweet syrup from sap.
After Boston invents a cool boat called a Whaler.
After a trophy is won by a college named Baylor;
Cometh the mystery that shocks even a Jailer;
Sally Struthers attempts to look just like Dub Taylor.
As part of his planned cookbook, Amateur Brain Surgeon will include this Lazy Man's Poached Egg Recipe.
Select a pan with a cover and fill it two-thirds with water. Drop a small amount of vinegar in it and bring it to a temperature just short of boiling.
Pour into the water an extra large egg you had cracked into a glass, remove the pan from the heat, cover and let stand for 4:30.
And that's all she wrote.
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Just to take one example. the Psalm for Saturday's Reading for day 114 is Psalm 115 .
Here is the putative Psalm for that day:
1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, (note the words)
for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness.
2 Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
3 Our God is in the heavens;
he does whatever he pleases.
4 Their idols are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.
5 They have mouths, but do not speak;
eyes, but do not see.
6 They have ears, but do not hear;
noses, but do not smell.
7 They have hands, but do not feel;
feet, but do not walk;
they make no sound in their throats.
8 Those who make them are like them;
so are all who trust in them.
9 O Israel, trust in the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.
10 O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.
11 You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.
12 The Lord has been mindful of us; he will bless us;
he will bless the house of Israel;
he will bless the house of Aaron;
13 he will bless those who fear the Lord,
both small and great.
14 May the Lord give you increase,
both you and your children.
15 May you be blessed by the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
16 The heavens are the Lord’s heavens,
but the earth he has given to human beings.
17 The dead do not praise the Lord,
nor do any that go down into silence.
18 But we will bless the Lord
from this time on and forevermore.
Praise the Lord!
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Here is the real Psalm 115
Credidi. This in the Hebrew is joined with the foregoing psalm, and continues to express the faith and gratitude of the psalmist. Alleluia.
[10] I have believed, therefore have I spoken; but I have been humbled exceedingly. [11] I said in my excess: Every man is a liar. [12] What shall I render to the Lord, for all the things he hath rendered unto me? [13] I will take the chalice of salvation; and I will call upon the name of the Lord. [14] I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people:
[15] Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. [16] O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds: [17] I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will call upon the name of the Lord. [18] I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people: [19] In the courts of the house of the Lord, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem.
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OK, then where do the words posted as Psalm 115 come from? Is it the preceding Psalm 114?
No. This is Psalm 114:
Dilexi. The prayer of a just man in affliction, with a lively confidence in God. Alleluia.
[1] I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer. [2]Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him. [3] The sorrows of death have encompassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow: [4] And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul. [5] The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.
[6] The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was little and he delivered me. [7]Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord hath been bountiful to thee. [8]For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling. [9] I will please the Lord in the land of the living.
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OK, then it must be the Psalm 116, the one following Psalm 115.
No. This is Psalm 116:
Laudate Dominum. All nations are called upon to praise God for his mercy and truth. Alleluia.
[1] O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. [2] For his mercy is confirmed upon us: and the truth of the Lord remaineth for ever.
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OK, then what the Catholic Read-the-Bible-in-one- year Plan says is Psalm 114 is prolly just Psalm 113, right?
Nope: Here is Psalm 113
In exitu Israel. God hath shewn his power in delivering his people: idols are vain. The Hebrews divide this into two psalms. Alleluia. [1] When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people: [2] Judea was made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. [3] The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back. [4] The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock. [5] What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back? [6] Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs of the flock? [7] At the presence of the Lord the earth was moved, at the presence of the God of Jacob: [8] Who turned the rock into pools of water, and the stony hill into fountains of waters. [9] Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory. [10] For thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake: lest the gentiles should say: Where is their God? [11] But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he would. [12] The idols of the gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men. [13] They have mouths and speak not: they have eyes and see not. [14]They have ears and hear not: they have noses and smell not. [15] They have hands and feel not: they have feet and walk not: neither shall they cry out through their throat. [16] Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as trust in them. [17] The house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector. [18] The house of Aaron hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector. [19] They that fear the Lord hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector. [20] The Lord hath been mindful of us, and hath blessed us. He hath blessed the house of Israel: he hath blessed the house of Aaron. [21] He hath blessed all that fear the Lord, both little and great. [22] May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your children. [23] Blessed be you of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. [24] The heaven of heaven is the Lord's: but the earth he has given to the children of men. [25] The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell. [26] But we that live bless the Lord: from this time now and for ever. ++++++++++++++++++++ OK, it is starting to make sense. The "Catholic" readings are the readings of the Psalms according to how they are numbered by The Messias-denying Jews and The Catholic-Church denying Protestants and the words have been bowdlerised, truncated and changed. What the C-R-T-B-I-O-Y-Plan calls Psalm 115 is really an excerpt of Psalm 113. Who needs this stuff? If the Catholic Church can not bring itself to assert its authority over the Bible, then why ought I pay any attention to its "plans?" Pfft. I'll stick with Catholic Tradition and The Douay: |
In Psalm 25, David anticipated all of the recent Vatican Conferences, including the Vatican Health Conference when he referred to them; I have not sat with the council of vanity..." and I have hated the assembly of the malignant and with the wicked, I will not sit.... in whose hands are iniquities.
Catholics should heed David.
Judica me, Domine. David's prayer to God in his distress, to be delivered, that he may come to worship him in his tabernacle.
[1] Unto the end, a psalm for David. Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my innocence: and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall not be weakened. [2] Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart. [3]For thy mercy is before my eyes; and I am well pleased with thy truth. [4] I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things. [5] I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I will not sit.
[6] I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord: [7] That I may hear the voice of thy praise: and tell of all thy wondrous works. [8] I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; and the place where thy glory dwelleth. [9] Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with bloody men: [10] In whose hands are iniquities: their right hand is filled with gifts.
[11] But as for me, I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy on me. [12] My foot hath stood in the direct way: in the churches I will bless thee, O Lord.
Last Friday, we met this woman:
Well. I gotta get going. Here comes my SCAG (State Court-Appointed Guardian). God I hate her. Her name is Danielle Rosenbaum and she teaches at the local Community College. She makes me call her Dr. Dan.
Dr. Dan is the husband of this womxn, featured in the latest Bostonia Magazine - The official periodical of The Boston University Alumni.
Born a presumptive male, the child's parents named him Robert and as an African-American child of the ghetto he never knew who his Father was. As his Mother explained to him on his first birthday when he asked where his Dad was; You should me asking me who your dad was not where he is. He could be one of several relatives, maybe the taxi driver or maybe the guy who delivers beer to that damn Korean Grocery Store which does NOT belong in my 'hood - but at the age of four, Robert began to think of his own self as Bobbie and he began to steal and play with the dolls of one of his sisters; I know'd back then that I ain't no dude.
After a long and adventure-filled life, that included being the first minority recipient of a Caitlyn Jenner Trans and Field Scholarship, Bobbie dropped his surname and took up the Kinte name and Bobbie Kinte became a famous womxn wokesperson on President Biden's Hey, don't I look like America? The Presidential Advisory Commission on Bathroom Access in America Initiative.
Bobbie Kinte is Professor of Womxn’s Anthropolgy who holds the Chair of NAG, Nonsense and Gibberish, as the Department was originally called by the White President of Boston University Richard Face who, at a Christmas Faculty Kegger, said, Fuck it, imma start an entirely new school at Boston University and name a Negro as its Chair; in fact, the woman I name to be head of the new school will be such a black behemoth that she will not only qualify as the Chair of the department, she will also qualify to be the Table of the department, the China Cabinet of the department and The Side Board of the department and the Throw Rug of the department and the Wall Paper of the department and the Wainscoting of the department, and the Ceiling of the department and even the damn Windows of the entire damn department.
Of course, everyone laughed back then but the joke came to life less than ten years after Dick Face had delivered that drunken diatribe.
Bobbie Kinte, My pronouns are xe and xie was clever enough to change the meaning of the acronym NAG, Nonsense And Gibberish, so it is now understood to mean, Negroes Are Giants.
Back when Bostonia Magazine was all about the professional accomplishments and scientific achievements of its Alumni, womxn
like Bobbie called it the bad BM - as in Bowel Movement - but now that Bostonia Magazine selects sexual deviants as cover models and its content is about Intersectionality this and Identity that and Race the other thing, Bostonia Magazine is now known as the good BM - Beautiful Moments.
In the latest BM, Bobbie talks about the results of xie's Anthropology research:
Make no mistake about it, the man who sang the popular song, "Wooly Bully" - was a real life sham. His name is Domingo Samudio and he was born in Dallas, Texas not Luxor, Egypt.
He was not a Pharaoh nor was he the descendant of any Pharaoh. How could people not see that? He called his own self Sam the Sham - DUH!!!
However, he was a rhetorical rapist and his lyrics were, as is typical for all men, about rape fantasies.
As a minority womyn, I have a wooly spot on my body - no not my armpits - you know what I mean.
When The Sham Pharaoh talks about Wooly Bully he is a man who is the bully who wants to penetrate my wooly area- not my arm pit.
And the word Bully?
Look, do any of you have dogs and have any of you ever bought them a treat called a Bully? A Bully is a petrified Bull's penis and so when Sam the Sham sings "Wolly Bully, watch me now” he is asking his audience to imagine watching him raping a womxn's Wolly, My damn Wolly, with his petrified Bully penis.
Sick.
It is everywhere you look these days which is why you see these tears spilling out onto my Kalamata olive colored skin.
See, I ain't faking, I’m waking.
Let me conclude this feature by teaching you the truth about Olives. My Department has been studying Olives for years; buying them, boiling them in beakers, looking at them under electron microscopes, cooking with them, eating them, and rolling them past the noses of our three kittens gooned on catnip.
Do you understand that Virgin Olive Oil is made from olives that were never had a pimento rammed into them?
It was them French bastids who started raping olives with pimentos.
And Extra Virgin Olive Oil? Now, we are talking about the most voluptuous and sexiest queens in all of Olive Royalty who have never been near France and who do not even know what a pimento is.
Fact…
OK, peace and love. I'm out.
Confirmation of the Covenant. Blood of Victims sprinkled on the People.
Besides the two tables of stone, on which the Decalogue was
written, the Lord gave Moses a great many other infinitely wise
laws, relating to the ceremonies of religion as well as to the ordinary duties of everyday life. 1 Moses wrote them out, and next
morning had an altar made at the foot of the mountain that
seemed to be the very throne of God. Around the altar were twelve
pillars, which represented the twelve tribes of Israel. This work
being finished, Moses summoned the multitude to the ceremony of
confirming the covenant.
All came forth, and ranged themselves around the altar. Vic-
tims were offered. Moses read the Book of the Law. The people
answered : " We will do all that the Lord commands." Then
Moses, standing near the altar, and taking a bunch of hyssop, with
some scarlet wool, mixed a little pure water with the blood of the
victims, and sprinkled the Book of the Law with the mysterious
fluid. He next sprinkled each of the twelve tribes in succession,
saying : " This is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath
made with you."
By this aspersion the Lord, in the person of Moses, ratified the
alliance, and engaged to fulfil His part of it. The people, wet with
the blood of victims, renewed their oaths, and submitted them-
selves to punishment if they should transgress. In virtue of this
contract, the children of Israel from that very time acquired a
particular title to the denomination of the " people of God ;" and
God declared Himself to be in a special manner the God, the Father,
and the King of the children of Israel, Never had a more august
or imposing ceremony been witnessed. Nevertheless, it was
only the shadow of that which, more than fifteen centuries
later on, should confirm the new alliance of the Lord with mankind
in general, when the Messias, the Son of God, and God Himself,
would ratify it by the effusion of His own blood, and become at once
the Victim and the Mediator of the covenant. Moses on this occa-
sion was a figure of our Lord.
To confirm the old alliance, Moses erected an altar, surrounded
with twelve pillars ; our Lord, to confirm the new alliance, also
prepared an altar, surrounded by His twelve apostles. The twelve
pillars represented all the people of Israel; the twelve apostles
represented the whole Church. It was after descending from the
mountain, whence he bore to the Israelites the Law of God, that Moses
offered his sacrifice ; it was after descending from heaven, whence
He brought us a Divine Law, that our Lord offered His sacrifice.
Moses immolated victims and poured out the blood on the people ;
our Lord immolated Himself and gave His blood to His apostles to
drink. Moses, when pouring out the blood of victims, said : " This
is the blood of the alliance which the Lord makes with you Our
Lord, when giving His blood to His apostles, said : u This is the
blood of the new alliance which the Lord makes with mankind."
The people, sprinkled with the blood of victims, became the
people of God, who promised to protect them in the desert and to
lead them into the Promised Land; in like manner, we,
being washed and purified with the blood of our Lord, became the
true people of God, who promises to protect us in the desert of this
life and to lead us to the joys of heaven. From the time of the con-
firmation of the alliance there existed among the Hebrews two kinds
of sacrifices, bloody and unbloody ; 1 since our Lord confirmed the
new alliance, we observe among Christians the bloody sacrifice of
Calvary and the unbloody sacrifice of our altars. In the bloody
sacrifices of the Old Law the victim was put to death; in the
bloody sacrifice of the New Law the victim is also put to
death.
In the unbloody sacrifice of the Old Law the victim was not
put to death ; in the unbloody sacrifice of the New Law the victim
is not put to death as on Calvary : it is mystically immolated. For
our -Lord, having once risen from the dead, dieth now no more.
The matter of the unbloody sacrifices of the Old Law was flour and
wine ; the matter of the unbloody sacrifice of the New Law is
bread and wine, which are changed into the body and blood of our
Lord. The various sacrifices of the Old Law were offered for four
principal ends: to adore, to thank, to impetrate, and to expiate;
the sacrifice of the New Law includes in itself alone all these
excellences : it is a sacrifice of adoration, of thanksgiving, of impetration, and of expiation. In the Old Law a lamb, without blemish,
was sacrificed every morning and evening, as a substitute for all
other kinds of sacrifices ; to perpetuate the sacrifice of Calvary,
which has taken the place of all the ancient sacrifices, the Lamb of
God is sacrificed every day, nay, at every hour of the day and the
night, on our altars—for during eighteen centuries there have
always been priests in some part of the world celebrating the Holy
Mass.
Thus you see that every sacrifice of the Old Law was only a figure
of the sacrifice of our Lord, as the Old Law itself was only a figure of the New. Hence, we reckon the ancient sacrifices as the tenth figure of our Lord.
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