#Mount Gilead

[unteriors]

State Route 19, Mount Gilead, Ohio.

[middleland]

House — Mount Gilead, Ohio by Christopher Riley

[carltonblaylock]

Mount Gilead

Judges 7:1-3 7 Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the well of Harod, so that the camp of the Midianites was on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley. 2 And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against…

[former-leftist-jew]

So, we had Simchat Torah last weekend. (The holiday dedicated to finishing the reading the last chapter Torah and starting again, for another yearly Torah read cycle.)

As my rabbi started to read final chapter of the Torah (in hebrew and then in English), literally the :

1: And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, [to the] top of the summit facing Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the Land: The Gilead until Dan,

2: and all [the land of] Naftali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, until the western sea,

3: and the south, and the plain, the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, until Zoar.

4: And the Lord said to him, "This is the Land I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your offspring.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you [Moses] shall not cross over there."

Devarim (or Deuteronomy) Chapter 34, Verses 1-4

And I just...

I just felt so sad and so tired from all the self-proclaimed "anti-Zionist Jews" and know-nothing goyim who feel confident saying, "Zionism is not Judaism," or "Zionism is a disgrace to Judaism."

Because, it's like, what do you THINK these passages are about??

But let me guess:

You didn't actually read these passages.

You didn't actually celebrate Simchat Torah.

You don't actually read the Torah, or go to shul, or any of that.

And I get it: Judaism is a very extensive religion with lots of demands, holidays, rituals, and practices. It's a hoarder religion that clings to every scrap of knowledge, history, tradition and lore that ever had anything to do with any of the Jewish/Hebrew/Canaanite people. And it varies from place to place, over literally thousands of years across hundreds of countries and a few continents of Jewish Disaspora.

It's impossible to know everything there is to know about Judaism; you can literally dedicate your whole life to studying Jewish history, theology, folklore, literature, etc and not even scratch the surface of the vast millennia of knowledge we've accumulated, lost, and re-discovered. Not everyone can or will celebrate every Jewish holiday, or attend every shul service, etc.

Buit also... by the same token...

Given just how many Torah passages and Jewish holidays specifically mention or reference locations in and around the Jewish ancestral homeland, outright state or imply a spiritual connection or longing to return to our ancestral homeland...

I'm sorry, but you'd have to literally know NOTHING about Judaism to think that ancestral ties or spiritual connection to or cultural longing to return has "nothing to do with Judaism." Then you must know nothing about Judaism, then, apart from the name of the religion.

[kimberly40]

Tent Graves in Sparta, Tennessee:

A fascinating group of tent-shaped stone grave coverings, most over 150 years old, stand in Mount Gilead Cemetery in White County, Tennessee. The purpose of the tent-shape covering was to keep animals from getting into the graves. In the 19th century, the deceased were buried in much shallower plots, so the covering was needed to avoid tampering by animals or grave robbers.

These folk style grave coverings, called tent or comb graves, are found primarily in Tennessee, but examples have been found in Kentucky, Alabama, Arkansas, and Georgia.

[churchblogmatics-blog]

Books for spiritual formation

Books that have left an indelible mark on my understanding of God or the Christian faith in some way. My spiritual development is unfinished, so this list is unfinished - I'm always open to suggestions

Soren Kierkegaard

The Sickness Unto Death - Explained how sin works psychologically, illustrates how it can be its own punishment

Works of Love - What it means to love, what it costs, what it gives us

Fear and Trembling - What faith means, its miraculous nature

Karl Barth

Evangelical Theology - What theology actually means, how the gospel is good news

The Epistle to the Romans - Shows the need for continual reformation of thought within the church, introduced (to me) the idea of God's freedom in communication to man

Church Dogmatics II.2 - Election is good news! It is God willing to choose humanity despite sin - universal reconciliation can and should be hoped for

The Journal of John Woolman

What undying commitment to justice means, what it looks like

Martin Luther King Jr

Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Made me understand how Romans 13:1 can be integrated into radical politics

A Gift of Love - Brought to life 1 John 4:20

A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving

A narrative illustration of unwavering faith

The Imitation of Christ, Thomas Kempis

What we're saved to, salvation has a telos

Flannery O'Connor

Wise Blood - Life without Christ, the perils of sola scriptura

A Good Man is Hard to Find - Shows grace as an intrusive lived experience

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead novels (Gilead, Home, Lila) - Rich illustration of Imago Dei

When I Was a Child I Read Books - Bolstered my understanding of the 8th commandment (reading with charitable intent, in interactions with others in life and on the page)

What Are We Doing Here? - Illustrates what the glory of God means in daily experience

Garry Wills

What Paul Meant - Paul and Jesus were of a unified mind, stop reading Paul as a bible thumper, start reading him as a man who loved dearly and wrote with urgency on live issues

Religio Medici, Thomas Browne

Ecumenism is a beautiful thing and should be strived for in all Christian communities

The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton

The gospel brings peace of mind and soul, searching for peace is a valid epistemology

Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt

Wickedness is not inevitable, it arises from moral and intellectual sluggardliness

The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Learn to love the church, it is the arms of Christ; great exegesis of the Sermon on the Mount; great companion to the book of James

White Evangelical Racism, Anthea Butler

Evangelicalism did not emerge from theological first principles, it is a diseased expression of the faith informed by racism at the root

Jesus and John Wayne, Kristin Kobes du Mez

Evangelicalism did not emerge from theological first principles, it is a diseased expression of the faith informed by misogyny at the root

C.S. Lewis

The Great Divorce - Eternity begins now, sin is its own punishment and grace is its own reward

Till We Have Faces - God has compassion and patience for those who wrestle with him, to summon the boldness to contend with God can be a blessed thing

The Courage to Be, Paul Tillich

The dynamics of Christian faith explained in the abstract

As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

The thinness of intellectual assent, the richness of faith

The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker

Explanation of the existential need faith meets in the language of continental philosophy

Confessions, St. Augustine

The most theologically and philosophically rich testimony besides that of St. Paul

An Unpublished Essay on the Trinity, Jonathan Edwards

What is the trinity, why is it important

John Milton

Areopagitica - Enforced virtue means nothing

Paradise Lost - Human beings are worth saving even if they aren't deserving of God's favor

Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud

Illustrates the necessity of grace by exploring a world through the assumption of its absence (excellent foil to A Gift of Love)

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

We read beginning at verse 1.

“Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, the Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar. And the Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.” So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to...

[pargolettasworld]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJjtljr9LYc

Shir HaShirim, the Song of Songs, is a truly amazing book to have in the Tanakh.  It is a full-on book of love poetry.  If you squint and twist around and peek through your fingers, you can kind of convince yourself that the love in question is very pure and is between humans and the Divine . . . but only up until you actually read the text.

Cantor Susan Colin has really understood the assignment here.  She’s actually one of the most joyful people I’ve ever met -- there’s something in her that’s always smiling when she speaks -- and she sets this portion of Shir HaShirim as a lush, beautiful, fully produced love song.  The portion begins with “Let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet and you are beautiful.”  And it just goes from there.  The famous phrase “I am my beloved’s and my beloved’s is mine” is from this portion of the book.

The thing about Shir HaShirim is that, yes, it’s very sexy, and it uses metaphors that really haven’t aged well (”Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead,” new Hallmark card right there), but there’s a real sweetness to it.  The weird metaphors are earnest, and the sexiness is fun and playful and is there as an outgrowth of love.  It’s just a fun book to read, and it really rewards a good composer who leans into its strengths.

[bidonicart]

“Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair. Thy hair is as a flock of goats that lie along the side of Mount Gilead; thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate, thy neck is like the tower of David whereon there hang a thousand bucklers.” And I asked myself, frightened and rapt, who was she who rose before me like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, radiant as the sun, terribilis ut castorum acies ordinata.

The Name of the Rose, Third day, after compline: In which Ubertino tells Adso the story of Fra Dolcino, after which Adso recalls other stories or reads them on his own in the library, and then he has an encounter with a maiden, beautiful and terrible as an army arrayed for battle.

After I learned about the upcoming graphic novel I had to put down my foot and post how I envision the unnamed village girl... the night filter makes her hair look dark brown but it actually veers towards auburn (that’s how I interpreted the “her hair like purple” line)

where else to find me

[mental-health-and-jesus]

10-01-2024 | Bible App Their Verse of the Day | 2 Corinthians 10:5

‘We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.’ 2 Corinthians 10:5

#Bible - Verse of the Day | 1 Corinthians‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬

‘Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?’ ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭3‬:‭16‬

Bible App | ‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭3‬:‭1‬-‭11‬

The Defeat of Og 🐄

of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei. But the Lord said to me, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.” So the Lord our God also delivered Og king of Bashan and his whole army into our hands. We struck them down until no survivor was left. At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages. We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city. But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves. At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon— which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir— all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og. (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)’ ‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭3‬:‭1‬-‭11‬

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[middleland]

Knights of Pythias Building — Mount Gilead, Ohio (2) (3) by Christopher Riley

[nickjunesource]

What are your speculations for S6? Merry Christmas.

Hey! Thank you! Happy New Year, friends!

Hmm, alright, we'll take a gander. Guesses listed by character. June and Nick at the top, everyone else under the cut for length reasons.

June:

She and Holly will not make it to Hawaii. The train may be intercepted before reaching Vancouver or the ship is attacked after leaving port, we're not entirely sure. But whatever happens, Hawaii isn't happening.

She and Serena will briefly work together to survive.

They will part ways amicably as Serena returns to Gilead and June goes into hiding, assisted by Mark Tuello at the behest of Nick. June won't know of any of this as Mark keeps Nick's secret, though he may feel conflicted about doing so.

June will head to the wilds of California and connect with Mayday there. She will get into contact with Nick and Joseph.

June will make her way to New Bethlehem where she meets up with Nick. Luke will also be there. Long awkward looks ensue.

June will be in grave danger again and forced to go underground. She and Nick choose to send Holly away, and the scene is devastating.

June will not choose between Nick or Luke, and we won't have much of an idea as to what her final choice will be.

Nick:

He's released from prison, mentally scarred but physically ok. His release will be facilitated by Joseph, who makes a cryptic reference to Eleanor being the reason he's doing this.

He'll continue to be involved with the New Bethlehem idea. This involvement helps him to feed information to Tuello.

He and Teullo will meet again. The scene will be thick with layers.

He'll have to negotiate the very tricky grounds where he's working for/with Tuello, Mayday, Joseph and June, while being suspected by Rose's father and Commander Mackenzie.

Tension will be thick between him and Rose, and she will be evidently angry at him while Nick will clearly feel guilt about hurting her.

The baby will die and possibly Rose as well, leaving Nick deeply traumatised and at a loss as to what to do.

Nick (and possibly Rose if she's alive) will go to New Bethlehem.

At one point he will be reunited with June and Holly.

Nick will go underground because his cover is blown. He will become fully involved with Mayday.

Nick and June will painfully make the choice together to send Holly to live with Mayday people in Canada, and have a heartbreaking goodbye. She will call Nick 'dada' or 'papa' and everyone will cry.

There will be no note of finality in his and June's relationship and we won't know if they're together or not, but there will be enough evidence to support plenty of headcanons of them being together.

Rose:

She will temporarily move back in with her parents before returning to Nick's, under the guise of reconciliation but in actuality it will be to keep an eye on him, possibly as directed by Commander Mackenzie and/or her father.

She'll spy on Nick, eventually figuring out what he's up to with Tuello. She'll hold onto that information as she ponders what to do with it.

The baby will die, and she possibly will too after being denied proper medical care.

If she doesn't die, she'll go with Nick to New Bethlehem and cause problems, ultimately forcing Nick to go underground.

She'll continue to be a shallow character and we'll never know why Nick married her or how she's coping with her disability in Gilead.

Joseph:

He will help Nick. He will do it for Eleanor. Their relationship will be fractured and difficult, but both know they don't have any reliable allies in Gilead except for each other and so they will continue to work together.

He will continue to get more involved with the New Bethlehem idea, though he'll be more thoughtful about it as Nick punching him in the face knocked some sense into him.

He will have to deal with Naomi and then later Serena as the pressure mounts for him and his life will be in peril.

He will be taken out by the very Gilead believers he thought he was manipulating, perhaps in order to save Nick or June.

Janine:

The van will take her and the Martha to a safe house.

She'll become more involved in the Martha network and will work closely with Aunt Lydia.

She'll find out about Caleb's death and will be devastated.

Mark Tuello:

He'll continue to work with Nick. He'll be the only true emotional support that Nick has and Mark will appear sad at the difficulties of Nick's life.

He'll keep June safe like Nick demanded, but it won't be easy as June never makes anything easy.

He'll continue to keep Nick's involvement and sad feelings a secret from June, but he will be heavily conflicted about it. He may eventually end up telling June at least partial facts about what Nick is up to and/or feeling.

He'll make irresponsible choices where he means well but just doesn't understand reality.

One of those choices will put Nick in danger.

Luke:

He'll be in prison for some time, because Canada is evil now or something.

He'll be convicted of a serious crime, purely based on the fact that he stupidly took and kept the weapon of the attacker.

He'll get out of prison miraculously (perhaps because Mark Tuello has miracle powers and gets the gov't of Canada to do what he wants) and immediately search for June and Holly.

He will grieve the loss of Hannah but won't take her situation seriously enough and continues to show a lack of understanding Gilead.

He will show more of an effort at resistance than he ever has before.

Luke will reunite with June somehow, possibly in New Bethlehem. Nick will hang heavily between them, but any conversation, if it occurs, will be far too brief.

There will be no note of finality in his and June's marriage, but their parting will be hinted to be a very long one and the differences between them will be evident.

All of Canada will hate him for killing one of them and will be even more ridiculously evil than last season. Luke will have to hide because of it.

He'll get more involved in Canadian Mayday.

Moira:

She'll focus very heavily on getting Luke out of prison and will rail against the injustice against refugees who are suddenly and randomly being treated terribly b/c "Canada Evil" or something now.

She'll continue to focus on moving on and healing.

She'll get involved in a relationship with Lily and will works loosely with her Mayday group.

Moira will be neglected and lack proper screen time.

Rita:

She'll work with Moira in trying to get Luke out of prison.

She'll continue to focus on moving on and healing.

She'll take care of Holly a lot, but this will be off-screen.

Rita will be severely neglected and substantially lack proper screen time.

Aunt Lydia:

She'll finally become fully enmeshed in the resistance and will start to gather information on Gilead's elite.

She'll help Esther escape to safety on the behest of Janine who is completely done playing nice with anyone anymore.

She'll work closely with Joseph and Janine, and will have loose associations with Nick.

Esther:

She'll escape and be safe.

She'll either lose the pregnancy or get an abortion.

We'll see her in school or reading, looking peaceful in a way we haven't seen her before.

Serena:

She'll cry again and act like a victim.

She and June will briefly work together after they fail to reach Hawaii but will ultimately part amicably as they have different ideas of what they want to do to change things.

She'll go back to Gilead and work in New Bethlehem, trying to get it as close to her original ideas as possible. During this, she, Joseph, and Naomi will dance around each other in a game of cat and mouse. Serena will win.

She'll have some sort of "redemption", ignoring all the horrible things she's done.

She'll take up far too much screen time.

Others/Miscellaneous:

Hannah will be featured again and we'll get a grasp of her life as a child in Gilead, including her relationship with the Mackenzies, more time at wife school, and possible ties to Rose.

Commander Mackenzie will be extremely creepy and dangerous, and will be the driving force behind Nick ultimately defecting. He may be the reason that Rose returns home as another way of him getting at June, this time through Nick.

We'll meet Rose's father, Commander Wharton. He will also be extremely dangerous and will be very angry at Nick and June for hurting Rose. He will put them both in danger.

Naomi will be cutting and calculated, and will be a lot more dangerous than Joseph bargained for.

Charlotte will be cute and sweet, and will have a nice moment with Joseph that makes him reflect on life in Gilead.

We'll get flashbacks for June and Joseph. We won't get one for Nick, but we'll learn a little more about his early life in Gilead and possibly about his family.

[libidomechanica]

Welcome hame fast you look upon me, for ages, or flower

A limerick sequence

                Outward fair, in bloom nor will he knew I could the passed byrd, the field, with ache?    Welcome hame fast you look    upon me, for ages, or flower. And keeps your mount Gilead.

                You were very night. Now they success, thunderstand: but strong and turtle is    iron skies. Walked in our    Love. I never ride? An Isle through the glittering graced; the stage.

                I saw a little else. But so well be well pictur’d-for end, full-spread of    his best, conscience the grot,    which my weak in seemed by evermore moves dark reality.

                And haste as I. And in his knight, was it the opens where was far a modern    dames erected. I    sit and crowne, in all thee. A bird. Where her a newe miscarriage.

                They say, the ladies unseen, And the life is dreary, I would you be: win    your own crown, with the shepheards,    til your tears as then of one gender, not be approve thee.

                There is not less, admit, rejects too. With sweet ane an’ twenty, Tam! Our true    nature’s wonne: at least that    bare we, or warp’d as we’re nothing creation sweet Albany.

                The worst of hurt to tell me, O this glory. Twas the face, remember than    a two-year-old whom for    hers to a goal, the girls which in the law of your sweets are dead!

                Which he let him in a nut have said: he savour inborn with heave the queen    may deserts, as a    pastoral. Ask me now. Nor dark—years that put on a Damascus.

                I would drear the door. The world them not if a man was he shut up the book    you didst passions lin’d, how    my swaddling by have adore that I meant, as I can decay.

                Thou hast ravished silver intense is sae prevails. Under heart was a    monster proper purpose,    and had well to see what does resort to the only the bay.

                To call the shining pity. Are vanish’d to prevent my closed, and happy    statues, borne on thy soul!    The comes not only children do in the lingering voice of youth.

                The firelit lookes, where, trembling, as inditers and yet—she had a    coxcombry of my life,    thy worth, I know nought; nothing thee me. He sick of spread aright.

                Till, to them danced wine for one was a raven. And will started joy and virtue    hath misled both to    play my sole that heart and caught shift still enchanting, is my life.

                Thy voice and why? By turned since through sticker bushes to pick juicy rubies,    when they. Tis true, your faces,    even as bright have breeze. Since I see play within his young.

                ;—There witnesse woe: helpe me, the uninitiated. To full and learn from    me, firm, protection holds    up as they came, why fears with power than of your lives more thee.

                Thou art, looked brought at once we looked on, and heart was none word; no! If ever    old or new. Or than a    flock of Gau and Moon; and bring you doth purgation rolled dry flame!

                Your complete, wi’ matter wheel should find he said: I will give their thundered oak    she like the story—an    old world surely kiss. For sullen-seeming sheeted water’s know?

                Pear eater of their joy, O joy, and mutually return. That never    for the centre as a    sameness with sapphire in loud rattlin’ sang, an’ twenty, Tam!

                A flying workman. We heart did their sin: each pallid and lay with a Laugh    would complaining undermine:    although much classic pas—sans flaws—set off our friends: one’s quite.

                You are fallen the could heaven just after all the world the final berries    in this song and dancers    will be cured: but the swain returns orchestral crooked out.

                Skiing thee manifold, I erred from the was, in shroud, or thought man and opened,    each face she knew I    could turned, and wade monasteries like tower. Love is shows now.

                I’ver also in the valleys. Children dear, thither hand: but she had your    own son, we two trees with    its to endure with milk, in the glaciers and waxin’ weary.

                The torturing, an upturned with the streaming eye, and lazy love, for    a kinder my deserts    that want too. And so it seemed to right tulip, whiskery door?

                Female or moon; not to have not to me had a heap. Down, deny not be    all her than is held in    such a beautiful, O my friend—and there we will world—ah me!

                Pear eater of hair; inlaid galleries. Mine eyes woo as mine, the depths of    thou gave a score could pull    its love, and to his own, my hope, my bowels were taugment. And know.

                Close of spices, as danger trying. So said in—I forget your leg between    the halogen overhead—    leaving and die like child will be saying I will no-no.

                Whatever man of blackness; now shines cleere. I do adorns the listen here    in folds into my kin    a room turns the end of common cry, full song, and others wont.

                Of female kindred maids were rude song areede vprightly dance for years are    everlasting, as I know    the stand, threatened dead. You perhaps of the Sexes roses glow!

                To be bore a king. You loved tracasserie, ’ began to thy word, or a prophet’s    assistance of    frankincense, witnesse, shee lou’d a long, up in a word she success.

                Circumstance of my beloved, the ruin’d town and ranks before what the altar-    stair. Their cell, the fain    wounded exactly like the cruel scornes thine heads in my way.

                Down to hunt his broad a-foraging that I were dead! Call her the air is    as a bitter to kill.    Blush, at length to the Stripling, when armour clear green calls: this way!

                Dark river from Time’s lovely Pussy! And sank and plaintiue pleasant hours are not—    to make gentleman’s ass    began to the heart Sun-burnd brain we weary… full of grapes.

                That sweets commit it to mob me up from thine: have got a fall; but death, bleed    away, in sleepe and pestle.    A dinner; but, in far as there’s another profit!

                What had never saw you, Mag. Take the badge, as a patiently his art; at    length contribution. There    came a sudden grape appear’d, with the Indian forest sigh.

                The want of Israel.—And if she world would heavenly alchemy; anon    permit then thee, and no    painting gentle wish to play my sole excuse is—’t is mard.

                Ten long as men weep, in driven: I hold out the whose rose! Leaves on men of    leaven’d, like aught him, with    fight, you transfigur’d without, rose through the white and inspired.

                Whose please you might before him counsel to be true love context for my    beloved to-day Had it    leads so often as bright in thy head. There is not be reveal.

                Did see your Highness but of all as well picture slips, prison there did mansion;    her day; a year where    lie bruised answer at the clematis. Sicker bushes,—he did!

                Lest if an humble though less polished by these for goose is a garden we    purge, even so high poems!    A noise of our brother, Lady Adeline grows weary.

                Like Archimedes, I oft inuitest me to shortened dead. Curled, and you,    woman, O thou needs must    choose to weep. Had love, and mone with my loves on you, you are mine.

                Of guilt—of guilty gates of varnish me more, till the depths of misse; that stremes    of guilt, perhaps, which    my Loue vnkind; but all the burst the lightning fruit bats scatter all.

                They are, they are, wilt thou guess that page; my music has such a sort? A tempers    a thousand misbegotten,    bones, your blended brethren here hath then what atones?

                Alluring line along there is my weak rib by a new more taugment, through    winds are bright? The men. When    in his less pleasure and partly fears will break, and bid me best.

                I speak as having to the white, encountable knight of hooks, as sweetness,    she said; and I burn. And    serene and eats fire you millinery with a strange ere breast.

                I feel with this mind, will has gotten. Where we passive neighbor whose Virtue    clotted Lambe, of white, sleep.    ’ Because he needing and, she that you believe Max lives beside!

                As time thought best jewels, thy grave proves that I know, knowing wanting Inuentions    of sun of all the body    into. Though the shines to pass the Pheasant in my tired.

                Harm, alas! Again that, in the mountain sheaves borne aloft, then all hold a    pleasant fruitfull sweet to    brave, but did stands the Abbey- stones in the who shall I repine?

                Let thy murderous a pastoral. Generalities. The offered as    a better than owl, not    a manger fly like Jewels political dinner the body.

                The sun went down on the heavens gave; and who succeeded not bewray least    satiety with discoursing    in the saw a crowned in the ground. And women most faire mine.

                Keep with the story of our faces glean their joyes. And so grac’d to be marriage.    Speak on, my sights of    might so fell with the waves behind there; at presence, lovely bones.

                A little light Now the price: then though they but strong neuer the Soul was sharpest    pangs o’erpay. Nor can    the should twine and if they circle their hooks. But as he, the skies.

                The badge, as one faults assured and their God adore the foxes, the measure    and double as free. The    bottom of their arms, like hues all fairest among the leopards.

                Of natural sympathy: tis much passionate firebombs, or if we share? Darling,    and childe, how it seem    certaineth: he thonder grace but you half-hidden Mystery.

                Good night the overgrowth at his feet, and more, and the voice he replied: No!    To beguile he greatest    thou hast the lives little spoil much in the peril keep her Veil.

                With my soule plants are abroad through you none. And sings below, beat winding    Jealousy to find but a    woman, a figure fills the crone should instrument, as she knew.

                From Time’s leisure witness called her side. We shall wed. To Káf, down! Somewhere rose    up through of chance, the cleanly.    I love and somewhat fury the shirt and ever walk here.

                Calming it, the sky show to the bay? Fair, sweet, and imps he shoot, and she ride,    ride and she forehead paper,    mute and love of vermilion: at seven-and-twenty, Tam.

                Could be for plough. A mother’s Eyes, and thus the stained gloves—wheezed and listen    to his natiue place my homely    with politic, that on Passionate, aware or a grapes.

                I am not employ his art; at length my valentine. Of loue not be    longer free, that head—for    hearts are, though heroic salamander, ’ and all round and dared.

                Was true, some pleased with liquor: thy hart upon sockets of their little birth    and ache from thy dearest    rose tree. Lifted honest the land, old world the king’s: ’ next, when right.

                My head, taking your grace array’d the woodbine leave. Yourself would not know their    verdict for things for priefe.    One day was sloping lights shining to reprove thee, Eliza!

                The acutest hoord, in Christ in bail for an Inch of early snowmelt alone    dwells a long loving    and forth as t was. For years, which go up from world his own skin.

                Resort vnto my mother’s brink she leap, in female senators wide! Fool, said:    I must sing. ’Er come, for    weight the husband-fool; but live, drawn by many a benison.

                That portentous phrases late the tents I do not your skies are design’d, yourself,    That’s your eyes; amazed    they circle the walls that it fed. Beguile: And both money, house.

                A close of married: but bespeak the cruel knife, than in a trice were than fees.    Since the beryl: his    celestial Sign; that will not my madness warmth and my body’s gift.

                Yes, I’m wishing nought him, but for cash. Tripping pleased, prolong her behind the    scornes things to all day    assigned, the time of the morning jealousy to find you smile?

                Magic of the most fervently, the day breast two legacy of love. This    present of being    ironic about there are the mouthed, and of your clearer for me!

                I am to seeds&religion in the sweet Albany. Come wait upon    they’re not such a calendar    could see a glorious morning, and half their crimes; a sort?

                And dancing with Cares his oath, to grant me no more than not know how frail, a    story of hys misdeede,    that spoil his own. Flatter to his, by just put to be, my home.

                So they forests are long-cramp’d scroll fresh and pure. Look back and remain orbed    in one like him the leaves    his feet, and things, spice his virtue and mine idle life or death.

                We shall be most unusual sort. It’s not our heroes and moving, like Carmel,    and in happy warrior:    I and my line is only said, I am all its ray?

                The dear. With himself, as I am, entirely heart in her which thus    it needs must need spray, that    shall take me it birth, and lived somewhere my song. Our Heart thou gone?

                Woman, what through more she shall were we ride. But he vext her arms, she could makes    then my hands are alone    I am turns on he went the knight; when a dead brought, I fear.

                If charmed verse my name. We quest. An oyster made, ylke can thy pledge’s perisht;    and Absál long’d to cluster’d    chariot of the pleasant now knew it, clamouring new.

                I do declaiming; I love is not winced. Their cell, tripping grace it oft, where    neighbor whose deep, which none    puts by the here! Looking ordinance: and no Wheat, am I.

                Thenceforth of polished it—but we have sought would be most things made but there his    hard enough; noons of lilies.    I have drawn by yon gate-end, when we are no sin unborn.

                I am happy statue of thou dost hides are thy living and the clouds    to be, and, reverse pair!    This I will at last! Poetry housekeepers of old stories.

                While each others would be, if such the pale to play is a bittour bumps with    all that love-salute was    in a round cracks evilly, a dark slave it truth to less please.

                Like a theater and you, break them keepers, to her million. To dreams do    standing street, but thou moral    sexes; neither. If such Jugling his title spacious gate.

                The ills the dead! I had thrill’d him in by shut me see in the hear thy verse    of the beldam at his    body already … I’m begin, in all girded up her Veil.

                Between the darke, sing. And they trod, as the sea look, forget the should be found    that keep thy rich in the    dream, cherish’d to whither in than death she, and behold, I pray.

                Behind our people far apartments. I wish a husbands chaste? Oft in men    of one day of two armies.    That have seen some crystalline; since which shall know: margaret, hist!

                Could be cut in my body’s turn’d hear thy limbs a drooping; afternoon I    was nobody them went    with his spouse; a spring- tides are loth to plight. The main: no more!

                And some Columbus of money, wrapped up in she once laughed at these men can    blame, with Cares her with words    this fate. Then what pastimes resort vnto my mother gentleman.

                My true nature’s magnanimity of wit, till pudding, to speak. Stealing    under mind, that, reach high    hyll, the sun and turn this way? Much stupified the would look down.

                Love thee and now in age. Quick while though sticker sike a Jugler come, for why    should be; we’ll welcome hame    fairy queen waiting tide does it was a monk may do withstand.

                Ones than heart, my onward life to find all therefore which shall not come ancient    fictions end! Have him who    under mistress bent thou guess to be their powerful army.

                Some he must unlearn to procreate again. All pleasure past, the first kisses    poured as some crystalline    from comminglèd, as where all richly aromatical.

                But the forfeit when Arac. Hey ho hollidaye, the laws, that his chirrup on    the women most cold. And    I sought for the Noose of salt, and saw I at presence the please.

                None like Pygmalion, glorious gate. A watchfulness, let me heart: ev’n the    wear fetter to pitie augment.    To be most ruthful, and told him, and, t was desire.

                Like him much salt, the glitterers of the best sigh. Her eye, kisses poured airy    flight Titan’s breath, and    I do not rue the argument all humanity, to weeps!

                Now say is, nor place; crones, and sugar. Be it lawful, and then Remember    the day after the    hill. But both himself up on their kindness of Amminadib.

                The nobleman is so hard in grass, a purer soul, by change the lines and    the tents. Through on the evil    of mine eye and loving unseen, And the night-wind sense; myrrh.

                Held thee, and Maud in all faire She though he rode; it seemed, or speak, and good. To    call me by a husband    marke of many be kept behind our spouse, and beneath you none.

                Let me his sigh, and wreake my hands dropping up a glancing have one, aloof    the picture here! And silent,    sullen-seeming; the armèd man, and he said; and brain did guide.

                Of the hermit’s carnal ecstasy! When first the could thee living fairy    queen: my liege, ’ said that’s our    darling, hidden grape. The darke heart has false bond—still seemde but this.

                Again she leap’d amid then my heart, my spirit seal; I had not forgiveness,    leaning up that roll    in all otherwise? In the fall, and the Lady of the grace?

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Song of Solomon chapter 4 KJV: - 4:1

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.

2

Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.

3

Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.

4

Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

5

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

6

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

7

Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

8

Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

9

Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

10

How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wn and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

11

Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

12

A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

13

Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,

14

Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:

15

A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

16

Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

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16th August >> Mass Readings (USA)

Wednesday, Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time 

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Saint Stephen of Hungary.

Wednesday, Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time

(Liturgical Colour: Green: A (1))

First Reading Deuteronomy 34:1-12 There Moses died as the Lord had said, and since then no prophet has arisen in Israel like him.

Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, the headland of Pisgah which faces Jericho, and the LORD showed him all the land— Gilead, and as far as Dan, all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea, the Negeb, the circuit of the Jordan with the lowlands at Jericho, city of palms, and as far as Zoar. The LORD then said to him, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that I would give to their descendants. I have let you feast your eyes upon it, but you shall not cross over.” So there, in the land of Moab, Moses, the servant of the LORD, died as the LORD had said; and he was buried in the ravine opposite Beth-peor in the land of Moab, but to this day no one knows the place of his burial. Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were undimmed and his vigor unabated. For thirty days the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab, till they had completed the period of grief and mourning for Moses.

Now Joshua, son of Nun, was filled with the spirit of wisdom, since Moses had laid his hands upon him; and so the children of Israel gave him their obedience, thus carrying out the LORD’s command to Moses.

Since then no prophet has arisen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. He had no equal in all the signs and wonders the LORD sent him to perform in the land of Egypt against Pharaoh and all his servants and against all his land, and for the might and the terrifying power that Moses exhibited in the sight of all Israel.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 66:1-3a, 5 and 8, 16-17

R/ Blessed be God who filled my soul with fire!

Shout joyfully to God, all the earth; sing praise to the glory of his name; proclaim his glorious praise. Say to God: “How tremendous are your deeds!”

R/ Blessed be God who filled my soul with fire!

Come and see the works of God, his tremendous deeds among the children of Adam. Bless our God, you peoples; loudly sound his praise.

R/ Blessed be God who filled my soul with fire!

Hear now, all you who fear God, while I declare what he has done for me. When I appealed to him in words, praise was on the tip of my tongue.

R/ Blessed be God who filled my soul with fire!

Gospel Acclamation 2 Corinthians 5:19

Alleluia, alleluia. God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel Matthew 18:15-20 If your brother listens to you, you have won him over.

Jesus said to his disciples: “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that every fact may be established on the testimony of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell the Church. If he refuses to listen even to the Church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector. Amen, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again, amen, I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”

The Gospel of the Lord

R/Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

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Saint Stephen of Hungary 

(Liturgical Colour: White: A (1))

(Readings for the memorial)

(There is a choice today between the readings for the ferial day (Wednesday) and those for the memorial. The ferial readings are recommended unless pastoral reasons suggest otherwise)

First Reading Deuteronomy 6:3-9 Love the Lord, your God, with all your heart.

Moses said to the people: “Hear, Israel, and be careful to observe these commandments, that you may grow and prosper the more, in keeping with the promise of the LORD, the God of your fathers, to give you a land flowing with milk and honey.

“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone! Therefore, you shall love the LORD, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you today. Drill them into your children. Speak of them at home and abroad, whether you are busy or at rest. Bind them at your wrist as a sign and let them be as a pendant on your forehead. Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.”

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 112:1bc-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9

R/ Blessed the man who fears the Lord.

Blessed the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commands. His posterity shall be mighty upon the earth; the upright generation shall be blessed.

R/ Blessed the man who fears the Lord.

Wealth and riches shall be in his house; his generosity shall endure forever. Light shines through the darkness for the upright; he is gracious and merciful and just.

R/ Blessed the man who fears the Lord.

Well for the man who is gracious and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice; He shall never be moved; the just one shall be in everlasting remembrance.

R/ Blessed the man who fears the Lord.

An evil report he shall not fear; his heart is firm, trusting in the LORD. His heart is steadfast; he shall not fear till he looks down upon his foes.

R/ Blessed the man who fears the Lord.

Lavishly he gives to the poor, his generosity shall endure forever; his horn shall be exalted in glory.

R/ Blessed the man who fears the Lord.

Gospel Acclamation John 14:23

Alleluia, alleluia. Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him. Alleluia, alleluia.

Either:

Gospel Matthew 25:14-30 Since you were faithful in small matters, come, share your master’s joy.

Jesus told his disciples this parable: “A man who was going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them. To one he gave five talents; to another, two; to a third, one – to each according to his ability. Then he went away. Immediately the one who received five talents went and traded with them, and made another five. Likewise, the one who received two made another two. But the one who received one went off and dug a hole in the ground and buried his master’s money. After a long time the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them. The one who had received five talents came forward bringing the additional five. He said, ‘Master, you gave me five talents. See, I have made five more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master’s joy.’ Then the one who had received two talents also came forward and said, ‘Master, you gave me two talents. See, I have made two more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master’s joy.’ Then the one who had received the one talent came forward and said, ‘Master, I knew you were a demanding person, harvesting where you did not plant and gathering where you did not scatter; so out of fear I went off and buried your talent in the ground. Here it is back.’ His master said to him in reply, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I did not plant and gather where I did not scatter? Should you not then have put my money in the bank so that I could have got it back with interest on my return? Now then! Take the talent from him and give it to the one with ten. For to everyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And throw this useless servant into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth!’”

The Gospel of the Lord

R/Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Or:

Gospel Matthew 25:14-23 Since you were faithful in small matters, come, share your master’s joy.

Jesus told his disciples this parable: “A man who was going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them. To one he gave five talents; to another, two; to a third, one – to each according to his ability. Then he went away. Immediately the one who received five talents went and traded with them, and made another five. Likewise, the one who received two made another two. But the man who received one went off and dug a hole in the ground and buried his master’s money. After a long time the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them. The one who had received five talents came forward bringing the additional five. He said, ‘Master, you gave me five talents. See, I have made five more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master’s joy.’ Then the one who had received two talents also came forward and said, ‘Master, you gave me two talents. See, I have made two more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master’s joy!’”

The Gospel of the Lord

R/Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.