After a tiring day, a commuter settled down in his seat and closed his eyes.
As the train rolled out of the station, the young woman sitting next to him pulled out her cell phone and started talking in a loud voice. “Hi, sweetheart. It’s Marsha. I’m on the train. Yes, I know it’s the six-thirty and not the four-thirty, but I had a long meeting.” After a brief pause, she said, “No, honey, not with that Kevin from the accounting office. It was with the boss. No sweetheart, you’re the only one in my life. Yes, I’m sure, cross my heart.” Fifteen minutes later, she was still talking loudly. When the man sitting next to her had had enough, he leaned over and said into the phone, “Marsha, hang up the phone and come back to bed.” Marsha doesn’t use her cell phone in public anymore.
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Introit today -
“Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man. For Thou are my God and my strength. Ps. 42, 3. Send forth Thy light and Thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto Thy holy hill, and into Thy tabernacles. Judge me.” The words are prayed by the priest and altar boys at the start of Mass. We ask for His judgment. Surprised? I was talking with a friend at church about the cost of gas. Bill is the father of five, and two are altar boys. I stopped whining when he told me he drives his altar boys to church three to five times a week. I felt God’s judgment at that moment. That happens a lot, doesn’t it? The polestar, also spelled pole star, is the North Star in the Northern Hemisphere. According to Britannica.com, “[It] is the brightest star that appears nearest to either celestial pole at any particular time. Owing to the precession of the equinoxes, the position of each pole describes a small circle in the sky over a period of 25,772 years. Each of a succession of stars has thus passed near enough to the north celestial pole to serve as the polestar. At present the polestar is Polaris (α Ursae Minoris); Thuban (α Draconis) was closest to the North Pole about 2700 BC; the bright star Vega (α Lyrae) will be the star closest to the pole in AD 14,000. “The location of the northern polestar has made it a convenient object for navigators to use in determining latitude and north-south direction in the Northern Hemisphere. “There is no bright star near the south celestial pole; the present southern polestar, Polaris Australis (also called σ Octantis), is only of the 5th magnitude and is thus barely visible to the naked eye.” Think of the Earth as rotating on an imaginary line that is tilted, not vertical. |
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