Thoughts on the invitatory psalm. Every day the Liturgy of the Hours begins with the invitatory Psalm, a psalm that invites us into the day’s work of Praise. The default invitatory is Psalm 95, which begins with a literal invitation:...
Reading notes on a section of God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism by Abraham Joshua Heschel, the section titled: “The Disparity of Experience and Expression”. I’m having fun reading Heschel alongside one of my...
Finished 1. Ragnarok by A.S. Byatt I wrote my review already. You can read it here. As a retelling of the myths of the Norse gods, it’s somewhat satisfactory; but what drew me in is that really at heart it’s not a book about gods but a book about...
Monday February 26 Anthony did math and copywork. Ben did math and copywork and Explode the Code. I’m impressed by his spelling. Reading sentences is still a trial. Sophie did math and copywork, French, and Geography. After she read her geography...
Goodness, this has been a week full of excitement and adventure. On Wednesday I had minor surgery to repair an abdominal hernia, laparoscopic, day surgery. But still something of an ordeal. My mother-in-law watched the children for the day. Dom took...
What does “fear of the Lord” mean? It’s a phrase I’ve struggled with. I know that it does not mean to be scared of God, but to understand what it does mean seems to me like a lifetime’s work. In his book God in Search...
