more coffee, please

A photo of a cup of coffee.

Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, al pacino…Coffee doesn’t need a menu, it needs a cup.-Denis Leary

Coffee falls into the stomach … ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop … the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similies arise, the paper is covered with ink …-Honoré de Balzac

Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don’t join writer’s clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing’s changed.-Jerry Pournelle

The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks – Sir James Mackintosh

Decaffeinated Coffee. It’s useless warm brown water. – Heard on David Letterman

Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! -“Coffee Cantata”, J.S. Bach

Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip. – Pope Leo XII

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee; it is the intelligent beverage. – Sydney Smith

Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water. – The Women’s Petition Against Coffee (1674)

Just around the corner,
There’s a rainbow in the sky.
So let’s have another cup o’ coffee,
And let’s have another piece o’ pie.
– Irving Berlin, 1932

getting ready for the new missal around here!

I love what Archbishop Wilton Gregory has to say here. Not only does he give a good and concise rationale for the new translation, but he stresses the point that we’re all in this together as a community…he even shares a little about his own experience.

We’ve been moving toward the change in our archdiocese and our parish for a while, with bulletins and “heads up” kinds of write ups in the weekly bulletin, and instruction during the Mass. We’ve also been working on incorporating the new language in several of the sung parts…that’s already getting smoother and will probably be fine by the time the rest of the changes begin in just two weeks (though I’m still not a fan of the music we’re using for the Gloria).

I’m actually looking forward to the implementation; how about you? It’s like enough talk already — let’s do it!

Maybe you’re gonna be cool about it and just read along on the 27th. Maybe you don’t really care about all the why’s and the history leading up to this. Maybe you’re just, like, the kind of person that happily goes along with the flow, no stress. Cool.

If, however, you’re a nerd like me, then you might like to see some of the resources that are available.

The Archdiocese of Atlanta has a bunch of resources.

The USCCB has a neat little chart that actually shows us the differences side by side.

Pat Gohn’s column, A Word in Season, at Patheos.com has a great series that breaks it down into easy to manage pieces that starts with The Translation: A Renewed Understanding of Love. Then see Part I and Part II, and the recent It’s Not a New Mass, It’s a New Translation. Episode 114 of Among Women discusses the new Missal.

Catholic Weekend 95 continues the conversation with Pat, who encourages us to be easy on ourselves and approach it with patience.

And if you have kids, you might like to see what’s going on at Catholic Icing so you can print out your own version of the new Missal for kids!

“The heavens declare the glory of God”

I saw this on Facebook and wanted to pass it along for folks that didn’t see it. It’s amazing, and what I really like is the woman’s wonder at the end. I know the feeling. Although I’ve never seen a murmuration (the name for a flock of birds), I’ve encountered some amazing things on and in the ocean. I’ve seen dolphins (porpoises) up close alongside the boat in the Florida Keys and in the North Pacific off the coast of Alaska. I’ve seen whales, sharks, and sea lions in the wild. And once, I swam with a school of barracuda — 30 feet under water. It’s scary and wonderful at the same time.

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