This evening, just after sunset, we celebrate the Easter Vigil Mass. Catechumens have waited for a long time, in some cases years, for this day, for it is at this Mass that they will be baptized and welcomed into God’s Church.
Easter is the celebration of Christ’s resurrection after his crucifixion at the hands of the local religious powers and the civil government. It is the birthday of an entirely new faith, Christianity. This birth was announced not with a thundering call from above, but with an empty tomb.
I cannot describe things any better than the inspired word of God. Here is how Luke describes the events of Easter morning:
1 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5 In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6 He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 7 ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” [Luke 24:1-7]
I personally like Luke’s descriptions of events the most. They simply speak to me better.
Well this sucks. I’ve been on these types of roads under these kinds of conditions.
A nice piece in the Chronicle this morning about the Painted Churches of Fayette County.
The slide show is absolutely gorgeous.
Everybody wants to get into the act.
Here’s some undiluted cuteness to counter the poo-flinging.
They found it in Shammy’s left nostril, I bet.
Great, we have learned the name of Bob’s tackle and that sarge has a coprophagia fetish. The latter explains some stuff.
And it was that first comment that made me decide to get into this so’s I could place that terd in your left nostril.
I thought Oompa Loompas were orange?
He found an Oompa Loompa?
#76 Bonecrusher
I guess we could replay the entire conversation, but first I want to know is sarge being paid by the post? 😉
British kid finds the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch during an Easter egg hunt.
72 shamaal says: April 7, 2012 at 9:20 pm #70 I suspect you’re thinking of the USS United States. Now be quiet while the adults are talking.154 shamaal says: April 8, 2012 at 9:16 pm Give it a rest BC, our discussions on the topic were straightforward and non acrimonious. You received honest, cited answers with no name calling, and… Read more »
Give it a rest BC, our discussions on the topic were straightforward and non acrimonious. You received honest, cited answers with no name calling, and until now reciprocated. It’s not my fault I know more on the topic or that sarge pointed it out.
Where’s El Gordo been?
apologies to Hammies Granny for my crudity.
I hope that makes your day, terd-nozzle. I think the whole couch is in agreement that you represent a stench best avoided.
#149, Hambone, Gotta’ be honest, nope, 🙁 but I googled it and it’s not far from Malone, my Mom’s oldest brother lived in Malone, had a gas staton there. FWIW; He was part of the Bataan Death March, spent the whole war in a coal mine in Japan.
Super Dave – You prolly know where Two Egg is too.
#144 Hambone He’s from Bagdad. A white-Iraqi I may be the only one here (besides you), that knew that there was a “Bagdad Florida”, back in another life, I worked as a Radar Technician @ Eglin AFB and one of the guys that I worked with was from Bagdad, he and another guy from Crestview and one from Mossy Head,… Read more »
Charming, it looks like it’s time to turn on the Bozone filter, until you sleep it off.
Dude, I climbed up on your face, laid a terd in your left nostril, and was back in my seat before you could smell it.
A Craqi?
He’s from Bagdad. A white-Iraqi 😉
Interesting follow-up on Ooshuizen’s double eagle ball, after retrieving it he tossed it into the crowd. The fan who caught it, hung on to it for a while and then gave it to to the Augusta National officials by the end of the day. It would have been worth a fair amount of money on e-bay. “Actually, the biggest fear… Read more »
Not exactly a compliment, as being any where close to shamizzles MO is an absolute disgrace; but thanks for the thought anyway. BTW How’s it hangin Sarge? I did not mean it to be as left handed as it sounds. Now that ou mention it, I should have worded it this way: Its quite obvious that you are not petulant,… Read more »
Great, sarge and I are in agreement over Bonecrusher being wrong. The remaining raving we’ll just mark off to old age and too many nights in a hammock with no blanket.
The games people play …………
Was he wearing a bunny suit?
Fla Cracker, Bubba Watson wins the Masters:>)
Thank you Sarge.
Not exactly a compliment, as being any where close to shamizzles MO is an absolute disgrace; but thanks for the thought anyway.
BTW
How’s it hangin Sarge?
Bonesy; While your deductive method was logical and based on fact, its likely that Shampoo is correct on this one. Even a blind hog finds an acorn every now and then. But you can feel better knowing some of the following: 1. You based your supposition on the testimony of a participant in the event, in this case a crew… Read more »
Is it still the Bay Bridge or have they change the name to the Gay Bridge?
Easter Bunny working for The Man in Florida.
I cruised by the USS Enterprise on my way to Alcatraz some time in the mid sixties.
Rock solid historical source:
My fading memory.
Heh heh
Crap that may or may not mean anything
Mike Wallace joins Breitbart here.
Well, I did something that I’ve not done in a very long time, I went to an Astros Game. Daughter’s Mom-in-Law has season tickets through her company and they get to go a few times a year. The seats were great, section 160, first row, right down the third base line. Son-in-Law has grabbed a few balls there. I was… Read more »
#122, 125, 126 😀
BUTT you’re wasting your time, our resident Troll will just keep going to Google and coming up with crap that may or may not have anything to do with the discussion and try to obfuscate the issue and confuse folks that don’t know the facts. Not many of them here, BTW. 😉
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Which is why I specifically said #2.
Need some new readers, eh?
Favorite quote:
Bookmark to use when someone claims “it’s not like they held a gun to their head ……”
seen on the innernet
#124 Bonecrusher
Here’s a pic of the USS United States, the day she was broken up (see page 5). These are the keel plates, the keel would have been welded on top. There’s nothing to reuse. I’d be surprised if they were even built in the same graving dock due to their beams.
Nah, I’m doing what you did. I used my google-fu to look up meaningless crap.
I’m just starting from a base of knowledge way better than yours.
Seriously, are there any adults here who would like to discuss history?
Pearl Harbor was attacked on 7 December, 1941. Using a new method of historical interpretation pioneered by an expert in Texas we can now conclude that the proximate cause of that event was the sinking of the Australian sloop HMAS Parramatta by U559, whih ocurred exactly 10 days before. Using this new method, we are now able to put to… Read more »
This website provides an interesting view into the shipbuilding history of the Newport News Shipyard. 486 United States US Navy Carrier CV 58 83,250 Cancelled 1949 488 United States United States Lines Passenger Liner P6-S4-DS1 39,000 29-Jun-52 Last USMC ship, laid up 1969, sold several times, now in Philadelphia The bolded numbers are the hull number for NNSY. I submit… Read more »
Led directly, no. That would take an act of Congress, the bill that started in December was signed post Shiloh. Merely conjecture, others might say it was coincidental that the law passed the House and was signed after the victory at Shiloh. No more fanciful than the observation that President Lincoln also waited for another Union victory before issuing the… Read more »
NO!! He keeps stealing crayons and Playdough.
Which I do beleive supports my contention that the victors don’t actually write history.
You should have stayed at the kiddie table.
Now, let me get this straight Its your contention that the Union victory at Shiloh led directly to the freeing of slaves in the Distrit of Columbia?
Can you provide us with any source material that supports that interpretation?
I bet you can find it at the kiddies table.
Wikipedia as source material. Yet another display of ignorance.
This just gets better, now it has an “official” name. No wait, let me guess your source. The American Civil War (1861–1865), often referred to simply as The Civil War in the United States, was a civil war fought in the United States. Wikipedia I believe the name that the victors gave this rebellion was “War of the Rebellion”. The… Read more »
shamaal says: April 8, 2012 at 2:48 pm … nearly three years to the day before the end of the War of Northern Agression I believe you are referring to the Civil War. The North won and earned the naming rights. Another indication of your ignorance. The “official” name is the “American Civil War”, named thus so as to be… Read more »