Agent Murphy spent a good bit of time looking at The Dog yesterday. This is a first for him, given that he’s only recently turned three months old. Up to now, he’d been totally unaware of The Dog, even though she frequently licked his face and sniffed him in a fruitless effort to figure out our new arrival.
They’ve always had the most interesting tech. I found they’re screen-reader friendly site today. Mostly, it’s just much less clutter, which is why I think it might be of general interest.
I’m glad to see that Geoffrey Chaucer is branching out into BURMA SHAVE ads.
The law of fasting allows only one full meal a day, but does not prohibit taking some food in the morning and evening, observing—as far as quantity and quality are concerned—approved local custom.
Poenitemini, “On Fast and Abstenance”, III.2.
I’m amazed at how much one has to dig to find this statement of things. Mostly the official documents just assume that one knows what the word “fast” means. Of particular note, it’s interesting that the fast mandated for Ash Wednesday and Good Friday is so vaguely specified. The custom in the United States is to interpret the “quantity” for the two other meals as though they may not add up to the size of the main meal. That’s a reasonable and, I’d even add, a laudible interpretation, but it’s not specifically required by Poenitemini directly. Perhaps indirectly, since it really does seem to have the force of local custom. (And it’s pretty much what we’ll be doing at La Hacienda this lent, making the appropriate exception for Mrs. Tldz’s nursing of Agent Murphy.)
We purchased 1,000 bottles and distributed 645 in spring 2007. 312 were returned (48.4%), leaving us with 667. Feb. 1, 2008, gave 150 bottles to Mary Anne Shumata to run the program at her church during Lent.
Oct. 24, 2008 gave the remaining 517 bottles to Mercy P. to use for the Hispanic community at IHM. (We never got bottles back from Mary Anne – they went directly back to Birthright, pretty much all of them.)
As of February 2009, Birthright says they have a total of 300 bottles remaining, which means the Hispanic community returned only about 150, or 29%.