Comments for Blog of the Nightfly

Comment on Quality vs. quantity in faith by Robbo

Robbo — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:30:50 +0000

Amen, Brutha.

Comment on Quality vs. quantity in faith by thefish302013

thefish302013 — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:36:12 +0000

Every. Freakin’. Sunday. AND at Tuesday morning Bible study. It’s such a temptation to uncharitable thoughts. And then the organist will bust out some Bach for the recessional, and my brain cries out, “Can’t you hear the difference??”

Where are the hymnals of yesteryear?

Comment on Quality vs. quantity in faith by Marie

Marie — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:41:51 +0000

1) I love Jars of Clay. Because they make kick-ass, wonderful music that touches upon my needs for uplifting (sometimes), hopeful (sometimes), realistic (sometimes), and dark-but-there’s-a-light-somewhere (sometimes). All in one. Yay.

2) Something I think that Catholics, in particular, get and get well (if sometimes to an extreme) is that “belonging to Christ means that we simper our way through life…” is absolutely FALSE. That belonging to Christ means belonging to the Cross, and to the crucifixion, not *just* the glory of the resurrection. Nothing proves that more to me than the Triduum and our focus on the Lenten season that precedes the Easter season… thoughts?

3) (Sidebar: I can’t believe you considered a covenant community. Dang. Tell me more.) BUT… here’s another thing that I think you nailed. It is correct that we are called to not be OF this world. THAT DOESN’T MEAN WE CAN PRETEND WE’RE NOT IN IT. I have encountered far too many who are trying to approximate the idea of not living in the world despite the fact that our earthly existence demands and requires that we do, in fact, live IN the world. And we’re not really called to be passive in it. We’re called to live Christ… in the world. Yeah, it ain’t easy. That doesn’t make it impossible.

I could go on for ages. I’ll stop. Excellent work, Nightfly.

Comment on Dear Diary by House of Eratosthenes

House of Eratosthenes — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:26:27 +0000

[...] Hat tip to Nightfly. [...]

Comment on When will now be then? by Marie

Marie — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:21:13 +0000

ohhhh. well, I only have 4 siblings, but my mom had 12 and you know us Irish Catholics so I thought it was plausible (if improbable!)

Comment on When will now be then? by nightfly

nightfly — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:30:40 +0000

Uh-oh. That was unclear of me. No, I don’t have 14 siblings! That would be impressive in any day and age. “Fifteen of us” means all the kids for my parents and all my aunts and uncles – so me, my brother and sister, and twelve first cousins.

It’s editing time.

Comment on When will now be then? by Marie

Marie — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:25:20 +0000

Does “15 of us” mean you have 14 siblings? If so, dang! That’s impressive in this day and age.

Regarding the blog content: I don’t necessarily like my future prospects…

Comment on Something else that hasn’t changed by philmon

philmon — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:58:37 +0000

The disturbed child being Washington ….

Comment on Information that would have been more useful yesterday by philmon

philmon — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:13:45 +0000

Vogons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment on We have top men working on it right now by Sporadic Small Arms Fire

Sporadic Small Arms Fire — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:10:18 +0000

I am going to go ahead and order The Ark of the Covenant from Jeff Bezos.
It is somewhere there in that warehouse. I can feel it.