Saint of the Day --- Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622), Bishop of Geneva
Scripture of the Day --- Psalm 43:3-4 -- 3 Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me, let them bring me to thy holy hill and to thy dwelling! Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and I will praise thee with the lyre, O God, my God. (RSV)
Word of the Day --- reload -- to place an additional quantity of material on a platform or in a receptacle from where it may be used or deployed; to empty a firearm of its expended shell, if necssary, and load it with more ammunition
Place of the Day --- Borisoglebsk, Voronezhskaya, Russia --51°22'34"N, 42°04'24"E - a town located about 126 miles ESE of the city of Voronezh, the district capital via Highway A-144.
Zeitgeist --- There's an old hymn (translated from Latin by Benjamin Webb) "Oh love, how deep, how broad, how high....that ... the Son of God, should take our mortal form for mortal's sake" And the following verses follow a pattern illustrated here by the fifth verse; "For us he rose from death again; for us he went on high to reign; for us he sent his Spirit here -- to guide, to strengthen and to cheer". And here is how Barak Obama saluted the builders of our nation, "the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things" "For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans... . For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth. For us they fought and died in place like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sanh."
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