Rev. Larry L. Beane II, SSP, a Lutheran pastor and teacher in the New Orleans area posts on the state of the world and why Orthodox Christianity is Hated at his Father Hollywood blog. Check it out.
Tip o’ the biretta to the Young Fogey.
From the Independent: Why is there not a murmur of protest from Washington? by Kim Sengupta in Nicosia.
Outside the cavernous US government-run holding centre in Nicosia, Mohammed Shami shook his head. “I feel embarrassed to be an American. They have given Israel the green light to destroy Lebanon. What they are doing is wrong; it is immoral.”
Yes, indeed. President Bush acted very quickly to save the lives of the unborn the other day. If only he would act so quickly to save the lives of the born, the children of Lebanon.
The best analysis I have ever read on the tragedy that is Lebanon, a tragedy that is yesterday, today, and perhaps forever. It is so sad and it pains me deeply. Read: A farewell to Beirut by Robert Fisk in Beirut.
Beirutis are tough people and are not easily moved. But at the end of last week, many of them were overcome by a photograph in their daily papers of a small girl, discarded like a broken flower in a field near the border village of Ter Harfa, her feet curled up, her hand resting on her torn blue pyjamas, her eyes —” beneath long, soft hair —” closed, turned away from the camera.
She had been another “terrorist” target of Israel and several people, myself among them, saw a frightening similarity between this picture and the photograph of a Polish girl lying dead in a field beside her weeping sister in 1939.
Will someone, anyone, speak-up to stop it? I’ll be calling my elected representatives, if only to give voice to the voiceless.
Wielki wzorze umartwienia i wstrzemięźliwości św. Jędrzeju Żurawku! Wejrzyj na mnie litościwem okiem i uproś mi u Boga tę łaskę, abym choć w części mógł naśladować Ciebie, i prowadził życie umiarkowane, zastosowane do przepisów świętej religji naszej. Przez Chrystusa Pana naszego. Amen.