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Meanwhile over here in Australia, you know, that big ole country down under…hello anyone? Can you hear us?
We, the Australian people, elected a Labor government for the second term yesterday.
This is BIG news!
It was a landslide vote against an increasingly scary, far-right Liberal party. A party that was set to act from Trumps playbook.
We said NO! We voted for us. And we voted for you too America. You’re welcome.
Donald Trump is the most unpopular 100-day-mark president in modern American history.
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“A single tear shed at the remembrance of the Passion of Jesus is worth more than a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, or a year of fasting on bread and water.”
—St. Augustine
> I pretended I knew about the poem just now so you all would think of me as literary and cultured.
One time I was in Half Price Books in the aisle *next to* the Christianity aisle, and the thought occurred to me that in some thread on the internet I had been quoting the one tagline from St Augustine that everyone knows "Lord make me chaste BUT NOT YET" (whimsical! relatable!), but that I had never read the book it came from (or, to be clear, any book by anyone whose name starts with "Saint"), a…
Soon after ending my prodigal it was suggested I read ‘The Confessions’.
Although I am an avid and fast reader, it took me two weeks to get through it. This was because - as a lot of (maybe most) men can relate to Augustine’s story - it hit me hard. Several times I experienced a kind of arrow in the heart reaction to what he described.
That book was very significant in maturing my faith in the Faith.
Later on I learned that many artistic images of St. Augustine of Hippo depict him with an arrow in his heart.
Recalling this still brings tears to my eyes.