maximillion Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Wha.......? Oh, yes, of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spem in alium Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 oops. My bad, it isn't peanut butter, it's expensive nutella type stuff made with hazelnuts. Ohhhhhh.....drool. :woot: :eat: :drool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancilla Domini Posted April 1, 2014 Author Share Posted April 1, 2014 oops. My bad, it isn't peanut butter, it's expensive nutella type stuff made with hazelnuts. Omnomnomnom. Cilla is hungry. Must feed her nutella to calm her down. :eat: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 I just fed Mr. AL a sandwich for dinner -- grilled cheese and onion with a slice of bacon. On whole wheat bread.( :eek: ) (Mr. AL HATES veges and HATES whole wheat bread.) He looked like he had died and gone to heaven. And then (!) he asked if we could have this again on a Friday without the bacon. YES SIR! :eat: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximillion Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 The posh nutella pot is a sore temptation 'cilla, maybe I had better give it to you. I am doing my best not to complain too much because I said I would give up whining for lent. (no internet all day!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancilla Domini Posted April 2, 2014 Author Share Posted April 2, 2014 The posh nutella pot is a sore temptation 'cilla, maybe I had better give it to you. I am doing my best not to complain too much because I said I would give up whining for lent. (no internet all day!) Well, perhaps you should have the nutella, because I gave up sweets for lent, so chocolate-hazelnut spread is banned. :banned: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Or you can both come and do some housework for me... I'd love that! An act of charity!!!!! no? oh well... then I guess I have to do MY penance for Lent..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristinaTherese Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 So, I just read the name of this thread as "I Think This Was the Beginning of a Beautiful Phriendship..." instead of "I Think This Is etc.". Just thought you should know. (Also, if I get to talk about myself, I just got back from swimming. And biking. The biking finished off my arms....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pia Jesu Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Well, Phriends...perhaps you can help me out. I think I'm in big trouble with St. Thomas Aquinas (regarding my dog, Phrank). Just as a priest on TV once said that we shouldn't LOVE an animal (even though we might perceive a reciprocity of that emotion)--and that they basically see us as a "giant can opener." St. Thomas Aquinas calls this "disordered love." So...before heading off to confession, Any thoughts? For Max: "...remember that everything real and valuable on earth comes from heaven to begin with. A cat is not merely evolved molecues in motion; it is a divine idea, a work of art, and a sign. It is a natural sign: it has something of what it signifies, and what it signifies is something heavenly, so there is something of heaven in a cat." :kitten: --from Peter Kreeft's "Heaven: The Heart's Deepest Longing" Know that Phrank prefers p'nut butter over Nutella. He also starts graduate school after Easter (working on a Master's in Barkology) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancilla Domini Posted April 3, 2014 Author Share Posted April 3, 2014 So, I just read the name of this thread as "I Think This Was the Beginning of a Beautiful Phriendship..." instead of "I Think This Is etc.". Just thought you should know. (Also, if I get to talk about myself, I just got back from swimming. And biking. The biking finished off my arms....) sigh...this was the beginning of a beautiful phriendship. What happened? :lol4: I took a 4 mile walk around NYC by myself, yesterday. It was lovely. I visited a liberal number of hat shops... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentJoy Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 sigh...this was the beginning of a beautiful phriendship. What happened? :lol4: I took a 4 mile walk around NYC by myself, yesterday. It was lovely. I visited a liberal number of hat shops... :) I HAPPENED!!! Bwaahahahaha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancilla Domini Posted April 3, 2014 Author Share Posted April 3, 2014 I HAPPENED!!! Bwaahahahaha. Now we know whom to blame!! :banned: But since it's lent, we'll forgive you. You are still one of us. :cheers2: :drunks: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentJoy Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Well, Phriends...perhaps you can help me out. I think I'm in big trouble with St. Thomas Aquinas (regarding my dog, Phrank). Just as a priest on TV once said that we shouldn't LOVE an animal (even though we might perceive a reciprocity of that emotion)--and that they basically see us as a "giant can opener." St. Thomas Aquinas calls this "disordered love." So...before heading off to confession, Any thoughts? This is my sophisticated advice on Thomism: "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you be flammable and taste good with ketchup." St. Francis de Sales' "Treatise on Love" might be a good reference...it seems like I reads somewhere that he was a Thomist (I don't know what I'm talking about, sorry, carry on), or CS Lewis' "The Four Loves." It seems like the Catechism talks about this too, and the documents of V2. It might be a disordered love if you lavished enormous expense on your pet, or invested an intense kind of emotion and attention that should properly find its fulfillment in the human heart...but I think trying to not "love" Phrank is a bad way to go. I tried to do this for a while 'cause I read the "Imitation of Christ" and thought I couldn't love anything but God; I was blocking an outlet for Love, rather than strengthening and maturing in Love. I ended up just being miserable and sad. So...don't let the fear (and I think 'fear' is a keyword) of loving inordinately block you from loving at all; because that's inordinate, too! My cat definitely does not solely see me as the "can opener." I am also the "couch," the "magic door opener," and the "favorite hooman snuggler." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximillion Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 My cat is an ascended Zen Master. When I meditate he always sits on me in the prescribed manner and though the poor thing has no soul he can certainly meditate. It is he who dictates the length of our meditation - never less than 20 min. I do love him, I am not sure how inordinate this love is but it's pretty comprehensive. Jesus still comes first in my life and I still live by my Vows so no human love of that nature, and so far, Jesus has not indicated he is either jealous or displeased. Now, when it comes to p'nut/chocolate/hazelnut butter stuff - yup, that love is inordinate and misplaced and I am guilty, ohhh yes!!! Having said that, I am sufficiently mature to recognise and know without a doubt that I will NEVER confuse my love of the p'nut stuff with my love of God, for which I am unfailingly ( I hope) thankful. :bounce: :bananarap: :winner: :cloud9: :pray: Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, For His great love has no end. Amen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancilla Domini Posted April 3, 2014 Author Share Posted April 3, 2014 Shakespeare translated into modern English. Part 1: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream: "And though she be but little, she is fierce." Spencer Tracy in Pat and Mike (1952): "There ain't much of 'er, but what's there is cherce." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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