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Rejoice in them all William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-27-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Even those who live many years should rejoice in them all; yet let them remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 11:8
The 7 Calls Of Saint Andrew — The first call that shaped Saint Andrew’s life was the very timing and place of his birth. The second call came through John the Baptist. Andrew must have been an alert young man longing for the coming of the Messiah when he first heard the preaching of John.
Andrew’s third call came from Jesus himself. The fourth call was to follow Jesus, to be his disciple in daily contact, walking and talking, listening and learning from the Master as from a rabbi.
The fifth call was his selection by Jesus as one of the 12 apostles, to give witness and to bring others to Christ.
His sixth call came through pious Greeks at the Passover in Jerusalem. They wanted to see Jesus, to be introduced to Him. The boy from Bethsaida began using his language skills and his understanding fo Greek and Roman culture to bring Gentiles to Jesus.
Saint Jerome and Saint Paulinus tell us that after Pentecost, Andrew became an apostle to Greece, its bordering lands, and, as tradition tell us, ultimately to Byzantium.
The final call in Andrew’s life was to martyrdom by crucifixion on an X shaped cross at Patras in Achaia.
Saint Andrew’s vocation, and ours as well, wasn’t given all at once. Seven calls from the Lord built one upon the othe. Andrew’s response to each gave new shape to his life and prepared him for the next gift of God.
This courageous young man by purity of heart and docile obedience to God’s will became in Saint Bede’s words, “The Introducer to Christ.”
Foreign nations and the next ages William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-26-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon
Is Doug Mastriano Awakening? — We’ve been critical of Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano (R-33) for giving this state Act 77 and his feckless gubernatorial campaign against Josh Shapiro.
Maybe he’s waking up, though.
From X today, Nov. 25, at 8:45 a.m.:
Laugh at Q all you want but it’s not trying to convince you to castrate your sons, sterilize your daughters and let Hamas in over an open border.
The ones you should scorn, mock and despise at are the ones running our schools like in Penn Delco.
And those who deny our border policy is endangering us.
Largest shopping center in the world William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-25-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
Richard M. Nixon
Black Friday Name Origin Joseph P. Barrett originally was published Nov. 25, 2015. The men responsible for naming the day, Joe Barrett and Nate Kleger were co-workers and friends of William Lawrence Sr. We will never forget you Uncle Joe.
Black Friday, in reference to the day after Thanksgiving, was first used in a 1951 article in the trade publication Factory Management and Maintenance” and concerned the habit of employees calling in sick the day after the holiday to get a four-day weekend.
The article by M. J. Murphy recommended just making the day a paid holiday.
However, the term’s use as a day of shopping chaos has a Philadelphia root, the popularization of which can be squarely placed on the shoulders of Joseph P. Barrett and Nathan Kleger, who were police reporters with the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Philadelphia traffic squad cops had been using the phrase to describe the massive Center City traffic jams that occurred the day after Thanksgiving. Kleger and Barrett wrote a front-page piece circa 1960 in which they appropriated the phrase. The paper in ensuing years continued with the phrase and local TV soon joined.
And then the nation.
Almighty Hand William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-24-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
Abraham Lincoln
Squanto Was A Catholic — Squanto, the Patuxet Indian who helped the Pilgrims, was a Catholic. Happy Thanksgiving.
Hat tip, Tom C
A Pro-life Prayer for Thanksgiving Day courtesy of Father Frank Pavone
Father of mercies,
God of all creation,
Source of life and of every blessing,
We thank you today, and every day of our lives,
For all that you give us!
Our thanksgiving is not only a duty,
But a joy and a source of strength,
Because it reminds us of your faithful love,
And inspires us with the hope of a future filled with blessings!
Lord, we thank you for guiding our fathers,
Who, inspired by the prophets
And by the saving work of your Son,
Founded a nation where all might live as one,
Acknowledging their dependence on you
As the source of their right to life.
We thank you for your blessings in the past,
And for all that, with your help, we must yet achieve.
We ask you to bless us as we thank you,
That our giving thanks may be accompanied by our firm resolve
To proclaim, celebrate, and serve
The gift of human life, born and unborn.
We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Highest appreciation is not to utter words William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 11-23-23
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy