Um... okay

 Did I get unnaturally popular for some reason? The last entry has been well-visited. InZoi fans? People who like cats? It was not a major post. Just summat related to my life and stuff. Meanwhile, Thanksgiving was great. My brother-in-law's family welcomed me for great food and great conversation.

 Hmm. Maybe I just looked at the entry in a desperate ploy to boost my stats. So I started reading about Hildergard of Bingen. She was a renowned saint and mystic from the 11th century. I'll let you know how it goes. I read a self-help book that showed great promise but very quickly got on my nerves.

 So, if it was due to many visitors, I bid you all welcome and hope you are all doing well. That's all for now.

BYE. 

Getting political

 Nahhhh. I'm not posting my thoughts on matters political. Nobody reads this blog but better safe than sorry. Anyway, today was all shamrocks and luck o'the Irish. I don't think I have very much Irish blood. Explains why I don't have that much luck. No real troubles, either. Ooh. Got political there for a moment. My bad.

 Here comes Wednesday. Spring Break is closing in. It cannot come fast enough. Snow and blowing snow is whirling around. Last night, I was taking the garbage out and I saw something wonderful. 

 Glad it let me get close enough to take a picture. Anyway, that's what's going on with me. Ugh. Blowing snow.

BYE.

Saints preserve us!

Some people have a favourite saint. My favourite happens to be St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of those who despair. Actually, I just like the name Jude, which I first heard in that eternally wonderful Beatles song from 1968 (first 'really' long song I ever heard, but that was all na-na-na's). Anyway, St. Jude also has a little bit toward the end of the New Testament, and I guess it's the subject matter that makes him the patron saint of despairing people. He was writing to comfort and reassure the Christian people who were facing a lot of despair in those days. It's a noble enough goal and it must've done the job. Hey, he got into the Bible, and that's a feat in itself. Of course, being Jesus' cousin did not hurt either. A few of Jesus' cousins got into the Bible as well, either by being mentioned in the Gospels or they had letters of their own in the New Testament.
Anyway, I've done some not-so-serious thinking about saints, especially the ones who are in the Bible. God, to my knowledge, never said to anyone that so-and-so should be a saint. It's been the popes who have canonized and created saints. I have to assume that guys like St. Jude got in because they are in the Bible or have some connection to Jesus - like blood ties, for instance. Jude was also one of the Twelve Apostles, which adds to his supposed holiness. However, in the early 21st Century, there are people working perhaps much harder than Jude ever did to make the world better in the name of the Church and they will probably never be beatified and canonized.
I'm sort of hoping there's an authority somewhere that's reviewing the histories of these saints, especially the ones in the Bible, just to see if they still deserve the title of St. I understand that Pope Paul VI did do some housecleaning back in the day and removed the title from some saints, but I wonder if the saints that are in the Bible should be checked out to see if they still warrant the title. I don't know if St. Jude still warrants the honorific, but I don't think I'm any authority to make such judgments. I'm still waiting for Mother Theresa to be made a saint. It takes the Church a while to make such decisions.