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Rather excited about the week ahead. I'm going to be setting up a structured exercise regimen to follow daily to increase my strength, flexibility, and balance. What little exercise I've done so far has been helpful, but I'm confident working in a more organized, more regular way will be much better.
posted Sunday 17/Dec/2023 ~20:00 #QNDEC2023
posted by Roscoe
This hasn't been the most productive of days. My only chore completed was doing my laundry. At least there's that. Hopefully I can do better tomorrow.
posted Saturday 16/Dec/2023 ~21:45 #QNDEC2023
posted by Roscoe
I've just added 55-Essential Balance Exercises for Seniors to my Kindle. And the project to improve my physical fitness continues.
posted Friday 15/Dec/2023 ~19:20 #QNDEC2023
posted by Roscoe
Yesterday's CC game win with a Queen-Rook combination checkmate (see above) was nice and it capped off a pleasant, relaxing game that took just over a month to play.
posted Thursday 14/Dec/2023 ~14:25 #QNDEC2023
posted by Roscoe
Thought for today from Archbishop Lefebvre :
“God Himself has asked us to make use of the goods of this world to fulfill our duty of state. So it is obvious that we have to make use of the goods of this world. But the disorder that is inside us because of original sin makes it so we seek those goods in a disordered manner, in an excessive manner, which leads us to turn away from prayer, to turn away from God. For what is prayer if not the raising of our soul toward God? Many people no longer raise their soul toward God because they are entirely taken up by the things of this world. They no longer pray and they do not come to unite themselves to the great prayer of our Lord, which is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. They desert the churches because they are caught up in the spirit of the world.”
posted Wednesday 13/Dec/2023 ~14:00 #QNDEC2023
posted by Roscoe
From the perspective of this Tuesday, I can look back at yesterday and see one thing I did wrong, and another thing I did right.
So I spent two hours yesterday doing yard work. With my lawn mower with grass catcher attached, and with my leaf blower, I attacked the leaves that had fallen in my front yard. Today I'm paying for that with my hips so weak and painful I can barely walk. It's pretty clear that I was wrong to do all that physical work.
Chess-wise though, I did okay. Yesterday afternoon I won a correspondence chess game, catching the White King in a Queen-Bishop combination checkmate. Final board position of that game is pictured above, at the top of this post.
posted Tuesday 12/Dec/2023 ~13:55 #QNDEC2023
posted by Roscoe
Thought for today from Archbishop Lefebvre :
“What should our principal meditation be when we think of our Lord Jesus Christ and we try to live with Him? It's His Passion, it's His cross, because it is by His blood that He redeemed us, that we have received divine life and that we even now receive His benefits. All graces come to us by His cross, come to us by His Passion: the Eucharist and the priesthood.
May our crucifix be our book of meditations because everything is contained in the cross of our Lord: His divinity, therefore the mystery of the Incarnation, the mystery of the Redemption; the mystery of the Trinity as well, because our Lord had within Him the Father and the Holy Spirit.”
posted Monday 11/Dec/2023 ~16:35 #QNDEC2023
posted by Roscoe
Thought for today from Archbishop Lefebvre :
“Sometimes you may have difficulty finding topics of meditation. Well then, meditate on the life of our Lord. Reconstruct His life. Take the mysteries of the rosary one by one. For the Annunciation, for example, reconstruct in your mind the scene of the Annunciation. There you are next to the Blessed Virgin, facing the archangel Gabriel and near our Lord in the womb of the Virgin Mary. Then for the Visitation, reconstruct the scene: the Virgin Mary leaving across the mountain, her meeting with her cousin Elizabeth, the sanctification of St. John the Baptist and the Magnificat. Or else, look at the most Blessed Virgin Mary staying a few months with Elizabeth to help her cousin, who was already old, and remaining there probably until the birth of John the Baptist.
You can reconstruct all of the scenes of the life of our Lord that way and stay in that atmosphere, in that company of our Lord, of the holy angels, of the Blessed Virgin, of the Apostles. That can only enliven your devotion, your gratitude toward God, your love of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's what holiness is: to love our Lord Jesus Christ above all things, to follow Him and to imitate Him. “
posted Sunday 10/Dec/2023 ~14:25 #QNDEC2023
posted by Roscoe
The next few hours are supposed to bring heavy winds to San Antonio. I hope the big trees on this property hold onto all their branches.
posted Saturday 09/Dec/2023 ~20:30 #QNDEC2023
posted by Roscoe
Thought for today from Archbishop Lefebvre :
“It is not only at the moment of her birth into the world that God thought of exempting the most Blessed Virgin Mary from all sin and making of her the Immaculate Conception. From all eternity, before the creation of the world, the Blessed Virgin was conceived in the mind of God. The Church applies this passage of Scripture to the Blessed Virgin: “From eternity... I was already conceived” (Prov. 8:23-24). God was already thinking of her, and He willed to shower her with all His graces and to give her that extraordinary privilege of the Immaculate Conception, exempting her from all fault: “You are all beautiful, O Mary, and there is no stain in you.” So already, from all eternity, God was thinking of this admirable creature, the first after our Lord Jesus Christ.”
posted Friday 08/Dec/2023 ~14:45 #QNDEC2023
posted by Roscoe