Fr. Josh Miller

@FrHilderbrand (Also, I can think of little more dreadful than sprinkling someone sitting in a hospital or in a bed in their front room. No, French liturgist who spent maybe six months in a parish. No.)

@FrHilderbrand I have "adapted it for pastoral use," such that it no longer requires the sprinkling rite.

In light of the new Order of Anointing requiring the sprinkling of holy water, I once again beg someone to start making these holy water sprinklers that look like pens.

I didn’t go to college, but I did once unexpectedly end up at Princeton University’s “reunions weekend.” The way they do it, every 5th year class has their reunion on campus at the same time. So every year, on one weekend, the Princeton campus will be filled with people celebrating their 5th, 10th, 15th, and so on class reunions— all the way up until there’s nobody alive anymore. The beginning of reunions weekend kicks off with a parade! It is a parade of the Princeton graduates: featuring themselves, in honor of themselves, for… themselves. It works like this: all the graduates pack the sidewalks of the parade route, but ordered by graduation year. The recent graduates are standing at the end of the route, and the oldest graduates are at the beginning. Then, the parade begins. The oldest living graduate steps off the sidewalk and leads the parade. When everyone older than you has gone by, you step into the street and become the parade. Until you become part of the parade, you’re cheering the parade. You cheer and witness everyone before you, and then you are cheered and witnessed by everyone after you. It is a bizarre ritual. To see it, though, is like seeing the entire fossil record of Princeton graduates. The person leading the parade — the oldest living graduate in that cohort — is a white guy. And then, for a reallllly lonnnnnng time, it’s just white guys! After 30 minutes… a woman! A white woman. With people in the parade maybe holding signs like “first coed graduating class!” And then another 30 minutes of slowly, incrementally, more white women in the parade. And then… the first black man! Another 30 minutes of slowly, incrementally, more black men. And so on. By the end — the most recent class — is the exact opposite of the beginning. A mix of everyone you can think of. For some reason that parade really stuck with me. It’s simultaneously a representation of how much the world has changed, but also a representation of how many “minutes of parade” are still walking around having lived and ended up where they are under very different circumstances.

For my fellow Cornhuskers out there: 47 Brand just dropped Carhartt hats. 47brand.com/search?q=nebra…

Cubs, White Sox struggling, so baseball is truly back

Skenes skewered in the first inning. These Mets are tough.

Grateful for the return of baseball.

@aelfred_D We're all getting old, man.

Wow, this whisky is strong! Geez, I don’t know if I can have any more beer, I’m so full. Fucking embarrassing, Aelf, get your shit together.

About to go to the bar. I have become the tourist I once hated.

The MacBook Neo is the ultimate bang-around book; wouldn't want it as my primary system, but as one I intend to carry everywhere? Absolutely. Love this thing.

Quarterly reminder to read Gene Wolfe.

For my part, the reason your comments strike is because Wolfe was the anti-world builder. He trusted you, as the reader, to build with world in your mind. He need not spend 20 paragraphs talking about Dwarvish runes. Wolfe is what you read when you put your big boy pants on and no longer need to be spoon fed.

I love Gene Wolfe – he's by far the greatest writer ever relegated to the genre press – but if you've read any of his letters you'd know he'd be the first to tell you that, as a worldbuilder, he was a faker compared to Tolkien

@TheBigHurt_35 @whitesox Love you brother.

@whitesox I Guess the black player who made you rich over there and holds all your records is forgettable! Don’t worry I’m taking Receipts!

In celebration of Black History Month, we reflect upon momentous firsts for the White Sox organization.

JUST IN: the groundhog has seen his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of meetings that should have been emails

@HelenMagi Right -- one of the things that forced the decree, however, is that tourism stayed pretty flat post-pandemic, which was not good for the budget.

@FrJoshMiller Francis was Pope during the global pandemic which hit tourism very hard. His death, followed by the conclave, and election of a new Pope, received world-wide publicity so not at all surprising that tourism went up.

Though never directed at ++Burke personally, a good collegial move here. I also suspect tourism is up in Leo's tenure, so an increase in income renders the old decree unnecessary.

@HelenMagi But then went down, which hit the budget hard.

@FrJoshMiller Tourism went up after Francis' election too.

"i hope this email finds you well" - boring - not this again - blehhhhhhhhhhh "i hope this email finds you before i do" - commanding - gets s**t done - i wouldn't mess with them

Best sport in the world.

Already looking forward to watching the Bears next year. Now on to hockey and cricket. 21 days until pitchers and catchers report.

Vatican photographers captured some really sweet moments with Pope Leo during the general audience today. (Credit: Vatican Media)