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97 lines
6.8 KiB
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## 03Sep2022
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# Stuff in Milford
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Spent a lot of time talking with Stephen. He's got a militaristic outlook. Feels called to something great - very grandiose. Says that he'll accept whatever humbly, understands his faults, but is still very grandstanding. He has such energy - and I think a good bit of equipment - that can be harnessed. But also vices. Boy can drink (goodness, how much money did he drown?)
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I worry he's looking to pick fights. But he may be right in that fights are right around the corner. Am I willing to fight? Capable? Not as much as he.
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I'm realizing that we need some more maturity on this - families at various stages, etc - too many young minds is dangerous and ideological. Having attachment to things - truly loving things - is crucial.
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Told Stephen I'd get back soon. We need to develop a prayer and then continue putting pieces together and finding out what this is to look like.
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## 04Sep2022
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# Coffee hour after church
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Huss/Broseker wives are interested in setting up homeschool co-ops. Solomon expressed this to Father. Started talking, Solomon had to leave. Fr Tom at first had dreams of setting up a school, of buying out the apartments next door - and now that we have the mortgage paid off, can we now start pivoting into more daring endeavors to reinvigorate parish life?
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Mentioned to Fr. Tom that many of my young friends have interest in building intentional community. I'm going to compile a summary of thoughts on the matter and present it to him for further discussion.
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Getting some useful connections / etc together could also be worthwhile.
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Got book from Fr. Roger: **No Apologies** by Anthony Esolen - about masculinity
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**Out of the Ashes** by Anthony Esolen has a chapter on masculinity that's really good; father reads it every year at a thing for students
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# Talking with Jackson
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Tournai, Belgium Map
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Bambeirg, Bavaria - town so small you can't bomb it
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Signal is fine / good
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Catholic Preppers telegram - Emilie P
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# Out of the Ashes
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l 245 "the pulsing heart of the universe is a liturgy, a worship-work."
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l 262 "refuse to utter the lie, or to use its language."
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l 262 we lie to obstruct/obfuscate language and to hide the bad things we've done
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l 434 "we have to immerse ourselves in *things*: trees, stars, mud, grouse, hay, stones, brooks, rain, dogs, fire; and the manmade things closest to the human hand and its work: hammer, shovel, paintbrush, wrench, wheel."
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l 434 "it is hard to go completely mad if you spend your free time being free and accepting the free bounties of the world round about."
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l 449 - if we are always encountering things at first before obscenities, when we come across obscenities, they are obvious folly. Natural immunity > vaccination - but we must first understand the body's natural state.
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l 603 "Notice what it is that people believe to be most important in our common life on earth. If you went to the Great Exposition, you might suppose that the most important thing is to make machines that turn things, so as to work other machines, to do things we want them to tod, or to make things we want them to make. If you went to Chartres, you would not need to suppose, you would simply and readily perceive that the most important thing was to sing with the Psalmist, "I rejoiced when I heard them say, Let us go up to the house of the Lord.""
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l 1178 "we avoid religious questions at the cost of avoiding the most human questions."
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l 1178 **be bold. ask daring questions. 'be tactful' is one thing, 'be boring' is another. do some good 1:1s**
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## 05Sep2022
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# Day with Noelle
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I don't remember quite what I was going to write in here.
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Oh, foot-operated faucets - that would be amazing.
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I should write up the summary.
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And put together a signal group.
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I do see myself as a bit of a leader here. Leading from the back. But maybe I need to be leading more from the front.
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## 07Sep2022
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# Meeting w Fr. Tom
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[[Notes for Fr Tom]]
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## 16SEP2022
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# Picking up where I left off...
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What are we trying to do? To be attentive to God's will. In particular:
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To develop an integrated (or 'undivided') lifestyle(s) conducive towards developing sainthood for us, family, and friends - to build up the City of God
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## 24SEP2022
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# Meeting at the Cabin...
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Main high level goals:
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- Community within close geographic proximity (e.g. walking distance).
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- Lifestyles in which work is integrated into the home healthily.
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- Produce necessities done locally and sustainably. Crops, animals, craftsmanship.
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- Involvement in local politics and community. Be a city upon a hill (or even just a neighborhood / beacons in a town); not isolationist.
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- ? Parish life is TBD.
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- ? Whether buying existing developments in a town or developing a large lot is TBD.
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- ? How to structure finances is a big question and TBD - how communal is this? What sorts of 'codes' do we need (if any)?
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There are immediately actionable things, both to form our skill, spirit, comaraderie, and drive. There's a general sense that there isn't a real actionable 'goal' to drive towards at the cabin. Especially as men, we need the tangible to point at.
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- Have a component of the cabin be reading and discussion on a work. This doesn't have to be a long or particularly philosophical thing - it could be a chapter from a book, or even introducing a novel series. (I think this should not be prerecorded audio or video. Having the words come through our brethren is an important component of this.) Thad and Stephen have interest in doing Exodus 90.
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- Find work projects whereby we may regain practical skills that were lost.
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- Get speakers to talk about advanced topics (or topics that aren't really 'actionable'). Get a surveyor to give an introduction to ground engineering and surveying. Get Adam to do a nature walk, identifying various trees, their uses, and how to care for the land.
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LORD, we offer you our full selves to your service. Help us to build up the city of God here on earth. Form our hearts to be attentive to your will. May we lead one another to You, who art all-powerful and all-loving. Take away the stumbling-blocks of the devil, and put up walls where we are not to pass. Give us boldness yet meekness. Strength yet peace. Discernment yet love.
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LORD, find us good space to be in community with one another and to lead integrated lives. Strengthen the bonds we have with one another, so that we may come to one another's aid in times of need and share in the joys of life together. For you made man to multiply so that we may share in each others' joy and give glory back to you, who art all-good and all-loving.
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St. Joseph, earthly father of our Lord Jesus Christ, most wise and diligent carpenter, pray for us.
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Mary, Our Lady, Theotokos and mother of our god, model of the feminine which we cherish, pray for us.
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St. Isidore, farmer and laborer, pray for us.
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St. Louis, most honored monarch, pray for us.
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St. Augustine, who saved civilization as it fell, pray for us.
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St. Stephen, first martyr of the church, pray for us. |