Tagged!
Kasia February 1st, 2008
Book Meme Rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.
Now, first I have to admit that I’m cheating on this, because I saw it this morning at home, and probably really should’ve done it there. But the thing is, my office at home has books stacked on the desk, on the floor, etc. as part of this massive book-purge I’m doing, and there were easily half a dozen books that were roughly equidistant from me. So I’m doing it at work, and I’m intentionally skipping over the shelf of reference books (particularly since a lot of them are in Italian or Latin, or do not involve true sentences, i.e. the Kenedy Directory), and skipping right to an actual BOOK that I actually bought to read on my lunches, Visits to the Most Holy Sacrament and to Most Holy Mary by St. Alphonsus de Liguori. No, I’m not trying to show off; if you’d rather, I could reach twice as far and pull out Emily Post. No? I thought not.
It does include portions of two paragraphs…
It asks for the grace not to be numbered among these ungrateful people, for the gift of a deep love for the Blessed Sacrament, and for help to love him more deeply. The prayer to Mary uses a verse from the Song of Songs, a spurious saying of St. Ignatius of Antioch (ca. 37 - ca. 107) and a saying from St. Ephrem to describe Mary as a powerful defense against the powers of evil for all who have recourse to her.
In the Office of the Most Holy Sacrament the Church sings: “There is no other nation so great that has gods as near to it as our God is near to us.”
And there you have it.
Jaibee already tagged The Canuck and Jill, so…I tag The Big Seester, Julia, DJ, Mrs. Kheldar, and…um, a lot of people have already been tagged for this, so how ’bout we leave it at four?
As a query, what are you doing with the purged books?
I recently went over my one bookcase and actually *threw away in the garbage can* two books which I felt were unsuitable for *anyone* to read. That was hard, because I have respect for the printed word. However, these were trash, and should be treated as such.
A few have gone into the trash, for the reasons you intimate. That’s hard for me too, but it was better than inflicting them on someone else. A couple of others went into the trash because they didn’t have covers, which means for all intents and purposes they were stolen. A few are being returned to the rightful owners, or offered to family members.
Most, however, are being boxed up and taken to the Detroit Public Library, which gladly accepts year-round donations for its annual book sale. I get a tax write-off; they get the books; I get more space; it’s all good!
I felt compelled to do this too, even though I’m not tagged and have no blog. So I’ll leave it here for you.
The book is Denzinger’s Sources of Catholic Dogma. Page 123 brings us:
“We admit that images should be venerated. Those of us who are not so minded we subject to anathema… If anyone does not confess that Christ, our Lord, has been described according to His humanity… let him be anathema. If anyone rejects all ecclesiastical tradition either written or not written… let him be anathema.”
that’s from the second Council of Nicea in 787.
Timmay, glad you did this - been so long since I saw you comment that I didn’t know if you were still reading. Otherwise I’d have tagged you, so…consider yourself retroactively tagged!
I’m free for lunch this Tuesday - are you?
I have a number of books at hand, but this is perhaps the most boring. It’s called “CMMI - Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement.” Here’s the text:
“Since the USA policy was formulated using the SW-CMM as its process-improvement model, the policy is currently deficient in fully addressing the engineering process areas. Also, the corresponding company assets, such as the standard software process, do not yet fully address these areas. For example, there is no company-level, documented, standard integration process; this will be one of the areas to address.”
But I had to reach into a cabinet to find that one. The one that’s actually closest to me is the Oxford University Press edition of the NAB:
Numbers 7:48-53 - “On the seventh day it was the turn of Elishama, son of Ammihud, prince of the Ephraimites. His offering consisted of one silver plate weighing a hundred and thirty shekels according to the sanctuary standard and one silver basin weighing seventy shekels, both filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering; one gold cup of ten shekels’ weight filled with incense; one young bull, one ram, and one yearling lamb for a holocaust; one goat for a sin offering; and two oxen, five rams, five goats, and five yearling lambs for a peace offering. This was the offering of Elishama, son of Ammihud.”
Scintillating stuff, ain’t it?
I’m still around, lurking in the background. Commenting comes in spurts for me.
Lunch tomorrow sounds great. I usually go to Confession around 11:30 or 12 on Tuesdays. I’ll hit the 11:30 at St. Aloysius and we can meet up right after. Pick the place and I’ll meet you there.
I’ll follow up with email as soon as I get home later tonight.