New commission

My commission 2021

 Traditional to every Epiphany evening, our community gathered for dinner and each was given the patron saint and spiritual commission for the new year. Mine ... was exactly the same as last year's: St. Jerome ... the lamenting suffering prophet; virtue to inculcate = forbearance; biblical verse = Col. 1:24; deceased to pray for: Fr. Castellana, our archeologist in Syria. 

We also received an olive wood rosary and a statue of the Holy Family. We would have traditionally also played Bingo ... but we abandoned that some 6 years ago. Well now ... it's time to try and put this commission into practice. 

The severe lockdown will start tonight midnight ... and many are watching how "severe" is severe. We've seen again and again how police don't enforce the restrictions and the public just go on as usual, with impunity. The police have warned they will be strict but the police chief says they will not enforce it in synagogues. So there you go ... an exception made even before the lockdown started. I'm not planning to go to work tomorrow ... but I'll be watching from our terrace to see what the police will do.  https://www.ynetnews.com/article/SkopG6NRv?fbclid=IwAR1_-XMKUqJShiwxla2CtGC9EqCZnka2hPI0_di3Gu3-CpB2QSoUHkF-K78   and   https://www.ynetnews.com/article/Hk7yvv70w

Epiphany gift

My plantar fasciitis is still giving lots of problems ... but also my asthma. Like I said perviously, the air quality has dropped significantly the past 2 weeks and many people are suffering from respiratory problems. I hope 2021 will be kinder to me healthwise.

And the biggest laugh everyone is having despite the impending lockdown is the chaos at Capitol Hill yesterday. That is not a normal human being acting as president. It's what you see in 3rd world dictatorships, or more aptly an emotionally retarded adult who's living in a fantasy world and reasons like a toddler. It's incredible how the US president can lie and lie and still people still believe him. Read the Book of Apocalyspe ... it's all prophesied there ... the beast who misleads the public with lies while they worship him. It's fulfilled. Evil is incarnate among us.