At Morning Prayer, the Canticle consisted of Isaiah 2:2-5. The Reading consisted of Isaiah 2:3-4, so the same text was duplicated in both places ( Read more... )

We're supposed to call it H1N1 influenza A now, but the damage is done in Egypt, which has ordered all its pigs to be slaughtered -- no skin off the nose of Egypt's Muslims, who are forbidden to have anything to do with hogs in the first place, but a gut punch to Egypt's Christians, who are the only ones in the business.

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