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Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:58:51 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/28439025 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/28439025 I swear I could listen to Mary Margaret O'Hara for hours - except she doesn't have hours of song. http://ping.fm/a8FdX

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Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:13:19 -0700 Jesus and the fig tree(s) http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/jesus-and-the-fig-trees http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/jesus-and-the-fig-trees Matthew: "In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the wayside he went to it, and found nothing on it but leaves only. And he said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you again!" And the fig tree withered at once."

Did Jesus kill the fig tree? Or was it sick in the first place? Persistence of sin until death works like this: death is the result. Why does God allow us to persist in sin?

Luke: "And he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. And he said to the vinedresser, `Lo, these three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down; why should it use up the ground?' And he answered him, `Let it alone, sir, this year also, till I dig about it and put on manure. And if it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.'"

Merciful God pours out his very graces on even sinners (not that all grace is, strictly speaking, pleasant!), in the hopes of getting them to live again.

Mark: "On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. And he said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again." And his disciples heard it."

In season, and out of season, He expects us to bear fruit.

Luke: "And he told them a parable: "Look at the fig tree, and all the trees; as soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near. So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near."

The flowering fig tree is a sign of life. The barren fig tree is a sign of death. Jesus, flowering after He died, shows true life - and definitely the most 'out of season' you can be: after the grave.

Matthew: "When the disciples saw it they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree wither at once?" And Jesus answered them, "Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and never doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, `Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it will be done. And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.""

So, living faith is the sign of divine life: living faith doesn't start with us, but it starts with God. Doubt (that is, the rejection of the gift of Faith, not merely intellectual questioning) is the sign of death, and it is subject to judgment and death.

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Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:30:36 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/27324877 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/27324877 Evidently, the shortest joke in the world: "Venison's dear, isn't it?"

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Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:27:50 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/26270181 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/26270181 Renewed my membership at the MFA, woot.

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Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:19:54 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/25756221 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/25756221 I'm in ur storz, stimulating ur economeez.

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Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:21:57 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/25741431 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/25741431 So, it's the tax-free weekend, and I have absolutely nothing I want to buy. :(

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Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:02:22 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/25677733 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/25677733 Just cooked Mako Shark, in lemon-butter-caper sauce. (Too much lemon, one half to one stick of butter next time). Yum. w/Corn.

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Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:16:36 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/25674173 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/25674173 King Philip the Fair of France secretly ordered the dissolution and arrest of the Knights Templar on Friday, October 13th, 1307.

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Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:07:35 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/25609911 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/25609911 "A room without books is like a body without a soul."
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:10:40 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24887960 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24887960 Top 10 Least Romantic Spots in Boston. http://ping.fm/tzNN8

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Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:36:15 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24732489 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24732489 My father, conning his boat.

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Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:21:00 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24668545 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24668545 World's End, Weymouth. Just get in the car with a couple of sandwiches, and drive: http://ping.fm/gY6qm

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Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:15:21 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24662665 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24662665 That place for a picnic was called World's End.

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Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:58:26 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24656928 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24656928 Lovely place for a picnic

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Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:55:06 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24654880 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24654880 Change of plans, BTW. We're touring the harbor islands - too choppy for a fun trip north.

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Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:31:20 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24654229 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24654229 Graves lIghthouse
Graves lIghthouse

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Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:41:03 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24650116 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24650116 Marina that should be. Darn autocorrect

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Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:38:24 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24650044 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24650044 A pretty day at the marinated.
A pretty day at the marinated.

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:22:23 -0700 Untitled http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24620393 http://jrpascucci.posterous.com/24620393 Why is it so hard to find someone who's tall, pretty, devastatingly smart, conservativeish, Catholic, and unmarried? Oh - right. MA. n/m.

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