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pondering Holy Tuesday
Today is the 3rd day of the 13th week, the 27th day of the 3rd month, the 86th day of 2018, and:
- American Diabetes Association Alert Day
- Celebrate Exchange Day
- Education and Sharing Day
- Holy Tuesday
- International whisk(e)y day
- National Joe Day
- National Spanish Paella Day
- Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day – I was always bemused by “You Make My Pants Want To Get Up and Dance”
- Viagra Day -- The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Viagra, made by Pfizer, to fight male impotence in 1998
- World Theater Day
On this day in ...
1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1855 - Halifax inventor Abraham Gesner gets US patents for his kerosene distillation process; he and a group of investors set up the highly successful North American Kerosene Gas Light Company, to market the new lamp fuel that will completely replace whale oil
1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1913 - Founding of Ottawa's French language newspaper Le Droit by le Syndicat d'Oeuvres sociales Ltée and directed by Charles Charlebois of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a year after the Ontario government passed Regulation 17, a law that “made English the only language of instruction in public schools".
1915 – Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon], the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life. She was presumed to have infected 51 people, three of whom died, over the course of her career as a cook. She was twice forcibly isolated by public health authorities and died after a total of nearly three decades in isolation
1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
It should be noted that events in the Gospels were not necessarily recorded chronologically. Also, Roman and Jewish days started at different times, making the chronology even more difficult to sort out. However, according to tradition, Holy Tuesday is the parable of The Fig Tree [ Matthew 21:19-22]. This is one of those gospels that I struggle with and that priests seldom seem to discuss – indeed, the focus seems to be on the attempts of the Pharisees to discredit Him as the Messiah instead. From what I can understand, basically Jesus gets in a snit because the tree doesn’t have any fruit for him and He curses it causing it to wither immediately and when the disciples ask why the tree withered right away He proclaimed “If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.” Isn’t that the basic tenant of the unkind Calvinist spirit that seems to be so prevalent today? It seems to me this substantiates the idea that if you are poor or sickly, it is your fault and you deserve to suffer [or wither like the fig tree] because if you truly believed, then you would receive what you need. Unfortunately this parable has also been cited by anti-Semites as Christ judging the Jews, equating his anger with the tree with anger to the people of the book. Of course there is a great deal of commentary that contradicts the idea the Lord was annoyed or angry but using it to show His followers how annoyed He was at not finding true religious fervor in the Temple but instead nothing but mere words, empty boasts, an outward show of religion, an external profession, and a bare performance of trifling ceremonies, and oral traditions.
I guess the answer given to the question of “why did He do that” says more about you than the Savior, and maybe that was the intent all along
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