Wise Words On Wednesday: Potential You

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Continuing “Tolkien Month”, I interviewed Joseph Loconte, author of A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War which tells the story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.
S3E44: “After Hours” with Joseph Loconte (Download)
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Since I often have to look up the fasting regulations in the Byzantine Church, I thought I’d do a quick post on my own blog so I know where to find them…
The Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church sui juris of Pittsburgh observes the following four seasonable observances:
1. The Philip’s Fast
The forty day fasting period, November 15th – December 24th
2. The Apostles Fast
The 8-42 fasting days between the Monday after All Saint’s Sunday and June 28th.
3. The Dormition Fast
The fourteen day period between August 1st-14th.
4. The Great Fast
The forty day fasting period from Pure Monday to Palm Friday (which is then extended through to Holy Saturday).
No meat or meat products. Eggs and dairy allowed. It is required on:
No meat, eggs or dairy. It is required on Clean Monday and Good Friday.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, Speech delivered April 23rd, 1910 in Paris.

Continuing “Tolkien Month”, in today’s episode I spoke with John and Greta Carswell from “The Tolkien Road” podcast, focussing on Tolkien’s work, The Silmarillion.
S3E43: “After Hours” with The Tolkien Road (Download)
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More information about us can be found on our website, PintsWithJack.com. If you’d like to support us and get fantastic gifts, please join us on Patreon.
The roadmap for Season 3 is available here.
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