{"id":7487,"date":"2016-03-17T13:41:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T20:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=7487"},"modified":"2016-03-17T17:27:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T00:27:17","slug":"7-quick-takes-st-patricks-breastplate-the-faith-of-john-kasich-and-other-findings-from-the-web-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=7487","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes: St. Patrick&#8217;s Breastplate, the Faith of John Kasich, and Other Findings From The Web This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt1\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>St. Patrick&#8217;s Breastplate.<\/strong>  Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, y&#8217;all!  I thought I&#8217;d share the hymn form of St. Patrick&#8217;s Breastplate as it is a beautiful (but VERRRRRY long) hymn.  Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourcatholicprayers.com\/st-patricks-breastplate.html\">here<\/a> to read the whole prayer which is also quite long but very pretty.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"St Patrick&#039;s Breastplate | New Saint Andrews Convocation 2012\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ga3zAuzzHQ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt2\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Something penitential for meat eaters for today.  \ud83d\ude42<\/strong>  It&#8217;s not Friday so technically observant Catholics, Episcopalians, and some Lutherans aren&#8217;t having to abstain from meat&#8230; unless you went vegan like I did.  I&#8217;m Irish-American, did my senior comps in college on Celtic Christianity, and have kissed the Blarney Stone so I&#8217;m treating today as a feast and *gasp* eating meat and having dairy.  (Sorry, <a href=\"http:\/\/copticdadandmom.com\">Laura<\/a>.)  As a penitential act for today (since, you know, I&#8217;m being a heathen and all), I&#8217;m listening to all of the videos on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithit.com\/five-best-worst-videos-on-internet\/\">here<\/a>, especially #6 and #7.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt3\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I knew there was a reason I kinda sorta like John Kasich.<\/strong>  It turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/03\/john-kasich-2016-religion-213735\">boyfriend is Anglican and shares my view that it&#8217;s obnoxious to try and win votes using God&#8217;s name<\/a>.  I would rather see positive spiritual fruit in one&#8217;s life than have someone claim to be one on national television and see the opposite in how they treat people.  (Ahem&#8230; Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.)  I love also that Kasich is focused on living out Matthew 25 and not just on winning political office.  It makes a difference to ne and this is why he would be the only Republican in the race for whom I would consider voting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt4\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My scars are signs of life.<\/strong>  A bunch of men and women <a href=\"http:\/\/www.attn.com\/stories\/6610\/video-women-share-scars-on-camera\">bared their scars<\/a> for everyone to see and explained the story of them.  Mine would only all be visible if I was wearing a string bikini so we&#8217;ll just skip my c-section scar reveal even though <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6303\">that story is worth telling<\/a>.  Still, the account of each scar is worth a read and the video is worth a watch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt5\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 5 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Passover Rube Goldberg-style.<\/strong>  This is pretty amazing and would be a good tool to teach kids about the Passover story.  Props to <a href=\"http:\/\/remnantofremnant.blogspot.com\">priest&#8217;s wife<\/a> for sharing it with me on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Passover Pesach 2015 Seder Rube Goldberg Machine from Technion in Israel\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/baQfqoZrEvI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt6\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 6 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why many women are skittish around men.<\/strong>  <a href=\"http:\/\/aplus.com\/a\/to-men-i-love-from-men-that-scare-me?\">This<\/a> is a good read about why many women like me have no sense of humor when men make sexually-driven comments.  Seriously, it pisses me off that I have to weave my keys between my fingers if I&#8217;m walking on the street to my car after dark in case someone decides to assault me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt7\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 7 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why victim-blaming falls apart.<\/strong>  Two girls from Peru were traveling to Ecuador and were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/2-women-were-blamed-for-their-own-deaths-so-a-stranger-spoke-up-for-them?c=ufb2\">brutally murdered by two men they met, their bodies found several days later in plastic bags<\/a>.  In the midst of all the people decrying what happened were the people who were blaming the girls for their murder, saying that <em>they put themselves at risk<\/em>.  A student from Paraguay thought this was incredibly wrong and wrote an account in the voices of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>I share this because it pisses me off to no end that if I were to get raped, the first question would be &#8220;what were you wearing?&#8221;  When we were doing the required self-defense class in high school so that we could fight off rapists and attackers, nobody ever mentioned teaching the boys not to rape.  I shouldn&#8217;t have to be worried about walking down the street by myself or that some man is going to be turned on by what I&#8217;m wearing and decide to assault me.  I mean, I have more than a few friends who were wearing a t-shirt and sweats when they were sexually assaulted!<\/p>\n<p>We have a serious problem in our society when the victims of a crime receive blame than the person who committed the crime against them.<\/p>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly at <a href=\"http:\/\/thisaintthelyceum.org\">This Ain&#8217;t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; 1 &#8212; St. Patrick&#8217;s Breastplate. Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, y&#8217;all! I thought I&#8217;d share the hymn form of St. Patrick&#8217;s Breastplate as it is a beautiful (but VERRRRRY long) hymn. 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