Rochester NY Chesterton Society

We are reading The Ball and the Cross this year. 3rd Thursdays at the St. Irenaeus Center, Rochester, NY.

43rd Annual Chesterton Conference - Faith & Friendship Registration hosted by Whova 2024-07-25, King of Prussia, PA

Chesterton Academy of Rochester, NY

https://www.chesterton.org/42nd-annual-chesterton-conference/

Don't miss it! 42nd Annual Chesterton Conference Fun, faith, fellowship. A conference and retreat all in one! Join us in Minneapolis for an experience that might change your life!

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A7154?fbclid=IwAR3F6qvcXGwmFKkH2BPo-H_ELEhIgA2FNGeMnZIzKXTv2dVCHufOtlSA64I

Hudge and Gudge???

NY State Assembly Bill A7154 Requires a health care provider who administers an immunization to a person nineteen years of age or older to report such information to the department of health or to a regional health information organization unless such person objects to such reporting.

Merry Christmas from Albany! pffffff They of course passed the bill. Looks like it's on Hochel's desk. Is there any question she'll pass it? NOPE!...

https://unitingnys.com/actions/urgent-alert-stop-the-secret-vote-before-thursday/

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S9617

NY State Senate Bill S9617 Increases the salary of members of the legislature to one hundred forty-two thousand dollars per annum; limits the outside earned income by such members; provides that an intentional violation of outside income provisions is a class A misdemeanor.

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2022/12/god-in-the-cave-gk-chesterton.html

The God in the Cave Christ was not only born on the level of the world, but even lower than the world. The first act of the divine drama was enacted, not only on no stage set up above the sightseer, but on a dark and curtained stage sunken out of sight.

I'm sure you're all familiar with this GKC quote from Orthodoxy! Read it, then see the comment section below.

Under the lengthening shadow of Ibsen, an argument arose whether it was not a very nice thing to murder one's self. Grave moderns told us that we must not even say "poor fellow," of a man who had blown his brains out, since he was an enviable person, and had only blown them out because of their exceptional excellence. Mr. William Archer even suggested that in the golden age there would be penny-in-the-slot machines, by which a man could kill himself for a penny. In all this I found myself utterly hostile to many who called themselves liberal and humane. Not only is su***de a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world. His act is worse (symbolically considered) than any r**e or dynamite outrage. For it destroys all buildings: it insults all women. The thief is satisfied with diamonds; but the su***de is not: that is his crime. He cannot be bribed, even by the blazing stones of the Celestial City. The thief compliments the things he steals, if not the owner of them. But the su***de insults everything on earth by not stealing it. He defiles every flower by refusing to live for its sake. There is not a tiny creature in the cosmos at whom his death is not a sneer. When a man hangs himself on a tree, the leaves might fall off in anger and the birds fly away in fury: for each has received a personal affront. Of course there may be pathetic emotional excuses for the act. There often are for r**e, and there almost always are for dynamite. But if it comes to clear ideas and the intelligent meaning of things, then there is much more rational and philosophic truth in the burial at the cross-roads and the stake driven through the body, than in Mr. Archer's suicidal automatic machines. There is a meaning in burying the su***de apart. The man's crime is different from other crimes—for it makes even crimes impossible.

Conference is tomorrow! Basil Hall, St. John Fisher College!!!

Coming up soon!!!