Light Posting | Gates of Vienna

A family member was badly injured in a car accident this morning. As a result, we will be visiting the hospital and engaged in related activities for at least the next few days. In the interim, posting may be light.

I’ll do my best to keep up with the news feed, and we will moderate comments fairly regularly. But the volume of additional material may well be reduced.

Unfortunately, the Great Jihad won’t declare a truce while we’re indisposed. We recommend that you visit Vlad Tepes and Jihad Watch to keep up with what’s going on.

28 thoughts on “Light Posting”

Family member, get well soon.

Very sorry to hear that news, Baron. You and yours will be in my prayers.

Sorry to hear that …..Best wishes and prayers for your family member. Get well soon.

I hope your relative feels better soon!

Wishing your family member a speedy recovery .

May God grant you a safe deliverance.

Prayers sent for comfort & healing.

My thoughts and prayers for a full and speedy recovery.

Do keep the site occasionally informed on the personal level.

Dymphna on February 1, 2018 at 10:23 am said:

He is unconscious, with a shunt in place to relieve brain swelling. It may be a right good while before he “comes to”.
- The Countess on February 1, 2018 at 10:56 am said:
  
  Sound bad. May you have good news very soon.
  
  And, may angels be on guard.
  - Fitzroy on February 1, 2018 at 2:13 pm said:
    
    Thinking of you both. Best wishes.
- tjfj on February 1, 2018 at 10:04 pm said:
  
  Thanks for the detail, Dymphna. Helps to understand how serious, and share your concern. Thanks to Valman’s great reminder, of faith and grace. Excellent.
  
  My wishes and sympathy for a successful recovery. And prayer. We shall await, knowing “all things work for good”. Sounds like in good hands.
  - Dymphna on February 1, 2018 at 11:26 pm said:
    
    One of the benefits of prayer is that it gives one something to do whilst waiting for things to change. And it can put you ‘in tune’ with the person for whom you pray…they are brought to mind most clearly. Even some of my atheist friends pray in times of great stress. A protracted labor in childbirth can be like that.

Sorry to hear that Baron..You and yours WILL come through..

May God heal your pain and your family member health

Best of luck, Baron.

Hope all goes well with your relative. You are in my thoughts.
Margaret

Hi,

Sorry to hear about this.

I am sure all your readers feel the same.

i hope things work out for you and yours.

Baron Bodissey,

In times of difficulty and trial, I have found Psalm 121 of great comfort and strength, especially when at a loss for words. The first two verses:

“I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From whence does my help come?

My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.”

Today, and in the days ahead, praying this psalm for your loved one, you, and all those gathered together in their concern and love. VALman

Dymphna on February 1, 2018 at 4:17 pm said:

When I was a child, those lines from the Psalm opened the Tridentine Mass (for many hundreds of years). As a kid, I only knew that passage as “The Introit”. The English translation (from the facing page, across from the Latin) was always from the canonical Douay-Reims version of the Bible.

Here’s a two-fer: Psalm 121, 122 in Gregorian chant…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZmmEfxUuaM

I loved chant when I was in the choir in grade school. It doth soothe the savage breast…

Thank you for doing this; it means more than you can know.
- VALman on February 2, 2018 at 5:29 am said:
  
  “Music for paradise” – “Music for the soul”: very much so! Thank you for the link. I listened to it in the very quiet of the morning. So very beautiful. May He always keep us in his care.