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November 11 is Veterans Day. It's also called Armistice Day, Poppy Day and Remembrance Day. The Armistice Day Moniker made sense in 1919, a year after Ferdinand Foch signed the Armistice of Compiègne. A year without appalling body counts was reason to celebrate. So was the Treaty of Versailles, at least for folks who blamed Germany for the war. 1 I'll be talking about that, among other things. It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time Prohibition, Propriety and Good Intentions Crashes, Dust and Passing the Buck Events and Principles War and Preferences Valuing Human Life More at A Catholic Citizen in America .

  I saw a television commercial the other day.   As is often the case, I have no idea what they were advertising.   I would think good advertising would lead you to remember the product, but for people like me, we get caught up in other things—the people, the background, the slogans, etc. Well, in this particular commercial it was the slogan . . . “Find your breaking point and then break it.” A couple of things ran through my mind. First, if I am at my breaking point, isn’t the point that I can’t go any further?   But then, my follow-up thought was the one I am sure they were going for. Go beyond what you think you can do.   This definitely works for exercise.   When your brain tells you that you are done because (most of the time) you are just bored, you really can go longer, farther or faster. So what about life?   Does “Find your breaking point and then break it” work for life in general? It’s a bad motto for workaholics because it will make them push themselves far

  Year A   All Quiet on the Western Front  (1930), ending For you yourselves are fully aware that  the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night (1Thess 5:2).   [Second Reading] Readings   (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Readings (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, India [optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa) Gospel   Matthew 25:14-30 or 25:14-15, 19-21  [Omit]  ( English Standard Version Anglicised) Jesus told his disciples this parable: “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.   To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.   [ He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.   So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.   But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. ]   Now

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    Christ and the Wise Virgins German Mediaeval Sculptor [ Web Gallery of Art ] Readings   (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Readings   (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, India [optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa) Gospel   Matthew 25:1-13 ( English Standard Version Anglicised) Jesus told his disciples this parable: “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.   Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.   For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,   but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.   As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept.   But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’   Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.   And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’   But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not b