Monday

I had a flu shot back in mid November. What's odd today is how I feel like I've got the flu; the achey joints, exhausted feeling, etc., yet not a bit of fever. Nothing! Also, my head isn't stopped up. Yet, the rest of my body is saying "you've got the flu."

It was the first time for a flu shot so this is all new to me.

Thomas Merton was remembered yesterday by the OCSO. It's funny, the Lesser Feasts and Fasts, a litgurgical book of the Episcopal Church, has a set feast for Merton, yet the Catholic Bishops do not even have him on the list of Holy People. How strange is that? What is this prejudice the higher ups in the church have against Merton?

It will take greater minds than mine to figure it out. I am rereading The Inner Experience because I think it is the most powerful of all his books. The patina of ultra-catholicity present in his early works, is missing in The Inner Experience. That must put me in the minority because most of the people I've talked to about it don't seem as excited by it as I am. Again, who knows.

Today's mass readings. And the saint of the day.