It's been an especially busy day and as such I worked quite a while preparing what will eventually be a presentation arguing for the moral rights of sentient beings, a presentation I'm to make at a so-called Oxford-style debate on the EKU campus, April 20. I've asked Pat New in Interlibrary Loans to get me several dozen articles and books, and tonight I called the Chair of the Philosophy Department, Steve Parchment, to secure for me the ID and pw to The Chronicle of Higher Education where Martha Nussbaum has written an especially well-argued statement for the moral rights of animals.
Our lectio this morning had to do with the parable of the sower as told by Luke in chapter 8. I told June that my soul-soil is often not very condusive to deep planting of the seed which Jesus describes as falling on thin soil, rocks, and thorn-infested earth. Right now, even though today is the day we remember the Annunciation, I'm convinced that my soul needs a good bit of harrowing, manuring, and spading. My old Adam has crept back with a vengeance. Prayer is very difficult. I will try to pray the rosary tonight, but I suspect it will be not without much spirit.
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