Weekly Poop 3/4/15

Roost #44 Poop 

• Dates to Remember: 
• Friday – WCS Meeting @ … 
• Wednesday, March 11 - Entertainment committee meeting @ 6:30 PM at Greene Turtle.  All members welcome, especially new members. 
• Saturday, March 14 - St. Paddy's Day Parade - Set up as always at Beach Copy - NO PARKING AVAILABLE AT BEACH COPY.  Parade starts at 12.   If you haven't already signed up for the St. Pat's day Parade, March 14, and would like to do so, please contact Jo Ann by March 1.  She will be ordering the tee shirts that day.  410-250-5124, or jelder10@verizon.net. 
• Friday, March 20 - Harrington Casino Bus Trip.  All details will be forthcoming at the February Meeting along with a sign-up sheet. 
• Saturday, April 12 - 5th Annual Roost 44 Fund Raising Dance: This year's dance will be on Saturday April 18, 2015 from 7-11 PM.  Everything will be the same as last year - Music by TRANSFUSION; location is OC Elks Lodge Hall; beer, wine, soda, snacks, cash bar; door prizes, 50/50  & money wheel. $25pp.  Tickets will be available at the January meeting & choice of table reservations can be made with a payment of at least $150 (1/2 table of 12). Floor plan is available. Contact Ron Apperson @ 302-436-4790 or ronapperson@msn.com  after that or at Feb, Mar, & Apr meetings. 
• Friday, May 29 - Roost #44 18th Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament @ the Ocean Pines Golf Club.  $100 per golfer; 9 am shotgun start.  Get all of the details HERE. 
• Dues ($30 per member) are past due.  Checks are to be made to Ravens Roost 44, and may be mailed to Jo Ann at 126 Pine Tree Rd., Ocean City, MD 21842. 

We're going to try using our membership cards as name badges this year.  Everyone will be given a pin-on badge along with their membership card.  Hopefully, we will be able to read everyone's name during a meeting.  Again, this is a test this year.  Comments and suggestions are welcome.  Thanks, Jo Ann. 

Ravens Poop 

• Good daily dose of Ravens news notes and nuggets here. It’s getting to the point where I can hardly stand ESPN, but I do go Jamison Hensley’s Blog here to stay up to date with all of the AFC North news. 
• All the best Orioles news notes and nuggets at Britt's Bird Watch here. 

Local Poop 

• Tomorrow thru Sunday - Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus | Built to Amaze, Wicomico Youth and Civic Center.  Experience all the things you know and love and be amazed by things you've never seen before! Witness superhuman stunts so close, you can FEEL it! Astonishing performers, awe-inspiring athletes and amazing animals from around the globe have been assembled in one place providing a riveting display of unimaginable proportions that are Engineered for Excitement and Custom Built for Family Fun!  Tickets can be purchased at http://wicomicociviccenter.tix.com/. 
• Friday, Saturday & Sunday - Indoor Soccer Tournaments, Northside Park, 125th St. and the Bay.  Great annual event that has grown larger over the past 20 years! Estimated attendance over 150 teams over four weekends. Girls and boys under 18 compete. Please check schedule for age groups. Northside Park on 125th St. Registration, OC Recreation & Parks,  410-250-0125.  www.oceancitymd.gov/Recreation_&_Parks/. 

• Sunday & Monday - OCHMRA Trade Show, Roland E. Powell Convention Center.  The Ocean City Spring Trade Expo brings together the hospitality industry buyers and sellers to facilitate business. Produced by the non-profit Ocean City Hotel-Motel-Restaurant Association, this popular Expo draws close to 5,000 attendees and features 400 exhibit booths. Year after year, both exhibitors and attendees look forward to coming out of winter hibernation and gathering to network, solidify relationships, and learn from one another.    

In addition to finding the most innovative products on the market, attendees can see actual production demonstrations and learn the latest trends.  As an added bonus, free educational sessions and culinary demonstrations take place throughout the Expo.  In order to attend the Expo and walk the exhibit floor,  you must be 21 years old and be a buyer, or a guest of a buyer, in the hospitality industry.  Make plans to attend today! 

For more Info please contact: Susan Jones.  Phone: 410-289-6733 E-mail: susanjones@ocvisitor.com. 

• Monday - March Madness Mini Golf Tournament | Benefiting Play It Safe 2015, Old Pro Golf.  The Ocean City Drug Alcohol Abuse Prevention Committee will hold it's 8th Annual March Madness Mini Golf Tourney on Monday March 9th, 2015 at Old Pro Indoor Outdoor Miniature Golf 136th Street. This fundraiser will benefit the 2015 Play It Safe Ocean City Project. There will be prizes and a chance to beat the Pro. Hole Sponsors are still needed for just $25.00 each hole. Registration to play is $15.00 a person or $60.00 per team.  Call 410-289-7060 for more info. 

Funny Poop 

• After she woke up, a woman told her husband, "I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace for Valentine's day. What do you think it means?" 

"You'll know tonight." he said. 

That evening, the man came home with a small package and gave it to his wife. Delighted, she opened it to find a book entitled "The Meaning of Dreams". 

Etcetera 

• Got poop? Let me know! I’m going to try to get this out every Wednesday so if you get it to me by Tuesday I’ll try to include it. Your input is appreciated. 
• Our website is back up and running.  Be sure to bookmark our new address - www.OCRavensRoost44.com or go to our blog @ http://ravensroost44.blogspot.com/ for the latest news, notes and nuggets. 
• Life is short. Focus on the good. 

Frank 

 Baltimore Ravens, let’s go 

And put that ball across the line 

So fly with talons spread wide 

Go in and strike with Ravens pride 

Fight! Fight! Fight! 

Ravens dark wings take flight 

Dive in and show them your might 

For Baltimore and Maryland 

You will fly on to victory 

  

Sundays during Lent

A Lenten Loophole???  Who knew???

SUNDAYS IN LENT: WE CAN'T ALL BE RIGHT ABOUT THIS

It's been a while since any cans of worms were opened around here. Today seems like as good a time as any.

Sundays in Lent seem to be a genuine source of confusion among Catholics. Both the "I don't cheat on Sundays" people and the "Sundays don't count" people believe that Church teaching is on their side. Or perhaps they just think there isn't a formal Church teaching on it, so it is a matter on which good Catholics are allowed to disagree.

But we can't ALL be right, right?

There are 40 days of Lent, because Jesus spent 40 days in the desert in prayer and fasting before beginning his public ministry. This was three years before the events of Holy Week. Early Christians began observing 40 days of prayer and fasting immediately before the Triduum, in order to make reparation for their sins and prepare themselves for the celebration of Christ's resurrection on Easter.

As the "no cheating" folks like to point out, Jesus did not come in from the desert on Sundays. But, here's the thing. When Jesus was in the desert, Sundays weren't Sundays yet. When Jesus went to the desert, he had not yet begun his ministry, he had not yet suffered his passion, he had not yet died for our sins and risen again on the third day. But once that very first Easter happened, Sundays became something set apart, something special. Each and every one is a feast.

The very earliest Christians recognized that. Medieval Christians were on board with it. Pre-Vatican II types knew a Sunday when they saw one, even in Lent. That's why, when you count up the days on the calendar, the season of Lent is NOT 40 days, it's 46 days. Because, from the very beginning of Lents, Sundays were not included as part of the Lenten fast.

It's not that fasting isn't REQUIRED on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation in Lent. It's actually FORBIDDEN.

Now, most of us do not fast from food except as required on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Most of us choose to fast from something else, like sweets or television, instead. But that's still a fast. And fasts don't apply on Sundays.

We're not required to have sweets or watch TV on any particular Sunday, of course, so we're not required to seek them out on Sundays during Lent either. But if the opportunity arises to partake in a licit pleasurable activity on a Sunday during Lent, we shouldn't refrain because of our Lenten disciplines. Every Sunday is a little Easter. Every Sunday should feel like a celebration. If your Lenten discipline is a real, prayerful struggle, that's great. But Sunday isn't the place to struggle against licit pleasures.

If, however, we have given up something that is immoral, or at least leans in that direction (like my Lenten no yelling policy), continuing to abstain from that behavior would certainly be a good idea. And any good habits we are trying to add to our lives during Lent shouldn't be abandoned on Sundays.

If you've chosen to give up something for Lent, like going to the movies, but you only ever go to the movies on Sundays, may I suggest that that's not a particularly good thing to give up for Lent? Here are some other ideas.

I've written on Lent before. Many times. But the thing I most want to emphasize is that we cannot punish ourselves into being deserving of God's love and forgiveness. Lent is not a time to punish oneself. Lent is a time to perfect oneself.

A perfect Christian life respects the rhythm of the Christian year and the rhythm of the week. Even within the season of Lent, there are days that are meant to be celebrated. Let's not deny those days to ourselves and to our Church.

Happy Sunday everyone!

http://www.catholicallyear.com/2014/03/sundays-in-lent-we-cant-all-be-right.html