I wrote about Sunday's being a time for reflection, silence, cultivation of the mind and meditation yesterday. ("Working on Sunday: At Growing the Christian Interior Life" (January 2, 2010))
Today's Sunday, and I've got' lots of time for reflection.
The temperature inside me is 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and outside it's gotten up to nine below zero on the same scale: up from -19° earlier this morning.
I decided to miss Mass today. I've got company: the rest of the household's down with something, too. Catholics are supposed to go to Mass on Sunday: Every Sunday is a holy day of obligation. But it's not as simple as that. The rules for this sort of things are, over-simplified: Be devout, but don't be stupid.
Well, like I said: Now I've got lots of time for reflection.
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