Paul's Blog

February 28, 2026

A Visitors Are Welcome.

Had a Great Time Doing Brakes Today. God's Work eh?

God worked on me today. He allowed me to help a friend get his brakes done.

I played Polyeleos and "Hitch" a Ride". We worked hard together and got it done. Nobody got hurt.

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February 26, 2026

Imagine a Great Good.... if you can...

Is it possible that a great good is at work and that great good is not apparent to you? This kind of thing happens all the time.

Illumination from the vestible, pipe organ in the loft, and "Peace be with you Paul" from an angel. That would be fantastic!

I drew it way back when it happened...1987?

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February 24, 2026

Grace and Sacrifice

My life long examination into the Nature of Grace got another contribution this past couple of weeks. I have been studying the sermons of Meister Eckhart as you can see below in the thread of this blog. When I changed the website from a one-way communications hub to a list of my interests, I set up a bunch of pages one of which was "Grace". I have been interested in the subject for 46 years and my recent interest in Eckhart has opened up a whole new perspective. William F. Buckley planted the simple question. Now I find the answer far more difficult. Eckhart is difficult. But, I think I am getting it. Here below are my initial thoughts on Grace informed by Eckhart, with a long foundation from Aquinas. Additionally, I seem to consumed by a great need to pour my life into needy souls. Sacrifice. So you may detect a perversion of Eckhart from me since I am in rebellion with his presupposition that forgiveness is unnecessary in view of his drive towards detachment as a means to holiness. You can find these thoughts on the webpage GRACE. This blog post is considated on that page. Please criticize me.

Link to Page about Grace

What is the Nature of Grace?

I have spent decades turning this question over in my mind, and the more I read Aquinas and now Eckhart, the more I realize the question itself is part of the Grace. I am better simply because of attending to the subject. It never quite settles. It keeps returning, like a hand that won't let go during the kiss of peace, like a name spoken once that echoes for forty years. Aquinas gives us structure; Eckhart gives us fire. Neither feels complete on its own, but together they point toward something I can only call the act of Grace itself.

NOTE: The bolded terms are usages from Aquinas and Eckhart

Saint Thomas Aquinas approaches Grace with the care of a master builder. He insists Grace is created, a supernatural quality, a "habit" that God infuses into the soul the way dye changes cloth without becoming the cloth. Sanctifying grace is the permanent change that makes the soul pleasing to God and lifts human nature into participation in divine life. Actual grace is more fleeting; it prompts specific acts of will or intellect (prayer, forgiveness, the decision to rise when everything says stay down). Then he draws further distinctions: operating grace is God moving first, without any initiative from us; cooperating grace is the moment we join that movement, our will folding into His. Prevenient grace comes before we even desire the good, preparing the soil; subsequent grace follows and sustains the good once it has begun. And through it all he is scrupulous about one thing: Grace remains distinct from God. Creator and creature stay separate. He is protecting something essential, the real difference between God and us, so we do not slip into thinking we are divine.

That careful architecture is admirable, even comforting. Yet it can feel mechanical. Grace begins to look like a tool God employs rather than the action of the touch of His own hand. The many categories (sanctifying, actual, operating, cooperating, prevenient, subsequent) cover every angle, but in doing so they risk turning love into a formula, a system we can diagram instead of a presence we can only experiamce.

Meister Eckhart takes the opposite road, and it is both exhilarating and unnerving. For him Grace is not created at all; it is God, the very ground of being. There is no habit to be added, no layer to be laid on top of the soul. When Grace arrives, the soul does not receive something from God; it merges into the divine essence. All separation (ego, sin, the noisy world) dissolves in His presence. Grace is oneness, not something given but something realized: the soul becomes what God is. The risk is obvious. The Church has always called this edge-heresy because it blurs the line between Creator and creature so completely that the human person seems to vanish. Eckhart suffered excommunication for a while. Yet when you read Eckhart, you feel the pull of something true. The language loops back on itself (Grace is God, God is Grace), and the repetition is almost painful, like staring into a mirror that reflects only moving light. It is overwhelming. And that overwhelming quality feels closer to the moments I have known than any category ever could teach.

So where does that leave us? Somewhere between Aquinas's careful distance and Eckhart's wild oneness. Grace is God acting, willing the good, then making it real, without turning into a separate substance or erasing the one who receives it. It is not a created habit, not a gift handed over, but the very motion of divine love reaching into time and flesh. It touches soul, mind, and body together, remaking without replacing, clarifying without overwhelming. And it is never separate from God: it is His motion, His love, His presence moving through us.

To clarify, the Holy Spirit is the breath and fire of that motion, the Third Person of the Trinity, the personal love between Father and Son. He has will, He speaks, He intercedes with groans too deep for words. He is not an impersonal force; He chooses to love me. When He acts, Grace happens.

The soul is created, immortal, rational, the image of God that animates the body, giving it life, motion, heartbeat. It receives God's act and is remade, never replaced. It knows, it loves, it chooses.

The mind is simply the knowing faculty of the soul, how it sees truth, judges, remembers. Grace does not give it a new intelligence; it brings clarity, the sudden sense that what was hidden is now plain.

And Grace itself, our landing after all the reading and wrestling, is God, willing good and then doing it. The reach. The eternal touch. The burning lips of Isaiah. My burning tongue. It strikes soul, mind, and body at once. It never stands apart from God; it is His motion, His love, His presence breaking into our ordinary hours.

That is as close as I can come for now. The categories help, but they are just scaffolding. The reality is that hand that forever held mine in church forty years ago in Saint Mary's Bascilica, the coal that touched Isaiah's lips, the special name spoken in my home, the lingering smell of my mother's perfume. Grace is not a definition we recite. It is the verb by which we are mastered by love.

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February 22, 2026

SUNDAY PEACE - Coffee- Quiet - Beauty

Today's Readings

...wonderful...

Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7 - The Fall

Psalms 51:3-6, 12-13, 17 Miserere Mei

Romans 5:12-19 Sin through Adam, Grace through Christ

GOSPEL Matthew 4:1-11 Temptation in the Desert

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Here are some thoughts on the liturgy of the Word today...hinging on Meister Eckhart.

First Reading - The Fall of Man:

Eckhart commented extensively on Genesis 1–3, viewing it philosophically and mystically. He saw Adam and Eve's story not primarily as historical guilt but as illustrating the soul's turn from divine unity to multiplicity and attachment. The "knowledge of good and evil" represents the fall into dualistic thinking, separating self from God, clinging to creatures instead of resting in divine being.

The serpent's temptation symbolizes the pull toward self-will and possession, leading to a false "nothingness" apart from God (creatures are "pure nothings" without Him). Yet Eckhart often reframed the Fall as part of a necessary journey: detachment reverses it, allowing the soul to return to its uncreated ground where God births the Son eternally in us. Sin arises from attachment; Grace restores unity.

He didn't dwell on inherited guilt in a juridical sense but on how the soul's refusal of God creates illusion. The "breath of life" (Genesis 2:7) points to the divine spark in the soul, untouched by the Fall, where God and soul are one.

Psalms 51:3-6, 12-13, 17 Miserere Mei

1 Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam; et secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum, dele iniquitatem meam.

Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness: according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences.

2 Amplius lava me ab iniquitate mea: et a peccato meo munda me.

Wash me throughly from my wickedness: and cleanse me from my sin.

3 Quoniam iniquitatem meam ego cognosco, et peccatum meum contra me est semper.

For I acknowledge my faults: and my sin is ever before me.

4 Tibi soli peccavi, et malum coram te feci; ut justificeris in sermonibus tuis, et vincas cum judicaris.

Against thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified in thy saying, and clear when thou art judged.

5 Ecce enim in iniquitatibus conceptus sum: et in peccatis concepit me mater mea.

Behold, I was shapen in wickedness: and in sin hath my mother conceived me.

6 Ecce enim veritatem dilexisti; incerta et occulta sapientiae tuae manifestasti mihi.

But lo, thou requirest truth in the inward parts: and shalt make me to understand wisdom secretly.

7 Asperges me hyssopo, et mundabor; lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.

Thou shalt purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8 Auditui meo dabis gaudium et laetitiam: et exsultabunt ossa humiliata.

Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness: that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

9 Averte faciem tuam a peccatis meis, et omnes iniquitates meas dele.

Turn thy face from my sins: and put out all my misdeeds.

10 Cor mundum crea in me, Deus, et spiritum rectum innova in visceribus meis.

Make me a clean heart, O God: and renew a right spirit within me.

11 Ne projicias me a facie tua, et spiritum sanctum tuum ne auferas a me.

Cast me not away from thy presence: and take not thy holy Spirit from me.

12 Redde mihi laetitiam salutaris tui, et spiritu principali confirma me.

O give me the comfort of thy help again: and stablish me with thy free Spirit.

13 Docebo iniquos vias tuas, et impii ad te convertentur.

Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wicked: and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

14 Libera me de sanguinibus, Deus, Deus salutis meae, et exsultabit lingua mea justitiam tuam.

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou that art the God of my health: and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness.

15 Domine, labia mea aperies, et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam.

Thou shalt open my lips, O Lord: and my mouth shall shew thy praise.

16 Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium, dedissem utique; holocaustis non delectaberis.

For thou desirest no sacrifice, else would I give it thee: but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings.

17 Sacrificium Deo spiritus contribulatus; cor contritum et humiliatum, Deus, non despicies.

The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit: a broken and contrite heart, O God, shalt thou not despise.

18 Benigne fac, Domine, in bona voluntate tua Sion, ut aedificentur muri Jerusalem.

O be favourable and gracious unto Sion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

19 Tunc acceptabis sacrificium justitiae, oblationes et holocausta; tunc imponent super altare tuum vitulos.

Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness, with the burnt-offerings and oblations: then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar.

Second Reading - Sin through Adam, Grace through Christ:

Eckhart engaged Saint Paul's' contrasts of Adam/Christ indirectly through Grace, sin, and divine birth. He stressed Grace as God's self-gift, making the soul "like God" and buoyant toward divine works. Sin (from Adam) is a "death of Grace," a weakening that separates us from God's flow.

But Grace abounds more: Christ restores what Adam lost, not by erasing sin's effects externally but by birthing divine life in the soul.

Eckhart saw this as ontological. Grace isn't added reward but union with God's being. The soul, detached, receives this superabundant Grace, overcoming sin's "reign" in death.

GOSPEL Matthew 4:1-11 Temptation in the Desert

Eckhart didn't have a dedicated sermon on this passage, but it fits his mysticism perfectly.

Overall, Eckhart would likely read these readings as one arc: the Fall shows attachment's illusion; the psalm cries for inner renewal; Romans contrasts death-dealing separation with life-giving union in Christ; and the Gospel shows detachment's triumph in the desert. The goal? Not moral perfection alone, but sinking into the soul's ground where God and soul are one, beyond sin's shadow, in Grace's light.

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EARLY ANNOUNCEMENT

Independent Candidate Julissa Stewart - Congratulations Julissa!

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February 21, 2026

SATURDAY MORNING! - Breathing again!

Time for Big Zoom Call I suppose..

I am back to matters of the day and more routine concerns. My office needs some tender loving and care. YIKES!

Back to Work.

I was working of a serious project and was delayed by obligations to the Supreme Courts. Now that those matters are dealt with.

Here is a cool thing

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First Speculum / Anal Retractor

The Sun King’s Anal Fistula: A 17th-Century First-in-Human Trial (With Zero IRB Approval)

Versailles, 1686. Louis XIV, absolute monarch, gourmet, and serial womanizer, develops a perianal abscess that fistulizes into a classic fistula-in-ano. Painful, foul, and frankly undignified for a guy who invented ballet.

Enter Félix de Tassy, royal barber-surgeon (because razors are basically scalpels with better marketing).

After seventy-five practice patients, mostly coerced peasants, he unveils his prototype: a three-pronged iron retractor, expandable like a medieval speculum on steroids; a sickle-shaped, razor-sharp scalpel with a probing tip, perfect for blind fistulotomy; and gold-thread sutures, because why not add bling to infection control.

No anesthesia, no antibiotics, just hot irons, a stiff drink, and Louis lying there like it was Tuesday. He took it like a champ. Necrotic tissue dulls pain, wine dulls everything else.

Procedure:

probe, lay open, drain, close. Months of bedrest, zero recurrence.

He ruled another thirty years.

Modern take: a lay-open fistulotomy with custom perineal retractor. We’d add sedation, sterile fields, and maybe a robot. Back then? Just innovation via trial-by-fire, seventy-five failures, one success.

Moral: Even kings need guinea pigs. And sometimes the best devices come from barbers who hate losing patients.

Linked Page of the whole situation...Great Medical Device Story

Pictures of the devices.

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February 20, 2026

Heading to Mall

Submitted a reply Brief - 538503

Peter, John, Paul U and I were again at the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia today in Port Hawkesbury. Last filing before the Justice renders a decision on what will constitute the record.

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I Saw 2 Cardinals This Morning

In the past decade, Cardinals have become a stable population in Nova Scotia. I love their morning call and their sunset call. They are so pretty. What was God thinking?

I was getting the car out of the garage and 2 Cardinals were calling right above the driveway.

I was in a hurry but I took the time to just look at them and listen to them. Beautiful birds!

Not from my Yard :)

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February 18, 2026

Deep into the Legal Work for 538503

The documentation sub-team is working like animals preparing our response brief. This time around we are dealing a myriad of ghost issues and goblins. We have our collective heads around this. We will likely button it up tonight.

Many thanks to the team for the full robust and complete assessments.

John and I put on the "Armor of God" this morning and it seems to benefiting us tonight. Peter deposited a Carney. :)

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There is No Greater Gift - John 15:13

There is no greater gift than to lay down one's life for a friend. Sometimes it is literal. It is my actual life that I lay down. So laid it is.

Here is the lesson: God Himself allowed Himself to be stripped naked, beaten, humiliated, nailed to a cross, left alone, and to die as an innocent, in the flesh.

Father Nathanael told me how far to go to save a soul. All the way to hell he said. Hell is deep and lonely and no friends are there. Be ready to take Nathaneal's walk with Virgil.

Take the Holy Spirit with you.

Dante and Virgil - Gustave Courtios

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February 16, 2026

Bonus Day

I was waiting for that moment and it happened.

I am in love with that which lives with and in us all.

More Meister Eckhart...

Grace is not gentle...it is firey, transformative.

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February 14, 2026

Saint Valentines Day

The Man: Saint Valentine of Rome

Saint Valentine, whom we venerate as a priest and martyr of the early Church, lived in the third century during the turbulent reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius II (around AD 226 to 269 ish, though precise dates vary in the ancient records). He was a Roman citizen, likely a presbyter or priest in the city of Rome itself, at a time when Christianity was still persecuted under imperial edicts. The Acta Sanctorum and other early martyrologies portray him as a man of deep piety, compassionate toward the afflicted, and fearless in his ministry.

In the Thomistic spirit, we must distinguish between legend and historical kernel: while some accounts embellish with romantic flourishes, the core truth aligns with the Church's memory. Valentine was known for his healing gifts, perhaps through prayer and the laying on of hands, and his commitment to the sacraments. He served the Christian community clandestinely, administering baptisms, the Eucharist, and notably the sacrament of matrimony. This was no small act in an era when emperors sought to suppress the faith.

The Story That Made Him Famous: Martyrdom and the Seeds of Love

The narrative that elevates Saint Valentine to enduring fame centers on his defiance of imperial tyranny in the name of Christian love. Emperor Claudius II, seeking to bolster his armies, reportedly forbade young men from marrying, believing that single soldiers fought with greater ferocity unencumbered by family ties. Valentine, however, continued to unite Christian couples in holy wedlock, viewing marriage as a sacred vocation ordained by God, a reflection of Christ's union with His Church (as Saint Paul teaches in Ephesians 5:25 to 32). This act of pastoral charity was an affront to the state, leading to his arrest.

While imprisoned, Valentine's compassion shone forth. Tradition holds that he befriended his jailer, Asterius, and through prayer restored sight to the jailer's blind daughter, Julia. This miracle led to the conversion of the jailer's household. On the eve of his execution, beheaded on February 14 around AD 269, Valentine is said to have sent a farewell note to Julia, signed "from your Valentine." Here, in this simple gesture, we glimpse the Franciscan heart: a love that is personal, sacrificial, and directed toward the vulnerable, much like Saint Francis's embrace of the leper.

In Aquinas's terms, this martyrdom exemplifies charity as the highest virtue (Summa Theologica II-II, q. 23), uniting the will to God and neighbor even unto death. Valentine's story, though interwoven with later medieval accretions, underscores the early Church's emphasis on love as agape, self-giving, not merely eros or romantic affection.

How This Is Brought Forward to Today

The legacy of Saint Valentine has evolved through the centuries, much like a vine tended by the Church and culture alike. By the fifth century, Pope Gelasius I established February 14 as his feast day in the Roman calendar, supplanting pagan festivals like Lupercalia, a mid-February rite of fertility and purification. This Christianization reflects the Church's wisdom in baptizing what is good in human customs, directing them toward Christ.

In the Middle Ages, Geoffrey Chaucer and other poets linked Valentine's feast with courtly love and the pairing of birds in spring (as in "The Parliament of Fowls"), transforming it into a day for romantic expressions. By the 18th and 19th centuries, the exchange of "valentines," cards, flowers, and tokens, became widespread, influenced by commercial interests yet rooted in that original note of affection.

The Earliest Known Valentine

The earliest known "valentine" in the romantic sense is generally considered the poem written in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orléans, to his wife while imprisoned in the Tower of London. He repeatedly used "Valentine" as a term of endearment. The manuscript survives in the British Library, though images of the actual page are available in historical archives (it's a medieval manuscript rather than a modern card).

Today, Valentine's Day is a global celebration of love in its many forms: romantic, familial, and platonic. Yet, as a Thomist, I urge discernment. True love is not fleeting sentiment but a rational choice for the good of the other, ordered to God. In our secular age, it often drifts into consumerism, but the Church invites us to reclaim it as a reminder of divine love. Parishes may hold blessings for couples, or acts of charity for the lonely, echoing Valentine's ministry. With a Franciscan touch, we might extend kindness to the poor or forgotten, for "God is love" (1 John 4:8), and every heart yearns for it.

The Feast Day Itself and When It Occurs

The liturgical feast of Saint Valentine falls on February 14 each year, as inscribed in the Roman Martyrology. In the current General Roman Calendar (post-Vatican II), it is an optional memorial, sharing the date with Saints Cyril and Methodius in some regions, but Valentine's veneration persists strongly in popular piety. The day typically includes Mass with readings on love and martyrdom (perhaps from 1 Corinthians 13 or the Gospel of John 15:13, "No greater love than to lay down one's life"). Devotions might involve prayers for intercession in matters of the heart, healing, or epilepsy (as Valentine is a patron against it, per ancient lore).

In this season of late winter, the feast heralds the approach of Lent, reminding us that true love involves sacrifice. As Dominicans, we might contemplate it intellectually through sermons or writings; as Franciscans at heart, we live it in joyful service.

May Saint Valentine pray for you, dear friend, that your heart may know the boundless love of Christ.

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February 11, 2026

Listening to Music While I Work.

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Patent Land again...

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February 10, 2026

Go All the Way to Hell.

I attended a men's meeting and it was a beautiful, unexpected event. Andrew Parker talked about the Magnanimity of the Bishop in Les Miserables. Later I asked Fr Nathanael how far does one go to save a soul? He answered: "Saint Catherine said that you go all the way to hell."

So why not go all the way to hell....to rescue a soul?

There is the risk that you get trapped in their hell.

You have to be capable, prepared, with a realistic plan, and you must pray constantly.

Magnanimity...In Les Miserables, when Jean Valjean is captured after having stolen the silver from the Church, The Bishop rescues him by given him more silver in front of the police. Thereby, buying Valjean's soul.

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February 8, 2026

Sunday Peace - The Great REVEALING

Can you feel it? The wash of Divine Grace? It is happening. Amen.

The heavenly abundant saturating invisible beauty of the mind of the God is manifest. A golden halo envelops the whole earth and everyone one.

I see it everywhere, total radiant other-worldly song into souls. How fortunate am I to be alive at this time, in this place... it is hard to believe.

I have very often said:"You have to know where you are and when you are." Today I have total awareness of this "where and when."

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From Today's Readings...

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February 7, 2026

Site Maintanence Day

I had some errors on the code for the site that I caused in late November and I didn't notice until Nick told me the pages were not loading on smart phones properly ---Oh about Jan 24th. I don't have a smart phone so I never noticed. Today I re-loaded the saved version that I preserved and it is working now. I also ARCHIVED November since I was doing site work. November and all the previous months are at the bottom of the page. I try to keep the blog to 2 to 3 months max. Nothing is deleted. I added section dividers and repaired the code errors. I was really busy with the Supreme Court so I had to let the site malinger until I had time.

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February 6, 2026

Attended Supreme Court of NS today with Justice Denise Boudreau.

Justice Boudreau handed INSI 3 victories today after a month of wrangling the record to the top of the priority list. Everyone was there in court in the flesh or virtually via video conferencing. The Motion before the court was one to reschedule the matter entirely.

Justice Boudreau ruled that the hearing for the Motion to Dismiss, moved by AGNS, is set off indefinitely. She also ruled that the Motion to Amend the Notice of Judicial Review re 29A was set off indefinitely.

Justice Boudreau then affirmed in the existing schedule that INSI will provide a reply and perfected brief to the court on Feb 20, and the AGNS will reply to the the Motion for Increased Sufficiency of the Record by Monday Feb 9th.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

It means that there will be no other court business until the record is sufficient for the Justice to make a Ruling on the record itself. That record will include testimony of the people involved in the conflict to prevent the candidates from being on the ballot. It will include very much more.

These actions in the court today left us very happy.

REJECTED Candidate LAW SUIT - Morgan Guptill's Facebook Post

X Post -REJECTED Candidate LAW SUIT - Morgan Guptill's X Post

MORGAN'S Facebook VIDEO -- REJECTED Candidate LAW SUIT STATUS

The Applicants to Judicial Review PtH No. 538503

Below is a list of regular folks who stepped forward at the urging of members of their communities and where harmed by Elections Nova Scotia and the Elections Act, and the Government of Nova Scotia. Now they are bearing the administrative burden of bringing their grievances into the light of the judicial process. These are all good people, engaged in heroism. None are lawyers. They just love their communities.

• Peter Mac Isaac
• John Hurley
• Morgan Guptill
• Paul Edmunds
• Chris Scott
• Patricia Norton
• Sue Kaiser-Mingo
• Paul Westhaver, Agent for INSI
• Bobbylee Dillman, PtH No. 546552

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February 5, 2026

Ball Joint and Tie-Rod End Replaced.

Yesterday I had tire balanced and the mechanic noticed play in the lower ball joint and tie-rod end of the passenger front wheel. I ordered new parts yesterday and picked them up this am. Below is the output. Peter was here keeping an eye on me. Thanks Peter. It only took a few hours and I ended up replacing a wheel stud too. (I had one to replace the one I snapped.)

I have to say the potholes are BRUTAL, especially on the passenger side.

Nice catch mechanic Dan.

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Supreme Court tomorrow. - Rescheduling. We are laying down the program to obtain to the actual record of what happened to the candidates.

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February 4, 2026

Seraphim is Grace

Seraphim and Grace are one in the same.

Seraphim = burning ones = burning love = divine charity = uncreated grace in its purifying, uniting intensity.

Eckhart would affirm that the fire of the seraphim is the same fire of grace that touches the soul and makes it "one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love" with God.

In the Eckhartian POV, consider Isaiah 6:1-8. Isaiah's encounter with the seraphim. I postulate that no seraph descends with tongs or coal; the altar is the ground, the coal is God's own gaze touching the soul's gaze. In that touch, unmediated, unsequential, the guilt is not taken away but revealed as never having been. The lips are not purged; the soul is the purge, burning with the same fire that is seraphim, that is Grace, that is God.

I read sermon 52 by Meister Eckhart tonight.. it is about 4 pages long.

Grace never arrives, it just remembers.

Grace is yes, it is itself.

Grace is Ipseity.

See page 275 here for Sermon 52 of Meister Eckhart

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February 3, 2026

Found Beauty at Tuesday PM

Thanks Malcolm Pinto

May I die an ignominious death, and know the cross. Grant me the Grace to desire it.

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So Now We have Our Fourth Justice

Justice Patrick Murray - Blessed retirement.

Justice D. Shane Russell - Thanks for your brief participation.

Justice John A. Keith - It was a brief encounter.

Justice Dennise Boudreau - I can't wait to meet you.

We've written more introductory briefs than anything else! :)

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February 1, 2026

Sunday Peace - Coffee and Polyeleos

Today's Gospel is the Beatitudes... Christ comforting the people.

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