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momentsbeforemass · 17 days

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The problem with Easter

Many of us have a problem with Easter.

I’m not talking about those of us who are desperate to avoid the reality and the impact of the Resurrection.

I’m talking those of us who believe. And those of us who want to believe.

And the absolute awe and wonder that’s a very human response, a very holy response to the Resurrection. Because it’s hard to overstate the importance of the Resurrection.

The glory of Easter Sunday? It’s some of the purest joy that you and I will ever experience on this side of eternity.

So what’s the problem?

The problem is with us. Here’s what I mean – when you and I see something so amazing, so glorious? We want more. There’s nothing wrong with that.

The problem comes with this unspoken assumption that you and I make. There’s something in us that responds to something that glorious, and our desire to experience it again, by assuming that this is the only way it can happen.

It’s almost like we told ourselves, “That’s how I know it’s really Jesus. When it looks just like Easter Sunday.”

And even though we don’t say it out loud, you and I treat it like a fact-check. Telling ourselves, “If it doesn’t look like that? Then it’s not really Jesus.”

Which is why today’s Gospel is so important.

Today’s Gospel shows us that moment after the Resurrection, when Mary Magdalene doesn’t recognize Jesus.

Jesus isn’t bursting forth from the tomb in a blaze of resurrection glory. The whole rolling back the stone, host of angels, heavenly chorus, Roman soldiers running in terror, sensory overload thing.

Actually, it’s kind of the opposite.

When Mary Magdalene sees Jesus? His appearance is so ordinary, she mistakes Him for the gardener.

The thing is, Mary Magdalene is one of people closest to Jesus. And this is exactly how she’s used to seeing Him. For as long as she’s known Him.

That’s the problem we can have with Easter. That no matter how well we know Jesus. Or how long we’ve known Jesus. We can fall for the blaze-of-glory-or-nothing trap.

Which is why I love the rest of this story.

Even though Mary falls for the blaze-of-glory-or-nothing trap. She doesn’t quit looking for Jesus.

And Jesus? Jesus isn’t upset because she doesn’t recognize Him. Jesus knows about the problem. Which is why Jesus waits, until Mary recognizes Him.

Because the simple truth is – that this is a both-and. For Mary. And for us.

God isn’t limited to monumental events. You and I don’t have to wait until the next blaze of eternal glory to be with God. To feel the presence of God in our lives.

All you and I have to do is follow Mary Magdalene’s lead. Keep looking for God.

When we do, we’ll find Him waiting for us in both the glorious and in the ordinary.

Even on a Tuesday.

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#Blaze of glory #Easter Sunday #Mary Magdalene #Tuesday #Trap #God #Jesus #Catholic #Christian #Church #Catholicism #Moments Before Mass #Looking for God

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sshbpodcast · 2 days

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Character Spotlight: Nog

By Ames

After some great blogposts on Quark and Rom, we’ve got one Ferengi left to shine the spotlight on, and that’s another of our fan favorites: Nog! Similarly to his father, Nog’s character arc over the seasons of Deep Space Nine is captivating to watch, as he grows from a little punk ne’er-do-well into a fully realized, complex person full of nuance and opportunities to learn. Which is pretty much DS9 in a nutshell.

So get prepared for some character whiplash, as we’ve got both childish pranks and severe post-traumatic stress disorder to explore in our blogpost below as we applaud the impressive versatility and range of the late Aron Eisenberg. Check out what your A Star to Steer Her By hosts have assembled as some of the young Ferengi’s best and worst moments, and check out our discussion on this week’s podcast episode (jump to 1:15:10 for Nog!). And there’ll be no running on the promenade!

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Best moments

Vulcans stole my homework As usual, we’re starting off with the good moments, and early on in “The Nagus” we see Nog get pulled from Keiko’s school out of Rom’s sheer racism. But what’s most commendable in the young Ferengi is that he sticks with it, secretly learning to read in the cargo bay with Jake and entirely subverting Sisko’s expectations and systematic racism against the Ferengi!

Maybe this isn’t a problem. Maybe it’s an opportunity. While we gripe about how the Ferengi can be cartoonishly one-dimensional at times, there are times when their obsession with profit makes for good character and plot moments. When Nog encourages Varis Sul, Tetrarch of the Paqu, to view her land-rights situation in “The Storyteller” as a business negotiation, she finds a compromise everyone enjoys!

Say that five times fast Speaking of Nog’s business acumen, he’s clearly still learning some of the basics in “Progress” but we still enjoy watching as he and Jake create their own Milo Minderbinder–like syndicate to sell yamok sauce and self-sealing stem bolts for what will turn out to be great running gags for years to come… not to mention tongue-twisters that frequently plague us on the podcast.

Because I don’t want to end up like my father From what we know about Nog by the midpoint of season three (including some of the bad moments you’ll see below), it seems entirely random for him to want to join Starfleet as he says in “Heart of Stone.” But when he exposes to Sisko that he has dreams outside of making profit, of being something greater than his father, you really root for the guy and know he’s really going to do it!

Best friends in subspace When old man Jake Sisko is ready to embark on some outlandish quest to find his father, lost in subspace for decades, in “The Visitor,” there is absolutely no surprise that Nog is right there at his side in the Defiant, ready to do whatever it takes for his old friend. Sure, it’s an alternate future version of Nog, but the connection he has with Jake is as real as ever.

On Wednesday we wear red Of course, Starfleet Academy is a challenge for Nog, who has set his sights on getting into the elite and extremely cliquey Red Squad to make a name for himself. But when it turns out that Red Squad is just a bunch of cadets being used by Admiral Leyton for his coup in “Paradise Lost,” Nog helps Sisko to find the truth of the matter, even if it is reluctantly at first.

Not quite a Vulcan Hello The B-plot in “Blaze of Glory” may not entirely gel with the A-plot of watching Eddington’s sacrifice, but it’s still some cute stuff for Nog. When he stands up to Martok after a whole episode of getting walked all over by the Klingons, you’ve got to respect the guy. As Martok says, “Courage comes in all sizes,” and it’s great to watch Nog tackle his problems head on.

Have a good day! There’s just something about “In the Cards” that makes you feel good. Nog, being the best friend a kid could ask for, agrees to help Jake win his dad a baseball card, going so far as to loan all his money to Jake (I can hear every Ferengi screaming at that). And then the rest of the episode is them going around the station, making everyone have a genuinely nice day. It’s so cute!

Boogie woogie woogie Okay, Nog might only have one line in all of “You Are Cordially Invited,” but I just find him dancing with Jadzia at her bachelorette party just so endearing that I had to include it. Aron Eisenberg came up with the little Ferengi frog dance himself, and when Terry Farrell joins in, I find myself smiling every time. Thank you, Aron, for creating this adorable moment.

Have faith in the Great Material Continuum So the whole Rube Goldberg device that is the chain events of schemes in “Treachery, Faith, and the Great River” may be kind of a repeat of the deals from “Progress” but it’s still very clever. After he joined Starfleet, you could almost forget that Nog is a Ferengi under the ensign uniform, but he pulls off deal after deal after deal to get the chief the stabilizer he needs.

We have a casino to build While it is painful to watch Nog struggle with PTSD in “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” the way he knuckles down to assist Vic with his finances and to work on expanding the lounge into a casino is simply fascinating. It’s helping him cope, so that by the end of a brilliantly acted episode, he doesn’t even realize that he’s put himself on the road to recovery that is right for him.

He’s not just a hologram, he’s my friend Speaking of Vic’s casino, Nog is quick to pay back his holographic crooner friend for helping him recover by participating in the big heist in “Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang.” Nog’s part is to crack the safe in the countroom, and when he learns that it has an auto-relock tumbler that no one was expecting, he keeps his cool, gets to work, and helps the whole crew save the day!

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Worst moments

You never get a second chance to make a first impression The very first glimpse we get of Nog in “Emissary” is him stealing shit (almost certainly at Quark’s bidding) and getting locked in the brig by Odo. He has all of two lines in the episode – “Hurry up!” and “Now!” – but he is immediately cemented as a bad seed under the thumb of his uncle. The show literally starts Nog off with such a bad reputation there’s nowhere to go but up!

What this place needs is a school Nog’s delinquent behavior doesn’t stop there. When he and Jake strike up a friendship in “A Man Alone,” it’s by sharing the experience of pranking a couple of civilians on the promenade with some Garanian bolites, which cause them to itch terribly and turn colors in a scene that legitimately looks like torture. It’s no wonder Keiko steps in by starting up her little school.

Buckets of fun! We see another of Nog’s juvenile pranks in “The Storyteller” when he fills Odo’s bucket with oatmeal and dumps it on Jake who, utterly mortified, believes for a second that they’ve somehow killed Odo. It’s a little funny in hindsight, but at the moment it just seems cruel. Jake’s reaction of terror certainly helps that along, cementing Nog’s station status as a nuisance.

No running on the promenade! There’s one more Nog prank to make the list! When he sprays some foul-smelling fluid on Tumak in “Sanctuary,” it causes a big fight to break out with the various Skrrean kids. Nog just can’t help himself. As if these refugee kids haven’t been through enough, they have this short, big-eared, froglike nuisance wreaking havoc for them. What a brat.

No one’s asking you to think, my dear As we’ve discussed in Quark’s and Rom’s respective spotlight posts before, Ferengi culture is garbage, especially how they treat females. We see some of that come through in Nog in “Life Support” when he goes on a double date with Jake and acts like a complete asshole to Riska. He’s demeaning to her, he requests she cuts his food for him, and somehow Jake’s the one apologizing!

I’ve been looking for it for two years Even when Nog has matured and joined Starfleet Academy, we get little reminders of the miscreant that he was from the start. At his coming-of-age yardsale, Kira discovers that Nog has had her lost springball racket all along and was attempting to sell it in “Little Green Men.” Sure, that was two-years-ago Nog, but he could have returned it in all that time!

Could you massage it some more? Across so many of these posts, every time oo-mox comes up it automatically makes the worst moments lists. So when Nog tricks Faith Garland into giving him oo-mox in “Little Green Men,” and not for the first time evidently, I find it abhorrent. Here’s hoping I don’t have to bring up such rapey behavior again for a while (at least until that one Ferengi episode of Enterprise).

Healthy body, healthy mind After a season or so at Starfleet Academy, Nog suddenly becomes a tightass. The conflict with Jake, now his roommate, in “The Ascent” is manufactured and trite – the kind of odd-couple antics of eponymous sitcoms. Nog is now a neatfreak. He constantly works out. He corrects Jake’s stories without permission. It’s like his character has been rewritten to fit a punchline, and an old one at that.

I won’t turn my back on you again This one’s just a little silly peeve. After the events of “Empok Nor” when Garak’s little murder spree on the titular station, Nog vows to never turn his back on Garak when they’re out searching for supplies in “Rocks and Shoals.” But then after they get hostage-handoff’ed, he immediately turns his back on Garak as they cross the levy. Dude! What did you just say?

Red Squad, Red Squad, Red Squad! Nog got tempted by the allure of the corrupt Red Squad in “Homefront” and “Paradise Lost,” but it’s in “Valiant” that he gets thoroughly taken in. Acting Captain Watters offers Nog everything he’s ever wanted: respect, rank, and some semblance of power, in exchange for his unquestioning obedience when the utterly impossible plan goes swiftly sideways. Gee, who’da thunk?

And you find that impressive? The Dominion War sure brings out the worst in a lot of people. Sisko commits some war crimes. O’Brien is typically racist about the Jem’Hadar. And Nog starts to fancy himself a soldier, bent on killing the enemy. In “The Siege of AR-558,” he blatantly admires the Ketracel-white tubes that Reese has collected as war trophies, and Quark is all of us, displaying utter disgust at this.

You don’t come into my club and start hitting customers While we totally get that recovery from the loss of his leg is a struggle, that’s no excuse for how Nog treats his friends in “It’s Only a Paper Moon.” Living in a holodeck starts off as a way to not only avoid the people he thinks are staring at him, but to avoid helping himself get better through therapy and rehabilitation. And when Jake visits, Nog is rude to Jake’s date, and then outright attacks Jake in the middle of Vic’s set. Pally!

— You’ve got a deal! That’s the end of the Ferengi spotlights (for now?), but we’ve got more great DS9 recurring characters to examine for the next couple weeks, so make sure you’re following along here. We’re also still plodding through the Xindi arc over on our watchthrough of Enterprise, so join us on SoundCloud or wherever you get your podcasts, and hail us over on Facebook and Twitter. Now say it with me: self-stealing stem– dammit!

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yutopia-eleftheria · 6 months

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Inktober 2023 ; Day 26/31

Day 26 : Remove (Enlever/Retirer)

He wasn't born a monster, he was MADE a monster, by his creator, Denise Daniels, who literally caused him to have a mayhem and follow what she did (after executing her that is).

Anyways, here is Otto Kessel removing his hair and tie to reveal his identity as a Neohuman, but in another stylish way with the blue flames and all.

Still one of my favourite characters to this day ♥

And the Conspiracy will forever be my favourite Criminal Case game/season ♥♥♥♥♥

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mr-snailman · 4 months

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tried to make my dad watch blaze of glory (1997) while explaining that YES it’s bad YES I like it anyways for the two simple reasons that

a) it’s set in Chicago

#blaze of glory #blaze of glory 1997 #bradley whitford #*sigh* yeahhh really a simple snail at heart

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blogofsara · 3 months

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Aftermath of Rozetta's F-word against her mother (end): Louis Leroux

Louis proud of his friend 💪.

#criminal case #criminal case game #criminal case the conspiracy #criminal case conspiracy #louis leroux #blaze of glory #my au my choices #i still hate him but for me he is a good friend with Rozetta #thanks sandy for the comic drawings

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amberpride · 1 year

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Earlier screeners have spoken! Let’s end it in a blaze of glory guys!

I can’t wait for the 13th April… and yet I don’t want to see them go! Let’s bring it Titans 🔥

(Also people will be talking about it on April 10, it’s what he means with the ‘embargo lift’) but I want no spoilers. I want to be surprised and enamored one last time

#dick grayson #dc titans #kory anders #dickkory #titans season 4 #mame anna diop #brenton thwaites #dick x kory #the end #blaze of glory

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blugnettabutterflies · 1 year

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Criminal Case: The Conspiracy Case 60 Spoilers down below:

Based on the "I lived bitch meme". I saw it in the middle of meme searching and went "yeah, this is him alright"

Mf really went from the ICU lord knows how to the precint in just his hospital clothing and jacket after a painful surgery like nothing, he would do this.

#Criminal Case #criminal case game #david jeremiah jones #david jones #the conspiracy #Criminal Case the conspiracy #Blaze of Glory #let's admit it #he would

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endlessbittersweetdreams · 11 months

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"Supernatural" ("Blaze of Glory")

A pretty nifty fan video dedicated to the brothers Winchester. Not mine. Just sharing.

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#supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester #jensen ackles #jared paladecki #bon jovi #blaze of glory #fan video #Youtube

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gypsy-that-i-was · 11 months

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#music #music videos #youtube #Bon Jovi #blaze of glory

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unstablefragments2 · 1 year

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PUMA BLAZE OF GLORY WOOL @ END.

#puma #blaze of glory #sneakers #streetwear

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johnschneiderblog · 1 year

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One final blaze of glory

When it gets to be Easter time, you can be pretty sure that the Christmas tree you dragged out of your house in January, is ready for its final moment in the spotlight.

Yeah, you could just ignore it - let it lie just inside the woods and decompose naturally. Over the next few months it would dry out, brown up, fall apart piece by piece.

Somehow, that doesn’t seem a fitting end to something you planted as a seedling, nurtured and shaped for 10 years or so, then crowned as the 2022 champ - the centerpiece of your Christmas.

So you get a brush fire going and, when the flames are at their hungriest, you toss the tree on top of the burning brush. The tree catches quickly, flares up like a shooting star, then turns to ash.

#John Schneider #Christmas tree cremation #ritual #blaze of glory

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bublinko · 7 months

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BACK IN OUR SHOP:

7 handmade Bon Jovi stickers

#7 handmade Bon Jovi stickers #bon jovi #jon bon jovi #sticker #stirckers #rock #music #blaze of glory #slippery when wet #have a nice day #new jersey #etsy

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letterboxd-loggd · 1 year

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Pickup on South Street (1953) Samuel Fuller

November 26th 2022

#pickup on south street #1953 #samuel fuller #richard widmark #jean peters #thelma ritter #richard kiley #murvyn vye #willis bouchey #blaze of glory #pickpocket #favourite

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my-chaos-radio · 11 months

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Release: August 7, 1990

Lyrics:

I wake up in the morning

And I raise my weary head

I got an old coat for a pillow

And the earth was last night's bed

I don't know where I'm going

Only God knows where I've been

I'm a devil on the run

A six gun lover

A candle in the wind

When you're brought into this world

They say you're born in sin

Well at least they gave me something

I didn't have to steal or have to win

Well they tell me that I'm wanted

Yeah I'm a wanted man

I'm colt in your stable

I'm what Cain was to Abel

Mister catch me if you can

I'm going down in a blaze of glory

Take me now but know the truth

I'm going down in a blaze of glory

Lord I never drew first But I drew first blood

I'm no one's son

Call me young gun

You ask about my consience

And I offer you my soul

You ask If I'll grow to be a wise man

Well I ask if I'll grow old

You ask me if I known love

And what it's like to sing songs in the rain

Well, I've seen love come

And I've seen it shot down

I've seen it die in vain

Shot down in a blaze of glory

Take me now but know the truth

'Cause I'm going down in a blaze of glory

Lord I never drew first

But I drew first blood

I'm the devil's son

Call me young gun

Each night I go to bed

I pray the Lord my soul to keep

No I ain't looking for forgiveness

But before I'm six foot deep

Lord, I got to ask a favor

And I'll hope you'll understand

'Cause I've lived life to the fullest

Let the boy die like a man

Staring down the bullet

Let me make my final stand

Songwriter: Jon Bon Jovi

Shot down in a blaze of glory

Take me now but know the truth

I'm going out in a blaze of glory

Lord I never drew first

But I drew first blood and I'm no one's son

Call me young gun

I'm a young gun

SongFacts:

Blaze of Glory is a song by Jon Bon Jovi from 1990. It is the title track of the album of the same name, which is also the soundtrack to the film Blaze of Glory - Blazing Glory. It is Jon Bon Jovi's most successful solo single; she achieved platinum certification in the United States and Australia. At the same time, Jon Bon Jovi received a Golden Globe Award for the song and was nominated for an Oscar. The song is also known for the guitar solo that Jeff Beck contributed as a guest musician.

Jon Bon Jovi met Emilio Estevez, the protagonist of the Neowestern Blaze of Glory. He wanted the Bon Jovi single 'Wanted Dead or Alive' from the 1986 album 'Slippery When Wet' as the title track for the soundtrack. The song served as inspiration for the sequel to 'Young Guns' for screenwriter John Fusco, among others. But the more Jon Bon Jovi thought about it, a song about his band's touring madness seemed inappropriate for a western. Instead he offered to write the theme song 'Blaze of Glory'. However, as he became more familiar with the script, he came up with more ideas, eventually completing the entire soundtrack for the film in just under two months.

Alongside the album's title track, the song was later featured as the only Jon Bon Jovi solo song on 'Bon Jovi Best of Cross Road' (1994). A live version is included on the DVD Live from London (1995), recorded there by the Bon Jovi cast, plus Hugh McDonald and Steven Van Zandt. It also appeared on Bon Jovi's 2010 album 'Greatest Hits', also as the only solo song.

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