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Singapore Sheep

thousands of reads in a few days, Am I a good shepherd?

Or just beyond belief

Or is reading me a Punishment as you are handcuffed to a filing cabinet

I heard a story of that happening to somebody in France 40+ years ago

Arrested for being Drunk, 

Whoever you are, and maybe you are a Prisoner with a different IP

thank you for reading me

And Russians too, because Russians really do need to get the Revolution started

Putin will never go of his own free will

Easier for him to go through the eye of a needle

so michaelgcasey@hotmail.com is where you can say THANK YOU

Though the FSB maybe is forever sending me Hello Big Boy Messages

That fill my Junk every single day

They are all deleted unread

so now you know

THOUGH sadly it's somebody stealing my stuff probably

YOU CAN STEAL ALL MY PAIN

as the Levels are SO BAD

I'd gladly let you steal all of it

But My Words, are mine, so If you make a penny

1/2 of it should come to me

Then I can use it wisely

Meanwhile as Ever

Say the Rosary for Peace, if all my readers in every place,

 162 countries in total 

could and would do that

Then The Kremlin walls will fall down, and the Clown will be removed

and here's London's Version of Lourdes

WELCOME TO THE DIOCESAN SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY & ST DOMINIC’S PARISH

 

OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY AND ST DOMINIC, SOUTHAMPTON ROAD, LONDON NW5 4LB

This historic Catholic church and Diocesan Shrine served by the Dominican Friars, is situated on Southampton Road, London NW5 4LB, just a short walk from Primrose Hill and Hampstead Heath. It is easily accessible by bus from King’s Cross Station (bus no.46) or Westminster Cathedral (bus no.24) which stop right at ‘St Dominic’s Priory’, or a ten-minute walk from Belsize Park or Chalk Farm Underground stations, or from Hampstead Heath or Gospel Oak Overground stations. This beautiful church – the first in the world with distinct altars and chapels for every mystery of the Rosary – serves as the parish church for the local area, but it is also the Diocesan Shrine of the Holy Rosary for the Archdiocese of Westminster. We welcome parishioners and visitors from near and far. Do have a look at the virtual tour above, and then plan a pilgrimage to come and see it in person! Here, in the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary, all are welcome into the embrace of Mary’s House in London.

Please note that the church is open only at the following times: From 3–7pm (Mon–Fri); from 9am–11am, and from 5pm-7pm (Sat); and on Sunday from 8am–1:30pm, then from 5–7:30pm. Masses will also be livestreamed: MON–SAT at 6pm; and SUN at 12 noon and 6pm on youtube.com/c/RosaryShrineUK

MASS TIMES

WEEKDAYS

•  07:30 (Tue, Wed, Thu – entry via the Lady Chapel only)
 
• 10:00 (Mon, Fri – entry via the Lady Chapel only) 
 
• 18.00

SATURDAYS

• 10:00
 
• 18.00 (Vigil Mass for Sunday)

SUNDAYS

• 08.30
 
• 10.00
 
• 12.00
 
• 18:00 (traditional Latin Missa Cantata in the Dominican rite)

CONFESSION TIMES

SATURDAYS

• 5–6pm

SUNDAYS

• 9:45-10:15; 11:45-12:15

WEEKDAYS

• Mon-Fri, from 5pm–5:30pm

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

MONDAY TO SATURDAY

• Daily Holy Hour at 17:00

SUNDAYS

• 5-5:45pm (with Vespers and Benediction at 5:30pm)

DIVINE OFFICE

 MONDAY TO FRIDAY

• 08.00 (Lauds)
 
• 18.45  (Vespers)

SATURDAYS

• 09.30 (Lauds)

SUNDAYS

• 08.00  (Lauds)
 
• 17.30  (Vespers)

ROSARY

 WEEKDAYS

• Livestreamed online, Fridays at 8pm on youtube.com/c/RosariumOP

 

NEWS

COMMEMORATIVE MASS FOR ST DOMINIC'S SCHOOL (FRI 7 JULY)

There will be a special Mass celebrated by Bishop Hudson on Fri 7 July at 1pm as we commemorate and give thanks for the past 161 years of St Dominic’s Catholic Primary School. All are welcome to the Mass in

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EVENTS

INTERNATIONAL FOOD FAIR, AND MORE!

This year, our annual parish Summer Fayre takes the form of an International Food Fair. This will be on Saturday 24 June from 12 noon – 3pm. Parishioners will bring dishes celebrating their home culture or home country to sell

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800TH ANNIVERSARY OF LONDON DOMINICANS

2ND JUNE 2023

The first Dominican priory in London, at Holborn, was established in 1223. To mark this milestone we have planned three special events: Consecration of the Parish to the Sacred Heart of Jesus: On Friday 16 June, the Solemnity of the

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SPONSOR A LAMP

Lighting a Votive Lamp for Your Prayer Intentions Use the secure form below to sponsor one or more lamps in our church. A week-long lamp will burn for your intentions before the Altar of Our Lady of the Rosary, or

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SUPPORT THE ‘FUTURE DECADES’ CAMPAIGN

The ‘Future Decades’ Fundraising Campaign Fundraising to Secure the Future of Our Church and the Rosary Shrine Since 2019, the Future Decades campaign has been raising money to respond to our most urgent priorities: Ensuring a Warm Welcome: A New

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RUSSIA THIS IS YOU

What lies behind Russia’s acts of extreme violence? Freudian analysis offers an answer

Peter Pomerantsev

The blowing up of a Ukrainian dam echoes a traditional cycle of destruction and self-destruction marking the country’s history

Sun 11 Jun 2023 10.01 BST

Beneath the veneer of Russian military “tactics”, you see the stupid leer of destruction for the sake of it. The Kremlin can’t create, so all that is left is to destroy. Not in some pseudo-glorious self-immolation, the people behind atrocities are petty cowards, but more like a loser smearing their faeces over life. In Russia’s wars the very senselessness seems to be the sense.

After the casual mass executions at Bucha; after the bombing of maternity wards in Mariupol; after the laying to waste of whole cities in Donbas; after the children’s torture chambers, the missiles aimed at freezing civilians to death in the dead of winter, we now have the apocalyptic sight of the waters of the vast Dnipro, a river that when you are on it can feel as wide as a sea, bursting through the destroyed dam at Kakhovka. The reservoir held as much water as the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Its destruction has already submerged settlements where more than 40,000 people live. It has already wiped out animal sanctuaries and nature reserves. It will decimate agriculture in the bread basket of Ukraine that feeds so much of the world, most notably in the Middle East and Africa. To Russian genocide add ecocide.

The dam has been controlled by Russia for more than a year. The Ukrainian government has been warning that Russia had plans to blast it since October.

Seismologists in Norway have confirmed that massive blasts, the type associated with explosives rather than an accidental breach, came from the reservoir the night of its destruction. Some – including the American pro-Putin media personality Tucker Carlson – argue Russia couldn’t be behind the devastation, given the damage has spread to Russian-controlled territories, potentially restricting water supply to Crimea. But if “Russia wouldn’t damage its own people” is your argument then it’s one that doesn’t hold, pardon the tactless pun, much water. One of the least accurate quotes about Russia is Winston Churchill’s line about it being “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.” This makes it sound as if Russia is driven by some theory of rational choice – when century after century the opposite appears to be the case.

Russia claims to be a powerful ‘pole’ to balance the west – but has failed to create a model others would want to join

Few have captured the Russian cycle of self-destruction and the destruction of others as well as the Ukrainian literary critic Tetyana Ogarkova. In her rewording of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Russian classic novel Crime and Punishment, a novel about a murderer who kills simply because he can, Ogarkova calls Russia a culture where you have “crime without punishment, and punishment without crime”. The powerful murder with impunity; the victims are punished for no reason. When not bringing humanitarian aid to the front lines, Ogarkova presents a podcast together with her husband, the philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko. It’s remarkable for showing two people thinking calmly while under daily bombardment. It reminds me of German-Jewish philosophers such as Walter Benjamin, who kept writing lucidly even as they fled the Nazis. As they try to make sense of the evil bearing down on their country, Ogarkova and Yermolenko note the difference between Hitler and Stalin: while Nazis had some rules about who they punished (non-Aryans; communists) in Stalin’s terror anyone could be a victim at any moment. Random violence runs through Russian history.Reacting to how Vladimir Putin’s Russia is constantly changing its reasons for invading Ukraine – from “denazification” to “reclaiming historic lands” to “Nato expansion” – Ogarkova and Yermolenko decide that the very brutal nature of the invasion is its essence: the war crimes are the point. Russia claims to be a powerful “pole” in the world to balance the west – but has failed to create a successful political model others would want to join. So it has nothing left to offer except to drag everyone down to its own depths.“How dare you live like this,” went a resentful piece of graffiti by Russian soldiers in Bucha. “What’s the point of the world when there is no place for Russia in it,” complains Putin. After the dam at Kakhovka was destroyed, a General Dobruzhinsky crowed on a popular Russian talkshow: “We should blow up the Kyiv water reservoir too.” “Why?” asked the host. “Just to show them.” But, as Ogarkova and Yermolenko explore, Russians also send their soldiers to die senselessly in the meat grinder of the Donbas, their bodies left uncollected on the battlefield, their relatives not informed of their death so as to avoid paying them. On TV, presenters praise how “no one knows how to die like us”. Meanwhile, villagers on the Russian-occupied side of the river are being abandoned by the authorities. Being “liberated” by Russia means joining its empire of humiliation.

Where does this drive to annihilation come from? In 1912 the Russian-Jewish psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein – who was murdered by the Nazis, while her three brothers were killed in Stalin’s terror -first put forward the idea that people were drawn to death as much as to life. She drew on themes from Russian literature and folklore for her theory of a death drive, but the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, first found her ideas too morbid. After the First World War, he came to agree with her. The desire for death was the desire to let go of responsibility, the burden of individuality, choice, freedom – and sink back into inorganic matter. To just give up. In a culture such as Russia’s, where avoiding facing up to the dark past with all its complex webs of guilt and responsibility is commonplace, such oblivion can be especially seductive.

But Russia is also sending out a similar message to Ukrainians and their allies with these acts of ultra-violent biblical destruction: give in to our immensity, surrender your struggle. And for all Russia’s military defeats and actual socio-economic fragility, this propaganda of the deed can still work.

The reaction in the west to the explosion of the dam has been weirdly muted. Ukrainians are mounting remarkable rescue operations, while Russia continues to shell semi-submerged cities, but they are doing it more or less alone. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has been mystified by the “zero support” from international organisations such as the UN and Red Cross.

Perhaps the relative lack of support comes partly because people feel helpless in the face of something so immense, these Cecil B DeMille-like scenes of giant rivers exploding. It’s the same helplessness some feel when faced with the climate crisis. It’s apposite that the strongest response to Russia’s ecocide came not from governments but the climate activist Greta Thunberg, who clearly laid the blame of what happened on Russia and demanded it be held accountable. But there’s been barely a peep out of western governments or the UN.

Pushing the strange lure of death, oblivion and just giving up is the Russian gambit. How much life do we have left in us?

 Peter Pomerantsev is the author of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia

RUSSIA BREAK THE CHAINS FINALLY

Made myself Cry, don't cry for me Singapore

Made myself Cry, don't cry for me Singapore

The tinnitus has calmed down,  after 3 hours off the chart

You have to get out of bed and stop being a sitting target

I was checking my figures and as  i looked out the window

I thought somebody had died, due to the ambulance activity

But as I checked my figures and read a few pieces that you have read overnight

I spotted one about a Priest of ours who had died 5 years ago

A gentle gentle soul

who cried at my mother's funeral

And that was enough to set me off, as I'm weak with all the pain and noise

BUT why is Singapore reading me

At the rate they are going they will read everything that's online

4300 pieces on this my main site

https://butcherbakerundertaker.blogspot.com/

But it still might not be everything

And the books only have the stories (c) By Michael Casey stuff

These bullet points I don't include

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000

in the books that nobody buys, as INTERNET IS FREE

and Translations especially are here

https://michaelgcaseyfrombirminghamengland.wordpress.com/

and audio here

https://www.michaelgcasey.typepad.com/  

SO SINGAPORE ARE YOU STEALING EVERYTHING?

its still my COPYRIGHT

Or are you a nun with a dirty habit

Who is going to read everything

So as to know me, but not Biblically

And then you'll set up an English language school

and become very very rich, and ditch the habit

OR are you going to come to Birmingham

and be my typist?

Or just James Dyson, bored as he tours his factory

By the way I'm still annoying the Russians with daily Holy Pictures

BUT TRUMP is still the biggest danger maybe

OK enough

Thank you Singapore whoever you are

HELLO SINGAPORE

 HeLLO Singapore

Well a horrible Pain day

Loads and Loads of Pain Killer Hemp rubbed into my left shoulder

It makes me SCREAM it is so bad

but just before midnight i come back to my desk before bedtime

And Singapore is there bIG TIME

So are you going to reveal yourself

like the masked singer

but not  like a sumo size nudist

I can look in the mirror for that

by the way there is a house for sale close to mine

so you could buy that and be my typist

simple solution

i will buy a lottery in morning if I can get down the hill

and I'd buy it for my 2 daughters

so they would be close and independant

OR if I won big, a very big house

they can have it when death gets me

and that feels like every day, as I'm in so much pain

SMILE its best to keep on smiling