Feast of Stephen, Tyson Fury

No sooner are our Christmas day celebrations over, than the Church brings us face to face with martyrdom, in the person of St. Stephen, it's his Feast today, and the Holy Innocents.  It seems that the Word made Flesh attracts enraged, deadly opposition. 

That was true then and it's true now, with more Christians dying for their faith than at any other time in history. Of course the secular governments of the West are complicit in this, not least in their refusal to protect the Christians of the Middle East.

Be that as it may, here's the Collect for the day:

GRANT, O Lord, that, in all our sufferings here upon earth for the testimony of thy truth, we may stedfastly look up to heaven, and by faith behold the glory that shall be revealed; and, being filled with the Holy Ghost, may learn to love and bless our persecutors by the example of thy first Martyr Saint Stephen, who prayed for his murderers to thee, O blessed Jesus, who standest at the right hand of God to succour all those who suffer for thee, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen.

Tyson Fury

St. Stephen, pray for us, and I wish everyone a happy Boxing Day.

God bless,

LSP

Breakfast, With LSP

They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and here's how I like to do it. 

Salt and pepper a steak, then heat up an iron skillet until it's smoking hot. Throw the steak in the skillet, a minute a side. Stare in awe at the sizzling steak, then put it in a 400* preheated oven for 3 or 4 minutes.

While you're doing that, fry up some eggs and mushrooms in butter. Take the steak out of the oven, and let it rest for a few minutes as the eggs finish off. Don't bother to check your privilege, it's not necessary.

Then eat your scoff, like a warrior.

And that's breakfast, with...

LSP