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“In`vo*lu”tion , n. [L. involutio: cf. F. involution. See Involve.]
1. The act of involving or infolding.
2. The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement.
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Mettle maker #406: A Walking Stick Hike Training Involution
Evolution is the process of growth or development by which something is improved in quality or elevated to a higher state of being. Involution, on the other hand, is the act or process of becoming more engaged in, or involved with, an existing state. In Rough ‘n’ Tumble terminology, a training involution is a routine that combines a variety of Rough ‘n’ Tumble skills and exercises into a single cohesive and embodied training session. Rather than teaching new skills, a training involution seeks to embed and enact existing ones.
Select a weighted backpack appropriate to your size, age, and fitness level, take your cane, head out for a walk (flat terrain) or hike (hilly or mountainous terrain). Nowadays this old man uses a 15-pound pack and goes 3 – 5 miles on moderately hilly terrain. Anything more than that strays from training territory into more strenuous fitness test difficulty.
At about the halfway point, find a woodland clearing or quiet corner of the suburban park or urban oasis and, without taking off your backpack, stop and complete 25 weighted Squats and 25 weighted Push-ups. Be sure to observe proper form and pace. When doing Push-ups, arms must be perpendicular to the ground, back must be straight, and full range of motion must be observed. When squatting, feet should be exactly a shoulder’s width apart with toes pointing slightly outward at about 15 degrees. At the bottom of each repetition, thighs must be parallel to the ground. At the top, knees must be locked. As to pace on both, explode up as fast as possible; hesitate for a split second; slowly descend for 3 seconds; hesitate at the bottom for a split second; repeat. The hesitation is essential because it removes all bounce. 25 repetitions of should take no less than 2 minutes.
Modify exercises as needed to insure completion:
If you can’t do 25 Push-ups at a go, do them in sets with rest between.
If you can’t do 1 weighted Push-up, do them on knees in sets.
If you can’t do them on knees, do 2 minutes of Planks with as little rest as possible.
If you have similar difficulties with the weighted Squats, make similar modifications as indicated above.
When these calisthenics are done, complete the Wheel Mettle Drill (all 200 strikes). Then complete the trip home.
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Homily for Pentecost, Sunday, 5/19/24 – Father Mitch
Readings: Acts 2:1-11, Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34, Gal 5:16-25, Sequence
“Veni, Sancte Spiritus”, Jn 15:26-27; 16:12-15
John 15:26-27; 16:12-15 World English Bible
Jesus said to his disciples:
26 “When the Counselor† has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. 27 You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
12 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. 13 However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming. 14 He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine and will declare it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes‡ of mine and will declare it to you.”
In the late 6th century, controversy started to swirl around the Christian conception of the Holy Ghost. The word Filioque, which means "and the Son,” began to be used by some Latin-speaking churches to describe the procession of the Holy Ghost. Where once the Holy Ghost had been said to proceed “from the Father” they began to say “from the Father and the Son.” Exactly what caused the addition is hard to pin down, since it had been included by neither the Council of Nicaea, nor that of Constantinople hundreds of years before.
The Eastern church objected. The controversy came to a head and contributed to the Great Schism of 1054 which split the church into the Greek and the Latin. The two sides hold mostly the same positions now that they did then. To put it simply, Orthodox theologians conceive of the Holy Ghost as proceeding from the Father, received by the Son, and passed on to us. Described as “monoprocessionism,” they stress the foundational nature of God the Father. The Catholic position, referred to as “filioquism,” teaches that the Holy Ghost exists as a consequence of divine self-consciousness. That is to say, the Holy Ghost is the spirit of divine love, which arises out of the love of the Father for the Son, and love of the Son for the Father. Thus the Holy Ghost necessarily proceeds from both the Father and the Son.
Today’s Gospel reading is one of the passages at the center of this 1,500 year-old argument. In it, Jesus clearly says that he is sending the Holy Ghost to us “from the Father.” But then Jesus adds that the Holy Ghost will not speak its own words, but only his words – the words of the Son. The Holy Ghost seems to be a kind of ambassador, sent by the Father to be a communicator between us and his Son. It’s easy to see, isn’t it, why this passage has been used by both East and West to support their respective positions?
Now, I’m not going to claim that I can solve the argument. But I do have a “forest for the trees” insight that might be valuable to the average Christian. Jesus says, “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.” “Bear” in this sense means something too difficult to carry. Perhaps one of the things Jesus wants to explain to us is the nature of the Holy Ghost. But perhaps he can’t, because we’re just not intellectually and spiritually able to understand right now. Maybe we don’t have to worry about putting too fine a point on the nature of the Holy Ghost because, as Jesus says in our reading today, the Holy Ghost will guide us “into all truth.”
May I suggest that we should focus on doing the work of the spirit – being in Christ and with Christ in our thoughts, desires, actions, and beliefs – trusting that the Holy Ghost will guide us in truth? In truth. Soaking in it. Steeped in it. Living in it.
Truth is more than facts. Think of “true” in a more tropical, grand, and all-encompassing way – in the same way that we might say, “true love,” “true to a promise.” or “true” as in faithful and loyal. Jesus was a carpenter, wasn’t he? “True” also means straight, well fitted, properly constructed, like a house to live in. Perhaps we should consider that we have our hands far too full trying to be “true” to God and Christ to quibble over particulars that are far beyond our present level of comprehension.
This Pentecost, let us join together to be filled up by the Holy Ghost, rather than spending another moment arguing about its nature.
† 15:26 Greek Parakletos: Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, and Comforter.
‡ 16:15 TR reads “will take” instead of “takes”