Easter Eve

On this day:

397
Death of St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan

1147
First historical record of Moscow.
1581
Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
1814
Napoleon abdicates for the first time
1841
William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and the one with the shortest term served.
1865
American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
1905
In India, the 1905 Kangra earthquake hits the Kangra valley, kills 20,000, and destroys most buildings in Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala
1968
Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
1968
Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

1991
Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.

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“It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.”--Trump, letting the truth slip.

The Easter luncheon where the president made these remarks was not open to the press, but the White House posted the video of Trump’s remarks on its YouTube page — as it usually does with open press events — and then deleted it.

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Medicaid lost $100 billion to fraud in one year, according to Oz. Oz.

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Links between social media use and mental wellness in youth are an artifact of other factors: implications for public policy and meta- analysis--paper by Christopher J.Ferguson

So, question answered?

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the opening of a new daycare center for municipal workers on Monday that will cost more than double the average price of child care, to a tune of nearly $60,000 per kid.

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St. Ambrose was a theologian of the transition period between the decline of Rome and a rise of Christianity, mediating the struggle between the secular and religious powers.. He was an intellectual bridge between the Platonist philosophy of the old world and the spiritual new world. He integrated Eastern arts with the West. He converted and baptised Augustine.

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Easter Eve

For all its importance, Easter in the New Testament is treated more as a challenge to Christ's followers than the challenge to nature and the intellect that it is. Several descriptions vary considerably; in one, the confused followers find a empty tomb with some linen fallen underfoot, some strangely, neatly folded. But in most the empty tomb is mediated by some extraordinary event or individual, earthquake or angel. Then the story seems to go into suspended animation. There is no cataclysmic epiphany. The realization is gradual--in typical biblical cosmic humor, the first witnesses are not even legal witnesses, as they are women. Christ's astonishing miracle is made clear and defined slowly to various individuals, one at a time.
As befits a collision of the physical and the spiritual which results in a new supernatural order.