A solar day on Mercury lasts 2 Mercury years (about 176 Earth days). A sidereal day (the time it takes Mercury to rotate on its axis once) lasts about 58.7 Earth days.
Good grief. The notion that those big, huge dinosaurs stood around in water all day to support their weight, AND they dragged their tails was abandoned more than 30 years ago.
His work as a confessor is John Vianney’s most remarkable accomplishment. In the winter months he was to spend 11 to 12 hours daily reconciling people with God. In the summer months this time was increased to 16 hours. Unless a man was dedicated to his vision of a priestly vocation, he could not have endured this giving of self day after day.
Many people look forward to retirement and taking it easy, doing the things they always wanted to do but never had the time. But John Vianney had no thoughts of retirement. As his fame spread, more hours were consumed in serving God’s people. Even the few hours he would allow himself for sleep were disturbed frequently by the devil.
In the museum at Ars’s presbytery, probably one of the strangest relics is John Vianney’s old soot-covered bed frame, which was reportedly burned by the devil when his room caught fire on the morning of February 24, 1857.
According to Father Trochu’s book (from a deposition taken from Father Alfred Monin, a young priest), John Vianney was in the church hearing confessions when he was informed of the fire in his room. “The Grappin is very angry,” Vianney remarked. “He couldn’t catch the bird so he has burned the cage. It is a good sign. We will have many sinners this day.”
“The first time the devil came to torment me,” St. John Vianney recounted to catechism students many years later, “was one night at 9 pm, just as I was about to go to bed. Three loud knocks resounded on my courtyard door, as if someone wanted to break it in with an enormous sledgehammer. I immediately opened my window and asked, ‘Who is it?,’ but I saw nothing and went quietly to bed, recommending myself to God, to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and to the holy angels. I was not yet asleep when three more knocks made me jump. These were more violent than the first, and seemed to strike not against the outside door but against the one at the foot of the stairs leading to my room. I got up and cried a second time, ‘Who is there?’ No one answered.”
The devil started to make the noise of a whole army speaking a foreign language with ugly, guttural phonetics right outside his bedroom window. At first, Vianney was distracted out of bed to see what was causing that foreign convention. Upon seeing no one there, however, he realized that it was just another instantiation of the same infernal pestering.
Next, Fr. Vianney began to hear the curtains of his bed being torn in the darkness. He was convinced, at first, that mice and rats had gotten into his room. He began to shake the curtains to frighten away any and all rodents, but when he awoke in the morning, he found the curtains totally undamaged. After a few nights, Fr. Vianney began to recognize that this, too, was just another annoyance from below.
It seems to me the 370 days it took when the dinosaurs were alive would be wrong if the current time is 365 days. If the earth goes slower each year then during the dinosaurs time, it would have taken less number of days, not more.
maverick1usa almost 5 years ago
TEMPLO S.U.D. timed a day on Mercury while on vacation so he doesn’t have to ask us about it!
meg_grif almost 5 years ago
It’s been out touring? They say absence makes the heart grow fonder…
pearlsbs almost 5 years ago
A solar day on Mercury lasts 2 Mercury years (about 176 Earth days). A sidereal day (the time it takes Mercury to rotate on its axis once) lasts about 58.7 Earth days.
Templo S.U.D. almost 5 years ago
So someone who is 35 years old on Earth would be how old on Mercury?
wjones almost 5 years ago
18 day’s.
whahoppened almost 5 years ago
I would be curious if the length of the year has changed.
Gent almost 5 years ago
See, folks, time is not absolute, but it’s only relative, just like Einstein said. I’d go one step ahead and say that time is an illusion.
boniface22 almost 5 years ago
“The 150 year old heart………………………….recently completed a US tour.”Why?
PatsyL.Paul almost 5 years ago
I hope they didn’t leave the saint’s heart in San Francisco.
PMark almost 5 years ago
Good grief. The notion that those big, huge dinosaurs stood around in water all day to support their weight, AND they dragged their tails was abandoned more than 30 years ago.
jasonsnakelover almost 5 years ago
Vohn Jianney
So it’s a long day on Mercury.
Take care and may God bless.
jjoddfellow almost 5 years ago
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Radish the wordsmith almost 5 years ago
His work as a confessor is John Vianney’s most remarkable accomplishment. In the winter months he was to spend 11 to 12 hours daily reconciling people with God. In the summer months this time was increased to 16 hours. Unless a man was dedicated to his vision of a priestly vocation, he could not have endured this giving of self day after day.
Many people look forward to retirement and taking it easy, doing the things they always wanted to do but never had the time. But John Vianney had no thoughts of retirement. As his fame spread, more hours were consumed in serving God’s people. Even the few hours he would allow himself for sleep were disturbed frequently by the devil.
In the museum at Ars’s presbytery, probably one of the strangest relics is John Vianney’s old soot-covered bed frame, which was reportedly burned by the devil when his room caught fire on the morning of February 24, 1857.
According to Father Trochu’s book (from a deposition taken from Father Alfred Monin, a young priest), John Vianney was in the church hearing confessions when he was informed of the fire in his room. “The Grappin is very angry,” Vianney remarked. “He couldn’t catch the bird so he has burned the cage. It is a good sign. We will have many sinners this day.”
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Radish the wordsmith almost 5 years ago
“The first time the devil came to torment me,” St. John Vianney recounted to catechism students many years later, “was one night at 9 pm, just as I was about to go to bed. Three loud knocks resounded on my courtyard door, as if someone wanted to break it in with an enormous sledgehammer. I immediately opened my window and asked, ‘Who is it?,’ but I saw nothing and went quietly to bed, recommending myself to God, to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and to the holy angels. I was not yet asleep when three more knocks made me jump. These were more violent than the first, and seemed to strike not against the outside door but against the one at the foot of the stairs leading to my room. I got up and cried a second time, ‘Who is there?’ No one answered.”
The devil started to make the noise of a whole army speaking a foreign language with ugly, guttural phonetics right outside his bedroom window. At first, Vianney was distracted out of bed to see what was causing that foreign convention. Upon seeing no one there, however, he realized that it was just another instantiation of the same infernal pestering.
Next, Fr. Vianney began to hear the curtains of his bed being torn in the darkness. He was convinced, at first, that mice and rats had gotten into his room. He began to shake the curtains to frighten away any and all rodents, but when he awoke in the morning, he found the curtains totally undamaged. After a few nights, Fr. Vianney began to recognize that this, too, was just another annoyance from below.
https://www.catholicity.com/commentary/landry/00822.html
1967Falcon almost 5 years ago
And you’d still not get everything done that day.
retiredinla almost 5 years ago
It seems to me the 370 days it took when the dinosaurs were alive would be wrong if the current time is 365 days. If the earth goes slower each year then during the dinosaurs time, it would have taken less number of days, not more.
Pedmar Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Jupiter’s moon, Europa, is larger than Mercury.
funnypenguins almost 5 years ago
Must be a lot of dental visits on Mercury.
craigwestlake almost 5 years ago
Big deal. One night in Cleveland is that long…
Sassy's Mom almost 5 years ago
I realize that relics are important to certain religions, and I respect their beliefs. That doesn’t stop me from cringing, however.