{"id":87514,"date":"2016-08-01T08:05:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T15:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=87514"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:55:09","slug":"reason-438-why-i-love-my-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/reason-438-why-i-love-my-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason 438 why I Love my Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>oday in both the Extraordinary Form and the Benedictine Ordo is the Memorial of the Seven Holy Maccabees. Their story may be found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/1mc\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bible<\/a> &#8211; provided you&#8217;ve got a Catholic or an Orthodox one. Martin Luther removed these books from his Bible &#8211; so if you don&#8217;t know their story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/1mc\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go read it<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-medium wp-image-87515\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" data-attachment-id=\"87515\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/reason-438-why-i-love-my-wife\/thom-and-francine-parish-bbq-2016\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Thom-and-Francine-parish-bbq-2016.jpg?fit=582%2C582&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"582,582\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Thom and Francine &amp;#8211; parish bbq 2016\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;At the Parish BBQ Yesterday&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Thom-and-Francine-parish-bbq-2016.jpg?fit=582%2C582&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Thom-and-Francine-parish-bbq-2016.jpg?resize=240%2C240\" alt=\"At the Parish BBQ Yesterday\" class=\"wp-image-87515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Thom-and-Francine-parish-bbq-2016.jpg?resize=240%2C240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Thom-and-Francine-parish-bbq-2016.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Thom-and-Francine-parish-bbq-2016.jpg?w=582&amp;ssl=1 582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-primary-color\">At the Parish BBQ Yesterday<br \/>(Photo by Aileen Leija)<\/mark><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I happened to mention this to Francine this morning as we were getting ready for work, and without missing a beat she began to sing &#8220;Judah the Maccabee&#8221; to the tune of Monty Python&#8217;s &#8220;Eric the Half-a-Bee&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was glorious!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We often joke that Pistachio House is the stage for &#8220;Thom and Francine: the Musical&#8221;. The reason is moments like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The account of the martyrdom of the Seven Holy Maccabees may be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/2mc\/7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2&nbsp;Maccabees, Chapter 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in both the Extraordinary Form and the Benedictine Ordo is the Memorial of the Seven Holy Maccabees. Their story may be found in the Bible &#8211; provided you&#8217;ve got a Catholic or an Orthodox one. Martin Luther removed these books from his Bible &#8211; so if you don&#8217;t know their story, go read it! At the Parish BBQ Yesterday(Photo [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,10,45,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-francine-my-love","category-fun","category-pistachio-house","category-saint"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Thom-and-Francine-parish-bbq-2016.jpg?fit=582%2C582&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-mLw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":105861,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/saint-jerome-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":87514,"position":0},"title":"Saint Jerome","author":"Thom","date":"30 September 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Jerome should be the patron saint of grumpy old men. 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