Thursday in the Fifth Week of Lent

He is the Lord our God; * his judgments prevail in all the world. He has always been mindful of his covenant, * the promise he made for a thousand generations:

The lections for today may be found here.

A memory from near the middle of Ohio near the middle of the last century:

When I was about seven, one of my uncles acquired a used, high horsepower automobile engine and somehow talked my other uncle and older cousins, all of whom were handy, and my Dad, a mathematician/physicist who could figure compression rati…