How Medieval Peasants Built Muscle After 50 Eating Twice A Day

From Medieval Way

Right now, somewhere in the modern world, a fifty-three-year-old man is sipping a protein shake made from whey isolate, creatine monohydrate, and something called "anabolic matrix." He's following a meal plan with six small meals a day because his trainer told him that's how you fight muscle loss after fifty. He's spending four hundred dollars a month on supplements. And he's still losing about a pound of muscle every year.

Meanwhile, a medieval peasant at the same age — eating two meals a day, most of it bread and peas — was hauling timber, swinging a scythe through barley fields, and carrying sacks of grain that weighed over sixty pounds. And his skeleton tells us something that modern fitness culture doesn't want to hear. He was building functional muscle well into his fifties on a diet that most personal trainers today would call starvation.

Canterbury Set a Rome Trap... It Backfired Spectacularly

From Totus Catholica

What is “Spy Wednesday” During Holy Week?

Today is "Spy Wednesday", so known because it was today that Judas went to the chief priests to betray Christ. It is also called "Silent Wednesday," as the Gospels do not record any activities in the life of Jesus.

From Aleteia

By Philip Kosloski

Before Jesus celebrated the Passover, a "spy" went out to betray him. Spy Wednesday recalls the betrayal of Judas on the night before the Last Supper.

As the days of Holy Week move forward, specific events occur that directly lead to what will take place on Good Friday. Among these events was the fateful betrayal of Jesus by one of his own disciples.

Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.

The 30 pieces of silver recall the betrayal of another biblical figure, Joseph in the Old Testament:

Then Mid′ianite traders passed by; and they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ish′maelites for twenty shekels of silver; and they took Joseph to Egypt.

Genesis 37:28

Judas the Spy

This action by Judas earned him the title of "spy" by medieval Christians, in accord with the traditional definition of the English word, "one who keeps secret watch on a person or thing to obtain information."

From Wednesday onward, Judas secretly watched for a chance to turn Jesus over to the chief priests, and so many Christians in the English-speaking world labeled this day as "Spy Wednesday."

In the same vein various cultures reflected the somber mood of this day by calling it "Black Wednesday" or "Wednesday of Shadows," which also corresponds to the liturgical rite of Tenebrae that is celebrated on this day.

It is also called "Silent Wednesday," as the Gospels do not record any activities in the life of Jesus. The only event is the secret meeting of Judas with the chief priests.

Wednesday's events usher in the final days of Jesus' life on earth and directly lead to the sacrifice of Jesus on Good Friday.

The Empty Convent: 8 Reasons Why Women Have Abandoned The Catholic Sisterhood

From Purely Catholic

In 1965, there were 188,000 Catholic religious sisters in the USA. Today, that number has fallen by 82%. We already knew vocations were declining for priests and monks as well, but not nearly at the same level as nuns. So why is this? What has changed over the last 60 years to cause such a dramatic shift? Let’s find out in this video.