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Reverend Know-it-all

2011-03-11T11:51:00.000-06:00

A very good post: Reverend Know-it-all

Fr. George Rutler: Why We Need Lent

2011-03-08T12:51:00.000-06:00

Fr. George Rutler: Why We Need Lent

Good 2nd Amendment stuff

2011-02-15T11:40:00.000-06:00

Pastor's Open Letter to An Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ~ Police Chief

What did Jesus sing?

2010-12-22T11:11:00.000-06:00

An excellent article that shows the Jewish base of Gregorian chant.

What did Jesus sing?

Don Camillo - Always refreshing

2010-12-04T12:51:00.000-06:00

Something lost, something found

2010-12-04T11:58:00.000-06:00

Gates of Vienna: Allah the Imaginary

2010-12-01T10:28:00.000-06:00

Gates of Vienna: Allah the Imaginary: "An EDL protester was recently fined £200 for “making offensive comments about Allah” during a demonstration in Leicester. Even though police..."

A Glimpse Into the Anglican Mind

2010-12-01T10:04:00.000-06:00

A Glimpse Into the Anglican Mind

Late-night musing

2010-11-17T22:53:00.002-06:00

Catholics don't believe in the "rapture," but, if it were real, I wish that Christ would return and rapture all the democrats, republicans, and politicals away, and just leave the a-politicals to run things. And if any of them started turning political they would be raptured at the first manifestation thereof. President Washington warned us long ago of the problems that political parties would cause. Come to think of it, a case could be made that the major troubles of our nation throughout its history are rooted in the party system. Only a deus ex machina could deliver us from them, methinks. Not a bad idea---it's just never been tried.

The History and Meaning of Advent

2010-11-17T09:23:00.000-06:00

The History and Meaning of Advent

Le Fleur de Lys too: An anecdote from Syria, learning Christianity from a Saracen

2010-11-16T13:58:00.000-06:00

Le Fleur de Lys too: An anecdote from Syria, learning Christianity from a Saracen

This is heaven

2010-11-16T12:46:00.000-06:00

Pope dresses as pilgrim to visit tomb of St. James

2010-11-07T11:28:00.000-06:00

"Tolerant" San Francisco

2010-10-27T10:12:00.000-05:00

Le Fleur de Lys too: "Tolerant" San Francisco

When was the word "Catholic" first used?

2010-10-25T16:59:00.000-05:00

Daily Telegraph on Bibles and Guns

2010-10-25T11:38:00.000-05:00

Daily Telegraph on Bibles and Guns

Must Christianity be Dogmatic?

2010-10-25T11:37:00.000-05:00

Must Christianity be Dogmatic?

Chinese Professor

2010-10-23T11:54:00.000-05:00

The Multicultural Cult | FrontPage Magazine

2010-10-20T09:07:00.000-05:00

The Multicultural Cult FrontPage Magazine

I Always knew this

2010-10-12T09:34:00.000-05:00

Standing on My Head: Church Music and the Young

Joan Sutherland - Bell Song from Lakmé

2010-10-12T09:10:00.000-05:00

In memoriam Joan Sutherland

2010-10-12T09:04:00.000-05:00

The American Left Slides into Psychosis

2010-10-11T12:37:00.000-05:00

The American Left Slides into Psychosis

The Mad Monarchist: An Historic Clash of Civilizations

2010-10-07T10:09:00.000-05:00

The Mad Monarchist: An Historic Clash of Civilizations: "It was on this day in 1571 that a massive Turkish battle fleet was stunningly defeated by a Christian coalition called the Holy League made..."

The Manliness of St. Thomas Aquinas

2010-10-04T11:46:00.000-05:00

The Manliness of St. Thomas Aquinas

Ken Canedo's Great Work The Chant Café

2010-10-02T17:07:00.000-05:00

A very interesting article about the "folk music" phenomenon in the 1960's Church:

Ken Canedo's Great Work The Chant Café

Ad perpetuam rei memoriam

2010-09-29T09:57:00.000-05:00

Gates of Vienna: Devshirme: A Muslim Scourge on Christians

And I Got ALL the answers right!

2010-09-29T09:53:00.000-05:00

Are you smarter than an atheist? A religious quiz - Will you tell me the names of the first four books of the New Testament of the Bible, that is the Four Gospels? - CSMonitor.com

Shameless Popery: "Zooming Out" in Prayer

2010-09-29T09:19:00.000-05:00

Shameless Popery: "Zooming Out" in Prayer: "Jen Fulwiler at Conversion Diary has a characteristically insightful piece on what she calls the 'granularity of prayer.' She says she has a..."

The Artist's Progress...: The Many Guises of Marie Antoinette

2010-09-17T11:18:00.000-05:00

The Artist's Progress...: The Many Guises of Marie Antoinette

Rules, Rubrics and Reasoning

2010-09-11T10:52:00.000-05:00

Rules, Rubrics and Reasoning

Reverence Rubrics and Self Righteousness

2010-09-11T10:49:00.000-05:00

Reverence Rubrics and Self Righteousness

3 things to know about mahoundianism

2010-09-03T08:59:00.000-05:00

Bad Faith at Ground Zero | FrontPage Magazine

2010-09-01T15:25:00.000-05:00

Bad Faith at Ground Zero FrontPage Magazine

Strong language warning, but it makes you sick

2010-08-30T16:00:00.002-05:00

Abbey-Roads: One reason we are not healed...

2010-08-11T09:19:00.000-05:00

Abbey-Roads: One reason we are not healed...

Ground Zero mosque moves forward, Ground Zero church in limbo - Jihad Watch

2010-08-11T09:13:00.001-05:00

Ground Zero mosque moves forward, Ground Zero church in limbo - Jihad Watch

2010-08-11T09:13:00.000-05:00

Ground Zero mosque moves forward, Ground Zero church in limbo - Jihad Watch

Saintliness is not Silliness

2010-08-10T10:23:00.000-05:00

Did you know that God isn’t nice?

2010-08-07T16:10:00.000-05:00

Joseph Karl Publishing: Did you know that God isn’t nice?

Standing on My Head: Considering Catholicism

2010-08-03T11:15:00.000-05:00

Standing on My Head: Considering Catholicism

A Sign from the Lord | Catholic Exchange

2010-07-26T12:54:00.000-05:00

A Sign from the Lord Catholic Exchange

Le Fleur de Lys too: Paydrets! The battle of Torfou, or an Episode from the War in the Vendée

2010-07-26T10:36:00.000-05:00

Le Fleur de Lys too: Paydrets! The battle of Torfou, or an Episode from the War in the Vendée

Obama Kool-Aid Courtesy of America’s Catholic Bishops | NewsReal Blog

2010-07-26T09:33:00.000-05:00

Obama Kool-Aid Courtesy of America’s Catholic Bishops NewsReal Blog

Now who didn't see this coming?

2010-07-23T10:12:00.000-05:00

Catholic Culture : Latest Headlines : Dog receives communion at Anglican parish

Not all autocrats are enemies; not all democrats are friends.

2010-07-19T13:35:00.000-05:00

Is Democracy Overrated? : Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture

Competitive Kindergartens? Can such things be?

2010-07-18T14:52:00.000-05:00

10 Unbelievable Facts About Competitive Kindergartens : Online University Lowdown: Rankings, Reviews, of the Best Online Universities

What a crock

2010-07-18T14:46:00.000-05:00

Shameless Popery: Ironic Beyond Belief

A very good article

2010-07-16T14:03:00.000-05:00

“And with Your Spirit” Revisited Catholic Exchange

onetimothyfour: Anglicans need tough love not ecumenical fraternity

2010-07-16T13:26:00.000-05:00

onetimothyfour: Anglicans need tough love not ecumenical fraternity

Creative Minority Report: Top 10 Ways To Know You're Likely To Hear Something Anti--Catholic

2010-07-16T13:17:00.000-05:00

Creative Minority Report: Top 10 Ways To Know You're Likely To Hear Something Anti--Catholic

Of course he did

2010-07-15T12:13:00.000-05:00

JIMMY AKIN.ORG: Did Obama Lie on Abortion and Healthcare?

Fr Hunwicke's Liturgical Notes: A blessed Springtime?

2010-07-15T11:52:00.000-05:00

With what is going on in the CofE these days, the following is a good albeit brief read:

Fr Hunwicke's Liturgical Notes: A blessed Springtime?

Something I've been working on in this parish for several years

2010-07-15T10:52:00.000-05:00

Liturgical Education

Campus Thought Police: Opposition to Homosexuality Doesn’t Exist | NewsReal Blog

2010-07-13T15:46:00.000-05:00

Campus Thought Police: Opposition to Homosexuality Doesn’t Exist NewsReal Blog

Mommy Life: The truth about Marie Antoinette

2010-07-13T12:45:00.000-05:00

A good article about a much-maligned saint:

Mommy Life: The truth about Marie Antoinette

Materialist Dogmatism

2010-06-30T10:45:00.000-05:00

A good and timely article.

Materialist Dogmatism

This Beets Awl

2010-06-14T12:14:00.000-05:00

A forgotten massacre

2010-06-08T08:58:00.000-05:00

Check out this terrible story from my friend, Brantigny: http://lefleurdelystoo.blogspot.com/2010/06/oradour-sur-glane-10-june-1944.html

Largest ordination in Arkansas for decades

2010-05-27T09:43:00.001-05:00

http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=arkcath

The Introductory Rites: No mere greeting :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

2010-05-25T13:09:00.000-05:00

The Introductory Rites: No mere greeting :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

A beautiful Pentecost tradition at the Pantheon in Rome

2010-05-24T13:10:00.000-05:00

The Roman fire fighters drop thousands of red rose petals throught the occulus of the church on Pentecost Sunday:

Dawkins Downfall ("Arrest The Pope" Edition)

2010-04-16T11:22:00.000-05:00

And a version by Anton Bruckner

2010-03-31T15:37:00.002-05:00

For your Passiontide meditation:

2010-03-31T15:30:00.000-05:00

Worth watching

2010-03-29T13:37:00.002-05:00

A homily for fathers on the feast of St. Joseph

2010-03-19T10:49:00.002-05:00

On St. Joseph

2010-03-19T09:32:00.000-05:00

Today is the Solemnity of St. Joseph. I recommend the posting by Fr. Longnecker: http://gkupsidedown.blogspot.com/2010/03/caitlin-orourke-on-st-joseph.html

What Does The Prayer Really Say?

2010-03-18T10:25:00.000-05:00

What Does The Prayer Really Say?: "Oliver Rackham, The History of the Countryside (1986; rpt. London: Phoenix Press, 2000), p. 295:
Furze is an important and widely-used fuel; it produces a quick hot blaze suitable for heating ovens, getting up a fire in the morning, or burning heretics."

Thanks to Fr. Z.

Motherly advice

2010-03-04T15:23:00.000-06:00

Le Fleur de Lys too: "Blanche's (of Castile, mother of St. Louis IX of France) primary concern for her son Louis IX was to implant in him a deep regard and awe for everything related to the Catholic faith. She used often to say to him as he was growing up, 'I love you my dear son, as much as a mother can love her child; but I would rather see you dead at my feet than that you should commit a mortal sin.'"

The Four Kinds of Love

2010-02-15T14:25:00.000-06:00

From C.S. Lewis via Fr. Longenecker:

Standing on My Head:

"Affection is the natural love we have for our families. This is the love for our mother our father and the general love we have of our tribe, our nation, our people, our country.

Friendship is the love we have with another with whom we share an outside interest. It is the love of the soldier, the team mate and the member of a club.

Eros is romantic love. A part of eros is sexual attraction. This natural love still has an element of self interest. We love because we are loved, and we are attracted through the natural desire for sexual relations and to procreate.

Charity is the the highest love. It is the unconditional love of another for their own sake. It desires the good of the other person even at our expense. This is the love God has for us and the love we should have (through grace) for Him and for others."

O Man, Bewail Thy Grievous Sin---A Good Meditation for Ash Wednesday

2010-02-13T17:41:00.000-06:00

Hitler vs. B16

2010-02-13T15:18:00.002-06:00

Holy Dancing Deaconesses, Batman!

2010-02-09T10:04:00.000-06:00

Easter Island comes to the retirement village---I can't wait to get this started here in Eldo.

The Pope is obviously type-cast

2010-02-09T09:52:00.000-06:00

Ineffable and Unspeakable

2010-02-09T09:44:00.002-06:00

Siege of Vienna 1683

2010-02-05T08:57:00.000-06:00

Cantigas of St. Mary by King Alfonso X of Leon

2010-01-29T11:13:00.000-06:00

Margaret Sanger, rot in hell!

2010-01-26T14:18:00.000-06:00

Blessing of the Lambs

2010-01-22T12:28:00.002-06:00

Why the choice of vestments can be VERY important

2010-01-07T11:03:00.000-06:00

Although this video is in French, you can get the whole story at the URL above.

Well conceived words on Catholic Church music

2010-01-07T10:56:00.000-06:00

This fellow thinks like me. Therefore he is correct:

A Fix for Catholic Music by Jeffrey Tucker

There is a sense in which everything is nobler when sung. It would never occur to us to light the candles on a birthday cake and parade into the room while reciting the words: happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, dear John, happy birthday to you.

John would probably suppose that this was some kind of cruel joke.

People often miss this point when thinking about the Mass. In contrast, the Fathers of Vatican II understood the ennobling power of music. They reasserted in the Council documents the Church’s view that music is critical to liturgy because it assists in making liturgy more beautiful and therefore more fitting for the praise of God.

Follow the URL for the complete article.

Dave Barry's end-of-the-year roundup

2010-01-02T15:11:00.000-06:00

Dave Barry has always reminded me of a modern day Robert Benchley, who was a master of the non-sequitur. Dave's review of 2009 is worth the read.

Pelosi: w/o a clue

2009-12-31T14:48:00.001-06:00

Elizabeth Lev: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seems to be planning a second career as a theologian. Unfortunately, she never gets one Catholic fact right.

We've been hearing a lot from pseudo-Catholic politicians lately. Here's another example. Elizabeth Lev takes Nancy to the woodshed. 'Bout time her bishop did the same thing.
Notice that Nancy claims: But it's my faith. Would that Nancy would try to believe the Faith of the Church of which she is ostensibly a member. On the day of judgment "her" faith will be tested. I hope it will be strong enough for or rather than a faith of straw.

Riot in Dakar after Senegalese cardinal rebukes president

2009-12-31T14:39:00.000-06:00

Islamic double-think again: The Cardinal of Dakar rebukes the (Mahoundian) President for insulting Christianity, and the mis-understanders of Islam riot. What can one expect?

This is why I have to constantly not miss any opportunity to insult Mahoundianism (Islam, to the p.c.). It must be insulted at every turn. No opportunity must be lost in showing that it is a totally man-made religion, and is only slightly more venerable than Mormonism (what a laugh!) because it's pathetic founder, Mahound, just lived earlier.

The whole world must insult it so that by a kind of aversion therapy the members of that "religion" understand that they can be insulted, their so-called prophet, and holy books can be insulted, and they can still get up in the morning and go to work. No one has to be killed. No property must be destroyed, or girls raped. You can live with it, I know you can! Jesus love you!

The end of 2009

2009-12-31T14:25:00.000-06:00

Elena at Fountain of Elias has this from St. Theres of Liesieux:

As Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus said, "As this year has gone, so our life will go, and soon we shall say 'it is gone.' Let us not waste our time; soon eternity will shine for us."

Philosophy is still needed

2009-12-31T14:20:00.000-06:00

There was a time at a chapter meeting one of the older monks suggested that we needed to get rid o philosophy in the preparation of monks. "The time for philosophy is over." was his comment. It was wrong then, and, yes, it's wrong now. Father Philip, OP, has some good thoughts here.

Solemn Vespers OF

2009-12-31T14:02:00.000-06:00

Inspiring words for the spiritually serious

2009-10-23T10:55:00.000-05:00

Islam is the enemy of humanity. It cannot be reformed or helped, only abolished.

2009-09-29T16:54:00.000-05:00

Holy Name of Mary (Thanks to Elena at the Fountain of Elias)

2009-09-12T13:31:00.000-05:00

On September 12, the fifth day within the octave of the Nativity of the Virgin, in 1683, the army of the Turkish Sultan, 300,000 strong, was miraculously defeated at the gates of Vienna after an attempt to sweep across Europe. The King of Poland, Jan Sobieski, had come to the aid of the Habsburg Emperor Leopold, and they attributed the victory to the fact that they had put the name of Mary on their banners, thus invoking the aid of the Mother of God. The triumph, won against overwhelming odds, saved Europe from becoming a Moslem colony, and September 12 became the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary.

"Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, as terrible as an army set in array?" Canticle of Canticles 6:9

"And the virgin's name was Mary...." St. Luke 1:27

Eucharistic Miracle in Buenos Aires

2009-09-10T09:06:00.002-05:00

Recently

2009-08-27T10:35:00.002-05:00

I had been on vacation for awhile, and returned last week. Most of what's going on in my parish is the usual, end of summer, kind of thing.
The death of Sen. Kennedy is in the news. Thank goodness they're not making the funeral public! If I were preaching it, it would be difficult to come up with a eulogy.
Today is the feast of St. Monica, mother of St. Augustine. She had to deal with a straying son. Her prayers were answered when he converted. What joy that would have been to a mother's heart! What graces the Church received through his later ministry!

We've been doing this for centuries!

2009-08-15T22:22:00.001-05:00

Why there is no such thing as "liturgical dancing" in the Roman Rite

2009-07-25T13:36:00.001-05:00

Speechless in El Dorado

2009-07-25T12:49:00.002-05:00

Here is a picture of the presiding she-bishop of the Episcopal Church vested for something. It is so horrifying that I am speechless. God help us all!

Catholic Culture : Library : The Notion of a Right to a 'Good Death' Undermines Society

2009-07-22T15:45:00.000-05:00

"Dying is the most important step a person takes, for it is a step towards the ultimate fulfilment of our innate spiritual nature, our capacity to know God, to know the fullness of the mystery of all things. We have been created with this capacity and our best guide for living is to do nothing to dent, pervert or deaden it. The poet Lucretius said that 'life is given to no one as freehold, we all hold it on leasehold'. Accepting that life is a gift is a good start. Sadly these centuries-old truths about the nature of humanity are no longer common currency. But we can surely all of us recognise, whether we approach our lives with or without a transcendental faith, the serious ethical and social dangers to which the doctrine of unfettered personal autonomy is leading us.
The Most Rev Vincent Nichols is Archbishop of Westminster"

The art of dying

2009-07-21T16:01:00.010-05:00

O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death. Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not Thy merciful ears to our prayer; but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, Thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death to fall from Thee."

There is much talk today about end-of-life issues such has assisted suicide, hospice care, etc. One thing that I find more disturbing than the modern hot-button issues is the real lack of understanding about death from the spiritual perspective. The concept of a "happy death" such as our ancestors in the faith would have known and prepared for is almost nonexistent today.

It was just borne home to me this afternoon as I went to the bedside of a parishioner in the hospital. The local family (all non-practicing Catholics) never even told me he was in the hospital. (Actually, I found that he had been moved to ICU.) I had to hear about it from a brother who lives in another city. People are not prepared to die! They leave to the last minute those things for which a life-time of preparation is not long enough. Catholics mirror the rest of our society in being as clueless as everybody else. We are totally ignorant that at death, it is really a SPIRITUAL struggle that is taking place. Satan does not want us to die in a state of grace. That is why the Church fortifies us with the sacraments and prayer at the time of death. How often have I seen people dying to the noise of the television! Nothing like getting in another viewing of our favorit show!

In earlier times men took death seriously, not from a sentimental point of view, but in view of their souls:

"And therefore it is said in the seventh book of Ecclesiastes: MELIOR EST DIES MORTIS DIE NATIVITATIS. 'The day of man's death is better than the day of man's birth." And this is understood only of good men and the chosen people of God. For of evil men and reprovable, neither the day of their birth, neither the day of their death, may be called good. And therefore every good perfect Christian man, and also every other man though he be imperfect and late converted from sin, so he be verily contrite and believe in God, should not be sorry nor troubled, neither dread death of his body, in what manner wise or for what manner cause that he be put thereto; but gladly and wilfully, with reason of his mind that ruleth his sensuality, he should take his death and suffer it patiently, conforming and committing fully his will to God's will and to God's disposition alone, if he will go hence and die well and surely: witnessing the wise man that saith thus : BENE MORI, EST LIBENTER MORI. To die well is to die gladly and wilfully.

Therefore every sick man, and every other man that is in any peril, should be diligently induced and exhorted that he maketh himself, before all other things, peace with God; receiving spiritual medicines, that is to say the sacraments of Holy Church; ordaining and making his testament; and lawfully disposing for his household, and other needs, if he hath any to dispose for. And there should not be given first to no man too much hope of bodily heal. But the contrary thereof is now often times done of many men, into great peril of souls; and namely of them that actually and openly be drawing and in point hastily to die, for none of them will hear nothing of death.
The reason for this lack of concern for the "last things" is that people have simply put away the idea of sin. That the things we do can have eternal consequences is forgotten, or completely rejected, EVEN BY CATHOLICS! Every funeral that I do is a canonization. This has contributed to the lack of concern for having Masses offered for the repose of the souls of our beloved dead. We don't pray for the dead because we have lost the idea that there's any point to it!
Of course, the Prods will find this development quite gratifying. I mean, after all, they founded themselves on the idea that it was impossible to assist the souls of the faithful departed after death. But who cares what they think? Their "religion" is false anyway. What is really lamentable is that Catholics have bought into this completely. Get your purgatory done now, folks, you don't want to do it later, I can assure you!

Feast of Our Lady of Einsiedeln

2009-07-16T12:03:00.005-05:00

The Roman Church celebrates today the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. However, we Swiss Benedictines, descended from the abbey of Maria Einsiedeln, celebrate today as the feast of Our Lady of Einsiedeln. I have posted materials from other sites that speak of the Abbey of Einsiedeln, St. Meinrad the Martyr, and related things.

At St. Meinrad Archabbey, in Indiana, the abbey church is dedicated to Our Lady of Einsiedeln. At my own monastery, the choir of the abbey church is so dedicated. My prayer is for all of our monks, living and deceased, who looked to the All-holy Mother of God for protection and consolation. May Christ in his mercy answer their prayers, and prosper the work of the Order of St. Benedict until he come again!

Einsiedeln - The Sanctuary and the Black Madonna

2009-07-16T11:58:00.000-05:00

Einsiedeln - The Sanctuary and the Black Madonna