This Beets Awl

A forgotten massacre

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

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

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

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

A beautiful Pentecost tradition at the Pantheon in Rome

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)

And a version by Anton Bruckner

For your Passiontide meditation:

Worth watching

A homily for fathers on the feast of St. Joseph

On St. Joseph

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?

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

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

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

Hitler vs. B16

Holy Dancing Deaconesses, Batman!

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

The Pope is obviously type-cast

Ineffable and Unspeakable

Siege of Vienna 1683