Posted in faith, miscellany on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Welp, the water heater is fixed. Which is to say that it’s been replaced. My plans for an 80 gallon monster (The “Old Faithful 9000″ 
were foiled by our gas lines, venting, indeed, our entire garage being too small to accommodate it. The plumbers - a local shop that’s done work for us in the [...]
Posted in faith on February 7, 2008 | No Comments »
O Lord and Master of my life,
take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-heartedness, lust of power, and idle talk.
But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to thy servant.
Yea, O Lord and King,
grant me to see my own errors, and not to judge my brother;
for Thou art blessed unto the ages [...]
Posted in faith on February 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Happy Ash Wednesday to all. Hope your fasting and penitence are going well.
Sister Mary Martha posted a link to this article yesterday, but hasn’t had time to comment on it yet. I look forward to reading her viewpoint on the matter. I credit these folks a great deal for having the courage of their convictions [...]
Posted in books, faith on February 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Today is Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday and Pancake Day all rolled up into one. Whatever you call it, Ash Wednesday is tomorrow and we begin (in the Western Church, anyway) 40 days of fasting, prayer and general introspection and preparation before the Holy Triduum (”three days” of Easter. Liturgical trivia for non-Catholics: during [...]
Posted in books, faith on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Fr. Edward T. Oakes, S.J., writes about the recent spate of atheist books, and some of the things that seem to be missing from the arguments therein.
Books advocating atheism have recently been enjoying a modest boomlet. Sales are solid, book readings are sold out, and their authors grace the highbrow talk shows and op-ed [...]
Posted in faith on January 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Clapton was always susceptible to truth. From the time he was a boy, he knew when he had done wrong and never excused his sins as the rites of a new moral code. When Delaney Bramlett confronted Clapton on acid, and warned him that “God has given you this gift, and if you don’t use [...]
Posted in faith, family on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Merry Christmas!
Christmas is, of course, not over yet, or at least it’s not for those of us who celebrate until Epiphany, or Twelfth Night. We had a good day yesterday (Mass, followed by much merrymaking) and intend to keep right on truckin’ until January 6th, when we enter back into Ordinary Time. I have something [...]
Posted in faith on December 23, 2007 | No Comments »
In the twenty-fourth day of the month of December;
In the year five-thousand one-hundred and ninety-nine from the creation of the world, when in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth;
In the year two-thousand nine-hundred and fifty-seven from the flood;
In the year two-thousand and fifty-one from the birth of Abraham;
In the year one-thousand five-hundred [...]
Posted in faith, family, miscellany on December 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Dum medium silentium tenerent omnia,
et nox in suo cursu medium iter haberet,
omnipotens sermo tuus, Domine,
de caelis a regalibus sedibus venit.
When all things were in quiet silence,
and night was in the midst of her swift course,
Thine almighty word, O Lord,
leapt down from heaven out of Thy royal throne, Alleluia
- from the Christmas Eve Vespers
Tomorrow is [...]
Posted in books, faith on December 20, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Can there be too much Dickens? No. There cannot be.
They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility. Where graceful youth should have filled their features out, and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age, had pinched, and twisted [...]
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