Monday, December 29, 2014
Friday, December 19, 2014
louie, louie: or nothing at all
louie, louie: or nothing at all: People who know nothing of God and whose lives are centered on themselves, imagine that they can only find themselves by asserting their ...
Friday, December 12, 2014
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Monday, December 1, 2014
Sunday, November 30, 2014
louie, louie: be converted
louie, louie: be converted: This is the mission entrusted to the church, a hard mission: to uproot sins from history, to uproot sins from the political order, to u...
louie, louie: Merton's typewriter
louie, louie: Merton's typewriter: One of Merton's typewriters, now at the Merton Study Center, Bellarmine University, Louisville. I know, this blog has been dorm...
louie, louie: Francis visit to Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque
louie, louie: Francis visit to Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque: Francis repeated Benedict XVI’s gesture today: A moment of silence before the niche that points in the direction of Mecca. “God must no...
louie, louie: Advent: when the ladder climbing stops we are read...
louie, louie: Advent: when the ladder climbing stops we are read...: http://visualtheology.blogspot.com/2014/11/advent-when-ladder-climbing-stops-we.html?showComment=1417352473713 This is how Advent alway...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Anglicans Ablaze: Human Rights Campaign: A formidable force for LGBT...
Anglicans Ablaze: Human Rights Campaign: A formidable force for LGBT...: The Human Rights Campaign brings a notable track record of helping change public opinion on homosexuality. Now it has set its sights on p...
Anglicans Ablaze: Muslims Found America?
Anglicans Ablaze: Muslims Found America?: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centur...
Anglicans Ablaze: Pentecostalism and the Question of Culture
Anglicans Ablaze: Pentecostalism and the Question of Culture: In a recent article for Christianity Today , Ed Stetzer offers some sociological analysis as to why Pentecostals continue to experience g...
Anglicans Ablaze: How Muslims Are Likely to View Friday's Washington...
Anglicans Ablaze: How Muslims Are Likely to View Friday's Washington...: By Robin G. Jordan The International Business Times and the Christian Post have published articles on this past Friday’s jumu’ah ...
Fr. John Whiteford's News, Comments, & Reflections: Payday Someday
Fr. John Whiteford's News, Comments, & Reflections: Payday Someday: When I was about 12 or 13 years old, while listening to the radio, I heard one of the most striking sermons I ever heard. Despite having ...
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Friday, October 24, 2014
The Mad Monarchist: The Warring Virgins of Mexico
The Mad Monarchist: The Warring Virgins of Mexico: There is no doubt that when it comes to religious iconography in Mexico there is no more prominent symbol than that of Our Lady of Guadalu...
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Anglicans Ablaze: Church of England: One in 50 clergy don't believe ...
Anglicans Ablaze: Church of England: One in 50 clergy don't believe ...: One in 50 Anglican clergy in the UK believes God is merely a human construct, according to a new survey today. Just eight in ten believ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
SANCTE PATER: Cardinal Burke says statement from Pope Francis de...
SANCTE PATER: Cardinal Burke says statement from Pope Francis de...: By Patrick B. Craine ( LifeSiteNews.com ) In a candid interview Monday, Cardinal Raymond Burke voiced the concerns of many of his bro...
What In the World Is Going On In The Church?
Frighting Post from Father Alan McDonald at Southern Orders.
The Eclectic Reader: Winnie and Wolf
The Eclectic Reader: Winnie and Wolf: I enjoyed A.N. Wilson's 2007 novel Winnie and Wolf a great deal. If you like this book you probably have two characteristics: (1) Y...
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Colorado Governor Admits Legalizing Pot Was Reckless
Colorado Governor John Hickenluper has admitted that legalizing marijuana was probably not a good idea. Full story here.
Death With Dignity?
A very troubling story about a young woman with cancer who plans to end her life through legal assisted suicide in Oregon. Full story here.
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Anglicans Ablaze: What the Muslim world believes, on everything from...
Anglicans Ablaze: What the Muslim world believes, on everything from...: A sweeping, 226-page report from the Pew Forum explores attitudes and opinions from Muslim communities around the world. In the process,...
Anglicans Ablaze: Updated: ISIS ensnares women, girls in web of lies...
Anglicans Ablaze: Updated: ISIS ensnares women, girls in web of lies...: Pregnant Austrian teens in ISIS: We’ve made a huge mistake Two Austrian teens got way more than they bargained for when they abandoned ...
Anglicans Ablaze: Pope Francis signals blessing to breakaway traditi...
Anglicans Ablaze: Pope Francis signals blessing to breakaway traditi...: Pope Francis has signalled his blessing to the breakaway traditionalist American church at the centre of the split which has divided the ...
Abbey Roads: Why young people are leaving the Church ... or - w...
Abbey Roads: Why young people are leaving the Church ... or - w...: This is the church, this is its steeple, open the doors, and - hey! where the hell are all the young people? What's the Church...
Guglielmo Tell (Teatro alla Scala, 1987)
This production of Rossini's opera William Tell was performed in Milan in 1987 with the La Scala Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti. The lead role was sung by Giorgio Zancanaro.
I'm not crazy about "modern" or "post-modern" staging of opera. This wasn't too bad, though. The opera is set in thirteenth century Switzerland but this staging has the characters wearing costumes from the early 19th century. There were three giant screens hung over the stage which displayed mountains or water or whatever the scene was. The giant screens weren't too bad, but I never figured out what the giant choir stall stuck in the middle of the stage was supposed to be about.
The music was superb and the singing and acting were great. It would have been much better, though, with a traditional staging with something approximating period costumes.
Of course, this opera is about the famous legend of the Swiss hero William Tell who was forced by the Austrian conquerors of Switzerland to shoot an apple off of his son's head who then leads the revolt of the Swiss against the Austrians. All around it's a good show.
Abbey Roads: Remember when Obama said: “Now let’s make two thin...
Abbey Roads: Remember when Obama said: “Now let’s make two thin...: British lawyer and Imam, Anjem Choudary said Obama is wrong. Choudary * said that Obama may simply be saying that to appease ...
Friday, October 10, 2014
Louisville, KY Human Rights Commission Says Christians Must Leave Religion At Home
The Louisville, KY Human Rights Commission has ruled against a Christian T-Shirt Shop for refusing to print Gay Rights T-Shirts. The owners have been ordered to attend "diversity training" to unlearn them of their backward religious beliefs. The Chairman of the Commission stated that Christian business owners must "leave their religion at home" or be in violation of the law. Welcome Comrades to the United Soviet Socialist States of Amerika. Full story here.
Governor Mike Huckabee Threatens to Leave GOP Over Gay Marriage
Former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee has threatened to leave the Republican Party if it does not fight Gay Marriage. Full story here.
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Is Pope Francis Purging the Curia of Conservatives
Thanks to Father Alan McDonald at Southern Orders
Abbey Roads: Rabbi Yehuda Levin on homosexual unions: "What's ...
Abbey Roads: Rabbi Yehuda Levin on homosexual unions: "What's ...: A Jewish rabbi more Catholic than (some of) the Synod fathers? Maybe so. Rabbi Yehuda Levin, 60, a Brooklyn rabbi with a weekly ...
Abbey Roads: +Fr. Benedict Joseph Groeschel+ Santo subito!
Abbey Roads: +Fr. Benedict Joseph Groeschel+ Santo subito!: + We give you thanks for the blessings which you bestowed upon Fr. Benedict Joseph in this life: they are signs to us of your goo...
Father Benedict Groeschel
This post concerns the death of Father Benedict J. Groeschel, a spiritual guide and mentor for many people.
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Hawking Declares Atheism
Stephen Hawking has declared that science has proven that there is no God. Full story here.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Anglicans Ablaze: The War of the Cross
Anglicans Ablaze: The War of the Cross: When ISIS changed its name in June from “the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL, or the Arabic acronym ISIS) to simply “the Isla...
Anglicans Ablaze: Rise of Islamic schools causes alarm in secular Tu...
Anglicans Ablaze: Rise of Islamic schools causes alarm in secular Tu...: When Turkish pupils received their school entry exam results after the end of last term, textile worker and father Halil Ibrahim Beyhan r...
Thursday, September 4, 2014
You Tube Declares Georgia Baptist Pastor's Sermon "Hate Speech"
Maybe its time for the Southern Baptists to boycott You Tube. Full story here.
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Anglicans Ablaze: Dozens of Yazidi women 'sold into marriage' by jih...
Anglicans Ablaze: Dozens of Yazidi women 'sold into marriage' by jih...: Several dozen Yazidi women kidnapped by Islamic State jihadists in Iraq have been taken to Syria, forced to convert and sold into marriag...
Anglicans Ablaze: Do we dare pray for ISIS?
Anglicans Ablaze: Do we dare pray for ISIS?: Our newspapers, TV screens and social media timelines are filled with horrific images of the Iraqi crisis. From Christian families shot t...
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Aggie Catholics: 100 Ways To Pray
Aggie Catholics: 100 Ways To Pray: This post is a collection of different kinds of prayer, ways to pray, devotions, sacramentals, etc. It is by no means an exhaustive list...
The Digital Hairshirt: Hey, Assumption, y'all! A Scriptural primer on to...
The Digital Hairshirt: Hey, Assumption, y'all! A Scriptural primer on to...: I sometimes get the feeling that I am a bit of a curiosity here in the South. Living as I do in the heart of the Bible Belt, there are more...
Happy Catholic*: What Can We Do in These Terrible Times?
Happy Catholic*: What Can We Do in These Terrible Times?: These are chaotic, sad times in the world and I am encountering a lot of people who are beat down by it. I myself would be beat down by it...
Abbey Roads: Prayer to St. Roch
Abbey Roads: Prayer to St. Roch: O blessed Saint Roch, patron of the sick, have pity on those who lie upon a bed of suffering. Your power was so great when you were in...
Abbey Roads: St. Rocco, patron saint of hitchhikers...
Abbey Roads: St. Rocco, patron saint of hitchhikers...: The practice of showing a little leg to get a ride was actually introduced by St. Roch. What?
Abbey Roads: Pope Francis in Korea
Abbey Roads: Pope Francis in Korea: I watched the beatification Mass last night. It was beautiful - the Koreans are so devout, so enthusiastic... and the Holy Father is ...
THE B-MOVIE CATECHISM: NOW SHOWING AT A BLOG NEAR YOU
THE B-MOVIE CATECHISM: NOW SHOWING AT A BLOG NEAR YOU: My review for Aleteia this week was for Calvary , John Michael McDonagh’s new film detailing what happens after a good priest receives rece...
Saint Louis Catholic: Hmmm, I Wonder What Could Have Possibly Happened t...
Saint Louis Catholic: Hmmm, I Wonder What Could Have Possibly Happened t...: Ferguson. It's on everybody's mind in St. Louis. Elsewhere, too, maybe, but it's different when these things happen in neighborh...
Number 3 Equity Court: Alabama Federal Judge Arrested for Family Violence...
Number 3 Equity Court: Alabama Federal Judge Arrested for Family Violence...: An Alabama U.S. District Judge has been arrested in Atlanta for battery on his wife. Full story here.
Chinese Catholics Barred From Traveling To See The Pope
Chinese Communist officials have prevented Chinese pilgrims from traveling to South Korea to see the Pope. Full story here.
Friday, August 15, 2014
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Mother of God. In the east this feast is called the Dormition of the Theotokos.
From Blessings of the Daily: A Monastic Book of Days by Brother Victor-Antoine d'Avila-Latourrette:
"This feast is considered, especially in the East, the most prominent of all the feasts celebrated in honor of the Mother of God. It is also one of the most ancient. In the Christian East, the feast is kept with great solemnity and is preceded by a two-week fast as preparation.
Some Christians, not of the Orthodox or Catholic tradition, have a difficult time trying to comprehend the mystery we are about to celebrate. After all, there is no testimony in the Scriptures concerning the death and Assumption of the Mother of God into heaven. Our belief is founded on sacred tradition, the belief of the ancient, undivided Church. . . . Saint Juvenal, bishop of Jerusalem around the time of the Council of Chalcedon, relates the tradition as it was believed by the Christians of Jerusalem: Mary died in the presence of all the Apostles (except Thomas), but when her tomb was opened at the request of Saint Thomas, it was found empty; where from the Apostles concluded that her body had been taken up to heaven."
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