tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71518516139355220732024-02-19T07:52:39.667-08:00Chronicles of AtlantisTruth, Goodness, and Beauty - Marian Chivalry, Pro Christo et Ecclesia - Christo-centric Curmudgeonism - Domine, ad quem ibimus?Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.comBlogger2838125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-83258403064537386392011-06-28T05:09:00.000-07:002011-06-28T05:11:24.876-07:00He Walks in BeautyNow Athos will see beauty all around him, and join his tenor voice and his violin to the music of the stars and the communion of saints in everlasting praise of our Holy and Triune God.<div><br /></div><div>Thanks be to God for the life of Jeffry Leonard Morris Hendrix, born December 14, 1954, died June 28, 2011.</div><div><br /></div><div>Posted by God's Weaver, his wife Mochel Morris</div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-61182613080360465182011-05-31T01:33:00.000-07:002011-06-07T01:39:07.402-07:00Our Lady's Discipleship<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6lpZd9DFHLRnJU3zixhTJm-HTOCvl0VBZXH629iDZlzLEoHv3_h7RlayGmoqLxJHd2Ug9j24bSVN9YmlK12u7brAuZKvSg1IZuyVVAdBA7uOfJB7NDpuOz1isjVNsOLnxW3emFuUSjsM/s1600/obenedict.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6lpZd9DFHLRnJU3zixhTJm-HTOCvl0VBZXH629iDZlzLEoHv3_h7RlayGmoqLxJHd2Ug9j24bSVN9YmlK12u7brAuZKvSg1IZuyVVAdBA7uOfJB7NDpuOz1isjVNsOLnxW3emFuUSjsM/s200/obenedict.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612796663986548050" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p color="#426af8" style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >The Holy Father's Message of Hope for Today</span></span></i></b></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 18px; "><br /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The Holy Father recently spoke about the dark times through which he lived as a youth, speaking of how "Hitler had subjected one country after another, Poland, Denmark, the Benelux States and France, and in April of 1941 -- precisely in this season 70 years ago -- he had occupied Yugoslavia and Greece."</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 25px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">"It seemed that the Continent was in the hands of this power that, at the same time, cast doubt on the future of Christianity," the Pontiff said.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 25px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 25px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">He had joined the "Sodality of Our Lady" as a young man and, although the dissolution of the seminaries hindered it, this bond continued, since "Catholicity cannot exist without a Marian expression."</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 25px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; min-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 25px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">"To be Catholics means to be Marian ... that in the Mother and by the Mother we find the Lord," he said.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 25px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">We have great hope in following Our Lady's example of discipleship. To read the full text of his message go </span><a href="http://www.zenit.org/article-32712?l=english"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">here</span></span></b></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">.</span></p>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-77165773531694378872011-05-30T01:19:00.000-07:002011-05-30T02:20:18.275-07:00Coren - Fighting the Good Fight<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Author and apologist Michael Coren appears in Peter Jackson's extended DVD boxed-sets. He, and others, help to explain the influences on young J. R. R. Tolkien. Now, ZENIT reports, he has a new book that helps to defend the Catholic Church in the continuing onslaught of cultural attacks facing Her today.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A convert himself from Judaism, Coren apparently ranges over a variety of topics and incidents from his life, according to </span></span><a href="http://www.zenit.org/article-32702?l=english"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;">ZENIT</span></b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. The book, <b><i>Why Catholics Are Right</i></b>, may be purchased </span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Why-Catholics-Right-Michael-Coren/dp/0771023219/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306609817&sr=8-1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CC0000;">here</span></b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-61417891241221698522011-05-27T15:47:00.001-07:002011-05-27T15:50:34.671-07:00Sheed - Understanding the Trinity<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">For the Record: The late author and publisher, Frank Sheed, offered </span></span><a href="http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2011/fsheed_trinityts_may2011.asp"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">this</span></b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"> </span></b>to help understand the mystery of the Blessed Trinity. Courtesy of Ignatius Insight. </span></span>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-75102290068613735962011-05-26T16:46:00.000-07:002011-05-26T16:50:07.583-07:00Knox - Praying for All Souls<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6wbRDDW1QJb5GQ6GgezZ3scOTQim1GhSnbOMmsV4KEgewz0gRaPbLPziqC-UYFSNGe-Mom7BWlL3SHu72yBqb0GpJ-TqmwiLVkSe4c6GnZJHwEbHI6RB1EYJpnR_2m0xpN_QJVBHlks8/s1600/knox2+%25281%2529.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 254px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6wbRDDW1QJb5GQ6GgezZ3scOTQim1GhSnbOMmsV4KEgewz0gRaPbLPziqC-UYFSNGe-Mom7BWlL3SHu72yBqb0GpJ-TqmwiLVkSe4c6GnZJHwEbHI6RB1EYJpnR_2m0xpN_QJVBHlks8/s320/knox2+%25281%2529.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611175894884448050" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">WE ALWAYS DO THINK OF them, don't we, as the poor souls in Purgatory. That seems curious, from one point of view; from one point of view they are so much better off than we are. You and I might go to hell; they can't. We sometimes think of them enviously for that reason. They are like friends who have gone on ahead, and successfully jumped over the precipice that lay in our path; we haven't jumped it yet - how much better off they are than we! Yes, but from another point of view they are hard up, the holy souls, desperately hard up. We can still merit; they can't. Nothing they can do can give them any relief, can bring them any nearer to the heaven which is their only desire, their only dream.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">If you will, they are like people who have got plenty of money at the bank, but no cash in their pockets; what is the use of money if one can't get at it? So they ask for our prayers, which can help them; our prayers, which we ought to give generously, just as the saints give their prayers to us. So, each year, November reminds us about the Communion of Saints; about the help we can get, about the help we can give. You remember the fable about the lion which was caught in a net, and the mouse that helped it by eating through the net so that it could get out? You and I are like that when we pray for the souls of Christians departed. They are much more splendid people than you and I are; they are already on the last lap of their journey home. But they are held up on that journey, and they can't help themselves; we can help them, and it isn't presumptuous to think of ourselves as helping them, even splendid people who have fallen gloriously in battle - we are the mice nibbling away at the bonds which hold them, that is all.</span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">- Ronald A. Knox, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">"The Communion of Saints (I)",</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The Creed in Slow Motion</span></span></div></span>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-13921890153740865422011-05-26T01:34:00.000-07:002011-05-27T02:14:27.886-07:00+ Saint Philip Neri<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7LQ8Zt-Py5Lvs7e-UjkjTWg5VG8resZYi_ig9FeCV2fw_cP5bzr8r6w2YKq84UMRCw8MPFWvr6L-zOkwV-gjhrTkm9nhLY6wlFWXrPWo88-eakauq2CR6FpIUe1OhUVYfdP7o_qL3v44/s1600/FNeri.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7LQ8Zt-Py5Lvs7e-UjkjTWg5VG8resZYi_ig9FeCV2fw_cP5bzr8r6w2YKq84UMRCw8MPFWvr6L-zOkwV-gjhrTkm9nhLY6wlFWXrPWo88-eakauq2CR6FpIUe1OhUVYfdP7o_qL3v44/s320/FNeri.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610940822577938050" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><b><a href="http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j180sd_St.PhilipNeri5-28.shtml"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#66FF99;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">St. Philip Neri (1515-1595)</span></span></a></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(Check out below >>)</span></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span">UPDATES:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><a href="http://www.staustinreview.com/ink_desk/archives/the_great_thing"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CCFF;">The Great Thing by Sophia Mason</span></a></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><a href="http://yimcatholic.blogspot.com/2011/05/for-all-saints-st-philip-neri.html#more"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;">Also</span></a> - by Allison</span></b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><a href="http://www.patheos.com/community/theanchoress/2011/05/26/feast-of-dear-st-philip-neri/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;">Also</span></a> - by Elizabeth Scalia</span></b></i></span></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-15215081791735680082011-05-22T13:01:00.000-07:002011-05-22T13:03:24.087-07:00Sunday Evening Reflections on Hell<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGsxNttPQsnS8gl4gfHNLlr9bZCIP71bBg62p6FlzYVKzzEcVsfDAOMLqVbt2JcCpD7-njc3V7l-yKnm4iuaSJPakl11HJdb-Kro9hTc8JuK1U_78Qa5TkQ-DQE-cNgZpLHJCQ8lXhruc_/s1600/800px-Stefan_Lochner_006.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGsxNttPQsnS8gl4gfHNLlr9bZCIP71bBg62p6FlzYVKzzEcVsfDAOMLqVbt2JcCpD7-njc3V7l-yKnm4iuaSJPakl11HJdb-Kro9hTc8JuK1U_78Qa5TkQ-DQE-cNgZpLHJCQ8lXhruc_/s400/800px-Stefan_Lochner_006.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609632690761165410" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I can still recall - with an importance borne out by the seriousness with which the grown-ups seemed to consider the topic - a Sunday evening when my evangelical pastor father's church held a </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_meeting"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">Revival service</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">. We had a guest preacher and got to dine him (No </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">wining</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> him - we were teetotalers!) before the church service. My sister and I speculated who would "come forward" to the altar rail to either "get saved" (in some cases, again) or renew their "personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ." In any case, it was serious, and we were inculcated from a very early age on the FACTs of the </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Deadly_Sins_and_the_Four_Last_Things"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">Last Four Things</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Adults can't manufacture those values; there is no winking to the audience, I am thankful to say. My father and my mother were in deadly earnest when it came to them, and my sister, Linda, and I caught those values.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">So, it wasn't surprising to me to find myself after the revival preacher's sermon to find myself coming forward to the altar rail to "accept Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior." It wasn't that I hadn't done so before in private, so to speak; but in our neck of the woods, it you didn't trudge up where everybody could watch you </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">do</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> it, it just didn't count to your credit. See?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Well, I still believe in those Four Last Things, but I also know that I need the fullness of the Church that Jesus our Lord founded on Saint Peter ("Rocky") in Matthew 16, including all the sacramental grace that our Lord provides us creatures made in His image, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">imago dei</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">. (For more read<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Little-Guide-Your-Last-Days/dp/1601040245"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">A Little Guide for Your Last Days</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">.)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">In fact, Dale Alquist puts succinctly the words and thoughts of fellow convert, G. K. Chesterton. (I would say fellow author, but the <i>audacity</i> sticks in my craw with an accompanying choking sensation.) A quick and easy essay just doesn't get much better than this one all of a Sunday evening. Read, read, pilgrim, and never forget GKC's insights in </span></span><a href="http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/apologetics/print/ap0389.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">A Happy Little Reflection on Hell</span></span></i></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">. And, thank you, too, Dale Ahlquist.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Don't you wish more people thought about the Four Last Things. Like those who garner power with a smug grin of happy and healthy human existence; at least, for now?<br /></span></span><div><br /></div></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-5137904401684991212011-05-21T02:12:00.000-07:002011-05-21T02:40:10.330-07:00Ka ... Beauty<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyBvGht5To_4G9bGW1hBDcUrGMLpl4V_-taCTS9yIpDOmoR23z1VqnNHnYkMSTLz6zPPGJXsyN7grezGgLPnojIujULDfkBLvaaRhQFaCJ1J83EP273kVksi9j62fDTwvhvUjqt_8SXtM/s1600/502px-Nagasakibomb.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 335px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyBvGht5To_4G9bGW1hBDcUrGMLpl4V_-taCTS9yIpDOmoR23z1VqnNHnYkMSTLz6zPPGJXsyN7grezGgLPnojIujULDfkBLvaaRhQFaCJ1J83EP273kVksi9j62fDTwvhvUjqt_8SXtM/s400/502px-Nagasakibomb.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609095785490334498" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">On this auspicious day, when, if the news we hear from some quarters is correct, the "world" (<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 15px; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;">κόσμος</span>) will come to an end, may I make the recommendation that we all grab a cool drink and enjoy some truth, goodness, and beauty. If you cannot find any near by, start with Daniel Mitsui's </span></span><a href="http://www.danielmitsui.com/hieronymus/"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;">THE LION & THE CARDINAL</span></span></span></b></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">. Then you are on your own, gentle reader ...</span></span>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-26141060405071140532011-05-21T02:00:00.000-07:002011-05-21T02:01:43.619-07:00Imagine - Not John Lennon<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Well, we </span></span><a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Forming-a-religious-identity-without-antagonism-in-young-Christians-and-Muslims-21620.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;">can dream</span></i></b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, can't we?</span></span></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-71092290517626722122011-05-20T02:04:00.000-07:002011-05-21T01:45:43.506-07:00Byrd, Tallis, and Today<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDSYtyjGu_3TE9qCdrOtAUx2lDR6qdivWH_G10WRJ75U6W9mHbvewntmKzjZWC-hMEZHpQzHC6VNy1Ao68CujuyqIZzNkCrGgejmgKvDSsRAbrOCkv3y03cg8K9kdqKFuZzDBdbxrOILQ/s1600/Thomas_Tallis.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 198px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDSYtyjGu_3TE9qCdrOtAUx2lDR6qdivWH_G10WRJ75U6W9mHbvewntmKzjZWC-hMEZHpQzHC6VNy1Ao68CujuyqIZzNkCrGgejmgKvDSsRAbrOCkv3y03cg8K9kdqKFuZzDBdbxrOILQ/s200/Thomas_Tallis.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608723945897393330" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Here is</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><a href="http://en.gloria.tv/?media=157038"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">an excellent documentary</span></a></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> on the age of Henry VIII, the ruination of Catholicism in England, the dissolution of the monasteries (+/-20 a month), and the Catholic musicians, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.</span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">As I have said, a close and careful study of the (so-called) English "reformation" is important indeed for Catholics today. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Powers and principalities will always seek to do away with the Church and misunderstand Her Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Tallis and Byrd, composers, give us reason for Faith, Hope, and Charity.</span></span></div></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-91557510273386336912011-05-19T15:31:00.000-07:002011-05-19T15:38:53.013-07:00Knox - Parables<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXa9A18bG6t_sasBG0sEG8AX_DRxSOqUzZn6qH2iQbHv45A20ZiDzvusCOX9FDdKUAeMWLyLpSWtBvpdPu24XiO-pdYP7fzHO_M7MN78tmKrav5YeglPEpslbteVhGzWFcQEphYsyXArs/s1600/knox2+%25281%2529.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 254px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXa9A18bG6t_sasBG0sEG8AX_DRxSOqUzZn6qH2iQbHv45A20ZiDzvusCOX9FDdKUAeMWLyLpSWtBvpdPu24XiO-pdYP7fzHO_M7MN78tmKrav5YeglPEpslbteVhGzWFcQEphYsyXArs/s320/knox2+%25281%2529.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608560065864403666" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">IT WOULD BE quite natural to suppose that the Incarnate Revelation of Truth would announce a single message to all alike in plain, unmistakable language ... as a matter of fact he did not, and has told us that he did not. After uttering the parable - surely a very simple one - of the sower sowing his seed, he goes out of his way to explain that he does not want all his audience to penetrate the full meaning of what he is talking about. That, surely, is something for us to think over.</span></span></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">- Ronald A. Knox</span></span></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-30439587483259774102011-05-18T02:00:00.000-07:002011-05-18T05:21:21.166-07:00A Beastie Attack and Musical Praying<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">'Had a rough day yesterday - I won't go into the gory details of the attack, but suffice it to say, my <a href="http://3massketeers.blogspot.com/2010/06/pax-et-bonum.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">beastie</span></b></a> had a field day with my body and I sat tight until my appointment for a shot at the Infusion Center to help boost my white blood cell count.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I found myself bouncing between the </span></span><a href="http://www.universalsports.com/cycling/index.html?__source=GADW&cid=cyclinggiroitalia&gclid=CNut1r6S8agCFQbc4AodTnXFCA"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;">Giro d'Italia</span></i></b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> and EWTN mid-morning - both of which were, of course, fabulous. I saw my new friend and acquaintance, <a href="http://dawneden.blogspot.com/2011/03/prayer-request.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">Marcus Grodi</span></a>, interviewing an oldish looking fellow from Canada, Terry Hatty, former vocalist with The Guess Who, and stayed to watch.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">His story about making his "journey home" isn't particularly theological or, probably, pertinent to many of our stories, but I found him to be a true victory; I know so many of his ilk who follow the progressivist propaganda line and flounder off into sad endings. Terry, on the other hand, has managed to keep his music alive and revert to Mother Church.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Go </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzNF4wnVTKY"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><i>here</i></span></span></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> if you want to see the interview with an aging rock and roll singer, and hear a sampling of his musical prayers. Great pipes for a fellow of his age!</span></span></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-6459143800992032792011-05-11T01:51:00.000-07:002011-05-11T02:03:50.517-07:00Mitsui - Cathedrals ... in Color<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTdC4TbtZpb-jV2c6NaoVfBbO1pmowgm0NtBUdtbSNjx_TUUhI4PKP680wCcuphk8hqzKMaSWGvGYrlw9PmPrUbyFm9LjGEDAlHjwOtbqPDtRzOp8xR-T82ebl18ABSVLIaHtHvws1XB4/s1600/amiensa.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTdC4TbtZpb-jV2c6NaoVfBbO1pmowgm0NtBUdtbSNjx_TUUhI4PKP680wCcuphk8hqzKMaSWGvGYrlw9PmPrUbyFm9LjGEDAlHjwOtbqPDtRzOp8xR-T82ebl18ABSVLIaHtHvws1XB4/s400/amiensa.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605380526268241810" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Did you happen to know, asked the sadly ignorant blogger, that the great cathedral churches of Christendom were once rich in polychromatic <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#66FF99;">color</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#99FF99;"> </span></span>- both on their exteriors and interiors?</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Once again, the inimitable church art historian (and extraordinary artist) Daniel Mitsui brings to light of day a fact of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty that yours truly did not until as of late have at his disposal.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I'll let our inestimable friend and brother in Christ show you what the above, Amiens Cathedral, looks like under the astonishing spotlights and lasers looks like by going, gentle reader, </span></span><a href="http://www.danielmitsui.com/hieronymus/index.blog/1709396/light-show-at-amiens/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33FFFF;">here</span></b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">. Enjoy.</span></span></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-42368022112789068342011-05-10T02:53:00.000-07:002011-05-10T03:07:09.287-07:00BOOKs<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLbvD08dt43eXfnyM7T51eb5yu5kQOCVXGk3dudNh5eTQaVgMoGeE-x7rPFncYYvrlm0F9yxl5xpHSjYLDcZLoWdqQb9XPJu279Jlsen_HgA2R0Ranh0rQ56X00Ev4HDHNOqmxNh1KrKo/s1600/The+Anchoress.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLbvD08dt43eXfnyM7T51eb5yu5kQOCVXGk3dudNh5eTQaVgMoGeE-x7rPFncYYvrlm0F9yxl5xpHSjYLDcZLoWdqQb9XPJu279Jlsen_HgA2R0Ranh0rQ56X00Ev4HDHNOqmxNh1KrKo/s200/The+Anchoress.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605026359126760370" /></a><br /><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Yet </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">another</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> prototypical optical reading device is about to hit the market. And, don't you know, we do (of course) need one. I will let you read about it from the sales manifesto below:</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 18.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Device to Replace Electronic Media</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Introducing the new Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge device, trade named </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">. </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK </span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">is a revolutionary breakthrough in technology: no wires, no electric circuits, no batteries, nothing to be connected or switched on. It's so easy to use, even a child can operate it. Compact and portable, it can be used anywhere - even sitting in an armchair by the fire - yet it is powerful enough to hold as much information as a CD-ROM disc.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Here's how it works: </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> is constructed of sequentially numbered sheets of paper (recyclable), each capable of holding thousands of bits of information. The pages are locked together with a custom-fit device called a binder which keeps the sheets in their correct sequence. Opaque Paper Technology (OPT) allows manufacturers to use both sides of the sheet, doubling the information density and cutting costs. Experts are divided on the prospects for further increases in information density; for now, </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOKs</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> with more information simply use more pages. Each sheet is scanned optically, registering information directly into your brain. A flick of the finger takes you to the next sheet.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> may be taken up at any time and used merely by opening it. </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> never crashes or requires rebooting, though like other display devices, it can become unusable if exposed to high ambient temperatures. The "browse" feature allows you to move instantly to any sheet, and move forward or backward as you wish. Many come with an "index" feature, which pinpoints the exact location of any selected information for instant retrieval.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> can be stored for an almost unlimited amount of time without connecting any outside power source. Many </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> units may be stored together as they cause no interference with one another, even when placed in close proximity. An optional "</span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">mark" accessory allows you to open </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> to the exact place you left it in a previous session - even if the </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> has been closed.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">marks fit universal design standards; thus, a single BOOKmark can be used in </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">s by various manufacturers. Conversely, numerous </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> markers can be used in a single </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> if the user wants to store numerous views at once. The number is limited only by the number of pages in the </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">You can also make personal notes next to </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> text entries with an optional programming tool, the Portable Erasable Nib Cryptic Intercommunication Language Stylus (</span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">PENCILS</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">). Portable, durable, and affordable,</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> is being hailed as a precursor of a new entertainment wave. Also, </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">'s appeal seems so certain that thousands of content creators have committed to the platform and investors are reportedly flocking. Look for a flood of new titles soon. Try it! You'll like it!</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">***</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Okay, okay. Enough tongue-in-cheek. If you happen to need the tactile experience of not merely seeing a mock-page turn as one does on iPad; if you happen to love the smell of old (but not mildewy ) books; if you can't stand to see a shelf standing without being filled with books, </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK </span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">is obviously the "device" of choice for you! I strongly suggest </span></span><a href="http://www.alibris.com/"><span style="color:#46941b;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Alibris</span></span></i></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> if you know the author and/or title for which you are looking, though </span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/283155"><span style="color:#001394;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Amazon</span></span></i></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> will do in a pinch.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 18.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I completed my </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Knox"><span style="color:#831610;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Ronald Arbuthnott Knox</span></span></i></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> collection, picking and choosing very carefully (there are bargains to be found; another joy of </span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BOOK</span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> buying). Go, thou; and choose </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">wisely</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">.</span></span></p>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-25757085084426930692011-05-06T01:43:00.001-07:002011-05-06T04:44:27.862-07:00Gibson Watching<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Two points make a straight line, or so I'd tell my math class students who would ever bother to use a straight edge to draw a straight line. So what do I see browsing the web today? Two stories on Mel Gibson. I will let you 'draw' your own conclusions about the two points </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/movies/the-beaver-with-mel-gibson-and-jodie-foster-review.html">here</a>*</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> and </span></span><a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700132867/Pray-for-Mel-Gibson-says-Passion-of-the-Christ-actor-Jim-Caviezel.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;">here</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, gentle reader. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">*</span>Lest you write-off what appears to be a brain-less comedy, remember that Jodi Foster starred in a thought-provoking film, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CC00;">Contact</span></a>, that left the door open for agnostics to move toward theism some years back. Why would she direct a new film and co-star with Mel Gibson to boot? Perhaps time will tell.</span></span></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-88583446271747424942011-05-05T14:50:00.000-07:002011-05-05T15:03:05.292-07:00Fools and Pilgrims<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY0o-29fp77lxs6gNsGKYlPCfDZsF0uF55O1LUL1oILmek7NeB5zVy4fJcjnw7LAiFY5vBldg3m_EQivfsmyVZpU_pQ_AoUpmaMA53wS1KHIArCQXLP9wTEryhCTpG7KQx1EEW_OHuc6w/s1600/800px-Paul_Simon_25-07-2008_1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY0o-29fp77lxs6gNsGKYlPCfDZsF0uF55O1LUL1oILmek7NeB5zVy4fJcjnw7LAiFY5vBldg3m_EQivfsmyVZpU_pQ_AoUpmaMA53wS1KHIArCQXLP9wTEryhCTpG7KQx1EEW_OHuc6w/s400/800px-Paul_Simon_25-07-2008_1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603355802747170914" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Nothing since Graceland comes near to excellence until now. Go thee, purchase his new album </span></span><a href="http://sobeautifulorsowhat.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><b>So Beautiful or So What</b></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. For sheer heart-rending poignancy, The Rewrite. Best call-and-response preachin' - Getting Ready for Christmas. Hands down best answer to his (long time ago now) nihilistic song, The Boxer, Questions for the Angels. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Go! Get thee hence, hear, and respond in faith to this prophetic aging voice. Hey! Aren't they the best kind, after all?</span></span></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-47587752055302521282011-05-04T01:35:00.000-07:002011-05-04T01:39:56.156-07:00Reading Signs of the Times<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Good advice and discernment regarding recent current events </span></span><a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Vatican-not-rejoicing-over-death-of-Osama-Bin-Laden-21444.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">here</span></b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, </span></span><a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Bin-Laden,-Moscow-Patriarchate-joins-Vatican-in-denouncing-celebrations-21460.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;">here</span></b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, and </span></span><a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Bin-Laden%E2%80%99s-death-could-spark-a-conflict-between-Christianity-and-Islam-21458.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;">here</span></b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span></span>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-52714808112187174902011-05-03T10:21:00.000-07:002011-05-03T10:30:43.999-07:00The No-Men Pt. 4 - Knox<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEJOD_NjM7zCyN2ds_Mhoh5rJ1Q3zy25C-_L1P4YhvpNpNgVq2n32U5TADw6GmvSLp8d0tHm1xn8h7-4qj8dJ9e9RuM7EVthWbIYdAO5scMar1xQW_qPI9X7yCClhZA3X7-PtE8OC86tE/s1600/Knoxronald.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 158px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEJOD_NjM7zCyN2ds_Mhoh5rJ1Q3zy25C-_L1P4YhvpNpNgVq2n32U5TADw6GmvSLp8d0tHm1xn8h7-4qj8dJ9e9RuM7EVthWbIYdAO5scMar1xQW_qPI9X7yCClhZA3X7-PtE8OC86tE/s200/Knoxronald.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602543250144878066" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i>(This completes Knox's essay, "The No-Men")</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">THAT'S WHY I WANT TO appeal to you all, as you remember the English martyrs, to cultivate jealously and watchfully your own independence of mind ... You live in a frightful age of propaganda; books, newspapers, and above all the wireless are trying hard all the time to influence your mind; and a great deal of that propaganda is directed in a steady stream against the Catholic religion. Not openly, but in a insidious way; the worshippers of the State are always so selecting and so presenting the news that the Catholic Church always gets mixed up with what is unpopular at the moment, always appears as the enemy of liberty and of progress. It's a highly elaborate business and oh, it's boring! But </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">you</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;"> are going to live in a world which swallows all that sort of dope ... I don't say that you'll lose the faith, but you'll be a passenger; you'll be no use to the Church, when she wants you. Keep your independence of mind; only half believe what you hear; suspend judgement, think for yourself, learn for yourself. If I am privileged to meet any of you later on, I don't very much mind what else has happened to you ... if </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">only</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;"> you've preserved your independence of mind. God bless you all, and give you grace to do it.</span></span></span></span></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">- Ronald A. Knox</span></span></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-42647713767574342802011-05-02T10:01:00.000-07:002011-05-02T10:25:29.403-07:00The No-Men Pt. 3 - Knox<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdoJCziIfS38Rq-lt5DUUiWnC83_bF-CS_dVijX3j7b57KBkzYowKr2kRPal6Ss_BdP86EH02l5ciIQ0uN5NdWuAGJeANBBgRhCqPr6-bFamFBsy0CIuS_IL9LcljZQ073fK0NiLAqOvo/s1600/knox2+%25281%2529.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 159px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdoJCziIfS38Rq-lt5DUUiWnC83_bF-CS_dVijX3j7b57KBkzYowKr2kRPal6Ss_BdP86EH02l5ciIQ0uN5NdWuAGJeANBBgRhCqPr6-bFamFBsy0CIuS_IL9LcljZQ073fK0NiLAqOvo/s200/knox2+%25281%2529.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602171064545758098" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">"Well," you say, "that's all ancient history. It's got nothing to do with </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">us</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">; the sort of problems which bothered people early in the sixteen century don't bother </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">us</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">." Well, in a sense that's true. Nobody bothers nowadays about the King, God bless him, being Head of the Church in England. It tickles the English citizen to read in the paper that their Majesties attended divine worship yesterday at Sandringham. "Sooner it was them than me", he reflects; but on the whole he rather likes the Church of England to be part of the set-up of monarchy in this country; it gives him a solid sense of prosperity. But as to King George being supreme Head of the Church, he bothers about it as little King George himself. In that sense, the whole controversy which cost More and Fisher their lives is a dead controversy now. But in a more general sense, we haven't nearly finished with it. </span></span></span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">It was all part of that general attack of Satan against the Catholic Church, which started immediately after our Lord's death, and is going on still</span></span></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;"> (emphasis added).</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">Satan, like so many half-educated people, likes to be thought original, but he's really repeating himself all the time in slightly different ways. You will find that about your own temptations, if you look into them; you imagine at first sight that he's really pulled off something absolutely new on you, and then, when you trace it back a bit, you find it was just the same old story, the same kind of pride, the same kind of carelessness, which had landed you several times before. And so it has been with his grand attack on the Christian Church. For the first few centuries it was the Roman emperors that were the trouble; Christians were persecuted because they wanted to worship God instead of worshipping the Roman emperor. The Roman Empire fell, and there was a pause, a good long pause, and kings began to become important all over Europe; so Christians like St. John and St. Thomas were persecuted because they wanted to obey God instead of obeying the king. Nowadays, kings are at a discount, and the modern world has started to worship a dreadful thing called the State. Fascism or Communism, it's all the same thing really; it's just worship of the State. And because they hold out against this worship of the State, because they won't let the State dictate to them how they are going to worship and how the Church is going to be organized, people are being killed now all over Europe. We heard plenty about it when it was the Nazis who were doing it; we don't hear so much about it now that it isn't the Nazis. But the thing is going on; more and more the shadow of atheism is falling over the whole of eastern Europe. And it is quite on the cards that within your lifetime the main strength of the Catholic Church will lie in the English-speaking countries; the very countries we have been accustomed to think of as Protestant! France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, - you can't bet what is going to happen there. It's quite probable that </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">you</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">, later on, will find yourself having to pull your socks up, and help to save the Catholic Church, humanly speaking, from going under. (The No-Men will conclude in Pt. 4)</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">- Ronald A. Knox</span></span></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-87123081616465959372011-05-01T00:59:00.000-07:002011-05-01T01:47:30.466-07:00A Great Day for the World<div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(Scroll down)</span></span></i></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUzIBW3_AJEsNw0tkooKzHHlBQ2HR9ubK9UlHZjc5Fw1ZiIqtO4mHV1ZZb6D2CIe9U1FoDBSgMHYMAx7zE1Krp3yn1SH3g3h1rbIHztaSx-berdjzHE3fdyTRUVb8j2R4truwoC66zK8o/s1600/jpiicon.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 275px; height: 346px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUzIBW3_AJEsNw0tkooKzHHlBQ2HR9ubK9UlHZjc5Fw1ZiIqtO4mHV1ZZb6D2CIe9U1FoDBSgMHYMAx7zE1Krp3yn1SH3g3h1rbIHztaSx-berdjzHE3fdyTRUVb8j2R4truwoC66zK8o/s400/jpiicon.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601511311989168370" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCKPogHusDDKF5daQoai9156Khz9-UK09y71EUidaix9s_fpCE9QPMx8H-tVVvvVLyjxyzuC7hdjZtcOPcGrdkNRdJl9NeYNlzuIkqi_ZNSEn-kJmmL-SkszxylYSIlD8zPszFnzZ_CSE/s1600/jpiips.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCKPogHusDDKF5daQoai9156Khz9-UK09y71EUidaix9s_fpCE9QPMx8H-tVVvvVLyjxyzuC7hdjZtcOPcGrdkNRdJl9NeYNlzuIkqi_ZNSEn-kJmmL-SkszxylYSIlD8zPszFnzZ_CSE/s400/jpiips.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601511123450807906" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33FF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/">(<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33FFFF;">Images fr. </span></a></span></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33FF33;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33FFFF;">Whispers in the Loggia</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33FFFF;">,</span> & <a href="http://www.apostleshipofprayer.org/reflectionsMonthly.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33FF33;">Intentions for Month of May</span></a>)</span></span></span></b></i></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-23962869961624230122011-04-29T01:33:00.000-07:002011-04-29T04:15:43.390-07:00'Opportunities' in Catholic Education<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim8shHYaME3KDGLiycWyFsFfOD0H_QlcCdqv_6lhHRhWpQ_hrSgiB3x4rhvOEPAPUpdJmNBFPipAkGbmGdHhGnE1SLOyj4qoaMU8obPqNjaO9wI_mW1Vzao-F3tSspvWvnkRuuylmSfCw/s1600/DSC06850.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim8shHYaME3KDGLiycWyFsFfOD0H_QlcCdqv_6lhHRhWpQ_hrSgiB3x4rhvOEPAPUpdJmNBFPipAkGbmGdHhGnE1SLOyj4qoaMU8obPqNjaO9wI_mW1Vzao-F3tSspvWvnkRuuylmSfCw/s200/DSC06850.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600935860521659090" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Each morning, right after fulfilling my </span></span><a href="http://www.corpuschristianum.org/faq.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33FFFF;">chivalric duties of devotion</span></b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">, I spend a minimum of fifteen minutes reading. Usually the author who receives my undivided attention at this time is Monsignor Ronald A. Knox (Eton, Oxford). During World War II and the German bombings of industrial and municipal centers, Monsignor Knox had the opportunity to retire to the countryside of England to work on his translation of the Bible. Sounds idyllic, doesn't it? So it is amazing how the Holy Spirit sees things, most often, differently.</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Just as Knox was settling into the lovely manor setting, it was decided that the manor would also be an extraordinary setting for Catholic school girls to continue their studies, far removed from </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">the Blitz</span></b> </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Indeed, now Knox would have the delightful daily opportunity to say Mass, hear weekly confessions, and generally serve as chaplain to gaggles of prepubescent schoolgirls while he attempted his mandated work of translation. Ah, yes. How plans change!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I thought of this as I read Monsignor Charles Pope's post, </span></span><a href="http://blog.adw.org/2011/04/a-catholic-university-and-recovered-catholic-identity-a-story-of-change-and-the-possiblity-of-reform/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#33CC00;">A Catholic University and Recovered Catholic Identity - A Study of Change and Possibility of Reform</span></b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> (a fine article, but one to which I will not allude here except as a jumping-off place).</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">When I was confirmed into the Catholic Church ten years ago this summer, I went looking for work and was honored to be offered a teaching position at a Catholic school in northern Virginia (St. Charles Borromeo School, pictured above as it looked when I arrived there). I remained there, a fixture in the sixth grade for nearly all of those ten years (the students, both male and female, probably looked at me as a "fixture" of sorts, also).</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">While working diligently to fulfill the requirements mandated by the diocesan Office of Catholic Schools, I found some of the most amazing times of learning came in planned, yet never choreographed, moments. For example, each morning students came in, hung up coats, etc., prepared for the day, sat and read the Gospel for Mass for the day, and then answered a related question on the board in their "Bellwork Journal."</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Using these questions, I sought to help students move into "higher cognitive thinking" (</span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom's_Taxonomy"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;">Bloom</span></b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">) and also make them dig more deeply into the meaning of faith, morals, and other vital teachings of the Church. We would discuss the question and their answers before our Morning Offering and intentions.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I am grateful for the years that our Lord allowed me to teach in a Catholic school classroom. Never neglect to cherish and support your parish school (if you have one) and/or your diocesan Catholic schools. It is a unique place of growing, learning, catechesis, morality in action, and other "opportunities" for the Holy Spirit to help the young to come into a closer, richer relationship with God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit ... and their "neighbor as themselves" (<i>Mark 12, 30-31)</i>.</span></span></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-68951853291975964222011-04-28T01:45:00.001-07:002011-04-28T02:43:57.614-07:00Tornado Victims - Prayers<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHueNA48JcDuizqPjb3t2ln7A8GYp4dZnlj_HQ2KeKrV5L0dyoDRBGyGFgQEr3_qbSe2KdtheCaMbu1kQwt9o1BLoLm5yO4Ahwi7e-rypl8PPvTL_yCWM_-gh9ZWmHTTgqrtLEw2n9FRw/s1600/Binger_Oklahoma_Tornado.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHueNA48JcDuizqPjb3t2ln7A8GYp4dZnlj_HQ2KeKrV5L0dyoDRBGyGFgQEr3_qbSe2KdtheCaMbu1kQwt9o1BLoLm5yO4Ahwi7e-rypl8PPvTL_yCWM_-gh9ZWmHTTgqrtLEw2n9FRw/s400/Binger_Oklahoma_Tornado.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600556441779467298" /></a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/us/29storm.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Violent storms</span></span></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> continue to march across the United States. I recall vividly the frantic yet familiar drill of heading to the basement as a boy in Indiana, the most damaging and murderous being the </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Palm_Sunday_tornado_outbreak"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#006600;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Palm Sunday Tornadoes of 1965</span></span></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Please keep in prayer the victims and their families of this week's spate of killer weather.</span></span></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-86098934987448355042011-04-27T04:56:00.000-07:002011-05-02T10:28:22.799-07:00The No-Men Pt. 2 - Knox<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3_fWmPGKQh4sSVx3C4L3ErtNTDitI62eL5Tuo_4OQaORcAbcXlJzH0BWiZKuy5-l2QjEQU-n7K1jBRL_44NiugQp5F-wQwhTgyevBBShzdcib59cY7xizXoW-ftnjP_JQ6eUuClwYhoU/s1600/Ronaldknox.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 140px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3_fWmPGKQh4sSVx3C4L3ErtNTDitI62eL5Tuo_4OQaORcAbcXlJzH0BWiZKuy5-l2QjEQU-n7K1jBRL_44NiugQp5F-wQwhTgyevBBShzdcib59cY7xizXoW-ftnjP_JQ6eUuClwYhoU/s200/Ronaldknox.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600247092864673554" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">I HAVE BEEN INSISTING ON THAT, partly because it enormously enhances the credit of their performance. Mr. Belloc has written very well on that point. He writes of St. Thomas - and it was equally true of St. John - as follows: "To allow oneself to be killed, of one's own choice, in full life, rather than pay the price of yielding upon one dry, narrow, intellectual point; having, to sustain one ... neither enthusiasm within, nor the sense of agreement from others without, this is to die alone indeed! He had no enthusiasm for the Papacy; all his life he had been a reformer in the full sense of the word ... Nor was the extraordinary man supported from without ... The average Englishmen had little concern with the quarrel between the crown and Rome; it did not touch his life. The Mass went on just the same, and all the splendours of religion ... To the ordinary man of that day anyone, especially a highly-placed official, who stood out against the King's policy, was a crank ... No, he was not supported from without."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">If you want to realize how lonely these two men must have felt in making their protest against the tyranny of King Henry, you have only to look at the sort of way More's wife talked about it, when she went to visit him in prison. "I marvel," she said, "that you, that hitherto have been taken for a wise man, will now so play the fool, to lie here in this close, filthy prison, and be content to be thus shut up among rats and mice, when you might be abroad at your liberty, and with the favour and goodwill both of king and his council, if you would but do as all the bishops and best learned men of his realm have done. And seeing that you have at Chelsea a right fair house, your library, your gallery and all other necessities so handsome about you, where you might in the company of me, your wife, your children and household be merry, I muse what a God's name you mean, here still thus fondly to tarry."</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">Thus was More's second wife, and she wasn't the ancestress of anybody here, so there is no reason why we should be specially polite about her. But I think it is fair to remember that her point of view was probably the common point of view about the line More was taking. And it was worse when his daughter Margaret came and tried to talk him round, because she was a really good woman and he was very fond of her ... Put this question to yourself for a moment. If your father, or someone you were very fond of, was in prison, and about to be martyred on a point of conscience, would you advise him to stick to his point of conscience? or would you advise him to cave in? ... Life </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">is</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;"> difficult, isn't it? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">(No-Men Pt 3 continues </span><a href="http://chronatlantis.blogspot.com/2011/05/no-men-pt-3-knox.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#009900;">here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCCCCC;">.)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">- Ronald A. Knox</span></span></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-48955840164232033752011-04-27T02:22:00.000-07:002011-04-27T02:42:49.068-07:00It Never Left<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOE35ypdTzzMJzeh9wujSl8R-6Xul1OxV2SMfRpSQ7snorr4-Urk-zicEAQ1lI36LZsVKj_Dhu4hQtrjJYqo9S_MI7YzK7PJWfh5T6ZIpjGgm2eUG6RI3oKRZeHFgA_Ptnilg3q4TEpXE/s1600/ostriches-head-in-sand.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 135px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOE35ypdTzzMJzeh9wujSl8R-6Xul1OxV2SMfRpSQ7snorr4-Urk-zicEAQ1lI36LZsVKj_Dhu4hQtrjJYqo9S_MI7YzK7PJWfh5T6ZIpjGgm2eUG6RI3oKRZeHFgA_Ptnilg3q4TEpXE/s200/ostriches-head-in-sand.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600194816529074370" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br />It is tempting to think we are past </span></span><a href="http://womenofgrace.com/breaking_news/?p=7789"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b>this sort of thing</b></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">. But we aren't. We have "one holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church" comprised of well over a billion people (and growing) that proclaims the truth and reality of the doctrine of Original Sin. So, when we take one last sip of coffee, fold the paper, turn the lock, and head off to work, we don't worry about the statuary at the parish. Or our priest(s). Or how well the ushers might handle the breaking-in of disruptors during either a major feast celebration or even a Saturday evening "There's-that-guy-in-his-bermuda-shorts" Vigil Mass. </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">What we forget in our daily functional atheism are the anthropological realities that our Lord's Church defines so well in the Catechism; specifically, the symptomology of paganism of all those outside the sphere and protection of our Lord's sacramental "containment system" (if you will allow such a crass way of describing it). </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Read through </span></span><a href="http://chronatlantis.blogspot.com/2008/10/paganism-redux.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993399;">Paganism, parts 1-3</span></b></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">. Girard and Satinover give the Church's Magisterium two excellent tools for understanding what we still face; indeed, at a growing rate.</span></span></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7151851613935522073.post-30277262218961971052011-04-26T01:42:00.001-07:002011-04-26T01:44:44.385-07:00Easter Tuesday<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKsolyJEqgcQCWzuKLQPeCWwdh0FsEcaw60cN8IOKRliQEfXzfJeAOvNlweYsJeXbeXeCbOW2XUUd3aEqXhV8j02fnjZjmmW2Q3cjKBSgYPh8cV-Jby-RCABQDDzvGegJtCWDR6OijMII/s1600/easter3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 372px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKsolyJEqgcQCWzuKLQPeCWwdh0FsEcaw60cN8IOKRliQEfXzfJeAOvNlweYsJeXbeXeCbOW2XUUd3aEqXhV8j02fnjZjmmW2Q3cjKBSgYPh8cV-Jby-RCABQDDzvGegJtCWDR6OijMII/s400/easter3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599810003420208146" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.danielmitsui.com/hieronymus/index.blog/1874413/easter-tuesday/"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#66FF99;">Easter Tuesday</span></b></a></i></span></span></div>Athoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com0