October 2013
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We have AT&T's voicemail service instead of an answering machine, and it sends me an email message whenever someone leaves a message. I got this one a little while ago: A non-urgent voice message was just received from "CHRIST THE KING, tel: 2516262343"
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I'm not sure how many readers of this blog are interested, but here is an interesting piece on the situation of Anglo-Catholics since the establishment of the Ordinariate. One word summary: untenable. The author is addressing the Church of England, but what he says is broadly applicable to American Episcopalians of Catholic inclination as well. …
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Update: My apologies: I thought this poem was available to non-subscribers, but apparently it's not. I'll leave the post here because you can still enjoy the anecdote. It's even possible that you may run across a copy of the magazine somewhere. Thanks to Louise for pointing this out to me. — I don't find most…
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Weekend Music Musicians and sound engineers use "wet" and "dry" to mean more and less reverb. What came to be called the "surf" guitar style always featured very heavy reverb. I'm pretty sure the sound predates the association with surf, which seems to have been pretty much originated by Dick Dale in the early 1960s.…
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Christian morality is not a titanic effort of the will, the effort of someone who decides to be consistent and succeeds, a solitary challenge in the face of the world. No. Christian morality is simply a response. It is the heartfelt response to a surprising, unforeseeable, "unjust" mercy…. The surprising, unforeseeable, "unjust" mercy…of one who…
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So I finally watched the series that has been creating such a stir for several years now. It's very good. It's extremely good, in fact, in every technical sense: well-written, well-plotted, well-acted, well-photographed. And it's extremely gripping. I know at least three people who have watched a few of the roughly 60 one-hour episodes and…
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She is the garden enclosed and the solitary place, the nave all quiet and the lamp of recollection, the triumphal apse and the translucent altar. She is the living tabernacle and the eternal altar of repose. –Fr. Maurice Zundel
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By robots, of course. I actually rather like the music. And the video is impressive in a sci-fi sort of way.
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Weekend Music I'm a pushover for this sound, and the accompanying kitsch.
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"…most faculty wanted to keep full coverage [for abortion in the school's insurance plan], and felt that a total ban would signal that the university 'values diversity less than our Catholic affiliation.'" Good thing I long ago got over being impressed by doctoral degrees. I must say that this deserves some kind of special mention…
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