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That's "mobile" as in The Who's song, "mo" as in "mo better," "bile" as in liver. I am at long last trying out one of TypePad's mobile-friendly templates. I know I dislike reading this blog on a phone, and I figure other people do, too. I've created a partial copy of this blog which you
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Today's Gospel reading is the story of Lazarus. The daily meditation in Magnificat is a couple of paragraphs from Romano Guardini's The Lord in which he comments on this incident. This in particular struck me: Jesus stands alone with all that he is, the only one intrinsically alive among so many mortals…. [my emphasis] You could say
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I don't mean "is it true?" I mean "is it ethical?" It's like…like…what?…like putting Marmite and peanut butter together. I don't know whether the British like peanut butter or not but I'm sure very few Americans like Marmite. Like Dr. Pepper and buttermilk? Actually, I'm curious. I guess I could mix up a little myself
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Back in the '80s when I was doing software development at a high-tech company, the young and very ambitious vice-president of my division had, on the wall of his office, a little needlework sampler that consisted only of the word "FOCUS." In that environment, one did indeed need to be able to focus (dare I
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There won't be any new posts here for the next two weeks. I'm going to be away from computers and will only have internet access via my phone. Usually in this situation I write a post or two in advance and schedule them for automatic posting later on, but this time I'm going to take
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…you might like the two books reviewed here: Going to the Wars and A Dinner of Herbs by John Verney. Verney was born in 1913 and, like many young men of his generation, was sufficiently concerned by the threat of Nazi Germany to the peace of Europe and the security of Great Britain that, in 1937,
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Because my wife and I are chronically and apparently incorrigibly late almost everywhere we go, we did not go to our usual Ordinariate Mass yesterday morning. It’s on the west side of Mobile, and we live twenty miles to the east. It takes us most of an hour to get there. The Mass is at
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I admit that I approached this film in more or less the same way I would approach reading The Faerie Queen: more (much more) interested in having seen it than in seeing it. There are classics which I think I should read (or hear or view) for their historical significance, but don't really expect to enjoy.
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Fr. Michael Rennier at Dappled Things has some good remarks on the poem and on Epiphany, along with two readings of the poem, one by Eliot himself and another by Alec Guinness. Guinness has by far the more appealing and skillful voice. But I think I have a slight preference for Eliot's reading; somehow it
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Week 1: The Darkling Thrush (Thomas Hardy) Week 2: I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud (Wordsworth) Week 3: Drachenfels (Byron) Week 4: This Is Just to Say (Williams) Week 5: Conscientious Objector (Edna St. Vincent Millay) Week 6: The Servant Girl At Emmaus (Denise Levertov) Week 7: Pattern (C.S. Lewis) Week 8: Dover Beach (Matthew
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