The Curt Jester has a hilarious post about the papal liturgical furnishings for the Mass in DC later this year. Be sure to read all the comments…
January 2008
Monthly Archive
January 30, 2008
January 28, 2008
This is clever—the original Star Wars trilogy in silent movie style…
And I finally learned how to embed YouTube videos!!! Woohoo!!
January 19, 2008
Kyrie Eleison.
Fast and Pray.
48,589,993 abortions since 1973. Source: http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortionstats.html
In all the dioceses of the United States of America, January 22 (or January 23, when January 22 falls on a Sunday) shall be observed as a particular day of penance for violations to the dignity of the human person committed through acts of abortion, and of prayer for the full restoration of the legal guarantee of the right to life. The Mass “For Peace and Justice” (no. 22 of the “Masses for Various Needs”) should be celebrated with violet vestments as an appropriate liturgical observance for this day.
General Instruction of the Roman Missal, no. 373
So… what are you doing Jan. 22nd?
January 19, 2008
Not bad coverage from ABC7. My personal favorite: “Thousands and thousands of abortion opponents filled the Ferry Plaza Park Saturday in the Walk for Life West Coast,” versus, “On the other side – the pro choice forces numbered maybe a few hundred.” Heh.
Plus, the “background noise” you can hear on camera from the pro-lifers is the Rosary being prayed aloud, while the pro-abortionists keep reciting the somewhat menacing mantra that begins, “Pray! You’ll need it!”
Unfortunately I could not be up there today with the kids. I would love to hear from attendees if this year’s counter-protesters were as offensive and obscene as in years past…
Update: Gerald is posting his gorgeous-as-always photos from the Walk at his blog. Take a peek.
January 16, 2008
This story was in this morning’s paper. I’m really appalled by 1) the passive-aggressive way the school is throwing all kinds of roadblocks in this kid’s way while still claiming to be “allowing her” to start the group; and 2) the fact that she wasn’t even allowed to use the name “pro-life” to describe her club.
Can you imagine the howls of protest if a school 1) threw up similar obstacles to a “Gay-Straight Alliance” or comparable group; or 2) did not allow them to use the word “gay” and instead forced them to use the term “homosexual” to describe the club???
January 10, 2008
I’m currently reading Scott Hahn’s The Lamb’s Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth
Today, I got to the Number of the Beast, 666, which of course calls to mind this classic:
666 = number of the beast
668 = Next-door neighbor of the Beast
665 = older brother of the beast
660 = approximate number of the beast
66600 = zip code of the beast
1/666 = common denominator of the beast
665.95 = retail price of the beast
DCLXVI = Roman numeral of the Beast
666.0000 = Number of the High Precision Beast
0.666 = Number of the Millibeast
/ 666 = Beast Common Denominator
(-666) ^ (1/2) = Imaginary number of the Beast
6.66 e3 = Floating point Beast
1010011010 = Binary of the Beast
6, uh . . . what was that number again? = Number of the Blonde Beast
1-666 = Area code of the Beast
00666 = Zip code of the Beast
666mph = The speed limit of the Beast
$665.95 = Retail price of the Beast
$699.25 = Price of the Beast plus 5% state sales tax
$769.95 = Price of the Beast with all accessories and replacement soul
$656.66 = Walmart price of the Beast
$646.66 = Next week’s Walmart price of the Beast
Phillips 666 = Gasoline of the Beast
Route 666 = Way of the Beast
666 F = Oven temperature for roast Beast
666k = Retirement plan of the Beast
666 mg = Recommended Minimum Daily Requirement of Beast
6.66 % = 5 year CD interest rate at First Beast of Hell National Bank, $666 minimum deposit.
$666/hr = Beast’s lawyer’s billing rate
Lotus 6-6-6 = Spreadsheet of the Beast
Word 6.66 = Word Processor of the Beast
i66686 = CPU of the Beast
665.9997856 = The Number of the Beast on a Pentium
666i = BMW of the Beast
DSM-666 (revised) = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Beast
1232 Octal, Apt. 29A = Beast’s hexed address
333 = The semi-Christ
January 8, 2008
Please make Strong Sad happy and write something nice in my comments box. I haven’t gotten any yet.
Okay, maybe it’s really not possible to make him happy. Leave me a nice comment anyway. J
January 7, 2008
An attempt to find the text of the Rite of Baptism online led me to St. Anthony of Padua, in New Bedford, MA. What a terrific parish website! Then I discovered the pastor is Fr. Roger Landry, author of the excellent Answering Scandal with Personal Holiness
from a few years back.
Tolle et lege.
January 7, 2008
I was driving today nearly solo, with just my five-year-old daughter in the back seat. The song “Hey There, Delilah” was playing on the radio when I heard her little voice warbling from behind me, “Oh… It’s what you do to me…”
Yet she gets very peevish with me if I insist on playing Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem…
January 7, 2008
Some wise men whom tradition describes as kings come to pay homage to a child, after having been to Jerusalem to ask “Where is he that is born king of the Jews?”
Moved by this question, I too now contemplate Jesus “lying in a manger,” in a place fit only for animals. Lord, where is your kingship, your crown, your sword, your sceptre? They are his by right, but he does not want them. He reigns wrapped in swaddling clothes. Our king is unadorned. He comes to us as a defenceless little child. Can we help but recall the words of the Apostle: “He emptied himself, taking the nature of a slave”?
Our Lord became man to teach us the Father’s will. And this he is already doing as he lies there in the manger. Jesus Christ is seeking us — with a call which is a vocation to sanctity — so that we may carry out the redemption with him. Let us reflect on this first lesson of his. We are to co-redeem, by striving to triumph not over our neighbour, but over ourselves. Like Christ we need to empty ourselves, to consider ourselves as the servants of others, and so to bring them to God.
Read it in its entirety here.
