Posted in birthday, lord byron, meredith, poetry on July 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
And now you are 18. May God bless you, my precious girl, you who are so very precious to me. You also know that your mother is such a sap…so here goes the poetry…yes, you know the one:
She Walks in Beauty
She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all [...]
Posted in barbeque, celebrations, fellowship on July 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It is 9:00 a.m. on a Monday morning and every single one of my children are asleep. Dead to the world. Why? This is the aftermath of my dear daughter’s graduation/birthday party.
What an evening! A breezy, moonlit night spent with fifty wonderful, traditional Catholics. The food was incredible: Roger prepared [...]
Posted in abortion, demonic, hli, pro-life on July 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Blessings to Margaret at Minnesota Mom for the “heads up” on this one. The imagery associated with and comparison of abortion to ritualistic demonic blood sacrifice, is horrifying. Please pray the Prayer to St. Michael, before reading:
St. Michael the Archangel,defend us in battle.Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.May [...]
Posted in birthday, college, meredith on July 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
18 years. I can’t believe it. My little girl, my Meredith, will be 18 in just a few days.
Yesterday, we spent the day in orientation and advising for college. She is so very excited…filled with the joy that comes with anticipating an adventure.
As we were strolling past the school supplies in [...]
Posted in holy father, humor, sunglasses on July 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I love the Pope!
Here’s to the future…”everything old, is new again!”
Posted in abuse, carnival of homeschooling, hofstra report, public school on July 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Leticia from Causa Nostrae Laetitiae provides the shocking details from The Hofstra Report: Sexual Abuse by Educators Is Scrutinized
Here are a few excerpts from the report:
A draft report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education concludes that far too little is known about the prevalence of sexual misconduct by teachers or other school employees, but [...]
Posted in boys, children, nature, poetry on July 24, 2007 | No Comments »
The Path to the WoodsMadison Cawein
Its friendship and its carelessnessDid lead me many a mile,Through goat’s-rue, with its dim caress,And pink and pearl-white smile;Through crowfoot, with its golden lure,And promise of far things,And sorrel with its glance demureAnd wide-eyed wonderings.
It led me with its innocence,As childhood leads the wise,With elbows here of tattered fence,And blue [...]
Posted in fun, gardening, grotto, sunflowers on July 23, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Welcome to the Sunflower Grotto! What fun it has been, this summer, watching the sunflowers reach incredible heights. We’ve begun tying their “heads” together to form the roof, and the effect is quite charming…a nice little “grotto” or cave which the little girls like to sit in with their dolls.
If you’ve never made [...]
Posted in architecture, art, fr. lutz, holy family, jubilee museum, slideshow on July 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Have you ever wondered what happened to the lovely high altar in your old parish church? Or perhaps the statuary has been replaced by something a bit more modern and “up to date”…where are the old statues? Do you remember the old school and the convent beside it? After they were torn [...]
Posted in astronomy, constellations, night sky, poetry on July 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Teach me your mood,O patient stars.Who climb each night,the ancient sky.leaving on space no shade, no scars,no trace of age, no fear to die.
- Emerson, The Poet
Arcturus. Cassiopeia. Corona Borealis. Vega. Polaris. What beautiful names, the name of the stars and constellations! Last evening, we attended an open air [...]
Posted in fr. lutz, happy birthday, thou art a priest forever on July 21, 2007 | No Comments »
May God bless you, dear Fr. Kevin Lutz, on this day and everyday to come.
Thou Art A Priest Forever
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Posted in archbishop, decline of controversy, essay, fulton sheen on July 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Old Errors and New Labels is a collection of brilliant and timeless essays by Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton Sheen. Published in 1931, it is one of 96 books written by the Archbishop over a 55 year period.
The Archbishop’s keen wit, intellect and fearlessness are especially evident in one of his hallmark [...]
Posted in birds, blackberries, poison ivy on July 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Defeated. The birds have beat us to the blackberries. Watching, waiting and braving the poison ivy jungle have gained us approximately two cups of blackberries…enough for a couple batches of blackberry pancakes. No blackberry pie. No blackberry jam. No blackberry cordial.
This weekend I will brave the wilds of [...]
Posted in children, latin mass, low mass, tridentine on July 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
One priest, chasuble emblazoned with the image of Our Lady. Four seminarians in cassock, surplice and biretta. Four young brothers, all vested, sitting in choir. Four young men, in the congregation, prepared to serve if needed.
This was a Low Mass! An announcement was made Sunday, that a Latin Mass would be [...]
Posted in confraternity, enrollment, our lady of mt. carmel, scapular on July 16, 2007 | No Comments »
The Doctrinal Statement on the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
The following is the approved English text of the doctrinal section of the “Rite of Blessing of and Enrollment in the Scapular of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel” as issued and confirmed by the Congregation for Divine Worship and for the [...]
Posted in blessed virgin, carmelites, feast day, our lady of mt. carmel on July 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (July 16th)Catholic Encyclopedia
This feast was instituted by the Carmelites between 1376 and 1386 under the title “Commemoratio B. Marif Virg. duplex” to celebrate the victory of their order over its enemies on obtaining the approbation of its name and constitution from Honorius III on 30 Jan., 1226 (see [...]
Posted in latin mass, media, pope, true church, vatican on July 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Pope: Other denominations not true churchesJews object to Latin rite’s prayer for their conversion
Vatican: Non-Catholics ‘wounded’ by not recognizing pope
Pope’s comments irrelevant to non-Catholics
Theo-con Pope tries to force all of us back to the Middle Ages
Spin, spin, spin…the inexhaustible fount of negative news being “spun” by the media is dizzying. Martyrdom [...]
Posted in gregorian chant, sacred music, sacrosantum concilium, schola on July 13, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Say “hello” to the Holy Family Gregorian Chant Schola for Boys! Mr. Michael Connaughton, parishioner and FSSP seminarian, is heading this effort and will be devoting his brief summer break to the instruction of these dedicated youths.
What an incredible opportunity for these young men to discover the beauty of chant. Sacrosanctum Concilium, emphasized [...]
Posted in database, extraordinary, motu proprio, summorum pontificum, thomas woods, traditional mass, tridentine on July 12, 2007 | No Comments »
From Lumen Gentleman:
Summorum Pontificum Contact Database
Search for contacts in your area
The motu proprio has been released! The next step is to start putting the Catholic faithful who want to assist at the extraordinary form of the Holy Mass in touch with Catholic priests who want to say the extraordinary form of the Holy Mass.
An [...]
Posted in blackberries, humor on July 11, 2007 | No Comments »
The blackberries are nearly ripe! Prickly bushes loaded with sweet, juicy blackberries are clustered along the perimeter of the wooded grove behind our home. Yesterday evening, Maximilian informed us that there were “hundweds and hundweds” of ripe blackberries. Armed with an assortment of containers, we made the trek…and returned with approximately 1 [...]
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