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December 2006

December 12, 2006

Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe 2006

In my run-ragged day, I missed mass and morning prayer. Praying Vespers for tonight, I...

December 08, 2006

Feast of the Immaculate Conception – 2006

Core of Galaxy as seen by Hubbel I was going to write about today's excellent...

December 07, 2006

Al Kimel gets ordained

It's not every day a blogger gets ordained. Deo Gratias. Check out the great photos....

December 06, 2006

Happy St. Nicholas Day!

I have always loved St. Nicholas and today is his feastday! In the Orthodox church,...

December 05, 2006

Carthusians in Advent

“Stands the cross, still point of the turning world” (Carthusian motto) A while back, I...

September 2006

September 14, 2006

Sept 15: Our Lady of Sorrows

Repost from 9/15/05 33 And his father and his mother marveled at what was said...

September 12, 2006

Weakness is sown; strength rises up.

Went to adoration yesterday - not especially because of the anniversary of the terrorist attacks...

August 2006

August 30, 2006

“How a Non-Catholic respectfully communes at Mass”

"This is how you do it..." Thus says from my Li'l Bro Thom (no Bush-lover,...

June 2006

June 28, 2006

Too easy to be cynical, name-call and label

This is sort of funny and sort of sad. Gerald at Closed Cafeteria has been...

June 28, 2006

“…and I shall truly live.”

Sr. Kathleen Clare Lahl, OSB, makes her solemn vow When a Benedictine monastic of either...

June 27, 2006

Oh Happy Day! Catholic Music gets saved!

The rather prissy and disapproving tone of this article aside, one can only leap for...

June 20, 2006

What WOULD Mary do?

The other day I posted a homily written and delivered by a pal of mine...

June 12, 2006

A word from St. Catherine of Siena

"If you are what you should be, you will set the world on fire" -...

June 06, 2006

Help Sr. Greta choose her new name!

I believe this blog has been following the progress of Sr. Greta since her entrance...

April 2006

April 02, 2006

Remembering John Paul II

***This post will be updated with new links and stories as I find them, keep...

April 01, 2006

Buster and “The gift freely given…”

After Mass this evening Buster and I headed out for a quick hamburger and somehow...

April 01, 2006

The Great Silence can’t come fast enough

Not for me, or for some others. This is a nice piece on the Carthusian...

March 2006

March 30, 2006

Abdul Rahman thanks Pope Benedict XVI

I know I couldn't be the only one who wondered, when Italy intervened, if Uncle...

March 29, 2006

Two Film Trailers

My Li'l Bro Thom sent me this from the Diocese of Brooklyn - very impressive....

March 28, 2006

The Pope to China?

This could be huge - good news for oppressed Christians all over the world, not...

March 28, 2006

In the spotlight, finding her religion

Via Amy Welborn comes this OUTSTANDING interview with Mary Karr, author of The Liar's Club...

March 27, 2006

Notre Dame honors Dave Brubeck

I didn't know he'd written so much religious music - even a Mass? Who knew!...

March 27, 2006

God forbid we should feel a little bad…

Miss Kelly is distressed to find that some hymnals (including - sigh - the one...

March 26, 2006

The Eucharist and its meaning for the Jews

Very interesting post from Eagle and Elephant - a look at some writings by then-Cardinal...

March 25, 2006

Fruits of the Funeral, Part III

Thanks to The Curt Jester, I found this terrific piece on some Utah folks who...

March 24, 2006

A Eucharistic Miracle? UPDATED

UPDATE: I'm late to the party - that's what I get for being sick, and...

March 23, 2006

The habits look much better!

I like these Carmelites in Los Angeles who work with children and the elderly. This...

March 21, 2006

The fruits of the funeral, part II

Gerald has a conversion story that comes at us directly from the funeral of John...

March 17, 2006

A staggeringly good “Catholic response”

An inspired piece of apologetics: You write that you disagree with the Catholic Church’s positions...

March 16, 2006

Wills on the “Murderous” Catholic Church

A church that doesn’t provoke any crisis, a gospel that doesn’t unsettle, a Word of...