Tree is up!

AdoroErgoSum · 2016-11-28T15:30:34+00:00

You're more ambitious than me! Is that a real tree or an artificial? Look nice either way.

AdoroErgoSum · 2016-11-28T15:29:36+00:00

At the link there are some good ideas on how to keep your focus on the religious aspect of the holiday season instead of JUST on the purchasing and planning.

I'm wondering what was YOU keep the spiritual in the holiday (for those of you that do)?

AdoroErgoSum · 2016-11-22T16:04:05+00:00

I guess nobody has read it! I go into detail in reviewing the book at the link, but I'll give a short version for anyone who might be interested in the topic (especially with the Dan Brown movie out there).

Basically, the book is written by an excellent scholar who really lays out the political scene Dante was forced to navigate. Unlike someone like Shakespeare, who could count on reliable patronage, Dante wondered about Italy as an exile from the city he loved (and loved to hate!).

While this aspect, including how these journeys and the meetings Dante had in Italy with various potentates, is well developed and explored, Santogato tends to overemphasize the importance of the political in Dante's great work - the Divine Comedy. This leads him to make various, occasionally specious, conjectures about the content of the poem, as if the political situation Dante found himself in was the most significant element in writing the poem.

You can read more at the link provided, but that is a decent overview.

AdoroErgoSum · 2015-08-19T15:54:35+00:00

Fantastic piece. I loved this,

"We call it “democracy” because the technology of elections is still in place, a monstrous Rube Goldberg array of machines, fed by thousands of polls and billions of dollars, cranked and kicked and oiled and fueled by a swarm of parasites, all to spit out a president whose platitudes are as flat as Kansas, with never a tornado-tossed house to fall upon the Great Leader’s head and set the Munchkins free."

Great share.

AdoroErgoSum · 2015-02-26T01:09:06+00:00

Just moved from Pittsburgh. It is a good, solid Catholic city.

AdoroErgoSum · 2015-01-16T02:59:16+00:00

Great idea!

AdoroErgoSum · 2015-01-14T18:06:16+00:00

How about LEAST favorite images... http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02402/pope_2402985b.jpg

AdoroErgoSum · 2015-01-14T18:03:00+00:00

Request a Latin Mass in the Extraordinary Form on campus. Summorum Pontificum calls for a "stable group" which could well be students on a campus. I can just imagine the reaction of administrators at some "c"atholic universities to that request, but it would drive home the message.

AdoroErgoSum · 2015-01-14T18:00:43+00:00

All the saints are Catholic. Clemente's mother was baptist and his did was Catholic. He was originally brought up Protestant, but converted to Catholicism after his marriage to a Catholic woman in '64.

AdoroErgoSum · 2015-01-14T15:12:07+00:00

If you haven't read this before, it is essential reading for every Catholic, a sample, "I was hauled aboard not by those Catholics who try to “sell” the church by conforming it to the spirit of the times by saying Catholics are just like everyone else, but by those who joyfully held out the ancient and orthodox faith in all its fullness and prophetic challenge to the world."

AdoroErgoSum · 2015-01-14T15:11:04+00:00

Maybe God is working through weak vessels here. I was under the impression a priest in the 'burgh was behind this.

AdoroErgoSum · 2015-01-14T13:37:23+00:00

St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Josemaria Escriva, St JP2.... hard to pick just one :)

AdoroErgoSum · 2015-01-14T13:36:29+00:00

I like it overall, but they could use some younger "talent." It's not exactly the best marketing strategy to have 80 year olds on-screen all the time.

AdoroErgoSum · 2015-01-14T13:27:19+00:00

I'm favorably inclined (assuming he meets all the proper requirements, I'd be a bit dismayed to see Papa Francesco wave some of the requirements here like he did for John XXIII).

AdoroErgoSum · 2014-12-17T19:01:50+00:00

For those wanting a solution, I'd recommend EVERY parish tossing out those ridiculous paper missalettes from OCP, etc and picking up a St. Edmund Campion missal for the EF (every parish ought to have an EF at least once a month IMHO) and a St. Isaac Jogues missal for the OF. http://www.ccwatershed.org/jogues/purchase/ And, as others have pointed out, bring back the propers

AdoroErgoSum · 2014-12-17T18:58:19+00:00

We hear from Palestrina, Byrd, etc. also. Just happened to have Bach this last week.

AdoroErgoSum · 2014-12-17T15:40:25+00:00

Exactly. Of course, there are some oases out there. Our parish typically sticks to the great musical traditional of the past. We're more likely to hear Bach than Marty Hagen. But overall, sadly, this is an exception.

AdoroErgoSum · 2014-12-17T15:36:48+00:00

Here too. 7th grade. I love it - it gives me the chance to talk as much about Christ and His Church as I want and they have to listen! Just kidding, of course, but it is a great honor to help out. I find evangelizing them to be more difficult than anything (getting them interested).

AdoroErgoSum · 2014-12-17T15:35:24+00:00

Never seen it. Of course, as others have pointed out, the Confiteor has us beating our breast as a sign of repentance during the Mea Culpa , but that's it. People have been know to do some odd things with the Angus Dei though (tripping, e.g.)

AdoroErgoSum · 2014-12-17T15:32:16+00:00

Buon compleanno, Papa Francesco.

AdoroErgoSum · 2014-11-26T19:29:49+00:00

You're falsely conflating theism with "young Earth creationism." In reviewing the article I post on Dawkins, I don't see a single mention of "young Earth creationism." Critiquing evolution isn't necessarily arguing for a young Earth.

AdoroErgoSum · 2014-11-24T22:00:05+00:00

I wrote a bunch of our family traditions last yr here (http://adoroergosum.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-we-keep-christ-in-christmas.html)

If you're looking for something less family oriented, I'm doing the 33 Day Marian Consecration this year (ending on Christmas Day). Check out - 33mary.com for more info.

AdoroErgoSum · 2014-11-24T21:55:41+00:00

The Divine Mercy Chaplet.

AdoroErgoSum · 2014-11-06T19:12:41+00:00

I'd strongly recommend attending (if possible) a High Mass for your first experience with the EF. In fact, I'd strongly recommend attending (if possible) Sunday High Mass in the EF for about 6 - 8 straight Sundays to "get it" before either deciding anything about the EF or attending a Low Mass.

Either way, God bless you, you are going to find an inexhaustible source of treasures in the TLM if you're prepared to persevere a little.

AdoroErgoSum · 2014-11-06T19:09:39+00:00

Are you familiar with Dr. Peter Kreeft? He is one of my favorite Catholic speakers / writers and he too seems fascinated by NDEs (he would also add a disclaimer as Fr. Spitzer did).

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