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 night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Happy Birthday Clementine!
Posted in birthday, lord byron, meredith, poetry on July 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Demonic Abortion Industry
Posted in abortion, demonic, hli, pro-life on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 God [...]
Just around the corner…
Posted in birthday, college, meredith on July 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
18 years. I can’t believe it. My little girl, my Clementine, 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 a local [...]
Future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades!
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!”
Shameful reality…
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 [...]
The Path To The Woods
Posted in boys, children, nature, poetry on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
The Sunflower Grotto
Posted in fun, gardening, grotto, sunflowers on July 23, 2007 | 8 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 a [...]
The starry, starry sky
Posted in astronomy, constellations, night sky, poetry on July 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Gauisus Natalis, tibi Pater
Posted in fr. lutz, happy birthday, thou art a priest forever on July 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
May God bless you, dear Fr. Kevin Lutz, on this day and everyday to come. Thou Art A Priest Forever To live in the midst of the world, Without wishing its pleasures; To be a member of each family, Yet belonging to none; To share all sufferings; To penetrate all secrets; To heal all wounds; [...]
Old Errors and New Labels
Posted in archbishop, decline of controversy, essay, fulton sheen on July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 essays: The [...]
Picking blackberries is for the birds!
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 the domesticated blackberry farm where I [...]
A Low Mass…
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 offered at 9:00 [...]
Commemoration of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt. Carmel,
Posted in confraternity, enrollment, our lady of mt. carmel, scapular on July 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
In Preparation For The Feast Of Our Lady Of Mt. Carmel
Posted in blessed virgin, carmelites, feast day, our lady of mt. carmel on July 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Spin, spin, spin…
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 [...]
Embracing Sacred Music
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 that [...]
Searching for the extraordinary…
Posted in database, extraordinary, motu proprio, summorum pontificum, thomas woods, traditional mass, tridentine on July 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Blackberries
Posted in blackberries, humor on July 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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, Gareth 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 cup of blackberries. [...]
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Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding.
Take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of sin and ignorance.
Give me a keen understanding, a retentive memory, and the ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally.
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Point out the beginning, direct the progress, and help in the completion.
I ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed,
Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being loved...
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That others may be loved more than I,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be esteemed more than I ...
That, in the opinion of the world,
others may increase and I may decrease ...
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