Oct
30
Time Off
October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Business travel and works of mercy dominate the agenda and require my absence from blogging for the next few days.
Please pray the Rosary daily. Get the Liturgy of the Hours and start praying that. It is important that we all engage in the common vocation of prayer because without it we lack the One Thing [...]
Oct
27
Time for Prayer
October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment
A new page “Time For Prayer” has been added here. It is the Latin Vulgate of Psalms 50, 53 and 118 (51, 54 and 119 using the masoretic numbering).
In the primitive Rule of the penitents of St. Francis, this was said in the morning and the Miserere was said in the evening as well before retiring.
I have [...]
Oct
26
Re-christianizing Society
October 26, 2008 | 1 Comment
It may very well be that the few faithful Catholics will be required to re-christianize modern society.
I do not think our times are much different than living in Pagan Rome. Albeit with some technical improvements, we no longer leave unwanted babies out to be exposed to die, we have simply legalized their murder in utero. [...]
Oct
25
To the Church in Philadelphia
October 25, 2008 | 1 Comment
Rev 3:7 “To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
8 I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open [...]
Oct
25
The Wages of Sin
October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Yes, Death is the outcome of Sin. Death, the finality of which we deny in our plactic wrapped and sanitary little world where we do not understand even suffering or illness until we are at the moment of realization that despite all our self-delusion, this is it…DEATH.
LUXURIA, GULA, AVARITIA, ACEDIA, INVIDIA, IRA…SUPERBIA, the Mother of [...]
Oct
24
San Rafael Arcangel
October 24, 2008 | 1 Comment
Raphael by interpretation is : The Medicine of God. Consider therefore the three remedies bestowed upon us by Raphael which are, as it were, medicines to heal our sickness. First of all Raphael the physician would deliver us from infirmity of soul by inducing within us the bitterness of contrition…
Secondly, Raphael [...]
Oct
23
Psalm 83
October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Protector noster, aspice, Deus, et respice in faciem christi tui
Oct
21
The Population Bomb and Other Mythical Beestes
October 21, 2008 | 1 Comment
“Here be dragons” said the old maps of sailors ancient often with a Leviathan or other sea monster penned in.
Those of us who grew up in the turbulent decades of the 1960s and 1970s were indoctrinated into the belief that soon human population would exceed the capacity of the earth to sustain it. In fact [...]
Oct
19
The Divine Office
October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This author cannot recommend too highly the regular habit of saying all or at least a part of the Divine Office.
There is the contemporary 4 week psalter of the Roman Office, which is perhaps the best way to go for most. Those who like to immerse in the ocean of wisdom contained in the Psalms [...]
Oct
18
Penance, Penance, Penance
October 18, 2008 | 2 Comments
“If any man will follow Me, LET HIM DENY HIMSELF, TAKE UP HIS CROSS, and follow Me.” (Mark 8:34)
How many times do we not hear this said strongly enough in our new world of a happy God, the Church of a “resurrection people” where all we have to do is suit up and show [...]
