Sacred music in Rome and the recover of tradition -- Sandro Magister gives his perspective: Not Sacred Music, but Sounds of Attack.
Jeffrey Tucker's reaction. Fr. Z's post.
After Domenico Bartolucci who is the best exponent of the Roman tradition?
I have heard a noticeable improvement in the singing at St. Peter's recently, at least in the televised liturgies. So is Magister's critique motivated by politics and loyalty to Bartolucci?
Friday, March 30, 2012
It would be nice if I could one day say, "I miss teaching." Adults: smiles and a pleasant demeanor do matter to children. One of the girls today, who was in my classroom for only 30 minutes or so, said bye with a big smile on her face when she walked by me while I was on yard duty this afternoon. Her mom looked at me for a bit and then smiled. When her car passed, she was excitedly waving out the window. Absent father figure? Or just happy to have a [somewhat] pleasant adult around? I couldn't remember her name until after she was gone.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Wisdom from R. M. Peters
Here:
Ultimately it is about living creaturely in a created order, living "naturally" with the idiosyncrasies of other critters. The antithesis of living creaturely is to attempt to live according to the abstract principles of liberalism, such as "all men and races are equal," gender is meaningless, every language can convey all things equally, etc.
Getting along with chickens was learning to live creaturely for me as a little boy growing up in Louisiana. It was dangerous to enter the chicken yard if you did not know your chickens: their moods, their gestures and their group dynamic. One had to live creaturely with cows, particularly if there were a bull around. It was not prudent to enter his domain if cows were "in heat." One had to learn to sense that; they do not wear signs.
Learning to live creaturely is how we get along in families. My mother's great grandmother was a Choctaw. Choctaw women were known for "enjoying" skinning captives alive, burning them, disemboweling them, etc. From time to time, when I came home from college, my father would warn as I came in the door "Your mama's in a Choctaw mood." That meant that my "button pushing," often but not always unintended, could bring disharmony to the household. I would be held accountable for the disharmony although it was my mother's Choctaw mood.
Learning to live, really live, and work among blacks takes the same creaturely awareness. The same is, however, true in the "redneck" community in which I am embedded and which is, in part, embedded in me. If one walks into a bar, just like walking into the chicken yard, one must "read" the clientele, particularly those one thinks to know. A misreading can lead to a fight, a broken body or a trip to the morgue.
Although I live in the country, we have an informal neighborhood watch. Most of us are armed to the teeth: conceal and carry, open carry, etc. Louisiana is defend your castle and defend your ground. None of us desire to kill or to be killed; but we are committed to defending not only our own home and hearth but also those of our neighbors.
Part of living creaturely is to develop an etiquette which allows one to hold the world at bay but to be prepared to extend charity. The stranger who might venture onto one's front porch (Very few real ones left!) is a potential threat to the household; but he is also as our Lord has taught us potentially in need of our charity and hospitality. It is the mark of a civilized society to have developed the necessary rituals, i.e. lesson learned, internalized and lived out by having lived creaturely, to simultaneously hold the world at bay, i.e. keep the stranger from crossing the threshold of the household, while weighing the need to extending charity and hospitality and consequentially taking the risk to invite the stranger over the threshold. Southern ladies of my mother's generation had mastered this important ritual and the associate skills. Liberalism has destroyed them and even made them taboo.
Items of Interest, 29 March 2012
Two on the subject of empire:
John Michael Greer, America: The Two Empires (EB)
Damien Perrotin, Disunited kingdoms (EB) - he discusses Scottish independence.
Jim Antle, Constitutional Contempt
Time-shifted live-blogging of this morning's Obamacare oral argument in the U.S. Supreme Court.
A Burke for Our Times by Mark A. Signorelli
Bill Kauffman, Peckinpah Country
Philosophy As Therapy
FNC: Hemmer interviews Obama surrogate: hijinx and anti-Catholicism result
Karen De Coster, Why I Am Not a Libertarian
Vox Day: Working Mothers Harm Children
Day Care and the Middle Class
District Holds Second Amendment Applies Outside the Home, Strikes Down Ban on Gun Transportation During
A review of The Holistic Orchard.
Catholic:
Christendom College: Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to Speak at Christendom College
Energy:
The Myth of Peak Oil by GEORGE WUERTHNER
The author misjudges how feasible, economically and otherwise, it is to produce oil from alternate sources.
Feminism and Courtship:
TPM: Constant, Unending Attention
Find a Ukrainian woman! haha.
Younger Women Turning to Domesticity
How To Survive College a Virgin
Diet and Health:
The LLVLC Show (Episode 562): PaleoFX Founders Keith And Michelle Norris Reflect On Their Inaugural Event (mp3)
Robb Wolf, MovNat! On the podcast!
Why Barefoot is Best
Mark Sisson: 6 Books I Am Reading Right Now (plus the Official Release Date of The Primal Connection)
Some of the books sound rather goofy, but what can you expect when it involves recreating the past and the "primitive" psyche?
Music:
The full version of "Hold On"
Someone who participated in Operation Market Garden: Tributes as brave war hero dies at age of 92
TV:
PBS - Gillian Anderson on Great Expectations
John Michael Greer, America: The Two Empires (EB)
Damien Perrotin, Disunited kingdoms (EB) - he discusses Scottish independence.
Jim Antle, Constitutional Contempt
Time-shifted live-blogging of this morning's Obamacare oral argument in the U.S. Supreme Court.
A Burke for Our Times by Mark A. Signorelli
Bill Kauffman, Peckinpah Country
Philosophy As Therapy
FNC: Hemmer interviews Obama surrogate: hijinx and anti-Catholicism result
Karen De Coster, Why I Am Not a Libertarian
Vox Day: Working Mothers Harm Children
Day Care and the Middle Class
District Holds Second Amendment Applies Outside the Home, Strikes Down Ban on Gun Transportation During
A review of The Holistic Orchard.
Catholic:
Christendom College: Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to Speak at Christendom College
Energy:
The Myth of Peak Oil by GEORGE WUERTHNER
The author misjudges how feasible, economically and otherwise, it is to produce oil from alternate sources.
Feminism and Courtship:
TPM: Constant, Unending Attention
Find a Ukrainian woman! haha.
Younger Women Turning to Domesticity
How To Survive College a Virgin
Diet and Health:
The LLVLC Show (Episode 562): PaleoFX Founders Keith And Michelle Norris Reflect On Their Inaugural Event (mp3)
Robb Wolf, MovNat! On the podcast!
Why Barefoot is Best
Mark Sisson: 6 Books I Am Reading Right Now (plus the Official Release Date of The Primal Connection)
Some of the books sound rather goofy, but what can you expect when it involves recreating the past and the "primitive" psyche?
Music:
The full version of "Hold On"
Someone who participated in Operation Market Garden: Tributes as brave war hero dies at age of 92
TV:
PBS - Gillian Anderson on Great Expectations
Something for the Cambridge Society of Early Music
The next concert:
Singers from Exsultemus
Shannon Canavin, soprano; Martin Near, counter-tenor; Jason McStoots, tenor; Owen McIntosh, tenor;
Sumner Thompson, baritone; Paul Guttry, bass
Music from the Eton Choirbook
A Late Fifteenth-Century Treasury
April 12-16
Singers from Exsultemus
Shannon Canavin, soprano; Martin Near, counter-tenor; Jason McStoots, tenor; Owen McIntosh, tenor;
Sumner Thompson, baritone; Paul Guttry, bass
Music from the Eton Choirbook
A Late Fifteenth-Century Treasury
April 12-16
The Catholic “Ghetto” as a Last Resort by Wolfgang Grassl
Crisis
Some, like Clyde Wilson, have claimed that the South was a more tolerant place for Catholics. Was this true after the war and Reconstruction?
Instead of assimilating and becoming good Yankees, migth the Church not have been better off strengthening the bonds of community? Granted, this might be difficult since the Catholics themselves were of different national origins, and ethnic parishes were common. A little guidance for Catholic immigrants on where to settle might have helped? (e.g. German Catholic agrarian settlements, for example) What could have been done for those who sought work in cities caught up in industrialization? Was there enough surplus wealth to create alternative economic structures to preserve some measure of economic freedom for members of the Church?
The past is past, and nothing can be done about what has happened since then. Given the choices that Catholic immigrants made, the outcome, however unintended, seems like a necessary consequence. So what can be done know? Can Catholics pool their resources together and start living with one another? Or is there such little economic freedom for many that they cannot change their way of life?
Having been outsiders and suffered discrimination in a largely Protestant nation since its foundation, Catholics in the United States have bought gradual acceptance into the American mainstream for the price of assimilation.
Some, like Clyde Wilson, have claimed that the South was a more tolerant place for Catholics. Was this true after the war and Reconstruction?
Instead of assimilating and becoming good Yankees, migth the Church not have been better off strengthening the bonds of community? Granted, this might be difficult since the Catholics themselves were of different national origins, and ethnic parishes were common. A little guidance for Catholic immigrants on where to settle might have helped? (e.g. German Catholic agrarian settlements, for example) What could have been done for those who sought work in cities caught up in industrialization? Was there enough surplus wealth to create alternative economic structures to preserve some measure of economic freedom for members of the Church?
The past is past, and nothing can be done about what has happened since then. Given the choices that Catholic immigrants made, the outcome, however unintended, seems like a necessary consequence. So what can be done know? Can Catholics pool their resources together and start living with one another? Or is there such little economic freedom for many that they cannot change their way of life?
Mission City Coffee Roasting Co. is closing
Mission City Coffee Roasting Co. is closing, according to this e-mail from Fiddling Cricket. Will an attempt be made to relocate/reschedule the performances after the final 3 at Mission City? (In particular, the Rita Hosking and Cousin Jack concert.)
MS for Rita Hosking
What will replace Mission City? Starbucks?
MS for Rita Hosking
What will replace Mission City? Starbucks?
I found this through Twitter: EXCLUSIVE LEAK: Phillip Blond donor dissects ResPublica’s unpublishable and inadequate work
Does this give the truth about ResPublica? What about the American organization?
Some writing (theorizing) may be necessary for the elucidation of general principles (relocalization as it pertains to politics/economics), but this is not sufficient for the building up of community. One might look for such guidance from the universities, but we know that they have, for the most part, failed in this regard.
Does this give the truth about ResPublica? What about the American organization?
Some writing (theorizing) may be necessary for the elucidation of general principles (relocalization as it pertains to politics/economics), but this is not sufficient for the building up of community. One might look for such guidance from the universities, but we know that they have, for the most part, failed in this regard.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
"I'm a good person."
It's not that hard when your standards are low and purpotedly of your own choosing, as a self-made liberal.
While you are enjoying travelling, eating, new experiences, and literature that is poor in quality, what have you done to grow your character and exercise virtue in your relationships with others?
"History is boring."
What is the use of studying/reading history, when you have no connnection to the people whose acts are recorded? You migth find sufficient motivation to read the material for the sake of getting a good grade and material success, but does it hold any meaning for you?
The Confucians saw history as having moral value, being a form of didactic literature. But they didn't study the history of another people but of their own, desiring to emulate their own, the sages and great men of the past.
While you are enjoying travelling, eating, new experiences, and literature that is poor in quality, what have you done to grow your character and exercise virtue in your relationships with others?
"History is boring."
What is the use of studying/reading history, when you have no connnection to the people whose acts are recorded? You migth find sufficient motivation to read the material for the sake of getting a good grade and material success, but does it hold any meaning for you?
The Confucians saw history as having moral value, being a form of didactic literature. But they didn't study the history of another people but of their own, desiring to emulate their own, the sages and great men of the past.
Madison Violet coming to town
Hotel Utah Saloon, on April 10 at 9 P.M.
official (MS and FB)
A couple of more videos after the jump...
official (MS and FB)
A couple of more videos after the jump...
Items of Interest, 28 March 2012
Club Orlov: A Modest Health Care Proposal
Michael Shedlock, "Healthwreck": Obamacare May Go Down Entirely; Medicaid Funding in Question; Justice Scalia Joked Reading Entire Bill Would be "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"; Wrecking Operation or Salvage Job?
Amicus Curiae of Senator Rand Paul
Conservatism or Liberty? by Nikolai G. Wenzel
A Guiding Principle Revealed by David Schaengold
The War on Guns by Frank Borzellieri
Jack Donovan, The Trouble with Squares
Interview with Andy Nowicki (alas, hosted at a WN website)
10 Places to Meet Women Other Than a Bar or Nightclub
Location does matter, but they have to be very specific in order for one to find a woman of compatible cultural background and character. Is AoM too beta?
Relocalization and Sustainability:
Dave Pollard, How many circles does it take to make a community? (EB)
Translating Transition: from small town to mega-city by Joanne Poyourow (EB)
But if nothing can make an alternative arrangement sustainable, wouldn't it be better to leave?
Together: The Rituals Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (book review) by David Bollier (EB)
New Urbanism Now
Farming:
Watching Hens Eat by Gene Logsdon (EB)
Energy:
The Phantoms I’ve Killed by Tom Murphy (EB)
The solar envelope: how to heat and cool cities without fossil fuels
by Kris De Decker (EB)
Christian:
Improperia: Popule Meus for Good Friday
A more "Eastern" version:
Reminds me of what the SSJ did with the use of organum. That group was such a disappointment, to put it mildly. The Archaeological Evidence For Jesus (PHOTOS) The Real Persecution Today If We Mock the Sacred We Will Have No Future Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia Islam: Hijab – the Islamic dress code: its historical development, evidence from sacred sources and views of selected Muslim scholars Diet and Health: Robb Wolf, The Paleo Diet Budget Shopping Guide Paleo Women are Phat I’m Calling for a New Paradigm Music: Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Goes Online (here) Two Requiems by Wendy Gillespie TV: Gillian Anderson on ‘X-Files,’ ‘Downton Abbey,’ ‘Great Expectations’ MODERN-DAY BATTLE AXE (includes a photo of United Cutlery M48 Hawk (top) and Smith & Wesson SW671 Tomahawk) ZT Knives at SHOT Show 2012 (source) Soompi's 14th Birthday Celebration!
Michael Shedlock, "Healthwreck": Obamacare May Go Down Entirely; Medicaid Funding in Question; Justice Scalia Joked Reading Entire Bill Would be "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"; Wrecking Operation or Salvage Job?
Amicus Curiae of Senator Rand Paul
Conservatism or Liberty? by Nikolai G. Wenzel
A Guiding Principle Revealed by David Schaengold
The War on Guns by Frank Borzellieri
Jack Donovan, The Trouble with Squares
Interview with Andy Nowicki (alas, hosted at a WN website)
10 Places to Meet Women Other Than a Bar or Nightclub
Location does matter, but they have to be very specific in order for one to find a woman of compatible cultural background and character. Is AoM too beta?
Relocalization and Sustainability:
Dave Pollard, How many circles does it take to make a community? (EB)
Translating Transition: from small town to mega-city by Joanne Poyourow (EB)
But if nothing can make an alternative arrangement sustainable, wouldn't it be better to leave?
Together: The Rituals Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (book review) by David Bollier (EB)
New Urbanism Now
Farming:
Watching Hens Eat by Gene Logsdon (EB)
Energy:
The Phantoms I’ve Killed by Tom Murphy (EB)
The solar envelope: how to heat and cool cities without fossil fuels
by Kris De Decker (EB)
Christian:
Improperia: Popule Meus for Good Friday
A more "Eastern" version:
Reminds me of what the SSJ did with the use of organum. That group was such a disappointment, to put it mildly. The Archaeological Evidence For Jesus (PHOTOS) The Real Persecution Today If We Mock the Sacred We Will Have No Future Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia Islam: Hijab – the Islamic dress code: its historical development, evidence from sacred sources and views of selected Muslim scholars Diet and Health: Robb Wolf, The Paleo Diet Budget Shopping Guide Paleo Women are Phat I’m Calling for a New Paradigm Music: Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Goes Online (here) Two Requiems by Wendy Gillespie TV: Gillian Anderson on ‘X-Files,’ ‘Downton Abbey,’ ‘Great Expectations’ MODERN-DAY BATTLE AXE (includes a photo of United Cutlery M48 Hawk (top) and Smith & Wesson SW671 Tomahawk) ZT Knives at SHOT Show 2012 (source) Soompi's 14th Birthday Celebration!
Stand Your Ground to Stop the Violence
by Sarah van Gelder
What can be done to stop needless violence like the killing of Trayvon Martin?
I was thinking of writing a brief response, but after looking at it a second time, I decided it wasn't worth the time. But the speculation and advocacy that is rooted in a fundamental failure to have the facts at hand is representative of the liberal response thus far. It just makes them (and those who carry their views, like Yes! Magazine) lose credibility and trust of "open-minded" readers.
One is free to have an opinion, but you're not automatically entitled to have it heard by others.
by Sarah van Gelder
What can be done to stop needless violence like the killing of Trayvon Martin?
I was thinking of writing a brief response, but after looking at it a second time, I decided it wasn't worth the time. But the speculation and advocacy that is rooted in a fundamental failure to have the facts at hand is representative of the liberal response thus far. It just makes them (and those who carry their views, like Yes! Magazine) lose credibility and trust of "open-minded" readers.
One is free to have an opinion, but you're not automatically entitled to have it heard by others.
Make Ready with James Gilliland: Long Gun Basics
thread at Military Photos
Noveske Shooting Team
The inclusion of the perfunctory stabbing with a knife is rather dumb?
thread at Military Photos
Noveske Shooting Team
The inclusion of the perfunctory stabbing with a knife is rather dumb?
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Items of Interest, 27 March 2012
Thomas Fleming, Lynching George Zimmerman
Clark Stooksbury, Idiot Wind, Blowing Every Time You Move Your Mouth . . .
Peter Hitchens, Psychiatrists Snatching Our Children
Paul Craig Roberts, How the New American Empire Works
The Religion of Money by Stratford Caldecott
Conservatism Revisited: The Revolt Against Ideology
Rediscovering Christopher Dawson | An Interview with Dr. Bradley J. Birzer
Blessed Karl von Habsburg by Denis Kitzinger
Vox Populi: Housing Can't Bounce Back
The Iraq We Leave Behind
Top 10 Lessons of the Iraq War
Obamacare versus the U.S. Constitution By Alan Caruba
Randy E. Barnett: Vindication for Challenger of Health Care Law
Peter Daniel Haworth: Newman, MacIntyre, Aristotle, and Tradition in ANAMNESIS
From December of last year: 14 United States Governors : Prepare State Militia Defenses, To Be Ready Against Obama’s Rogue Federal Forces!
Get Ready for the Crackdowns by Kelley B. Vlahos
Club Orlov: Trained for Success, Bred to be Eaten
Bill Gross: "The Game As We All Have Known It Appears To Be Over"
Sandra Postel, Reflections on a Thirsty Planet for World Water Day
Gene Logsdon's newest - Now Available: A Sanctuary of Trees!
"Being Southern…"
Relocalization:
Rethink & Relocalize by Alex Smith (EB) (alt)
Strengthening Local Economies: Michael Shuman on Investing in Small Businesses (mp3)
Shannon Hayes, Bees, butterflies and beneficials
Ackerman and McPherson dialog: Practical paths to a post-carbon lifestyle
A DIY Civilization by Colleen Shaddox
Can we create the machines of modern life sustainably, cheaply, and close to home?
The Wealth of Networks (pdf)
Local Food
On being in time for Transition by Sharon Te Apiti Stevens (EB)
Farming:
Perennial Crops, Sustainable Agriculture: A 21st Century Green Revolution
Catholic:
Chant tradi- Vierge des Francs
The Greatest of All Things
LCs:
Letter from a victim-survivor
Ratzinger in Mexico
Feminism:The Volokh Conspiracy: "Slut" and Postmodern Me
Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men by Jef Costello
Review at Amerika.
Diet and Health:
James Howard Kunstler, Matrix of Rackets
Is Your Baby a Good Baby? by Heather M. Carson (via Thinking Housewife) - see The Baby Book by Dr. Sears
The LLVLC Show (Episode 560): Dr. Peter Attia Has Declared ‘War On Insulin’ (mp3)
Chris Masterjohn, Good Fats, Bad Fats: Separating Fact from Fiction
MDA: Dear Mark: Food for Skiing, Menstrual Carb Cravings, a Stubborn Teen, and More
Exercise Your Eyes
Learning MovNat is Making Me a Better Strength Coach: Guest Post by Jeff Turner
History:
The Roman elite and the power of the past: continuity and change in Ostrogothic Italy
Hoard of Roman Coins Found in England
Men in Poufy Trousers
Military:
Special forces are special, not magical
Movies:
Politically incorrect film reviews – Coriolanus
TV:
'Mad Men' Creator On What's Next For Don Draper
Clark Stooksbury, Idiot Wind, Blowing Every Time You Move Your Mouth . . .
Peter Hitchens, Psychiatrists Snatching Our Children
Paul Craig Roberts, How the New American Empire Works
The Religion of Money by Stratford Caldecott
Conservatism Revisited: The Revolt Against Ideology
Rediscovering Christopher Dawson | An Interview with Dr. Bradley J. Birzer
Blessed Karl von Habsburg by Denis Kitzinger
Vox Populi: Housing Can't Bounce Back
The Iraq We Leave Behind
Top 10 Lessons of the Iraq War
Obamacare versus the U.S. Constitution By Alan Caruba
Randy E. Barnett: Vindication for Challenger of Health Care Law
Peter Daniel Haworth: Newman, MacIntyre, Aristotle, and Tradition in ANAMNESIS
From December of last year: 14 United States Governors : Prepare State Militia Defenses, To Be Ready Against Obama’s Rogue Federal Forces!
Get Ready for the Crackdowns by Kelley B. Vlahos
Club Orlov: Trained for Success, Bred to be Eaten
Bill Gross: "The Game As We All Have Known It Appears To Be Over"
Sandra Postel, Reflections on a Thirsty Planet for World Water Day
Gene Logsdon's newest - Now Available: A Sanctuary of Trees!
"Being Southern…"
Relocalization:
Rethink & Relocalize by Alex Smith (EB) (alt)
Strengthening Local Economies: Michael Shuman on Investing in Small Businesses (mp3)
Shannon Hayes, Bees, butterflies and beneficials
Ackerman and McPherson dialog: Practical paths to a post-carbon lifestyle
A DIY Civilization by Colleen Shaddox
Can we create the machines of modern life sustainably, cheaply, and close to home?
The Wealth of Networks (pdf)
Local Food
On being in time for Transition by Sharon Te Apiti Stevens (EB)
Farming:
Perennial Crops, Sustainable Agriculture: A 21st Century Green Revolution
Catholic:
Chant tradi- Vierge des Francs
The Greatest of All Things
LCs:
Letter from a victim-survivor
Ratzinger in Mexico
Those millions of Mexicans who could care less for the Catholic Church – and there are more than would likely admit it – might also have asked Ratzinger to comment on the slew of sex-abuse complaints made against members of the country’s clergy. In fact, the papal visit coincided with the launch of a book by a group of priests who in 1998 brought charges against Legion of Christ founder Marciel Maciel for having abused them when they were seminarians. “La voluntad de no saber” (“The Will not to Know”) includes powerful evidence that the Vatican knew of the notorious Maciel’s altar-ego – drug addict, paedophile – decades before it acted. Maciel was “disciplined” by Joseph Ratzinger in 2005 and died three years later.
Not all of Mexico’s clergymen are pederast, pro-militarization fanatics, however. Since the earliest days of the Spanish conquest, the Mexican church has been littered with rightly-celebrated dissident voices; from Bartolome de Las Casas, who stood up for indigenous rights in the 16th century, to Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia, a liberation theologian who risked his life by sympathizing with the Zapatista rebels in the 1990s.
Feminism:The Volokh Conspiracy: "Slut" and Postmodern Me
Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men by Jef Costello
Review at Amerika.
Diet and Health:
James Howard Kunstler, Matrix of Rackets
Is Your Baby a Good Baby? by Heather M. Carson (via Thinking Housewife) - see The Baby Book by Dr. Sears
The LLVLC Show (Episode 560): Dr. Peter Attia Has Declared ‘War On Insulin’ (mp3)
Chris Masterjohn, Good Fats, Bad Fats: Separating Fact from Fiction
MDA: Dear Mark: Food for Skiing, Menstrual Carb Cravings, a Stubborn Teen, and More
Exercise Your Eyes
Learning MovNat is Making Me a Better Strength Coach: Guest Post by Jeff Turner
History:
The Roman elite and the power of the past: continuity and change in Ostrogothic Italy
Hoard of Roman Coins Found in England
Men in Poufy Trousers
Military:
Special forces are special, not magical
Movies:
Politically incorrect film reviews – Coriolanus
TV:
'Mad Men' Creator On What's Next For Don Draper
I heard part of this during the drive home Sunday night.
Very creepy. Sensationalistic material, but if the details are accurate, it's very chilling, and makes me want to be careful of going to national parks, or to certain areas within them.
Los Gatos author explores 'Missing 411' from national parks
official
download
Another interview with the author of the book:
Los Gatos author explores 'Missing 411' from national parks
official
download
Another interview with the author of the book:
Monday, March 26, 2012
The new definition of the common good
Repeated here, and which finds support in various documents of the Church after Vatican 2: Why I am Not a Libertarian by Nathan Schlueter
The common good of the political association consists in the ensemble of conditions in which persons and associations can more easily flourish. These are nicely summarized in the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States: “to . . . establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”It seems to be implicitly tied to the modern conception of the (nation-)state, in which associations are not identical to the state. (An implicit recognition that the nation-state is too large?)
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Liturgical touring
Because of a rather busy music schedule today, I attended the Ukrainian liturgy at the Carmelite monastery this morning. Initially only 6 people were there, but by the end there was about 30 or 40 in attendance. Does the pastoral need really require this apostolate, though? The music was similar to that used in the Ruthenian rite, though I think the music for the Creed might have been rather different. I was struck by the singing and preaching of the priest. (Baritone?) I think he preached at the end of the liturgy, and even that sounded musical, reminding me of his singing of the Gospel reading. It was very expressive and loud, in contrast to the homilies of Roman rite priests in the area. Everything was sung (except the epistle, and only that reading was in Englis), even though the priest was the only cleric, and the liturgy was about an hour and a half.
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