Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Nicole Foss Interview
Nicole Foss In Australia: It's No Use Trying To Build A Better Dinosaur - which includes her interview on Earthsharing Australia - transcript (mp3)
Another Unnecessary Item Marketed as Being Necessary by Industry?
Bras Make Breasts "Saggier", 15-year French Study Reveals
What's the primal alternative? Not to wear one? "No support necessary"? Let the body supply the natural supports that atrophy when a bra is used?
Related:
The new Dove Real Beauty campaign.
Dove's 'Real Beauty Sketches' Ad Campaign Tells Women 'You're More Beautiful Than You Think' (VIDEO)
A response at one of the feminist sites.
What's the primal alternative? Not to wear one? "No support necessary"? Let the body supply the natural supports that atrophy when a bra is used?
According to The Connexion, the findings suggest that breasts would gain more tone and support themselves if no bra was used. Researchers explain that bras limit the growth of supporting breast tissues, leaving the breast to wither and degrade more quickly.
Related:
The new Dove Real Beauty campaign.
Dove's 'Real Beauty Sketches' Ad Campaign Tells Women 'You're More Beautiful Than You Think' (VIDEO)
A response at one of the feminist sites.
Working the Demographic
So now we have Indian JWs (?) walking around the neighborhood trying to proselytize? (A few years ago there were Chinese JWs - has the neighborhood shifted in composition since then? Or is it just targeted outreach?) I didn't have the time or patience today to find out their religious affiliation and to confound them if they were not representative of apostolic Christianity.
R. J. Snell Reviews The Politics of Gratitude
A Prophet of Goodness: Review of Mark T. Mitchell’s The Politics of Gratitude: Scale, Place and Community in a Global Age
Potomac Books
I have my copy, but have not been able to start the book yet. As someone I know pointed out to an essay talking about the importance of place (over at FPR?) - it's more than place, it's the people. This is contrasted with the Uhmerican extreme (exemplified in some respects by the attitudes of Vox) - Vox) - living the life of a wealthy transient, moving from place to place and possessing no strong ties to other people, no sense of bonds, duties and obligations. I will look at Mr. Mitchell's book to see if he covers identity and the notion of a people, which must be present before an attempt at exhorting to greater solidarity can be made. It is a key point that is not addressed by most, with the exception of the paleos and ethnonationalists.
On the recent wedding between Brent Burke and the daughter of Rhonda Vincent: A royal bluegrass wedding in Tennessee.
Potomac Books
I have my copy, but have not been able to start the book yet. As someone I know pointed out to an essay talking about the importance of place (over at FPR?) - it's more than place, it's the people. This is contrasted with the Uhmerican extreme (exemplified in some respects by the attitudes of Vox) - Vox) - living the life of a wealthy transient, moving from place to place and possessing no strong ties to other people, no sense of bonds, duties and obligations. I will look at Mr. Mitchell's book to see if he covers identity and the notion of a people, which must be present before an attempt at exhorting to greater solidarity can be made. It is a key point that is not addressed by most, with the exception of the paleos and ethnonationalists.
On the recent wedding between Brent Burke and the daughter of Rhonda Vincent: A royal bluegrass wedding in Tennessee.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Ordinations, Western Dominican Province, 2012
Ordination 2012 - photos
The vestments for the bishop and his assistants were better than those used for 2011? Are they part of the collection at St. Dominic's? Or were they brought from elsewhere?
After another glance, maybe they are the same as those used in 2011, the color appearing slightly different because of the photos or the lighting?
Slideshow for the 2010 ordinations:
Maybe I will attend this year's ordinations (May 31).
The vestments for the bishop and his assistants were better than those used for 2011? Are they part of the collection at St. Dominic's? Or were they brought from elsewhere?
After another glance, maybe they are the same as those used in 2011, the color appearing slightly different because of the photos or the lighting?
Slideshow for the 2010 ordinations:
Maybe I will attend this year's ordinations (May 31).
AMC: Saturday is for Westerns
Cowboys & Indians: 'Hell on Wheels' Returns Aug. 3 by Joe Leydon
Includes details on a revamped Saturday line-up.
Includes details on a revamped Saturday line-up.
Sacred Music and the Reform of the Roman Rite
Theories of Why Liturgical Music Died by Jeffrey Tucker (Chant Cafe)
How widespread was the use chant in normal parish life in other countries? The comments at both locations do provide some answers to that question.
The ordinary in Latin might be intelligible to the faithful, but what about the propers? Latin not intelligible to must people, and Bouyer stipulates that true liturgical spirituality was inaccessible to people once they no longer understood Latin. How many were invested in maintaining a cultural identity with Rome or Latin culture? (As opposed to this is simply having the attitude that this is the way things are? How many really wanted to learn Latin but were unable to do so?)
Conflict between two inclinations which are good in themselves, but which lead to polarization? The conservative instinct of holding on to one's patrimony or what was familiar. And the desire to seek greater spiritual enrichment and fulfillment through the liturgy?
Some might claim that it was enough for the laity to read from missals in order to understand what is going on in the liturgy - this was certainly the preliminary step advocated by members of the 20th century liturgical movement. Would they have stopped there? Would Fr. Beauduin and his contemporaries have been opposed to the introduction of a hieratic version of the vernacular?
Liturgical worship mediated by a missal is less than ideal, and not all have the intellectual gifts for it. And the music? For specialists only?
Can we get them away from music that dominates the emotions to some simpler, more "austere" form of singing (or chanting) in English? Can some sort of English plainsong be created from Gregorian chant? (Or should we go farther east?)
So That's Why Gregorian Chant Sounds Different - Gregorian Chant: The Minor Modes
Gregorian Chant: The Major Modes
Second Album from The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles
How widespread was the use chant in normal parish life in other countries? The comments at both locations do provide some answers to that question.
The ordinary in Latin might be intelligible to the faithful, but what about the propers? Latin not intelligible to must people, and Bouyer stipulates that true liturgical spirituality was inaccessible to people once they no longer understood Latin. How many were invested in maintaining a cultural identity with Rome or Latin culture? (As opposed to this is simply having the attitude that this is the way things are? How many really wanted to learn Latin but were unable to do so?)
Conflict between two inclinations which are good in themselves, but which lead to polarization? The conservative instinct of holding on to one's patrimony or what was familiar. And the desire to seek greater spiritual enrichment and fulfillment through the liturgy?
Some might claim that it was enough for the laity to read from missals in order to understand what is going on in the liturgy - this was certainly the preliminary step advocated by members of the 20th century liturgical movement. Would they have stopped there? Would Fr. Beauduin and his contemporaries have been opposed to the introduction of a hieratic version of the vernacular?
Liturgical worship mediated by a missal is less than ideal, and not all have the intellectual gifts for it. And the music? For specialists only?
Can we get them away from music that dominates the emotions to some simpler, more "austere" form of singing (or chanting) in English? Can some sort of English plainsong be created from Gregorian chant? (Or should we go farther east?)
So That's Why Gregorian Chant Sounds Different - Gregorian Chant: The Minor Modes
Gregorian Chant: The Major Modes
Second Album from The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Pope Francis and the Reform of the Laity
NCReg: Pope Francis and the Reform of the Laity
COMMENTARY: The Holy Father has identified ‘ecclesiastical narcissism’ as the fundamental illness the Church needs to address.
This was based on remarks made to the cardinals before the conclave - has he changed his mind since then?
First things first - the laity need to be taught about the order of charity and the meaning of friendship before parish life can then be reinvigorated - only then can any large-scale (i.e. at the level of the parish and the local Church) credible evangelization effort be launched and maintained. Otherwise, Christians are open to the following criticism:
"You Christians talk about love, but you live like the rest of us, in your homes, without any real friendships, even with your fellow Christians. How can you talk about the love of neighbor when you do not live it?")
Related:
APARECIDA - Concluding Document
The Unprecedented "Presumption" of Changing the World
Vatican Diary / The reform of the curia has already begun
Francis: A Step Towards Collegiality - Pope Francis' reasons for deciding to appoint eight cardinal advisers
Mercy. The first encyclical of Pope Francis
COMMENTARY: The Holy Father has identified ‘ecclesiastical narcissism’ as the fundamental illness the Church needs to address.
This was based on remarks made to the cardinals before the conclave - has he changed his mind since then?
Cardinal Bergoglio was the principal author and presenter of the Aparecida Document, which not only echoes many of his fundamental themes but is a reliable indicator of his thought.
The reform of the laity, the document says, must involve re-forming them to become “missionary disciples in communion.”
Those four words define the lay vocation: converted followers of Jesus, who together with others who share Jesus’ life, faithfully seek to spread their joy, life and love to those who have not yet come into that two-fold communion.
It’s a community of believers trained and inspired to go out to transform politics, society, education, neighborhoods, family and marriages.
It’s a brotherhood of Good Samaritans drawing near to neighbors with love and mercy.
It’s the faithful who are salt of the earth and not just salty critics of the Church.
It’s a body of torchbearers radiating Christ’s light rather than hiding it within the bushel basket of self-referential, spiritually worldly and ultimately “sick” parochial or diocesan structures.
Pope Francis has begun the exodus leading to this reform, taking us by example to the outskirts of human existence and sketching for us the journey ahead.
The real work, however, still needs to take place in hearts, homes, parishes, movements and schools across the Catholic world.
First things first - the laity need to be taught about the order of charity and the meaning of friendship before parish life can then be reinvigorated - only then can any large-scale (i.e. at the level of the parish and the local Church) credible evangelization effort be launched and maintained. Otherwise, Christians are open to the following criticism:
"You Christians talk about love, but you live like the rest of us, in your homes, without any real friendships, even with your fellow Christians. How can you talk about the love of neighbor when you do not live it?")
Related:
APARECIDA - Concluding Document
The Unprecedented "Presumption" of Changing the World
Vatican Diary / The reform of the curia has already begun
Francis: A Step Towards Collegiality - Pope Francis' reasons for deciding to appoint eight cardinal advisers
Mercy. The first encyclical of Pope Francis
The Problem of Scale
Who’s to blame? The American Republic by George W. Carey
Do we really have a representative government at the national or state levels?
Do we really have a representative government at the national or state levels?
What conclusions or observations seem to be called for. Here are a few. First, recall the key role representatives or “fit characters” were to play in our system? Well, forget about that. They should be our first line of defense. Instead, they are a problem. Second, we would do well to devise some safeguards that would control our presidents, not only with regard to their war-making powers but also in those areas where they claim unilateral powers. And don’t be deceived by Professor Yoo about the Founders’ conception of presidential powers. Third, with Professor Birzer (“Westward, the Loss of the Republic”), I am concerned whether we can rightfully be called a republic. As far as I can see, the increasing incapacity of our national government to govern is probably due to the republic being far too extensive with too many divergent interests. In modern times we have never really faced up to one of the questions uppermost in the minds of the Anti-Federalists: How extensive can a republic be and still be a republic? This leads to my final observation by way of addressing Professor Frohnen’s question. We should cut the people some slack. It is highly questionable for reasons I have set forth whether they can exercise sovereign power. This is an additional and weighty reason for questioning whether we are still a republic. It may well be that, upon reflection, what I regarded previously to be our last and best hope is really a lost hope.
Keeping It in the Family
Another member of The Rage turns out to have a personal connection with Rhonda Vincent - dobro player Brent Burke is marrying one of her daughters. So it turns out she is the young woman in the story of Brent Burke's proposal.
For Tax Day
Kevin Carson, How Much “Civilization” Does Your Tax Money Buy?
More on the collusion between Big Government and Big Business.
But infrastructure projects like big dams and the Interstate Highway System were created to make the mid-20th century model of centralized, bureaucratic, mass-production capitalism profitable. You can thank the Interstate’s artificially cheap long-distance shipping costs, in large part, for driving local canneries and breweries out of business, making large-scale agribusiness competitive against local food production, and for the Walmart “warehouses on wheels” distribution model that’s destroyed Main Street retail. You can thank heavily subsidized irrigation water from the big dams for making giant plantations in California artificially profitable. The goods at Walmart or the lettuce in a bag at the supermarket may look cheap, but you pay the hidden cost on April 15.
More on the collusion between Big Government and Big Business.
Video: Robert Louis Wilken on The First Thousand Years
Robert Louis Wilken Discusses 'The First Thousand Years' at 2013 VaBook
Impertinent Questions with Robert Louis Wilken by Meredith Hindley
Impertinent Questions with Robert Louis Wilken by Meredith Hindley
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