Posted in Architecture on 30 April 07 | 1 Comment »
As my girlfriend Catherine and I were driving through the small coastal California town of Half Moon Bay, far away we saw this vision through the mists…a house…with a roof that looked, well, saltboxy. We approached closer.
It had all the characteristic features of a saltbox-style colonial house. The front was symetrical and pretty [...]
Posted in Church Issues on 30 April 07 | 2 Comments »
I do not particularly wish to make my blog an “all liturgy, all the time” sort of thing, but I am quite interested in the topic, and I do plan to post about it from time to time. Anyway, reading Mark Shea’s most recent liturgical comment I realized what I think is the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 30 April 07 | Leave a Comment »
First of all, this being my first post for today, I wanted to welcome all of you who have come from Mark Shea’s blog, and thank him for providing a link. I hope you all enjoy my blog, and that my posts have proved interesting to you.
Anyway, I wanted to discuss an observation I have [...]
Posted in Church Issues, Everyday Life on 26 April 07 | 9 Comments »
I have noticed lately that a couple of the “big” Catholic blogs have had some debates about the Traditional Latin Mass and what the Motu Proprio will mean. Mark Shea has a couple of posts here and here which discuss the possibility of the Motu Proprio. Mr. Shea expresses his lack of interest, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 25 April 07 | 3 Comments »
I have often heard people discussing whether or not it is acceptable to “priest-shop” for confession. Of course there are many reasons to do it: the priest has heard you confess that sin before, confession is only face to face and you know the priest, you don’t wish to be embarrassed, or, more spiritually, you [...]
Posted in Poetry on 25 April 07 | Leave a Comment »
As promised, I plan to post poems from “Poems of Marie” by Harriet M. Skidmore. Also, I forgot to give the other, and I think more beautiful, name of the book, which is printed on the spine: “Beside the Western Sea”. Anyway, here is one such poem, a short one this time.
“There [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 25 April 07 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry to have left so soon after starting my blog…I was out of town for the weekend, and I expected to have internet access but I did not. And then I got sick with a bad cold, and I was unable to even think about blogging for a couple days. Anyway, I’m back, and I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 19 April 07 | 3 Comments »
A couple years ago I found a very strange old book in the library of Santa Clara University. I tried to learn about it online, but all I found was one other copy of it for sale. I bought that copy. The book is called Poems of Marie, by Harriet M. Skidmore, and it is [...]
Posted in Everyday Life on 19 April 07 | Leave a Comment »
“It is he that saith not ‘Kismet’; it is he that knows not Fate;
It is Richard, it is Raymond, it is Godfrey at the gate!”
-From “Lepanto“, by G.K. Chesterton
To my mind, Determinism is one of the most pernicious, un-heroic, and un-Christian ways of thinking. I am not talking here about all the ways in which [...]
Posted in Church Issues on 19 April 07 | Leave a Comment »
This is a beautiful video…a modernistic altar is transformed into one fitting for the Mass. Enjoy it!
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