The week of re-postings: Sacred Sperm, Ancient Knowledge, Dangerous Prayer

January 24, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

Every Sperm is Sacred Originally posted August 04, 2005 Modern Medicine Catches up to Ancient Knowledge Originally posted June 11, 2005 The Dangerous Prayer of Blessing Originally posted May 20, 2006 EVERY SPERM IS SACRED? Got an interesting email from another blogger, a fairly new Catholic, who is having a little trouble believing something. He writes: …some people on my blog suggested that every ejaculation had to hit the target, so to speak….meaning, umm, no completed oral tasks, for example.... Read more

The week of re-postings: Forced Conversions and Air Kisses

January 23, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

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Faith and Reason and Forced Conversions Originally posted September 5, 2006 Tina Brown; Our Lady of the Air Kiss Originally published April 22, 2005 FAITH AND REASON AND FORCED CONVERSIONS “Was not Nagasaki the chosen victim, the lamb without blemish, slain as a whole burnt offering on an altar of sacrifice, atoning for the sins of all nations during World War II?” – Dr. Takashi Nagai 1908-1951, on Martyrdom, from All Saints by Robert Ellsberg It is the rarest of... Read more

The Week of Re-posting: Adoration – rising strength, mists and veils

January 22, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

WEAKNESS IS SOWN; STENGTH RISES UP Originally posted, Sept. 12, 2006 ADORATION AND THE MIST, THE VEIL Originally posted on July 16, 2006 WEAKNESS IS SOWN; STENGTH RISES UP Went to adoration yesterday – not especially because of the anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01 – simply because that’s my habit of a Monday afternoon. As I had planned to, I prayed the Office for the Dead, in remembrance of…well, of so many. Of my brothers and brother-in-law, of... Read more

The week of re-posting: American Idol, Praise, Shame and Sin

January 21, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

Sometimes, when one becomes exceedingly busy and obligation-suffocated, it’s best to simply throw one’s hands to heaven and say, “if something’s gotta give, it will be the blog!” Starting in about three hours, I will be pretty much incommunicado (blogwise and email-wise) until next week, sometime. Thus begins “the week of re-posting.” For the next 7 days we’ll be revisting older posts that may deserve a second look (or not) and I think most of them will be of a... Read more

Mary and the Crucifix

January 19, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

Reposted from November, 2005. I stumbled on this tonight and realized that when I wrote it my friend Jane was dying and none of us knew it, not even she. And my BIL thought he would live to be 99, just like his mother and father. Things turn on a dime. Thought I’d post this again; it’s good to remember that things can look very different 12 months later – that it is always good to take time to appreciate... Read more

I know I’ve been quiet…

January 18, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

I think when we get past my MIL’s 70th birthday party on Sunday… Meanwhile, my brain is fried right now and so I’m looking at beautiful saris. As I wrote a while back, when my brain is fried, “…I go here and look at Saris. Because I can never look at beautiful fabric enough…my heart hungers for beauty. And I don’t especially want to wear beautiful clothes – that’s too much trouble – but I want to look at beautiful... Read more

Wrestling with myself

January 17, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

Sorry it’s been so quiet. I’ve been dealing with a project which I have – miraculously – managed to mostly finish ahead of schedule, but it’s been very time-consuming and I still have to type it up. It’s rare that I write in longhand, but this project seemed to have stymied me a bit – it scared me, really, because it was an altogether new sort of assignment – and when I am blocked, I cannot write at the keyboard,... Read more

Linking around – Chastity, Berger, UFO’s and more

January 16, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

While I’m still nose-to-the-grindstone trying to finish by Saturday something due on Thursday…egad…thought I’d throw some interesting reading your way. Another big lie gets addressed: Dawn Eden, author of The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On published a piece in the UK on one of the big lies served up by feminism (another lie, of course, was it’s not a baby, it’s just tissue.) Her essay: Casual sex is a con; Women just aren’t like... Read more

Lamb & Dragon: Counter Terrorism with Love – UPDATED

January 15, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

I think I can count on my hands the number of times I have revisited a past post specifically to discuss a response to it, but my post on reassessing Iraq generated a great deal of email (very little of it the usual “hate” mail, which surprised me), and a few interesting blogger responses. Nate of The Lamb and Dragon blog took some issue with me, from a Catholic perspective and wondered if I have lost sight of the supernatural... Read more

A houseful and a project

January 15, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

Hopefully I will get to some blogging later today – if you’ve emailed me and not received a response, I beg your pardon. I did some traveling early in the weekend and for some reason the house seems to be very busy, the past few days. I have a project due by Friday…really, it’s due by Thursday…I’m going to try to finish it by Saturday at the very latest… All of this by way of saying blogging will continue light-ish... Read more