Last Week In Life: July 12, 2021- July 18, 2021 Last Week’s SPECTACULAR STORY OF WEEK Hellooooo Catholics and everybody else…. I’m borrowing this from Stephen Colbert to better explain myself and this blog post. Folks, Ladies and Gentlemen, you know I spend a lot of time delicately whittling a mélange of the day’s most pressing story timbers, precisely measuring the necks, ribs and backs of the news employing only the most sophisticated and topical purfling, then laying 15... Read more
Pope Francis issued an apostolic letter, Traditionis custodes modifying the norms regulating the use of the 1962 Roman Missal issued before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued the following statement in response: “Today Pope Francis published Traditionis custodes, an Apostolic Letter issued motu proprio on the use of Latin liturgical texts approved prior to the reform of 1970. I welcome the Holy Father’s desire to foster unity... Read more
Mary. Maria. Mariana, Mariah, Mara Marie. Maureen. Maryam, Mia. Miriam, Meriem Mora…. Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Our Lady of Graces Our Lady of La Salette Our Lady of Lourdes. Our Lady of Knock. Our Lady of Fatima. Our Lady of Akita. Our Lady of the Good Event. Our Lady of Good Help. Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Our Lady Undoer of Knots… Queen of Angels Queen of Apostles Queen of Confessors Queen of Families... Read more
A Broad Chorus of Catholic Thinkers The diversity of thought within Catholic teaching, like variety within the strictures of sonnets, is one of its most beautiful features. It is nevertheless important to listen, as much as we can, to a broad chorus of Catholic thinkers. I have found great consolation in the fact that someone holier and smarter than myself has likely asked my questions already; my job is to find them and to listen, and then to make as... Read more
Last Week In Life: July 5, 2021- July 11, 2021 Last Week’s SPECTACULAR STORY OF WEEK “The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight… [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world’s sweetest smells… there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing... Read more
New Music Friday : All Songs Considered : NPR This week’s new releases (officialcharts.com) Here are Some New Tunes In The Jukebox Baby From June 2021 And June has a wide variety of music to satisfy the musical palate. Let’s start out with those who are Rocking On a Violin Whether you fiddle around on a street corner or produce a slick Youtube video, the violin is an instrument that requires talent and garners attention from passerby’s. The beauty streams from... Read more
Book Em, Dano on your reading list Catholic Books Descriptions are taken from Amazon or Goodreads unless otherwise noted. Most of the books have been released within the last month of June with a few exceptions to the rule. Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology by Noelle Mering While it is easy to dismiss wokeness as being a movement on the fringe or “out there,” to do so would be short sighted. We are called... Read more
July 2021 Movies Whether you are either planning your movie watching for July or you are catching up with films you missed in July, this movie guide is for you. Regardless of when and how you do your movie watching here is a list of what is coming out and when. Perhaps you will see a title you didn’t know you wanted to check out or maybe you are reminded of something coming up that you knew was coming out... Read more
Welcome back to The Movies Did you miss any June 2021 Releases? Well check this list and find out. TV Premiere Dates 2021 << Rotten Tomatoes – Movie and TV News 2021 Movies, Movie Releases 2021 – New Upcoming Movies 2021 (movieinsider.com) Action The Misfits Thriller Avenue Pictures Nationwide Jun 11, 2021 Even a federal maximum-security prison can’t hold Richard Pace (Golden Globe nominee PIERCE BROSNAN), a brilliant international thief. But his daring escape and high-octane car chase, eluding the FBI and police, ends with... Read more
Last Week In Life: June 28, 2021- July 4, 2021 Last Week’s SPECTACULAR STORY OF WEEK A Reason to Reconsider on UFO Day On June 24, 1947 American aviator private Kenneth Albert Arnold (March 29, 1915 – January 16, 1984) was flying his plane near Mt. Rainier in Washington State minding his own business when all of a sudden out of the blue he saw nine unusual objects flying by at immense speeds in the skies near his slow... Read more
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