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Today only, Amazon has made Tim Powers’ early novel Read more
Today only, Amazon has made Tim Powers’ early novel Read more
The Chasuble Project‘s unique style of liturgical music, based on a unique fusion of Gregorian chant, vernacular texts, and modern jazz, has gotten them attention from music directors from all over the Catholic world. The Project‘s mass settings are scored for schola and jazz combo, the combo usually consisting of jazz piano, electric bass, and drum set; however, their more experimental settings have included everything from crumhorns* to dual electric xylophones. Albums include The Birth of Schola, Brilliant Mourners (a... Read more
Welcome to all of the Anchoress’ readers who have popped over here due to her post today! She seems to have said everything necessary about me (and more than I would have, I think), so I’ll just say “Hello!” Oh, and please don’t let the dog out. Read more
I’ve seen this all over the web today. Amazon has just opened a new program called Kindle MatchBook. If you buy certain books, you can get the e-book for a greatly reduced price (from $2.99 down to $0). More than that, the deal applies to any books you’ve ever bought from Amazon in the past, provided that they are on the list. Just go the above link, and check; Amazon knows what you’ve purchased. (Big Brother is watching you, and... Read more
As the Anchoress noted a couple of days ago, a server in Overland Park, Kansas went to pick up a check after restaurant patrons had eaten, and found this message on the bill: Thank you for your service, it was excellent. That being said, we cannot in good conscience tip you, for your homosexual lifestyle is an affront to GOD. Queers do not share in the wealth of GOD, and you will not share in ours. We hope you will... Read more
Tom McDonald points out how it’s supposed to work: first you sit at the feet of Christ, and then you share the message with others. It’s an outstanding post; you should go read the whole thing. Read more
Just so everything is clear: I don’t pick the ads that pop up on the margins of my blog. Further, they change constantly; I’m sure people have seen many ads on this page that I have never seen myself. So…if you see an ad that seems really inappropriate on a Catholic blog, take a screen shot of it, and send it to me. I can forward it to Patheos, and it can be dealt with. Read more
Rachel Griffin, youngest child of the Duke of Devon, has read (and memorized) almost every book in the family library. She’s blessed with a perfect memory; anything she’s seen or heard she can relive exactly as it was, and she’s smart enough to take good advantage of it. She’s also skilled at riding, whether on horse or broom. Now, a precocious thirteen year-old, she’s heading to Roanoke Academy in New York there to stay, according to family tradition, in Dare... Read more
Pursuing the interior life—a life of holiness—is not easy, but fortunately God doesn’t leave us to our own resources. As I noted a couple of weeks ago, when we think of God that means that God’s calling us. More than that, He gives us the help we need in the form of grace…which term basically means “the help that we need that God gives us.” To put it another way, you can’t get to know God on your own; He’s... Read more
A rare negative book review from January, 2003, of Isabel Allende’s City of the Beasts. I find that I still feel the same way a decade later. Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold’s mother has cancer and is going to a special clinic with Alexander’s father; he and his sisters get dispatched to live with aunts for duration. In Alexander’s case, it means that he accompanies his eccentric, acerbic Aunt Kate on an expedition to the farthest reaches of the Amazon River, in... Read more
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