The wonderful Dominican Nuns of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary have produced this really lovely video to help us appreciate the Holy Rosary and to deepen our abilities to ponder the 15 fundamental mysteries they entail. I enjoyed it very much, especially the lovely soprano voices! UPDATE: The sisters did a quick adjustment to the video as they note here. It’s been updated here. Sister Emailer informs me that the first version was “elongated” which she didn’t... Read more
ORIGINALLY POSTED OCTOBER 4, 2006 RECAPTURED VIA WAYBACK MACHINE Yesterday Buster had an early morning appointment with a sports medicine guy; afterwards I took him out to breakfast. We went to a little local restaurant that is always mobbed for breakfast and lunch, and I didn’t look closely at the menu but saw “baked oatmeal” which I ordered believing it would be a basic bowl of oatmeal, only baked for some reason. Came to the table a steaming bowl of... Read more
Kathryn Jean Lopez and I recently commiserated with each other about how life as a writer/editor seems to translate into: “if you are awake, you’re working”. One need only look around the internet, or check the speaker’s schedule around the DC area and in New York to see how busy Lopez is, and yet she’s taken the time to contribute a piece to Patheos’ Book Club: One of the saddest of sights, to me, is a locked door on a... Read more
I really like Joseph Susanka’s column for today: Try as I might, my “Social Networking” escapades are rarely social and even less regularly network-y; more “dialed in” now than I’ve been at any other point in my life, I actually find myself less connected than ever. Rather than an easy opportunity to engage with friends and family throughout the country, new media has become for me an information-induced malaise—a passivity that finds me watching status updates and tweets fly by... Read more
Patheos has picked up another new blog, and in keeping with this age of hybridism I think we could call it a kind of hybrid, too. Leah Libresco is a smart young cookie and a lifelong atheist, who has managed to find herself a devout Catholic boyfriend, and she runs the whole topic of religion through her wringer at Unequally Yoked, where she writes: I grew up with atheist patents in a pretty secular neighborhood (when we learned about the... Read more
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It’s that time of year again! The Norbertine Nuns in California have begun taking orders for their incredibly fresh, long-lasting Christmas wreaths. My husband rolled his eyes when ours arrived last year, and wondered why I was ordering from the sisters, rather than from the Boy Scout troop, but even he had to admit that the huge wreath was gorgeous, wonderfully constructed and so fresh that we kept it on our door through to February — I just took off... Read more
Heh. Took two “Painkiller PM’s” last night because of a recent re-injury, and am now totally behind schedule and my head feels like it’s been on the anvil side getting hammered. Will be up and at ’em soon! Read more
From a woman who wants to be The Anonymous Protestant: I’d like to request prayer for an 81 year old man who is dying of renal failure, congestive heart disease and pulmonary fibrosis. He has been arguing with me about the existence of God for over 30 years. When I read a post, some time back, by Julie at Happy Catholic about talking to her dad and getting him to promise that if he saw Jesus reaching out to him... Read more
Every once in a while, something comes across the desk or email and and it makes you aware of how quickly time goes by. For instance, it seems like just yesterday, I was talking about debuting a new column in The Catholic Answer Magazine, and “holy smokes…a month has gone by!” and here is my second column, entitled “And They Will Set You Free” Imagine a people, and the church in which they grow up — a church in which... Read more
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