The Anchoress
This kid is so light on his feet! Read more
This kid is so light on his feet! Read more
I couldn’t help but notice that someone purchased this unicycle from Amazon! I don’t know who you are, but one of my sons asked for unicycle as a birthday gift one year; he meant to speed around the college campus. My advice: helmet, helmet, helmet. Bactine. Bandages that cover elbows. And also, make sure whoever you’re buying this for understands that the thing is easily missed in driveways or garages and thus, easy to drive over! Demand a that it... Read more
Taylor Marsh, who is a very smart woman whose knee does not jerk, asks the question, and it’s a revealing one. Despising her as they do, the question suggests that -beneath the disdain- they appreciate what she brings with her. At least Marsh does: Mrs. Palin’s politics aren’t for me, and though I pine to see hot headliners from the left, instead we get the likes of Claire McCaskill, Kathleen Sebelius and other Obama blue dog duds, with no women... Read more
New Monastery Going Up Through the Efforts of Five Women Politics is opportunistic; in the wake of the last three weeks unending coverage of the decades-old scandals in the Catholic church, Lisa Miller of Newsweek has decided that this is the time to push for the feminist interests. The chasm between the church’s stated principles and its functional reality yawns wide. In the U.S., 60 percent of Sunday massgoers are women; thus most of the contributions to the collection plate—$6... Read more
First I wrote something long and angry and decided that after five years of blogging I should know better than to write angry, so I dumped it. Then I got busy with something that I actually have to write on deadline. Then, I took a break, mosey’d over to Deacon Greg’s establishment and found this: “From the beginning and throughout history, Peter has often been a wobbly rock, a source of scandal, corrupt, and yet this is the one –... Read more
Because the originals seemed to be set at too low a volume, I just got done re-recording all of the podcasts for the Treasury of Catholic Prayers. So, for those who complained (and who did not), please re-download what you like. I have added a few more prayers, and completely re-recorded the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, because the first one included me gassing away interminably about I-forget-what. Now you can have just the prayer, without the rest.... Read more
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.” —... Read more
As I sit here not getting as much done as I had wished, I kind of liked this story which I can’t even claim is true, because I don’t know that it is, but it’s worth reading anyway: By 1946 my older sisters were married and my brothers had left home. A month before Easter the pastor of our church announced that a special Easter offering would be taken to help a poor family. He asked everyone to save and... Read more
A visitation and a view from the pew, discreetly, with phone camera: Te Deum You are God: we praise you; You are the Lord: we acclaim you; You are the Eternal Father: All creation worships you. To you all angels, all the powers of heaven, Cherubim and Seraphim, sing in endless praise: Holy, holy, holy, Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. The glorious company of apostles praise you. The noble fellowship of... Read more
Duties abound and I am against a hard deadline for an essay I must deliver, but please check back later. I may have something provocative for you! Read more
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