This is pretty amazing. Yesterday, Drudge gave this ad campaign a headline, and now this report from CNN? Embedded video from CNN Video In our email exchanges I’ve often told Deacon Greg Kandra, the former CBS news writer who is now news director for this about-to-launch channel that the Holy Spirit seems to bless with particular favor all of his undertakings. If you knew Greg, you’d understand why. He faith full of gratitude and joyful, humble obedience, walking around looking... Read more
I’m glad so many of you liked my Roseanne Roseannadanna impression yesterday (and my surprise plug to Happy Catholic) – and I appreciate all the nice emails on the podcasts – but today’s Vespers is sticking to the liturgy, albeit with a nice opening hymn you may not have heard before; sadly you must contend with my voice. I may be on to some better equipment, though, which will be good news, won’t it? As with yesterday’s podcast, there is... Read more
Now that I’ve installed that spam-bot thingy at the bottom of the comments section, I’m going to lift “moderation” on the site. I liked it only because it allowed me the chance to read comments, which I hadn’t always had a chance to do, before. Unfortunately, I did not like other aspects of it; the loss of spontaneity, the fretting that if I was away from the computer for too long people were left hanging there. It was necessary for... Read more
Q: Anchoress, I notice you’re writing a lot about Advent and nothing about politics. A: Well, you’re very observant! I decided after the election – actually a few weeks before the election, but by then I was in the circuit and had to see it through, so to speak – that I would write about politics only where it intersects with religion. I didn’t like myself writing about politics and I frankly didn’t like the tones being sounded from the... Read more
Julie at Happy Catholic reminds me that it’s that time of the year again, when a generous Catholic blogger like this one will take the time to pull a patron saint for the next year, just for you. What’s the point? Well, the idea is that whatever saint name gets pulled out of the hat is the saint “picking you” so to speak. It’s a chance to get to know one of our buddies up in heaven, and to get... Read more
My Li’l Bro Thom suggested that I try adding a little “homiliette” – for lack of a better word – at the end of Vespers, so, here is vespers-with-homiliette for today. I have no idea if it’s any good or worth doing again, but I can tell you that I made a silly mistake in saying I wanted to “stick with vespers and vesper antiphons”…I meant, I wanted to stick with Advent, of course. Since we started off with Verse... Read more
The self is more distant than any star… — G. K. Chesterton Over at Inside Catholic, Irene Lagan has a moving post; through conversation with a nun in Rome, she finds herself thinking of a remarkable young woman from Rwanda: Our conversation recalled an experience I had last year when I met Immaculee Ilibagiza. Immaculée is the author of Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, an account of her survival of the Rwandan genocide…I realized that Immaculée’s... Read more
So, I opened my email today and found a very nice note from a fella who is about to put me out of the Liturgy-of-the-Hours podcasting business, because while I’m doing pretend podcasts using my Rosetta Stone mic, he’s put together a very impressive site full of professional-sounding podcasts of Morning Pprayer, the Office of Readings, Vespers, etc, etc – with full hymns, and a true “community” feel with men and women reciting the office dexter/sinister as it should be... Read more
Well, for better or worse, here is the podcast for tonight’s Vespers. Sorry about the shoddy recording; new equipment still not in the budget. I keep saving for it and then spending the savings on car repair! As I listened to the playback, I realized I could not understand what I was singing, and I knew the words! So, here is verse one of “O Come Divine Messiah” O Come Divine Messiah; the world in silence waits the day when... Read more
Except, if he’d taped me, I’d have killed him. H/T Reader Dick T. Read more
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