We eagerly await the coing of our Savior, the Lord, Jesus Christ. He will give a new form to this lowly body of ours and remake it according to the pattern of his glorified body, by his power to subject everything to himself. – Phillippians 3:20-21 Antiphon for Monday Vespers in the 4th week of Advent: O Flower of Jesse’s stem, you have been raised up as a sign for all peoples; kings stand silent in your presence; the nations... Read more
The readings from Scripture for the next seven days will be wondrous as they tell of dreams and visions, angels and prophets, of hopes fulfilled and promises kept. Peoples the world over will respond accordingly with songs of joy, lights on trees and skyscrapers and homes. Many wondrous things will happen, born of the spirit of Christmas. Hurts will be forgiven. Love will be renewed. People will hold each other close in joy and even in sorrow, for there will... Read more
Sorry for the false start, there, I thought I was fully back but circumstances proved differently. My lack of blogging was less about my own health, though, than about my FIL comind down with pneumonia (I believe he’s on the mend, now) and the usual work of getting Christmas going – simply put, real life had the temerity to interfere with blogging…how rude! I hope to be able to post something in a few hours on the beautiful O Antiphons... Read more
I’m baaaaack…or I will be in a little while – I’m not “quite” ready to start writing again. The surgery went very well – the anasthesiologist promised not to sedate me beyond “a couple of Guinnesses” which I guess he figured makes me loopier than it really does, but basically he had me giddy enough to chat stupidly with the surgeons and nurses. I saw the lump, too; they showed it to me – bigger than I thought it would... Read more
Unfortunately, for lumpectomy day, I’ll be out of the loop and missing a great deal today, as Iraqis go to the polls – but the rest of you will be able to follow the proceedings. Pajamas Media will be leaning heavily on Iraq the Model to bring you the live play-by-play. I pray all goes well. This reporter says Iraq is completely different from what the press pedals Aaron also has lots of links and he’s keeping close watch. We... Read more
L’il Bro Thom tipped me off to this interesting piece from the Catholic Report: The Tide is Turning for Catholicism This is a little saying I have been uttering for weeks now. I thought I would put these words into an essay to lay out why the tide is turning towards Catholicism. … I believe the tide started to turn in April of 2005. In that amazing month the Catholic Church was on center stage. Pope John Paul II died... Read more
Web Award voting ends tomorrow (Thursday), and I expect my little blog will be very quiet, as tomorrow is also lumpectomy day, and I’m going to be sedated (I’m not happy about this sedation, thing…) and who knows what – if anything – I will be writing. If I do write it will probably be pretty grumpy or loopy. Grumpier, loopier, I mean. So, if you have been voting for my for Best Conservative Blog I thank you – I... Read more
Instapundit links to a great op-ed piece in today’s WaPo, written by Maj. Ben Connable, USMC, who will soon be returning to Iraq. Depending on which poll you believe, about 60 percent of Americans think it’s time to pull out of Iraq. How is it, then, that 64 percent of U.S. military officers think we will succeed if we are allowed to continue our work? Why is there such a dramatic divergence between American public opinion and the upbeat assessment... Read more
This is not some guy on the street corner saying it. This is the freaking President of Iran. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that the Holocaust was a myth, ramping up his rhetoric and triggering a fresh wave of international condemnation. “They have fabricated a legend under the name ‘Massacre of the Jews’, and they hold it higher than God himself, religion itself and the prophets themselves,” he told a crowd in the southeastern city of Zahedan on Wednesday.... Read more
I mean, what else can you say but “clownish” when you hear The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel saying utterly outrageous and over-the-top stuff like this: “Don’t forget that there was an instance just about a year ago when Donald Rumsfeld did not travel to Germany because the German prosecutor had opened an investigation into the allegations of torture as war crimes. That was dropped [and] Donald Rumsfeld proceded to travel but I think we may face [charges] again if there... Read more
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