The Crescat
Fr. Z rants. Read more
Fr. Z rants. Read more
… If you anything like me, you’re going through maddening Christmas withdrawals and winter blahs. Well, go whiff some incense [see below] then head over to Fr. Longenecker’s blog for a bit of commiserating. His post will make you smile. I promise. Read more
… The use of incense in mass is more than pomp and meaningless ritual, as you may already be aware. Let your prayers rise up the smoke to the Heavens. Incense is also more than something that just smells nice and serves the more practical purpose of masking the stench of unwashed peasantry – as some claim. It apparently can also alleviate symptoms of depression and anxiety. “An international team of scientists, including researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the... Read more
… Being a single parent isn’t so bad. Trust me on this one. Of course I am not advocating single parent households over the traditional model of family, which I know to be superior, but I want women who may find themselves debating abortion because they have no support from the father to know that being a single mother is not worse thing out there. Again, you’ll just have to trust me. Right now you may be hearing the typical... Read more
Sigh. All I wanted for Christmas was for Nathan Fillion to follow me on Twitter. And convert to Catholicism, marry me, and father lots of children together. But that’s all. Read more
“Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, who has led the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York for nearly three years, will be named a cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican announced on Friday. The Archdiocese of New York is widely considered the spiritual heart of the American church. It counts about 2.6 million Catholics in a sprawling jurisdiction that includes includes Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island and several suburban counties. “As a kid, I just wanted to be a parish priest,”... Read more
Adoration of the Magi by Fray Nicols Borrs, c. 1570 … As someone noted about the arbitrary nature and silliness of moving around feast days for the convenience of the laity, why doesn’t the USCCB just go ahead and move Christmas and Ash Wednesday to Sunday and be done with it? This past Christmas made martyrs out of Africans traveling to midnight mass, most traveling many miles on foot at the peril of their own lives, and certain Bishops here... Read more
… I’ve found something to rival Pennsylvania Dutch Eggnog. I know! Cocquito, the Puerto Rican version of eggnog. Ingredients: 2 15-ounce cans cream of coconut 2 14-ounce cans condensed milk 6 ounces white rum (more if you like) 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 teaspoon coconut (or vanilla) extract Mix it all up in a blender and refrigerate for about an hour before serving. Feliz Navidad! Read more
… in the Adoration chapel of my parish is this painting by Louis Guidett. Breathtaking isn’t She? At one point I sneaked in the chapel while they were still doing construction and took a few pictures with my chintzy little cell phone but the images did not do justice to the color and detail of this wonderful piece [*Posting those images from my phone would have been a crime]. So here is a detail from the artist’s webpage. Guidett studied... Read more
“A 36-year-old woman was accused of causing $10,000 worth of damage to a painting by the late abstract expressionist artist Clyfford Still, a work valued at more than $30 million, authorities said on Wednesday. A police report said Carmen Tisch punched and scratched the painting, an oil-on-canvas called “1957-J no.2″, at the recently opened Clyfford Still museum in Denver and pulled her pants down to slide her buttocks against it.” Full Story. Read more
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