… makes Baby Jesus cry. Read more
Hans Holbein Read more
… UPDATED 2/4/09: Amazingly enough no one correctly identified all 12 structures. Only three people got all but ONE right. The ones that seemed the most difficult to identify were numbers 1,3,6,11. If I had to declare a winner it would be the first individual who answered all but one correct. And that person was… RC!. He only missed number 7. Followed by cslord who missed number 1 and Rocky who only missed number 6. Your prizes are untold blogger... Read more
… today was the last day to submit your photos for the “Is it a church or is it a Correctional Institution?!” contest. I’ve gotten quite a few entries. I’ll apologize now for some that had to be disqualified because they had obvious exterior indications as to the function of the building. Don’t take it as a slight if your photo did not make the final cuts; I was trying to make this contest as challenging as possible. Look for... Read more
… this week alone we’ve lost 7 residents who could no longer keep their homes due to unemployment. One gentleman whose been a resident for many years just confessed he hadn’t been to mass in 15 years but now that he is about to find himself homeless he’s been to daily mass for 3 weeks straight. He just smiled at me and said “I am just sorry I was so stubborn that it took this hardship for me to find... Read more
…beg of Him with most earnest prayer to perfect it.— the Rule of St. Benedict Saint Benedict’s Abbey in Atchison c.1955 Read more
… it was infectious. Divine Liturgy and Eastern worship that is. With the election of Metropolitan Kirill as Russian Patriarch there seems to be a lot of blog interest lately in all things Eastern Christian. Good, I say. photo source: NLM Read more
art by Bouguereau Read more
… not the bad ones, which I possess in magnitude, but the ones nuns wear. Or used to. Whatever. Fr. Longenecker did a cheeky little post listing the pros and cons of wearing a cassock. So I decided to list the pros and cons of wearing a habit. Or the pros and cons as perceived by me; some one who has never worn a habit. Remember I am not a real nun, I only play one on the Internet. hhhmmm.... Read more
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