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Chesterton's influence
Just to keep this at the top of my LJ ( Read more... ) -
"The Bishop of the Moon"
[Archbishop William Borders] was ordained bishop in 1968 and made the first Bishop of Orlando, Florida. The new diocese encompassed central Florida and included Cape Canaveral, from where, the following year, Apollo 11 launched, bound for the moon. After that historic launch and lunar landing, with all the images of our astronauts walking, golfing ( Read more... ) -
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"Holy Terror: The First Great Radio Hoax"
A good article about the 1926 "radio hoax" on the BBC by Fr. Ronald Knox.
An extract from the article:
The resulting script is peppered with stylistic tics and outright jokes, which Knox evidently assumed would alert his listeners not to take it too seriously. I've rigorously excised all those jokes from ( Read more... ) -
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One lesson I am having to learn at the moment is trying to take one moment at a time, "sanctifying the present moment"...It's something that I have especially had to learn the last few days (which explains why I have been absent from LiveJournal recently ( Read more... ) -
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Not good....My family's car went out yesterday. :-( At least my parents were able to make it home before it completely went out, a blessing considering the type of weather that we are experiencing now. Still, it will be difficult to deal with. -
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A new year....Perhaps I need to (again :-) ) try to use LiveJournal. -
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Why, yes, I *have* been negligent in updating my LJ. lol.
My sister has come down to live with my family in Kentucky, at least for a while. Other than that, not much happening...
I did recently read a book that I enjoyed greatly. Dion: The Wanderer Talks Truth, written by Dion DiMucci (and helped by Mike Aquilina). It gives his own story of ( Read more... ) -
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D'oh! Haven't been updating/commenting on LJ lately because...um....well, you see...OK, I have no good excuse. :-)
Except that I've been spending a lot of time the last few days reading a very good book I came across, called The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism by Edward Feser ( Read more... ) -
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Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you" If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has ( Read more... ) -
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OK, since I didn't update yesterday, I have two things I need to express gratitude for today ( Read more... )