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LJ, for me, is like that loyal great old friend who I know I should visit more often but always manage to shamefully forget ( Read more... ) -
Friday
When I wrote my last public entry, I had no intention of delaying over 2 years before I would use this forum again. Much has changed since then, many good things and few to lament. Yet, it feels like home to return here to the quiet and fairly anonymous stranger-friends of LJ.
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, being the shortest dayby John Donne ( Read more... ) -
A Passing Thought
Rome will always hold a place, a place of stable petrus, in orthodox Christianity, but it may not always be (if ever) Christianity's sole arbiter of Tradition and Scripture. -
Joyce
commonreader, with her inspired James Joyce excerpt, prompted me to do the same but in a somewhat different vein:
His mind when wearied of its search for the essence of beauty amid the spectral words of Aristotle or Aquinas turned often for its pleasure to the dainty songs of the Elizabethans. His mind, in the vesture of a doubting monk, stood often in shadow ( Read more... ) -
Incredible!
The King of France found in India ? Excellent.
via Shrine of the Holy Whapping
Balthazar Napoleon de Bourbon, a jovial Indian lawyer and part-time farmer, has always been fascinated by France. Framed pictures of the Eiffel Tower and the palace of Versailles implausibly decorate his house in a dusty, bustling suburb of the central Indian city ( Read more... ) -
English-speaking intellectual support of the 1962 Missale Romanum
via The New Liturgical Movement
Epiphany Declaration Published: English Speaking Writers and Intellectuals Join Chorus of International Support for possible Papal Motu Proprio[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ( Read more... ) -
Reminisce
The joy and shame of being a tourist. I had to take a picture of Multnomah Falls. And a few others.
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