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Roche – Roche’spierre Roche said that what was done by B XVI and JP II was a “concession and caring for those attached to it [Latin Mass].” What a caring 72-year-old! The normal lifespan of a cockroach is about 1/2 year. “Archbishop says most bishops see importance of Traditionis Custodes” Catholic News Service. 21 January 2022. 
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“According to Fox News, recently, Puffin UK attempted to change passages in [Roald] Dahl’s works. “According to the outlet, ‘language describing fat characters was altered and gender-neutral language was added, among other changes.’” “A backlash, however, quickly ensued. “The Guardian, also, released a report indicating that Dahl once warned his publishers that ‘if they later on so much as change a single comma in one of my books, they will never see another word from me.’” He’s dead. Now there are two versions. Fat, fatter, fattest. Fat, fat, fat. I posted a lovely, unaltered reading of “The Hitch-Hiker” in the English category and called the upload Hitched (see 9/3/2022), and there are many other readings of classic stories. https://americandigest.com/leftists-attempt-to-rewrite-roald-dahls-works-face-instant-backlash/? My student, age nine, participates in the Giant Slalom. The next event is scheduled for Palisades Tahoe, but because of a succession of snow storms, a cancellation is possible. I have seen video of Alexander skiing, and he is far better than I ever was. U10 is under 10. https://fwskiing.org/content/u10u12-schedule-results I showed him my Yosemite painting by J.J. Englehart (d. Oakland, CA, 1915, age 47) and asked him to pick his favorite Dodge painting to upload and promote, difficult to paint if the scene were covered in snow, but one could do it from a photograph. Englehart https://www.invaluable.com/artist/englehart-john-n1y8x0gk8o/sold-at-auction-prices/ Dodge elysecreative.myportfolio.com/visualarts  “Elyse Dodge has a trademark geometric style, combining traditional landscapes with a myriad of geometric forms. The contrasting forms play well off of one another, and her style appreciates the appeal of landscapes, while pushing them firmly into new and unique territory.” double black diamond - very difficult
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On January 16, 2023, a ninth massive storm pounded California. In his short story, “To Build a Fire”, set in the Yukon, Jack London expounded the dangers of snow. London’s formative years — and his final years — were spent in Northern California. Born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876, and raised in Oakland, London left California in his teens and found the kind of adventurous work that generated his stories. Real-life experiences were the fiery spark. The reading is on January 14, 2023. “In 1969, NASA’s Apollo missions installed reflective panels on the moon. These have shown that the moon is currently moving 3.8 cm away from the Earth every year.” The USA is one of the few countries still using the Imperial system of measurement, where things are measured in feet, inches, pounds, ounces, and so forth. Divide the length value by 2.54. Thus, 3.8/2.54 = 1.49606299. Round up to a tenth, which is 1.5, or 1 ½ inches. https://www.space.com/moon-drifting-away-from-earth-2-5-billion-years
Let’s be honest, everyone. Democrats lead these school districts. Vote them out.
My philosophy is a child can have a cell phone when he or she can buy it and pay the monthly bill with money earned on a job. If not, n-o. No family plan either. I started working at 16 when cell phones did not exist, and we had one phone line in the house. I never called a student in high school by phone even once. In an emergency a child can go to an adult. Some years ago, I was subbing in a 7th grade math class at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School, San Francisco. That’s a mouthful, but they had a uniform, so that was good. I told a boy who was talking and fiddling with the window shades next to his desk to be quiet and repeated my admonition several times. Suddenly, I became frustrated and shouted at him to shut up. I got nervous for a few seconds, but nothing happened. Both of us knew that the principal was very strict. If the boy had repeated my words to the principal, I can imagine their conversation. “What were you doing?” the principal asks. “Talking,” the boy answers. “What else?” “Nothing.” “Get out of my office.” Father Curtis, FSSP, told us today that Jaime Soto, Sacramento bishop since 2007, has been very good to us, the Latin Mass community, amidst the possibility that the diocese might face insolvency because of clerical abuse cases none of us could have imagined. We will be very supportive of him in the coming weeks. The diocese has just over 1 million members and approximately 3,500 Catholics per priest, a big shortage. What I know is that every jurisdiction must be self-sufficient. There are 3,171 ecclesiastical jurisdictions: 652 archdioceses, 2,248 dioceses, etcetera, etcetera. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_dioceses_(structured_view)#:~:text=As%20of%20October%205%2C%202021,military%20ordinariates%2C%20personal%20ordinariates%2C%20personal  This map shows the provinces of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as archdioceses (or other top-level entities) where provinces are not established, 18 February 2015, Alexandr Trubetskoy, no changes made, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Catholic_provinces_and_top-level_groupings.png Does Gavin know he is subject to Jaime’s authority? Wager $1 for every Catholic in the diocese that Gavin knows he is so governed, and you will be a millionaire.
“… according to the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, the root of this nursery rhyme could be more innocent. While it’s unclear whether this game predates the rhyme, Humpty Dumpty was a popular game in the 19th century where girls would tuck their legs into their skirts, fall back, and then try to regain balance without letting go of their skirts. ‘Eggs do not sit on walls,’ authors Peter and Iona Opie write. ‘But the verse becomes intelligible if it describes human beings who are impersonating eggs.’” interestingfacts.com Ultra-fine Catholic messaging. All properly baptized Christians are Catholic: they just don’t know it. So, you might as well join the Church, especially during Lent when penances multiply, but that is a good thing because they will get your Humpty Dumpty into Heaven. San Miguel Mission (San Miguel Archángel), was designated a US National Historic Landmark November 24, 1968, NRHP Reference No. 68000032. Originally built c. 1610, the church in Santa Fe, NM, is the oldest in the US, excluding PR, beating the Mayflower pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Harbor in 1620. The race St. Paul describes? That is a personal race, but there are global races going on right now. I hope we win. Santa Fe is Spanish for Holy Faith.
“Heteroclite”, pronounced with a long i, as in fight, is based on the Latin heteroclitus, which is based on the classical Greek ἑτερόκλιτος (heteróklitos). The term combines “héteros,” meaning “different,” with “klínō,” meaning “to lean.” I’m thinking incline.
“Heteroclite” is usually an adjective describing behavior or opinions out of the ordinary. However, like its synonym “eccentric,” “heteroclite” can also be a noun indicating a person who behaves in an irregular manner. British culture has long celebrated heteroclite people — or “heteroclites” — in works such as John Timbs’ 1866 book English Eccentrics and Eccentricities and Edith Sitwell’s 1933 book The English Eccentrics. In more recent decades, the British newspaper The Telegraph ran a special obituary series called “Eccentric Lives.” Catholic convert Sitwell was surely a heteroclite. I wrote about her on 8/24/2022. There you can watch her interview and decide for yourself. Deathbed Catholic Oscar Wilde was another. A classmate from high school is. I tend to like a heteroclite, the odd boy or girl out. My student, Alexander, age nine, is a heteroclite on account of his genius. I’ve spotted several at St. Stephen Sacramento, and I think one of our priests, Fr. B., is. Wordgenius.com helped on this one. Like the Moon, Venus waxes (increases) and wanes (decreases). One way to remember the meaning of these words is to think of a candle. Waxing of a wick produces a candle that, once lit, immediately begins to wane away until complete darkness. Another way to remember is to associate wane with fade. Both have a long a, whereas wax has a short a. Some boys and men like a fade cut. The hair wanes away. Here are several images of Venus and Venus Express.  drawing courtesy of https://www.physics.ucla.edu/~huffman/venus.htm  images courtesy of https://science.nasa.gov/phases-venus  English: Animation of Venus Express's trajectory from 9 November 2005 to 31 December 2006, 1 August 2018, Data source: HORIZONS System, JPL, NASA, author Phoenix7777, no changes made https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Animation_of_Venus_Express_trajectory.gif Blue is Earth orbit, pink is Venus Express orbit, and green is Venus orbit.  “Venus Express was the first European spacecraft to orbit Venus. The original mission was expected to last no more than 500 Earth days, but the mission was extended five times.” https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/venus-express/in-depth/ Image of Venus Express courtesy of NASA.
Three patron saints:
Matthias – odd man out Robert Southwell, SJ – poet-martyr Anthony of Padua, OFM – confirmation name A member of the holy family: Joseph - stepfather to Jesus and my stepfather’s name A guardian angel: Robert – so named because he is constantly tracking me. More about Anthony On one occasion Anthony was dining with heretics. He realized the food put before him was poisoned. The men admitted to attempting to kill him but challenged him to eat the food if he truly believed the words in Mark 16:18 about the followers of Christ: “They shall take up serpents; and if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them: they shall lay their hands upon the sick, and they shall recover.” Anthony blessed the food, ate it, and suffered no harm. He said to the men, “Give up?” I applaud schools that teach public speaking in these times. He has 25,000 views. I want to say to radicalized teachers and radicalized people in general, “Stop imposing Your Will on us!”
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https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2008/naming-public-places-after-living-people/ 7 Pride is hateful before God and men: and all iniquity of nations is execrable. 8 A kingdom is translated from one people to another, because of injustices, and wrongs, and injuries, and divers deceits. 9 But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth and ashes proud? Douay-Rheims Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 10 Find out how Johann Sebastian Bach helps the Fat Man solve a case in this television drama from 1959. Writers Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. Production company Screen Gems. Because of the surprise ending, I give it 4 1/2 stars out of five. Rita Moreno 91 Quo warranto Latin “by what authority”
The executive branch enforces the law. By filing a quo warranto, Andrew Bailey, the state attorney general, is accusing the prosecutor of St. Louis, Kimberly Gardner, of not enforcing the law. He is asking the court to determine by what authority she is NOT enforcing the law. “Playing the race card” is a metaphor. For more about Gardner, read https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/leftist-prosecutor-famed-for-attacking-gun-ownership-governor-gets-canned/. TBD
FSSP Providence, RI, before sunrise. Nothing surpasses a smoky Latin Mass in the dark in any season. Missal impossible — memorization practical — piety palpable. The world’s first electric street lights were erected in London in 1878. Calling to mind the first stanza of a poem memorized at 14...
There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee. Rorate from Latin, 2d person plural imperative of rorare, to drip moisture, from ror-, ros meaning dew. Yesterday after Mass I met Mrs. O, mother of quadruplets, four altar boys. My connate self was never bullied into believing the 'population bomb' myth. Go full screen. Claude Lorrain (c. 1600-1682) did not do well in school and was apprenticed to a pastry baker. He remained hopeful. Between 1635 and 1638, he made four paintings, two large and two small on copper, for Pope Urban VIII. Let me add to Anna’s answer. The medicinal plant and source of nutrition is Christ in the Eucharist.
With all the Latin Mass rumors flooding YouTube from Catholic Tubers, I decided to upload this video from Christchurch, NZ, instead. The location has the earmarks of a house church, which is where some might end up, as Frannie is so alarmed about proliferation, and if some end up there, we stand in solidarity with them. Our FSSP seminarian received the subdiaconate on February 11, which is one more step toward the priesthood. For a side-by-side, textual comparison in English of the “New Mass” and the Latin Mass, whose roots I have traced back to Pope St. Victor I (A.D. 189-199) in a previous post, and really back to Saint Peter and Our Lord Himself at the Last Supper (A.D. 33), go to https://lms.org.uk/missals Words matter.
Gibbous, pronounced with a hard g as in gallows, is an adjective that is used when speaking of the Moon and refers to the observable, illuminated part greater than a semicircle and less than a circle.  Waxing means "getting bigger", and waning means "getting smaller". New Moon means the start of the phases and you can't see it from Earth, because the Moon is located between the Sun and the Earth and no light is being reflected at us. image courtesy of starlust.org
In an article written for The Atlantic by Ilana Masad and dated Dec. 18, 2022, six classics were recommended. I have read two, one of which I will mention here because it is the best Victorian novel: Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery, originally published in a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle “Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society”.
The Atlantic was founded in 1857 in Boston as a literary and cultural magazine that published leading writers’ commentary on education, the abolition of slavery, and other major political issues of the time. Its founders included Francis H. Underwood, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Greenleaf Whittier, and James Russell Lowell, its first editor. |
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