On March 18, 1865, President Lincoln signed an order returning the missions to the Catholic Church and the State of California, and today eighteen missions are owned and maintained by the Church as active parishes, while three are owned by the California Department of Parks and Recreation and are open to the public as state historic parks.
When the missions were closed, wealth that had been accumulated and held in trust for the Indians was lost. https://www.californiafrontier.net/secularization/
On March 18, 1865, President Lincoln signed an order returning the missions to the Catholic Church and the State of California, and today eighteen missions are owned and maintained by the Church as active parishes, while three are owned by the California Department of Parks and Recreation and are open to the public as state historic parks.
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An inkling that all was not right in the Catholic Church occurred in 1973 when I was invited to a gathering of the Catholic charismatic movement.
I did not own a car, so I went with friends. They were excited by the prospect of seeing the rave of the day. The gathering space is vivid in my memory – large space, low-ceilinged, fluorescently lit – as enchanting as mold on a saltine cracker. Hundreds sat on the floor. Sitting on the floor is fine if you are 5’5. A 6’1 guy struggles where to place his legs, under, over, across, half and half – just as I do in an airplane seat. Testimony #1. Everyone anticipated speaking in tongues. Testimony #2. No speaking in tongues. Tension was mounting. Testimony #3. Someone stood up, swayed and fluttered – forked tongue. It was at that point I told my friends I must go. I had lasted 20 minutes. The gathering resembled a séance, people waiting for a voice from beyond the grave. I am told that it was modernism and that I had sensus fidelium, the sense of the faithful. Experience playing cards and board games taught me when I was about to be tricked … or lied to. I attended a talk given by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski last night. He spoke on Pius X and his emphatic opposition to modernism. Kwasniewski delved into encyclicals by Pius and into the period leading up to Vatican II. Following is an interview back in December 2021. Since then, there have been developments causing more consternation. No to modernism. Non possumus. Non possumus is a Latin phrase meaning “we cannot”. It originated with the martyrdom of the Martyrs of Abitinae in AD 304 when Emperor Diocletian prohibited Catholics under penalty of death to possess the Sacred Scriptures, celebrate the Holy Eucharist on Sunday, and erect churches. The phrase is not a negative: it expresses the absolute moral determination to obey the Catholic faith. In 1994 Kwasniewski earned his BA in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College. The Catholic University of America granted him an MA in philosophy in 1996 and Ph.D. in philosophy in 2002. His MA thesis was entitled “The Dialectic of Reason and Faith in Descartes’s Meditationes de prima philosophia”, and his Ph.D. dissertation defended was entitled “The Ecstasy of Love in Thomas Aquinas”.
He currently works as an independent writer, editor, publisher, and guest lecturer, giving talks on the traditional liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. He also composes sacred music. The House on the Hill
Edwin Arlington Robinson They are all gone away, The House is shut and still, There is nothing more to say. Through broken walls and gray The winds blow bleak and shrill: They are all gone away. Nor is there one to-day To speak them good or ill: There is nothing more to say. Why is it then we stray Around the sunken sill? They are all gone away, And our poor fancy-play For them is wasted skill: There is nothing more to say. There is ruin and decay In the House on the Hill: They are all gone away, There is nothing more to say. Our seminarian is Jacob, Bachelor of Music (BM). Jacob's musical arrangement of the Psalm 150 with all the instruments mentioned begins at 59 minutes and is eight minutes long. Clementine Vulgate Latin text 1 Alleluja. Laudate Dominum in sanctis ejus; laudate eum in firmamento virtutis ejus. 2 Laudate eum in virtutibus ejus; laudate eum secundum multitudinem magnitudinis ejus. 3 Laudate eum in sono tubae; laudate eum in psalterio et cithara. 4 Laudate eum in tympano et choro; laudate eum in chordis et organo. 5 Laudate eum in cymbalis benesonantibus; laudate eum in cymbalis jubilationis. 6 Omnis spiritus laudet Dominum! Alleluja. Douay-Rheims Bible English translation 1 Alleluia. Praise ye the Lord in his holy places: praise ye him in the firmament of his power. 2 Praise ye him for his mighty acts: praise ye him according to the multitude of his greatness. 3 Praise him with the sound of trumpet: praise him with psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and organs. 5 Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbals of joy: 6 let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia. Swan Lake is an allegory. White swan good; black swan bad.
I came to watching ballet because I like classical music. Western music is based on the 12-tone system. The Catholic Church banned the wolf interval as offensive to the ear, but it is heavily used in death metal music and is very hard to sing unless the vocalist employs a false chord technique, also known as a scream or a growl. I think the Sabaton singer does it … maybe not.
This excellent video shows the connection between geometry and music. Some students have a harder time developing numeracy than they do with literacy or musicality. I placed a metronome on my piano and found it to be unnecessary. I suppose numerical timing and beat were already firmly fixed in my body, specifically in my foot. Here is a list of accusations made by Francis against me and people like me, people who adhere to the Catechism and tradition: 1) rigid; 2) monopoly on the interpretation of social realities; 3) monopoly on the proposal of solutions to contemporary problems; 4) self-absorbed promethean neo Pelagianism; 5) trusting only in their own powers; 6) feeling superior to others; 7) observing certain rules; 8) remaining intransigently faithful to a particular Catholic style from the past; 9) narcissistic and authoritarian elitism; 10) analyzes and classifies others; 11) inspecting and verifying; 12) adulterated forms of Christianity; 13) shut up within structures that give a false sense of security; 14) shut up within rules, which make harsh judges; 15) shut up within habits that feel safe; 16) sick. Here is a comment from one of my friends from St. Stephen –
“For you and me today, we are living in our section of this gigantic, turbulent river and it is confusing, we go under, we get pulled by the current so that we cannot even control our limbs, our brains are being drowned, we can’t figure out where we are going, and it’s beyond our control! “Thinking about the Pope . . . the bend in the river is different, the rocks seem more formidable, but truly it is the same river that every person must endure.” Why Russian children still love the ballet CULTURE, FEB 14, 2015, By MARIA FEDORISHINA, SPECIAL TO RBTH “According to a 2013 survey by children’s charitable fund, Deti Mira, 16.4 percent of Russian children aged 4-6 dream of an artistic profession, including the ballet.” … “In other countries, Russian classical ballet is often associated with the leading Russian theaters, the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky, where the dancers are mostly graduates of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography and the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. It is practically impossible to prepare for entrance to such institutions because natural attributes – such as flexibility, being able to rise and jump, and a good ear for music – play such a leading role. Students are subject to an intense screening process. “About 98 percent of children study ballet for themselves,” says Yulya Subbotovskaya. https://www.rbth.com/arts/2015/02/14/why_russian_children_still_love_the_ballet_43709.html Ballet comes in second behind sport for Russian children. An American parent might send his 14-year-old son into football, and a Russian parent might have sent him into ballet school three or four years earlier. These boys are 16. It is hard for a parent to know what his or her child desires. Alexander, my little 8-year-old genius, excels in reading and has an immense imagination. His mother told me that he thinks differently from us. Our thoughts follow a straight line, and his thoughts resemble vectors. Frank D and Nykamp DQ, “An introduction to vectors.” From Math Insight. http://mathinsight.org/vector_introduction At least, that is what we think is going on inside his little head. All I know is that I must keep up with his way of thinking, which is so different from my own.
“Elon Musk Rebuffs Bill Gates’ Climate ‘Philanthropy’ Request in Scathing Text”
By Tom Ozimek, April 23, 2022, The Epoch Times “Elon Musk said he had confronted fellow billionaire Bill Gates over the Microsoft founder’s supposed holding of some $500 million in Tesla shorts in a series of testy text messages in which Musk rebuffed Gates’ request to discuss climate change philanthropy. “In an April 22 tweet, Musk confirmed the veracity of a text message exchange between him and Gates, in which the Microsoft founder admitted he was short-selling shares of Tesla, meaning that he was betting on the stock dropping in price.” … “‘Sorry, but I cannot take your philanthropy on climate change seriously when you have a massive short position against Tesla, the company doing the most to solve climate change,’ Musk said.” Latin students, let’s see if you can translate this:
Omnipotens semptierne Deus, qui paschale sacramentum in reconciliationis humanae faedere contulisti: da mentibus nostris; ut, quod professione celebramus, imitemur effectu. Hints: qui - who; contulisti - hast bestowed; da - grant; ut, quod - that what On the Gift of a Book to a Child
Child! do not throw this book about! Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. Child, have you never heard it said That you are heir to all the ages? Why, then, your hands were never made To tear these beautiful thick pages! Your little hands were made to take The better things and leave the worse ones: They also may be used to shake The Massive Paws of Elder Persons. And when your prayers complete the day, Darling, your little tiny hands Were also made, I think, to pray For men that lose their fairylands. Hilaire Belloc When asked by a heckler during a campaign speech if he was a papist, Belloc (1870-1953) withdrew a rosary from his pocket and responded, “Gentlemen, I am a Catholic. As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative.” Finally, some 2022 video from Vaganova Ballet School in St. Petersburg, Russia. This is a comprehensive school giving instruction in academics and ballet, and ages are roughly 10 - 18. The video is probably the 7th or 8th year of study, so 17-year-old students. The teachers are Denis Matvienko and Mikhail Sivakov. Russia’s passion. Here is the simplest proof I ever saw, done by working backward. Enlarge so you can see the whiteboard. His teaching style encourages class participation. Sine functions are trig, which follows geometry, and a complex number is expressed in standard form when written a + bi where a is the real part and bi is the imaginary part. For example, 5+2i is a complex number. No need to think about that. Watch the teacher. (BTW, Fourier, 1768-1830, was orphaned at age nine. Ergo, I have no excuses when doing math. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier) I watched The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), written and directed by Robert Bresson (1901-1999), the same man who directed Diary of a Country Priest (1951), which I have reviewed before. Classified as historical film, it holds a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I have four French films in my top ten. The other two are Léon Morin, Priest (1961) and Dialogue with the Carmelites (1960). All have English subtitles. I never expected any French films to be near the top. As pointed out by Bresson, there were no paintings of Joan done during her lifetime. He used the actual trial transcript as well as the transcript of her rehabilitation trial years later. Bishop Pierre Cauchon (1371-1442) was the trial judge. He and all the other clerics there were anglophiles. England had occupied the northern part of France at the time. If I had been pope, I would have hauled his ass to the Vatican and flogged him and excommunicated him. Didn’t happen. Cauchon died of a heart attack at 71. They none of them liked the fact that she dressed in men’s clothing during the trial but did protect her from the lustful jailers. A group of women verified her virginity. Joan (1412-1431) was 19 when she was burned at the stake. The questions put to Joan were very clever, but her answers were cleverer, and some questions she refused to answer. At one point, the interrogator says, “… at this trial …”, and she says, “Is this a trial?” She got hand signals from her priest-lawyer on which questions to answer, and a couple of times he flashed a small, covert smile after her answers. No one was allowed to advise her. The court at her rehabilitation trial declared her innocent on July 7, 1456, by annulling her sentence and declaring that she had been tried on ‘false articles of accusation’. The articles and Cauchon’s sentence were to be torn out of a copy of the proceedings and burnt by the public executioner at Rouen. My rating of the film is five stars. I would classify it as realism. I prefer films on saints rather than Christ for two reasons: 1) it is impossible to portray divinity and 2) it is too much to ask an actor to be the face of Christ. I prefer realism over sickeningly pious films. Painting by Hermann Stilke (1803-1860), right-hand side of "The Life of Joan of Arc" Triptych, created 1843 and owned by the Hermitage Museum.
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: The author died in 1860, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years of fewer. We know who is doing the seducing. The artist is Frenchman Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845). Below is one of his drawings and is posted for all the young artists out there. The title is, Three Young Artists in a Studio, in black chalk with white chalk heightening and stumping on beige paper and thought to be created in 1820. Boilly survived the French Revolution. The drawing is in the Getty Center Collection. This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: The author died in 1845, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.
The Epoch Times The Chinese Communist Party uses playbook of ‘unrestricted warfare’ to target leading performing arts company Story by Petr Svab, April 14, 2022, Updated April 15, 2022 “‘Why the group is targeted is clear from its slogan this year: ‘China Before Communism.’” … “‘Yesterday, I was standing on stage at a prestigious venue to roaring applause, and back here at our home, I’m being spied on, harassed, and living in an environment where hostile people are formulating and spreading egregious lies about us,’ said Steven Wang, a principal dancer with Shen Yun. ‘And to know that the CCP is behind all this … doing this to us on U.S. soil, is scary.’” … Shen Yun principal dancer Angelia Wang rehearses at the performing art company's campus in upstate New York. (Courtesy of The Epoch Times and Shen Yun Performing Arts)
Frank Norris novel, McTeague, published 1899, set in San Francisco and one other place, I recommend for its stark realism and noir tone. Genre - Naturalism.
A friend sent this clip of Bob Hope. SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY https://sfpl.org/locations/main-library/historical-photographs Outside his father’s store in San Francisco’s North Beach, Figoni Hardware, my friend met Bob Hope. They had a nice conversation … about Bob’s eye problem. Figoni sold live worms, too. music from Enya’s album Aniron The language of the song is elvish, originally developed by Tolkien, a daily communicant who preferred the Latin Mass. Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi. As we Worship, So we Believe, So we Live. Tolkien Bradley J. Birzer|November 6th, 2021| Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Catholicism, J.R.R. Tolkien, Literature, Senior Contributors, https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/11/jrr-tolkien-roman-catholic-church-bradley-birzer.html “Into” is a preposition.
“In” is a noun, preposition, adjective, or adverb. Examples of “in” I have an in with the company. (noun) She placed her books in the bookbag. (preposition) Dress shirts with no tie are in this year. (adjective) Turn your essay in to the teacher. (adverb) In the last example, “in” is connected to “turn”, “turn in”, indicating how. Put the adverb “in” next to “turn” and then it becomes clear. If one said, “into the teacher”, now there is a preposition and making the essay the teacher is impossible unless one owns the Good Witch’s wand. |
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