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Here is Father Borgia casting out a demon...  St. Francis Borgia Helping a Dying Impenitent By Francisco de Goya 1746 - 1828 oil on canvas c. 1788 “Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía S.J. (1510–1572), venerated as Saint Francis Borgia, was a great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI, a Grandee of Spain, a Spanish Jesuit, and third Superior General of the Society of Jesus.
“In 1546 his wife Eleanor died, and Francis then decided to enter the newly formed Society of Jesus, after making adequate provisions for his children. He put his affairs in order, renounced his titles in favor of his eldest son Carlos de Borja-Aragon y de Castro-Melo, and became a Jesuit priest. … “After only two years, St. Francis was crowned for missions in the East and West Indies. In 1565, he was elected the third ‘Father General’....” Source: Wikipedia The current Father General does not believe in Hell.
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 Title: Christ taking leave of His Mother
Artist: Piotr Stachiewicz (1858-1938) Medium: oil on oak wood Date: 1900 Size: 22.8 inches by 14 inches Location: National Museum of Warsaw Source: photographer https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stachiewicz_Christ%27s_farewell_to_Mary.jpg This is Catholic art I can interpret. Notice their positions relative to each other. I know how He feels … no greater woman. Every loving son would take his mother to heaven first, and every dying soldier says, “Tell Mom I love her.” July 17, 1794
Ages youngest to oldest 29, 30, 34, 42, 42, 46, 49, 51 52, 52, 52, 53, 54, 58, 78, 78 One of the nuns executed had five biological sisters in religious life. Choir Nuns Mother Teresa of St. Augustine, prioress, 42 Madeleine-Claudine Ledoine Born Paris 1752 Professed 1775
Mother St. Louis, sub-prioress, 42 Marie-Anne Brideau Born Belfort 1752 Professed 1771
Mother Henriette of Jesus, ex-prioress for two terms, novice mistress Marie-Françoise Gabrielle de Croissy Born Paris 1745 Professed 1764
Sister Mary of Jesus Crucified Marie-Anne Piedcourt Born 1715 Professed 1737
Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection, ex-sub-prioress and sacristan Anne-Marie-Madeleine Thouret Born Mouy 1715 Professed 1740
Sister Euphrasia of the Immaculate Conception Marie-Claude Cyprienne Born Bourth 1736 Professed 1757
Sister Teresa of the Sacred Heart of Mary Marie-Antoniette Hanisset Born Rheims 1740 Professed 1764
Sister Julie Louise of Jesus, widow Rose-Chrétien de la Neuville Born Loreau 1741 Professed 1777
Sister Teresa of St. Ignatius Marie-Gabrielle Trézel Born Compiègne 1743 Professed 1771
Sister Mary-Henrietta of Providence Anne Petras Born Cajarc 1760 Professed 1786
Sister Constance of St. Denis, novice Marie-Geneviève Meunier Born Saint-Denis 1765
Lay Sisters Sister St. Martha Marie Dufour Born Beaune, 1742 Entered 1772 Sister Mary of the Holy Spirit Angélique Roussel Born Fresnes 1742 Professed 1769 Sister St. Francis Xavier Julie Vérolot Born Laignes, 1764 Professed 1789 Externs Catherine Soiron, born 1742 Thérèse Soiron, born 1748 1879
Virgil Edwin Earp was born in Tombstone, AZ, on April 19, the son of Newton Jasper Earp, Wyatt Earp’s half-brother. Wyatt Earp moved with brothers, James and Virgil, to Tombstone where a silver boom was under way. 1881 The shootout at the O.K. Corral occurred on October 26 in Tombstone. Thereupon, Wyatt Earp left Tombstone and moved to San Francisco. 1890 Louise Perkins, my grandmother, was born in Tombstone, AZ, on June 20. She and her twin sister were delivered by Dr. Goodfellow. He attended the wounded at the O.K. Corral gunfight. 1897 Grandma’s father was working as a mining engineer in Tombstone and was called out to California to build and superintend a stamp mill at the Jamison Mine, a gold mine, in Johnsville, CA. Virgil was the Sheriff of Paradise Valley, NV. 1909 Virgil moved to Sacramento, CA. 1911 Grandma married George Dunn, and they moved to San Francisco. 1918 Virgil listed on his WWI draft registration card that he worked as a collector and solicitor for the San Francisco Chronicle. 1943 Virgil listed on his WWII draft registration card that he worked at the Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, Sacramento, CA. 1958 The game show where Virgil was a contestant, “The $64,000 Question”, aired. I watched the television show as a young boy. 1959 Virgil died in Sacramento at age 80. 1980 Louise Dunn died in San Francisco at age 90. 2019 I moved from the San Francisco area to the Sacramento area. What is the probability of getting an odd number or a number less than 4?
When a single die is rolled, then the probability of rolling an odd number or a number less than 4 is 2 out of 3, or 2/3, or 67% (.6 repeating). The probability of an event happening will not be less than zero: something will happen. However, the probability of an event happening will not be more than one: something will not happen more than 100% of the time.  This is what Catholic nuns ought look like. They commanded; they had authority. Do you think you could fool around in their presence? Do you think you could talk back? I have a forward-looking view of how authority is established. Dress is key.
 At Sunday Mass 5-22-22, Pelosi received communion at Holy Trinity DC despite being told not to present herself. She wore sunglasses and can be seen on the church’s own live stream. Canon 915 is not political.
We get this proof that the earth is not flat from Chris Harrington, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Academy of Art University, 2011, Actor, Writer, Audio Imagineer at Doctor Geek's Laboratory of Applied Geekdom, 2011-present. I quote: "Edit: before we look at the photos, I just want to clarify what this image actually shows, since there seems to be some confusion from both sides of the issue. At any altitude above the surface of a sphere, you are looking *down* at the horizon. Even when you are standing with your eyes six feet above the surface. "People say “the horizon is flat and level,” and yes, that’s true, but it’s a flat, level *circle,* and that circle is NOT centered around your eyes, it’s centered roughly two feet below the surface you’re standing on. If you are looking at the horizon from a viewer height above sea level of six feet, then the horizon is 24 inches within the sphere under you, so you are eight feet ABOVE the center of the circle, and you SHOULD see curvature at the edge. "Not curvature “down,” but the curvature at the edge of the circular horizon centered two feet below your shoes. And THAT’S what these two photos show!" Jacob Rees-Mogg, born 1969, Conservative Member of Parliament for North East Somerset since 2010, cabinet member, prays the rosary frequently and attends the Latin Mass. Jacob is one of five children of William Rees-Mogg. His father was Editor of The Times from 1967-1981 and signed a petition sent to Pope Paul VI for the continued use of the Latin Mass. Jacob joked that he should be called “the member for the early eighteenth century”.  The beautiful altar above is located at Josef Ketzer’s Austrian secondary school, a Jesuit institution for boys ages 10-18 when he attended. The significance of the altar is that it was in Napoleon’s home on St. Helena, a tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic.
On June 18, 1815, Napoleon was defeated by the British at the Battle of Waterloo (Belgium). On July 31, he learned that he would be exiled to St. Helena. He embarked on August 7 and arrived on October 15. “After his mother sent two priests to St Helena, the dining room was transformed into a chapel. At first, Napoleon attended Sunday mass inside the room; later, he watched from his adjoining study. He said it was proper for him at his death to return to the Catholic Church since he had been born within it. Years before, when questioned on his faith, he had replied that he ‘took on the religion of whatever country he was in, because that was the best policy.’” https://mrodenberg.com/2011/07/06/longwood-house-part-5/#:~:text=After%20his%20mother%20sent%20two,had%20been%20born%20within%20it. On May 5, 1821, he died on St. Helena. He was 51. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco explained his decision to deny Nancy Pelosi communion -
“After numerous attempts to speak with Speaker Pelosi to help her understand the grave evil she is perpetrating, the scandal she is causing, and the danger to her own soul she is risking, I have determined that she is not to be admitted to Holy Communion.” Cordileone wrote a letter to Pelosi - “As you have not publicly repudiated your position on abortion, and continue to refer to your Catholic faith in justifying your position and to receive Holy Communion, that time has now come,” … “I am hereby notifying you that you are not to present yourself for Holy Communion and, should you do so, you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion, until such time as you publicly repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and receive absolution of this grave sin in the sacrament of Penance,” -Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, May 19, 2022 Because her residency is in the San Francisco Archdiocese, Cordileone has authority over her. Bishop Vasa, in whose diocese Pelosi has a winery/vacation home, said, “I have visited with the pastor at (Pelosi’s parish) [not revealed] and informed him that if the Archbishop prohibited someone from receiving Holy Communion, then that restriction followed the person and the pastor was not free to ignore it.” When was the Douay-Rheims published?
New Testament 1582, Old Testament 1609 – translations from the Latin Vulgate, which are translations from all the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts largely due to the efforts of St. Jerome (345-420) and declared to be the authentic Latin version of the Bible by the Council of Trent (1545-1563). When was the King James published? New and Old Testaments 1610 – translations of the New Testament from Greek, the Old Testament from Hebrew and Aramaic, the Apocrypha from Greek and Latin. What are the Apocrypha? (Not the Apocalypse) Many of these texts are considered canonical Old Testament books by the Catholic Church, affirmed by the Council of Rome (382) and later reaffirmed by the Council of Trent. Apocrypha are well attested in surviving manuscripts of the Bible. See Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus, Vulgate, and Peshitta. Both the King James and the Douay-Rheims are eloquent from a literary point of view. The D-R is approved.  By Raffaele Monti (1818-1881), photo creator Minneapolis Institute of Art. The following explanation is provided by Collectionsartsmia.org: “We can’t see through stone, but through tricks of light and polish, Raffaele Monti created the illusion that we can. On his Veiled Lady, the top of the head and shoulders are polished smooth to reflect light. But where the veil falls across the face, the marble is less polished. It reflects less light, suggesting the texture of fabric… .” **the veil technique**
Assignment – write a short story in 10 minutes.
Here is what I wrote and what Alexander (8) wrote. He decided location: Nevada; point of view, 1st person; and tense, past. Alexander gave me permission to post his story in my blog. Me – I parachuted into a swarm of locusts over the Nevada training base. It was in the flattest desert in the whole United States so that no one would get snagged on a mountain top. It was also in the driest place so that no one would drown in ten feet of water. I heard the distant sound of crackling gun shots. The parachute drop was three miles from the CIA practice range. “Alexander, over here,” I shouted to my parachute partner. He was tough as nails, a toughness gained from mining gold in the harsh environment of Mars. I sank into a hole as deep as my disappointment over the failed promotion. Alexander got it. Yet, he was my partner. How do I regulate my emotions? Do I pretend I have none or do I say something? … Alexander – I infiltrated the Death Star over the main room. I smiled at my luck. It seemed that finally I would steal the plans. Suddenly, someone shouted, “Hey you.” Turning around, I saw a security guard. He sounded the alarm. I ran quickly to the exit. My contact radioed me, but I could not check it, because someone tased me. My vision turned black, but not before my partner, Bob, flashed a cocky smile. We wrote our stories independently! https://www.canceledpriests.org/ Father Altman makes a clear distinction between politics and religion. They are not the same. However, the Catholic faith guides us on how to exercise our civic responsibility. Politics and religion intersect there. His statement is quite strong, but Catholics who accept the Catechism in its entirety are thinking what he says. His YouTube video has 1.37 million views. I do not look for perfection in anyone. People with different views are in my affections, but truth must be told. Twitter and Facebook are filled with bots. What are they?
Ben Lutkevich, Technical Writer, and Alexander S. Gillis, Technical Writer and Editor, from techtarget.com explain: “A bot -- short for robot and also called an internet bot -- is a computer program that operates as an agent for a user or other program or to simulate a human activity. Bots are normally used to automate certain tasks, meaning they can run without specific instructions from humans.” Bots can be fake accounts. www.mcafee.com/blogs/family-safety/spot-fake-facebook-account/ What is a bot account on YouTube? It is designed to make money for the owner simply by redirecting traffic from YouTube to a website with whom the owner has a relationship. Bots spread affiliate links and that is why, when anybody clicks on the link and performs the desired action, the bot’s creator gets a commission. 9 Latin loan words: bone fide, caveat emptor, ad nauseum, modus operandi, prima donna, quantum, quorum, quid pro quo, status quo
6 French loan words: carte blanche, faux pas, bon voyage, fait accompli, deja-vu, facade 4 German loan words: kindergarten, angst, uber, Volkswagen Find the next term in 9, 6, 4. This is a geometric sequence because there is a common ratio between each term. In this case, multiplying the previous term in the sequence by 2/3, which is the ratio, gives the next term. The next term is a repeating decimal, 2.66666667. That is how far my calculator will calculate the solution. Today, I received a message from a friend born in China and now living in the US. She is a widely known and read writer for a publication in the West. She submitted a column to a publication based in China. Following is the online conversation she had with the editor of the publication based in China.
Editor: “I loved it!” Shortly after a staff meeting … Editor: “We’ll we need more adaptations. We will hide your life experience in the US because it would make the audience feel bad. “We will delete the part that you made an assumption that a food which is popular in China could have been inspired by Mexican Concha because nothing could be greater than Chinese culture. “We will also delete the part you depicted the life in Hong Kong because this word is forbidden.” My friend: “As you wish. I am done. It is what it is, whatever you’d like to modify.” Editor-in-chief: “Please add love to your words to make Chinese culture great. Don’t forget to dig out the pessimistic part of the overseas life to indicate China is great. Emmm, make China great again.” That was the message the editor-in-chief sent to my friend after publication in anticipation of any other columns she might submit in the future. Charlene Carter was a Southwest Airlines flight attendant.
She joined the Transportation Workers Union of America (TWU) Local 556. She quit the union in 2013 upon learning that her union dues were being spent to promote social causes that violated her conscience and religious beliefs. She was still required to pay fees in lieu of union dues as a condition of her employment. The federal Railway Labor Act (RLA) permits union officials to have a worker fired for refusing to pay union dues or fees, but she kept paying. The RLA protects the rights of employees to remain nonmembers of the union, to criticize the union and its leadership, and to advocate for changing the union’s current leadership. When Charlene discovered in 2017 that TWU local President Audrey Stone and other union officials used union dues to attend a pro-abortion event in the nation’s capital and that the company had accommodated local members wishing to attend by rearranging their work schedules, she took to social media to challenge Stone’s leadership. The airline demanded a meeting with Charlene and informed her that Stone felt ‘harassed’ by Charlene’s activism. A week later, the airline fired Charlene. Charlene has sued. [summary of a story from Michael Vadum of The Epoch Times, dated May 15, 2022] I have a friend who works for United Airlines. He was furloughed without pay for something similar but is back to work. From Wikipedia - “Lyford Grange, just east of the village, was originally a moated manor house of Abingdon Abbey built in a quadrangle. The present house was built between 1430 and 1480. … In the reign of Elizabeth I the Grange belonged to a recusant family, the Yates, who harboured a community of Bridgettine nuns. “In 1581 the house was searched, three priests were eventually found and arrested by the government agent, George Eliot: Thomas Ford, John Colleton and the renowned Jesuit, Edmund Campion. They were subsequently tried and martyred. “... The raid and martyrdoms did not stop recusancy at Lyford. In 1690 an informer reported that a small estate in the parish had been reserved to build a nunnery ‘when Popish times should come’.”  The manor house at Lyford, Oxfordshire, seen from the southeast, photo dated June 29, 2015, author Motacilla. No changes made.
ttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lyford_Manor_SE.jp “The Last Question” is narrated beautifully. The actor does several different accents, including child and robot. Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the “Big Three” science fiction writers.
Most seem to agree that the top 10 genres for teens are Fantasy, Young Adult, Adventure, Classics, Self-Help, Autobiography, Science Fiction, Romance, Thriller, and Horror. I have assigned stories from all these genres and one detective story, but not Self-Help, which is not on my list and never will be. Altan was accepted by the most prestigious high school in San Francisco. The school is Catholic, and he’s not Catholic. I tease him, “If I saw you in the school hallway, I’d be on your case.”  On the advice of Josef Ketzer, I investigated the life of St. Edmund Campion SJ (1540-1581). Josef holds a Doctor of Laws, which is the terminal degree in law. copied the story from jesuitinstitute.org. I hope the Jesuits don’t mind. The end of the story is not pretty. “Campion went to the local grammar school and then, age 12, to the new Christ’s Hospital school for orphans and the poor. In August 1553, he was chosen to make a ceremonial address to Queen Mary as she passed through London. “Campion was able academically and went to St John’s College, Oxford, at the age of 15 (which was not unusual in those days). He was awarded his degree in 1564 and became a Fellow of the University. In 1566, he was again chosen to make a formal speech of welcome before the new Queen, Elizabeth I, when she visited Oxford. Much impressed with Campion, Elizabeth ensured he had friends and patrons at Court.” … [things went downhill, and he fled to France] “Campion was persuaded, against his better judgement, to join the new mission to England. On 16th June 1580, Fr Robert Persons SJ landed at Dover as the Superior of the new mission. On 24th June, Campion followed, disguised as a jewel merchant. Campion moved between the houses of Catholics (the Recusants) who practiced their religion in secret. At one such house, Lyford Grange in Oxfordshire, he was betrayed and arrested on 17th July 1581, barely a year after he had set foot in England. “He was imprisoned and tortured in the Tower of London and tried at Westminster Hall in November 1581. Condemned for treason, he was dragged on a hurdle to Tyburn where he was martyred with Fr Alexander Briant SJ and Fr Ralph Sherwin. He was hanged and then, before he was dead, his genitals cut off, his entrails ripped out and burned before him, his head hacked off and his body quartered.” Age 41. This story coincides with the entry titled, Shakespeare’s Recusancy. |
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