Blog Archives - ROBERT E DUNN

false church

9/24/2022

Below is a picture that means much to me, and the artist does not know it. Signed by Jamie Chreszczyk and titled Still Life, it was in the discard bin at Academy of Art University for another artist to pick up and paint over. Failure? No. There is no external light source on the small painting; Jamie achieved that in the painting.

I placed the crucifix, which is damaged, on top. The two lie on a dresser, and a lamp produces the shadow. Together, painting and crucifix represent failure. I have failed many times.

The painting is real. The new pagan culture surrounding us is real, too. We have entered dark times. I will remain loyal to an America free of socialism, barbarism, and radicalism, and I will stay with the True Church, not the counterfeit one led by Francis.

I have no superior, hooray, so I can say what I want and answer to no one, except Our Lord, and there has never been any other role model. I am extremely fortunate to have had parents who modeled His love. Without them, how could I have come to know Him?

Ancient Greece and Elizabethan England Weigh In

Following is a funeral oration by Pericles (495BC to 429), who grew up among artists and philosophers. He speaks over the brave dead, and his speech is a recommendation to us to defend what we believe in with our lives. Once more, I am amazed how Catholic the ancient Greeks were.

After listening to his oration, look at the list of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. The Church possesses all truth. I shall never apologize for that and never give comfort to those who speak falsely. Pericles’ advice applies.

about Anne Line, martyr

Shakespeare wrote the poem about Anne Line and her husband, Roger Line. Wikipedia states: “Line was hanged on 27 February 1601. She was executed immediately before two priests, Roger Filcock and Mark Barkworth, who received the more severe sentence of hanging, drawing, and quartering. At the scaffold she repeated what she had said at her trial, declaring loudly to the bystanders: ‘I am sentenced to die for harbouring a Catholic priest, and so far I am from repenting for having so done, that I wish, with all my soul, that where I have entertained one, I could have entertained a thousand.’” If she is not someone to emulate, who is?

waltz time

9/20/2022

Anna Karenina, 2012, Keira Knightley in black. Someone has a bloody lip.

zen on trial

9/20/2022

The trial of the 90-year-old man begins today. Zen should be free and F on trial for collusion, but no, Effie wants to create a new sin, ecological sin. His grade is F-.

prime numbers

9/20/2022

economics, basics

9/20/2022

PM Liz Truss faces leftist interviewer’s drivel.

The interviewer is a worn-out weather balloon. I’m surprised the heavy makeup stays on her face as the surface of a balloon is slippery. A balloon is a flexible bag that can be inflated with gas, smoke, water, sand, flour, or rice and can be made of rubber, latex, polychloroprene, or nylon fabric. Early balloons were made of dried animal bladders, such as a pig bladder. (Source – Wikipedia.com)

for Catholics only

9/20/2022

Ticonius c. 370 influenced St. Augustine 354-430 and St. Bede 673-735, both doctors of the Church. www.newadvent.org/cathen/14721d.htm

Anthony Stine says about himself: "After graduating from Portland State University with a Master's in Political Science, I immersed myself in studies related to food and environmental policy, sustainability, and economic justice. Presently, I am exiting a PhD program in Public Affairs and Policy, with my dissertation on the topic of moral theology and sustainability."

Marco Tosatti is a renowned Italian journalist and Vatican expert. He has been covering the Holy See since 1981. His written work appears in La Stampa and La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana. He is the author of several books, including The Prophecy of Fatima and Investigation of the Holy Shroud. He blogs at Marcotosatti.com.

chopin self-quotation

9/20/2022

Finally Found Frederick

He explained what I thought I was hearing: Chopin quoting himself, repeating himself with some variation. Bi-rhythm (what Frederick calls bi-metrical) is one rhythm for the right hand and one for the left hand and almost requires two brains, but, after frequent practice, it starts to happen.

A rondo is an instrumental form characterized by the initial statement and subsequent restatement of a particular melody or section, the various statements of which are separated by contrasting material. This pattern reveals itself in good writing, too.

From Frederick we learn that composers are sensitive, as are writers, to what is happening around them.

tesla california

9/19/2022

worksite geometry

9/19/2022

surely, you're joking

9/19/2022

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman. The book was released in 1985 and was recommended to me for its explanations of math. I decided to check out Feynman on Wikipedia.com and was not too impressed, so don’t look there. Instead, I will ask my eight-year-old student if he wants to read it. Alexander is a genius, so if he wants to read it, then I will. Some things are bigger than ourselves, than our egos.

eiir

9/19/2022

EIIR cypher Elizabeth II Regina
The greatest empire since Rome. It was the poet John Donne, pronounced the same as my own, born into a recusant family and later a cleric in the Church of England, who originated the famous phrase, “If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

24 April 2012 Sodacan no changes made
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Cypher_of_Queen_Elizabeth_II.svg

canticle

9/18/2022

I picked this passage from today’s Mass because the Latin Mass did this for me: it put a new canticle into my mouth. A canticle is another name for the Song of Songs in the Vulgate Bible. A canticle is like a psalm in form and content but appears apart from the Book of Psalms.

global protests

9/18/2022

catholic survey

9/18/2022

Conducted by Preservethelatinmass.org

NO is Novus Ordo, the “reformed” Mass of 1969-70; TLM is the traditional Latin Mass. The survey was conducted in the United States.

Approve contraception
NO    89%            TLM 2%
Approve abortion
NO    51%            TLM 1%
Approve same-sex marriage
NO    67%            TLM 2%
Attend Mass weekly
NO 22% TLM 99%

https://preservethelatinmass.org/

It would be nice to see another survey showing the breakdown by age group. I know what it will show: the majority of those attending the TLM are under 40 and the NO are over 40.

recusant motet

9/18/2022

lament in Elizabethan recusant hamlets, now an imputation on radicalized Rome and Washington

since when

9/18/2022

We say nine prayers after Mass. Nothing changes from Sunday to Sunday except the Epistle, Gospel, and sermon, no additions, deletions, or changes, no ad libs, pontifications, or outbursts, nothing. No one is in the sanctuary but for the priest and the altar boys, nor is any unvested person.

Since when? The Latin Mass comes to us in its exact form from the Council of Trent.

The Council was held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent (Trento, Italy). It was the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.

The essentials of the Mass come from the time of Pope Saint Victor I, AD 189-199.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Tridentine_Mass

It is superfluous at this point to say that His First Mass was the Last Supper, 33.

salve regina

9/17/2022

450 voices in 33 countries

barbarians

9/17/2022

Martha’s Vineyard doesn’t want migrants. One could add dozens and dozens more localities where pampered barbarians live. Send a family to Maddow in Beverly Hills. She has 14 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms. I watched a comedy skit on YouTube about two Santa Barbarians.

Murderous Maths by Kjartan Poskit © Scholastic Children's Books

Doesn’t this single page of allegory make you stop and think? This is why I would rather be with young people. They loan me their books. Alexander (8) has more than 400 titles strewn all over the house, on the floor, on tables, on chairs, so many I must be careful not to slip and fall. I always return his books, for a book is more precious than all other objects. The other day during tutoring, I threw some of them over my shoulder in imitation of a stymied teacher who threw a book at a classmate.

rudyard kipling story

9/17/2022

latin in the nursery

9/17/2022

The endings of nouns change depending on whether they are the subject or object in a sentence. Historically, one reason that Latin was taught in school was that it helped students understand English grammar.

maddow

9/16/2022

Rachel Maddow responded to Rep. Jim Jordan’s claim that FBI whistleblowers have come to him about politically motivated, Department of Justice investigations into parents of schoolchildren and other groups. She said, “Skepticism is in order.”

She is not a lawyer, has never worked at the FBI or in law enforcement, has never served in any capacity or at any level of government, and is neither a parent nor a teacher, making her an unqualified talking head and tweeting bird.

According to Forbes, her net worth is $90 million, and her annual salary from MSNBC is $20 million. She purchased a Beverly Hills ultra-luxurious home for $29 million. It has 14 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms.

No, not a teacher. No, not a role model.

murderous maths

9/16/2022

I will be reading, Murderous Maths, Do You Feel Lucky? By Kjartan Poskitt, published by Scholastic Children’s Books, London, © 2001, and will write a review in the future. It might have appealed to me when I was reading Mad Magazine, age 12.

whistleblower

9/16/2022

Let's face it. Social media has proven itself to be divisive. It is a colossal waste of time, full of idiotic memes and unsubstantiated opinions from unqualified people, occasionally entertaining for a split second. I would advise Trump to stop. Even the pope communicates so, styling himself as a forward-looking old man and giving us an undignified oddity, loved by social media all star James Martin, SJ, voted in high school 'most likely to succeed as ball boy for the losing team'. The world of FOMO is a fake life from the couch.

donkeys

9/15/2022

We need a change so that, once again, we can guide our military as a supporting deterrent to foreign threats in these areas: peace; cyber security; law enforcement; economy; infrastructure; research and development; space exploration; secure borders; illegal drugs; natural gas, coal, and oil development; agriculture; environment; education; and faith. I have documented them all in my blogs. One of my nephews was a crew chief for the Black Hawk helicopter in Iraq at the time of Hussein’s capture. Like all those American Indian names? I do. Noble warriors.
15-minute video - 220,000 views

migrants

9/15/2022