A monitored laptop or tablet is all that is needed for Zoom or another platform if used for school. No phone is needed. Though I opted for something else, UC Berkeley accepted me at 17, and that is still doable without a phone in the hands of a minor. Law enforcement needs help to put an end to child abuse. Meta is a damp squib. Yea.
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The word “angelus” is Latin for angel. The Angelus consists of three Hail Marys with short Bible verses in between, called versicles, ending with a prayer. Why three times a day? It’s a way for Catholics to make reverent the morning, noon, and evening. Harpa Dei is a lay singing group of three sisters and a brother, and the man ringing the bells is a server at Mass. You know the expression, “There are no atheists in a foxhole.” In the context of actual warfare, such a sudden change in belief has been called a foxhole conversion. When in a foxhole, you start praying and hoping anyone will lend a helping hand.
For all you Catholics sitting on the fence, the crackdown on the Latin Mass presents a barrier to all seven sacraments in the traditional form. Why would any of you want to quash the wishes of your brothers and sisters? In June 2021, the leader of the Dijon archdiocese evicted the FSSP. Jolly Rolly
Gloria TV had this to say when it happened (cartoon courtesy of Gloria): “The archbishop has the brazenness to ‘thank’ the evicted Fraternity for its services of 23 years, adding that ‘the fact that the faithful are now entrusted to diocesan priests will only strengthen their communion with the diocesan Church.’ “Dijon went from 341 priests in 1950 to 115 priests in 2020. Last year there was one ordination to the priesthood. Minnerath implies that religious priests – of which there are 50 in the Dijon Archdiocese [France] – jeopardize ‘ecclesial unity.’” https://gloria.tv/post/zvpCBu3fT6dd2ji9zkjjVEVrG The bishop examines parish life, Mary and Joseph, bishop conferences, resistance, masculine virility, post-Vatican II ('62-'65), and Lefebvre.
I saw a new Camaro in the neighborhood today. Current MSRP starts at $75,395. The Hagerty mathematics division total is $130,345.
Are race cars faster than angels? Thomas Aquinas tells us that angels can travel instantaneously at the speed of thought. Further, he divides them into nine orders or choirs — from greatest to least: seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations, powers, virtues, principalities, archangels, and angels — and they can pass safely through barriers. My student has written several contracts, as good as I could write. He is nine turning 10. This gets back to what Grant Cardone said, 11/15/2023. Alexander is becoming a jack of all trades. Homeschooling has freed him from the school system and the bullying that came when principal, teacher, and students discovered that he was gifted. Alexander’s other tutor and I are not trying to change him. We like him the way he is.
There are exceptions, but Grant Cardone tells how he became a success. The Louisianan is 65. (Avoid TikTok, say I.) I do not hate on Elisa Stephens, owner Academy of Art U. She has a strong work ethic. He says, “Don’t play by the book.” I know that my high IQ student, who is 10 in December and is homeschooled and does multiple activities, would agree with Grant, and, you know what, it was working editors that I hired who taught me how to write, not college teachers. My parents were brainwashed, too. Grant gives the best interview of anyone in years.
https://www.prageru.com/video/grant-cardone-on-why-college-is-a-bad-investment-for-most?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_8291900 I am a competent writer, not great. About NYC Publishers Why did I ever think they would publish an American of Northwestern European descent, rather conservative, and a practicing Catholic? About Catholic Publishers Why did I ever think they would publish a man who writes realism and about scandal and has non-Catholic characters and some characters who swear? About Christian Publishers Why did I ever think they would publish eighty-seven thousand words from a Catholic, and then many more words? Approved Words My secular newspaper stories were published, and my words on tax for a non-fiction publisher were approved. Offer Recently, I got an offer to publish online with a Catholic outfit. I’m not willing to subject myself to review by strangers. Through this blog, and through any other fiction I write, which will be edited by paid professionals, I can give my take on the world, without earning any income, but freely. And giving help to my student, who will turn out to be a brilliant writer – he is so original – is enough. image courtesy of 23andMe
Pope Francis has purged these men: Vigano, Oliveri, Morandi, Visioli, Stella, Patrón Wong, Piacenza, Pozzo, D’Ercole, Sarah, Gänswein, Xuereb, Aguer, Livieris Plano, Torres, Aupetit, Burke, and Müller. Charge: too Catholic. Anthony Stine, compiler. Then there’s Zen.
Well, now...here’s something I never knew before, and now that I know it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the hope that they, too, will feel edified.
Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow, and, therefore, they would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as ‘plucking the yew’ (or ‘pluck yew’). Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset, and they began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, “See, we can still pluck yew!” Since ‘pluck yew’ is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative, F, and born were the words so often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute. Also, it is due to the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as ‘giving the bird’. And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing. Didn’t yew? Thank you, Mel Figoni, SI ’59, USF ’63. His dad owned Figoni Hardware in North Beach, SF. In the beginning, at the time of the great flood, Noah went through his ark after it landed, and found two small snakes huddled in a corner. Noah looked at these poor specimens and said, “I told you to go forth and multiply – why haven’t you?”
The poor snakes looked up at Noah and replied, “We can’t, because we are adders.” Noah looked a bit perplexed, and then proceeded to tear bits of planking from his ark. He went on to build a beautiful wooden platform. He gathered up the snakes and placed them on the platform, and joyfully told the snakes, “Now go forth and multiply, because even adders can multiply on a log table.” D. Scott MacKenzie, PhD, Metallurgist Specializing in Heat Treatment and Quenching Courtesy of the sliderullemuseum.com The numbers 16 __ __ 49 are squared numbers. What is the sum of the missing numbers? Solution: 16 = 4 squared, 49 = 7 squared Therefore, the missing squared numbers between 16 and 49 must be 5 and 6. Hence, the sum of the missing numbers = 25 + 36 = 61. Advice: if possible, when dealing with big numbers, break them up into small numbers, like the digits on your hand, because many of us do not know what 14 squared is without a calculator, and you may not be allowed to use a calculator. In my time in high school, there were no calculators, just that d**n slide rule. “Dad says that anyone who can’t use a slide rule is a cultural illiterate and should not be allowed to vote. Mine is a beauty – a K&E 20-inch Log-log Duplex Decitrig” – Have Space Suit - Will Travel, '58, by Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)sliderulemuseum.com/SR_Course.htm O, hang yourself, Robert!
In character, she answers a question in this Catholic film that is underway.
Ballet girls must be so trusting of a male partner, and yet they have that reserved, don't-get-fresh-with-me face. Ballet training reaches into all forms of dance in the West, it is so perfecting, and ice skaters do ballet to better technique, and if you ask me, it teaches boys respect.
We must enlist all our friends, of any faith or no faith, to help us defeat Francis. I learned that you never know who will come to your aid. “The blood of martyrs is the sea of Christians.” -St. Alphonsus Liguori, b. 1696, ord. 1726, d. 1787. Agatha Christie? She signed a letter. So did Harold Acton, Vladimir Ashkenazy, John Bayler, Lennox Berkeley, Maurice Bowra, Kenneth Clark, Nevill Coghill, Cyril Connolly, Colin Davis, Hugh Delargy, Robert Exeter, Miles Fitzalan-Howard, Constantine Fitzgibbon, William Glock, Magdalen Goffin, Robert Graves, Graham Greene, Ian Greenless, Joseph Grimond, Harman Grisewood, Colin Hardie, Rupert Hart-Davis, Barbara Hepworth, Auberon Herbert, John Jolliffe, David Jones, Osbert Lancaster, F.R. Leavis, Cecil Day Lewis, Compton Mackenzie, George Malcolm, Max Mallowan, Alfred Marnau, Yehudi Menuhin, Nancy Mitford, Raymond Mortimer, Malcolm Muggeridge, Iris Murdoch, John Murray, Sean O'Faolain, E.J. Oliver, Oxford and Asquith, William Plomer, Kathleen Raine, William Rees-Mogg, Ralph Richardson, John Ripon, Charles Russell, Rivers Scott, Joan Sutherland, Philip Toynbee, Martin Turnell, Bernard Wall, Patrick Wall, E.I Watkin, and R.C. Zaehner. The 1971 indult bears the Agatha Christie name.
While Bishop Strickland struggles to determine how he will live, AP reports that P. Francis says he will be attending a portion of the COP28 Climate Conference in Dubai, which runs from Nov. 30 - Dec. 12. What is his educational background?
“…He graduated as a chemical technician and then chose the path of the priesthood, entering the Diocesan Seminary of Villa Devoto. On 11 March 1958 [age 22] he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus. “He completed his studies of the humanities in Chile and returned to Argentina in 1963 to graduate with a degree in philosophy from the Colegio de San José in San Miguel. “From 1964 to 1965 he taught literature and psychology at Immaculate Conception College in Santa Fé, and in 1966 he taught the same subject at the Colegio del Salvatore in Buenos Aires. “From 1967-70 he studied theology and obtained a degree from the Colegio of San José….” Vatican website He has done no research, has written no articles for scientific journals, has invented nothing, nor has he taught or tutored science. In short, he is unqualified. Watch https://rumble.com/v3uuxtp-starship-is-armed-and-dangerous-ahead-of-flight-test-2.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=spaceXcentric&ep=2
Musk moving forward. Ground locations like Mexico and Hawaii alerted. Frank Borman dead at 95. Devout Catholic William Anders, 90, mentioned. Borman said that WA avoided the usual astronaut bull sessions. Elect Les Républicains and reunite America and France, strongholds of the Latin Mass and FSSP!
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Created in 1840, the ‘Liqueur de Santé’ is the first liqueur made from the original recipe of the Elixir Végétal de la Grande Chartreuse.
It was so popular that Father Garnier, the attorney responsible for liqueurs at the time, later decided to officially name it ‘Chartreuse Verte’, and registered the “Chartreuse” mark in 1852. It is still produced and manufactured today by the Chartreux Fathers in their Aiguenoire distillery in Entre-Deux-Guiers (Isère - France). Ingredients: alcohol, sugar, water, vegetable substances (130 plants, bark, roots, spices, and flowers). Degrés d’alcool: 55% vol. This is not beer. My dad always served liqueurs to company after dinner. Little cordial glasses are used, and liqueurs are meant to be sipped. Under his supervision, I tried them all. The Snow Man
It snowed last night. 8:00 am: I made a snowman. 8:10 – A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn’t make a snow woman. 8:15 – So, I made a snow woman. 8:17 – My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman’s chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere. 8:20 – The same sex couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it could have been two snow men instead. 8:22 – The transgender man…woman…person…asked why I didn’t just make one snow person with detachable parts. 8:25 – The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and are not to be used for decorating snow figures. 8:28 – I was called a racist because the snow couple is white. 8:30 – I used food coloring to make one of the snow couple a different color and be more racially inclusive. 8:37 – I was accused of using blackface on the snowman…snowperson. 8:39 – The middle eastern gent across the road demanded the snow woman be covered up. 8:40 – The police arrived saying someone had been offended. 8:42 – The feminist neighbor complained again that the broomstick of the snow woman needed to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role. 8:43 – The council equality officer arrived and threatened me with eviction. 8:45 – TV news crew from ABC showed up, and I was asked if I knew the difference between snowmen and snowwomen? I replied “Snowballs” and now I am labeled a sexist. 9:00 – I was on the news as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe, and sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather. 9:10 – I was asked if I had any accomplices. My children were taken by social services. 9:29 – Far left protesters offended by everything marched down the street demanding that I be arrested. 9:45 – The boss called and said I was fired because of the negative publicity splattered across social media. 10:00 – I cried into my drink because all I wanted to do was build a snowman… Moral: There is no moral to this story. It is what this world has become because of a bunch of snowflakes…. Thank you, Carol. |
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