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Overly simplistic labels they are. Some would slap far-right on my smiley. In relationships, moderation seizes the night, and exceptions can be made. Name, Male, American, Catholic...accurate. Independent nonconformist recusant...um, fairly accurate. The jagged, slippery label, far-left, mutates, daily.  one of Alexander's many drawings
subtitle "Believe the propaganda!" The inexperienced in wisdom and virtue, ever occupied with feasting and such, are carried downward, and there, as is fitting, they wander their whole life long, neither ever looking upward to the truth above them nor rising toward it, nor tasting pure and lasting pleasures. Like cattle, always looking downward with their heads bent toward the ground and the banquet tables, they feed, fatten, and fornicate. To increase their possessions, they kick and butt with horns and hoofs of steel and kill each other, insatiable as they are.  Title: Xanthippe pours water over Socrates.
Artist: Luca Giordano (1634-1705) Date: 1660s Style: Baroque Medium: oil on canvas Colletion: Marano di Castenaso, Collezione Molinari Pradelli https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luca_Giordano_-_Xanthippe_schuettet_Sokrates_Wasser_in_den_Kragen.jpg Wherefore does a traditional Catholic church have so many paintings, statutes, and relics? The answer is so simple, it's ridiculous. Our Lord, His mother, and the saints were real people; they are real people. Isn't it time to meet? The Seminary of St. Peter, Wigratzbad, Germany, is the first seminary founded by the FSSP. There, at a Marian Shrine, Southern Bavaria near Lake Constance, the men study French and German and live together in common.  AMDG
British author/philosopher Joseph Shaw is Chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales. https://lms.org.uk/ Ha-ha. Joseph is correct about all the old men, revolutionaries in the 1960s and 1970s, who cannot admit they were wrong. I knew them. Advocates of contemplative prayer (Latin Mass Catholics)
 Title: Ecstasy of St. Teresa Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680) Author: Alvesgaspar Date: 1645-1652 Style: High Baroque (c. 1625–1675) Medium: white marble Height: 11.4 feet Location: Santa Maria della Vittorria https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ecstasy_of_Saint_Teresa_September_2015-2a.jpg Gregorian Chant/Mozart - go to Poznan, Latin Mass in History category.
This report exposes the utter failure of land reform, the redistribution of white-owned farms to black owners, costing five billion dollars, after apartheid ended in South Africa on May 4, 1990. left: 1928 - 1994 right: 1994 - present RSA Republic of South Africa Size of redistribution 4,000,000 hectares ≈ 15,444 square miles ANC The African National Congress (ANC) is the ruling party in South Africa. It originated as a liberation movement and has governed the country since 1994, making it a one-party state. De Klerk President from 1989 to 1994, he agreed to a peaceful transition. Mandela The ANC leader was president from 1994 to 1999. Nobel Peace Prize They shared it. Crime South Africa is relatively safe for tourists, but the country has a high level of violent crime, particularly in urban areas, including muggings, armed robberies, assault, and carjacking, at night and in townships. A Google street view reveals that the SSPX church in Roodepoort is surrounded by barbed wire. The single entry for the Latin Mass in History category - South Africa - is an interior view of the church. USA The Big Three are California, New York, and Illinois, debt-ridden Democrat bastions.  AI generated white farmhouse in South Africa before 1994
July 26 is the deadline for DOGE to end its work. Musk finds that the Social Security Administration lists over 12 million people who are eligible for social security to be over the age of 120. The total number on the list is more than the number of people in the US, and the oldest listed individual is 360. The oldest person on Earth whose age has been validated as of January 2025 is Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas of Brazil at 116.  Musk: "Are they vampires?"
Vampire Girl Paint by Numbers image courtesy of numeralpaint.com
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Lesson 1 Storge στοργή This is an illustration of C.S Lewis’ talk about the first of the four loves – 'Storge' or 'Affection'. The series was recorded by Lewis (1898-1963) in 1958. Tolkien and Chesterton could not convince Lewis to leave the English church and become a Catholic. Thackeray (b. 1811 Calcutta) Vanity Fair (novel) Chesterton (b. 1874 London)
Pontifex - another name for the pope or a bishop (ha!) I placed this blog entry in the Art, English, and Faith categories. Part 1 of 8, English, story of a brother and sister
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See green or blue at the dotted line? In numbers, blue overshadows green. Achromatopsia is to be color blind, Shades of grey, black, white seen. Ad astra per aspera, Domine,
To the stars through hardship, O Lord, Our journey is strengthened by faith. Iter nostrum in fide firmatur. Have mercy on us, King of Glory, Miserere nobis, Rex gloriae, And guide us into your light. Et dirige nos in lumen tuum. We shall not fear adversity, Non timebimus adversa, For you are our strength. Fortitudo nostra es tu. May your glory shine upon us, Gloria tua refulgeat super nos, And may your peace reign forever. Et pax tua regnet in saecula. Blessed are you, O mighty God, Benedictus es, Deus potentiae, Who leads your people. Qui ducis populum tuum. In darkness we shall not falter, In tenebris non deficiemus, Quia lux tua splendet in aeternum. For your light shines eternally. Catholic... Dum spiro spero, Domine, In te confido et sperabo semper. Da mihi virtutem et pacem, Adversis in temporibus sustinere. Lumen tuum dirige me, Spes aeterna cor meum imple. Fiduciam habeo in misericordia tua, Et semper laudabo nomen tuum. While I breathe, I hope, O Lord, In you I trust and will always hope. Grant me strength and peace, To endure in times of adversity. Guide me with your light, Fill my heart with eternal hope. I trust in your mercy, And will always praise your name. Roman... You are hearing an American Catholic's pronunciation of Latin.
Ad victoriam vel mortem, sine metus Toward victory or death, without fear Wikipedia
Although some radioactive nuclear fission products were released into the atmosphere, the core meltdown caused no damage to the area. The site has since developed into the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), a national laboratory operated by the United States Department of Energy. INL and its contractors are a major economic engine for the Idaho Falls area, employing more than 8,000 people between the desert site and its research and education campus in Idaho Falls. Among other projects, INL operates and manages the world-famous Advanced Test Reactor (ATR).  Title: Saint Francois d'Assise, transporté mourant à Sainte-Marie-des-Anges, bénit la ville d'Assise (St. Francis of Assisi transported dying to Sainte-Marie-des-Anges, blessed city of Assisi)
Artist: François-Léon Benouville b. 1821 Paris, d. 1859 Paris Date of painting: 1853 Dimensions: height 91.0 cm; length 241.3 cm Style: Neoclassical (other style Orientalist) Place of conservation: Musée d'Orsay © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/saint-francois-dassise-transporte-mourant-sainte-marie-des-anges-benit-la-ville-dassise-79  Title: Annunciation
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Date: c. 1472 Depicted: Mary and Gabriel Medium: Oil on panel Dimensions: height 38.5 in; width 85.4 in Style: sfumato and chiaroscuro techniques (sfumato - soft transitions between colors and tones; chiaroscuro - dramatic contrasts between light and dark); anatomical accuracy; composition (triangular arrangements to guide the eye); perspective (depth and space to make paintings feel more immersive); and emotional expression (here seen more in the hands) Collection: Uffizi Gallery https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonardo_Da_Vinci_-_Annunciazione.jpeg Wow. Trump signed an order directing that federal architecture follow classical and traditional designs. In the past he has criticized brutalist architecture. Originating in the UK after WWII, brutalism was influenced by Modernism and the International Style and by the Art Brut movement, which emphasized brute materiality. Characteristics
Left: Tuscaloosa (Alabama) Federal Building and Courthouse, photo by Timothy Hursley Right: San Francisco Federal Building by Morphosis, photo by HaeB, courtesy of Wikipedia Brutalist architecture is stone-cold.
You feel as if its blocks are going to fall over any minute, like Jenga. Or fuse if it gets hot enough. Also see minimalism.  Title: The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple
Artist: Carl Heinrich Bloch (Danish) 1834-1890 Date: c. 1865 - 1879 Curator: Frederiksborg Castle Dimensions: 61cm ✕ 104cm (24in x 41in) Medium: oil on copper Style: chiaroscuro Gospel: Luke 2, 42-52 (today's reading) "...Stupebant autem omnes, qui eum audiebant, super prudentia et responsis ejus..." The faces of Mary and Joseph are concealed, and the face of Jesus is in profile. Yes! There were two choices for Mass today: 1) The Epiphany or 2) The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph (Sunday Within the Octave of the Epiphany)
Music: Tchaikovsky, Bayer, Rubenstein, Drigo, Pugni Math: Frequent time signature changes requiring a lot of counting Story: Bring dolls to life, as in a Twilight Zone episode in which mannequins come alive, one in particular, Marsha? The name Valerie comes from the Latin word valere, which means "to be strong", from the feminine French name Valérie. "Nonanomalous" means not irregular, unusual, or different. classic short story: The Box of Robbers  1866 Wikipedia Marianne North (24 October 1830 – 30 August 1890) was a prolific English Victorian biologist and botanical artist, notable for her plant and landscape paintings, extensive foreign travels, writings, plant discoveries, and the creation of her gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.  Raymond Chandler, American-British author and screenwriter, published The Little Sister in 1949, first in the UK and then the US. This is an animated version. Chandler used Bay City as a pseudonym for Santa Monica in his hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He portrayed Bay City as a corrupt town. In this story the criminal syndicate is present. Van Nuys Hotel is fictional.
Characters Philip Marlowe Orfamay Quest, sister Dolores Gonzales, minor actress Mavis Weld, rising actress (related) Orrin Quest, brother allusion How Do I Love Thee Its History
The library's art works are used in books, theses, exhibitions, documentaries, and products, and its picture library, Images Online, has released into the public domain more than a million images from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Paintings include
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, MP, interviews Eduard, born 1967, a member of the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine, the former ruling family of Austria-Hungary. He has praised Thomas More, Pope Gregory 1, József Mindszenty, Thérèse of Lisieux, Charles I of Austria, and Edward the Confessor. Jacob's sixth child is Sixtus.  Title: The Execution of Emperor Maximilian
Painter: French artist Edouard Manet Date of painting: 1867 to 1869 Curator: National Library, LDN Medium: oil on canvas Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian von Habsburg (1832-1867), brother of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, reigned in Mexico from 1862 to 1867. His wife, Charlotte of Belgium, was in Austria at the time seeking help and believing the rebels would never dare to shoot her husband. She died in 1927 at 86. According to manet.org, the soldiers have just fired. The chests of Maximilian and his two favorites are enveloped in smoke. In the back, an officer is preparing the coup de grace. Wikipedia Manet supported the Republican cause. Parts of the work were probably cut off by Manet, but it was largely complete on his death. Other parts were sold separately after his death. The surviving pieces were reassembled by Edgar Degas and bought by the National Gallery in 1918, then separated again until 1979, and finally combined on one canvas in 1992. Wikipedia In visual arts, music, and other media, minimalism in the modern sense was an art movement that began in the post-war era in Western art and is most strongly associated with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Every one of the churches is a Novus Ordo (New Order), or New World Order. #5 A pentagram has five sides and has been used in various cultures throughout history as a symbol often associated with magic. On a piece of paper, draw a typical star shape starting at the bottom left point, and five sides, or straight lines, will unfold. The inverted pentagram is broadly used in Satanism, sometimes depicted with the goat's head of Baphomet, as popularized by the "Church of Satan" since 1968. #4 Breuer was born in Pécs, Hungary, to a Jewish family. #1 See Latin Mass in History, 1944 Hollywood. That provides a view of the interior of St. Viviana Cathedral. Bibiana, also known as Viviana, Vivian, or Vibiana, was born in the 4th century in Rome, the daughter of Saint Flavian and Dafrosa of Acquapendente. [real town of 5,300 today] #8 The cathedral in San Francisco did not replace Old St Mary's. The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption at the corner of Van Ness and O'Farrell served from when it was completed in 1891 to 1962 when it was destroyed by fire. The Romanesque Revival structure was designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Egan and Prindeville.  Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is a 2024 action role-playing game.
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In Spanish, there are multiple words to express different meanings of "hot". For example, calor is another word that means "hot". Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente is a census-designated place in the Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, CA. We think this is pretty funny. |
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