The original was solid silver. Napoleon melted Iggy and absconded with precious metal. On the evening of 4/29/1821, when the pope’s representative, Abbé Vignali, entered a sick man’s room, Napoleon received absolution but not Viaticum, as he could not keep his food down. We will never know if theft saw the light of confession. If N forgot about it (he was dying) and V did not bring it up, then confession was a good one. pulleys and weights
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image courtesy of peakpx.com A fine poem manifesting Longfellow's faith and poetic power importuned me to republish on account of the days, which are shortening. I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour, And the moon rose o'er the city, Behind the dark church-tower. I saw her bright reflection In the waters under me, Like a golden goblet falling And sinking into the sea. And far in the hazy distance Of that lovely night in June, The blaze of the flaming furnace Gleamed redder than the moon. Among the long, black rafters The wavering shadows lay, And the current that came from the ocean Seemed to lift and bear them away; As, sweeping and eddying through them, Rose the belated tide, And, streaming into the moonlight, The seaweed floated wide. And like those waters rushing Among the wooden piers, A flood of thoughts came o’er me That filled my eyes with tears. How often, O, how often, In the days that had gone by, I had stood on that bridge at midnight And gazed on that wave and sky! How often, O, how often, I had wished that the ebbing tide Would bear me away on its bosom O’er the ocean wild and wide! For my heart was hot and restless, And my life was full of care, And the burden laid upon me Seemed greater than I could bear. But now it has fallen from me, It is buried in the sea; And only the sorrow of others Throws its shadow over me. Yet whenever I cross the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. And I think how many thousands Of care-encumbered men, Each bearing his burden of sorrow, Have crossed the bridge since then. I see the long procession Still passing to and fro, The young heart hot and restless, And the old subdued and slow! And forever and forever, As long as the river flows, As long as the heart has passions, As long as life has woes; The moon and its broken reflection And its shadows shall appear, As the symbol of love in heaven, And its wavering image here. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1845 from Silk Road, AI expert, Quora Y axis is altitude. X axis (at top) is temperature. Chemical symbols: NO nitric oxide; N nitrogen; O oxygen; OH hydroxide; H hydrogen; HE helium. quiet Sun - no solar flares active Sun - solar flares
This one is for Ryan, parishioner at Saint Stephen Catholic Church, Sacramento, and Saint George Melkite Greek-Catholic Church, Sacramento. Author of song - Nectarios of Aegina
Painter of the purple - Diego Velázquez Copyright DC Comics: Superman is an American superhero created for DC Comics by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster. Superman first appeared in 1938 in Action Comics No. 1. See the similarity to one of the Mary paintings? Cancelled! No church-given assignment, residence, or income. Burke has family in the US. That is how Francis punishes people for publicly affirming Catholic truths. Francis is a modernist Pontius Pilate, whose only famous line was, “Quid est veritas?” (What is truth?)
Christ is the perfect example. His human will accepted the Crucifixion. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 475, states: “Similarly, at the Sixth ecumenical council, Constantinople III in 681, the Church confessed that Christ possesses two wills and two natural operations, divine and human.” Church councils convened throughout history to reject the screwball ideas that people came up with regarding the faith, and councils will occur again.
“The color azure ultimately takes its name from the intense blue mineral lapis lazuli. Azure also describes the color of the mineral azurite, both in its natural form and as a pigment in various paint formulations. “To preserve its deep color, azurite was ground coarsely. Fine-ground azurite produces a lighter, washed-out color. Traditionally, the pigment was considered unstable in oil paints and was sometimes isolated from other colors and not mixed.” Source: Wikipedia azurite photo courtesy of gft.com
Antonio Vivaldi began studying for the priesthood at 15 and was ordained at 25, minimum age. (eight younger siblings)
When I was 19, a friend who worked with me all summer was with me at Camp Mather in Yosemite cleaning up the camp. He had planned a little excursion one night, a night with no Moon. We walked up a slope and lay down on a bit of a slant with no trees, and he told me to turn off my flashlight, and above us was a true night sky, the same seen by the ancients. Malheureusement, I never saw it again. School needs to have practical meaning for students, and sadly for many, especially city boys, it does not, and it did not for me until that night’s diversion. Light pollution in our cities is, like a fog, the artificial light that washes out and obscures what we could see in the night sky. People who know me know that I like the night. It is when I do most of my work. According to St. Thomas Aquinas, angels cannot read our thoughts. “God alone can know the thoughts of hearts and affections of wills.” But the angels—our guardian angels especially—can often tell what we’re thinking based on physical cues such as facial expressions. It makes sense, if you think about it. A family member or a good friend can often tell what we’re thinking or feeling just by the slump of our shoulders or very slight smile on our faces. “Angels can know specific thoughts that we willfully desire to communicate with them…Therefore, as soon as we make the decision to speak with or to pray to the angels, they will become aware of what we want to communicate to them.” —Fr. Matthew Hincks, ORC, Opus Sanctorum Angelorum courtesy of The Catholic Company Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here, ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. Title: Archangel Raphael and Tobit
Artist: attrib. to Titian, born c. 1488/1490, died 1576 Date painted: c. 1542 Location: Gallerie dell'Accademia Date acquired: 1815, after Napoleonic suppressions Last restored: 1994 Kilmer, an American Catholic convert and father of five, was killed on July 30, 1918, age 31. For his valor, Kilmer was posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre (War Cross) by the French Republic.
Though originally Greek, the language of the Roman church changed to Latin around the second century. The Traditional Latin Mass descends from this period. Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman remarks, the Traditional Latin Mass is “virtually unchanged since the third century.” Reference: Newman, J. H. Callista, 1901. https://nwilatin.org/learn One can retrace the Latin Mass through art. The priest faces ad orientem. He does not face the people. That switch occurred in 1969. Image: The Mass of Saint Gregory, Unknown master, Spain, c. 1490, 28 3/8 by 21 7/8 inches, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Hillary Clinton earned an estimated $38 million as an author from 2001 to 2015.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2016/11/08/how-bill-house-hillary-clinton-made-240-million-how-much-earnings-rich-white/?sh=65fa98ef7a16 Below is the work of Hadi Karimi, an Iranian visual artist who creates 3D sculptures. “With no ‘true’ photographs to play with, Karimi worked from the composer’s death mask, which was made by sculptor Jean-Baptiste Clésinger a few hours after Chopin’s death, on 17 October 1849. “The artist also used a lock of the composer’s hair, which is kept in the Warsaw Museum. “All the sculpting and colour mapping was done using ZBrush, a digital sculpting tool that combines 3D and 2.5D modelling, texturing, and painting. For Chopin’s floppy locks, Karimi used XGen, an interactive tool used for creating realistic-looking hair.” https://www.classicfm.com/composers/chopin/artist-creates-realistic-portraits-face/ Chopin, an only son, died from TB, which he might have contracted from his younger sister who died when he was 20. Various groups try to claim him as their own for their own purposes. Cease that! His last words: “Now is my final agony. No more.”
Alexander (nine) and I (age withheld) are violent criminals because of this cartoon. The roadrunner is a fast-running ground cuckoo with long tail and crest and is found in the southwestern and south-central United States and in Mexico, usually the desert. Although capable of flight, they generally run away from predators. -Wikipedia
The Californian Earth-Cuckoo, its official name, is faster than humans at 18.6 mph and 20 steps per second. The bird swallows prey whole and can even kill a rattlesnake, all of which makes an appearance on the endangered species road list unlikely. Cartoon characters who kiss and burp are always hysterical. Grown humans who kiss and burp are always horrible. Henri de La Rochejaquelein Artist Pierre-Narcisse Guerin Date 1817 Style Neoclassicism Genre portrait history painting Media oil on canvas The Death of Henri de La Rochejaquelein
Artist Alexandre Bloch Date 19th century Style Genre painting Genre history painting Media oil on canvas Bearded Benedictine monk with cross, Bible, fire, and shotgun, the next pope, with my thanks for use of the image to lexica.art, a website that acts as a search engine and art gallery for artwork created with Stable Diffusion models giving you control over the style of your created image.
If unable to attend Mass daily, a good site is the Benedictine St. Madeleine Abbey, Le Barroux, France, youtube.com/abbayebarroux. Latin. Sung. Online Latin/English & Latin/Spanish Missals @ https://extraordinaryform.org/handmissals.html The way the Barroux monks do the “At the Communion” and arrange themselves in the sanctuary is extremely beautiful. This is one of those moments I grieve for Catholics who refuse to see a Latin Mass. Loss profound. I urge Eucharistic ministers to sit it out at Mass and all to refuse receiving in the hand. Following this advice will remake you. The Latin/English Missal is based on the Douay-Rheims translation. If you are a protestant using the King James translation, you are one step away from perfection, the best translation being the other reason for desiring a Latin/English Missal. If you don’t believe me, go online and read for yourself: https://www.drbo.org/ Dear unbeliever: There are 74 books in the Bible. I have never read it from cover to cover and have no intention so to do, nor do I memorize passages of this essential Catholic book, because it is integrated with the Mass. Humana Fragilitas (Human Frailty), c. 1657, by Salvator Rosa; Photograph: DEA/A. DAGLI ORTI/Getty Images/DeAgostini. The angel of death is manipulating the boy’s hand to write in Latin Conceptio Culpa, Nasci Pena, Labor Vita, Necesse Mori. Conception is guilt, Birth is pain, Life is toil, Death a necessity [Adam & Eve]. See the dramatic art of Catholics Titian and Caravaggio and others like Rembrandt on epidemicpestilenceplague. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/17/plague-visionaries-how-rembrandt-titian-and-caravaggio-tackled-pestilence
El Greco paints Dominic in white and black because that is the habit and the color emphasizes his hands, which are centered in the portrait. How easy it is to count the fingers. Death is imminent, and respect and attention are due a priest because he places his hands on the dying. The longer you look at the painting, the more it appears as if there are two people there, one in white and one in black. Does Dominic contemplate his own death, or does he recall every person, not numbers, in his life? The ivory corpus, maybe elephant tusk, is quite distressed. “El Greco’s style, highly charged and hypnotic, was well suited to the aims of the Counter-Reformation. In the face of Protestant revolt, the Catholic Church sought to reform its practices and reinforce belief in its doctrines.
“Spain put its vast resources—expanded by conquests in the New World—at the service of the church, and Toledo, because it was the seat of the archbishop, played an active role. “The Council of Trent … explicitly recognized the importance of religious art. “El Greco, whose patrons were primarily learned churchmen, responded with intelligent and expressive presentations of traditional and newly affirmed Catholic beliefs….” National Gallery of Art, Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues, Washington, D.C. America is a puritanical society lacking a respect and appreciation of the body. There is some Albatross blood on my soul, but I will remember those forgotten men when I could not ask to be remembered. This is the greatest poem ever written. Get a book with this poem and these pictures in it and read one chapter a night to your young children in bed. Once all done, they will understand the warning and want to hear it again. Every time I hear the poem, my eyes fill with guilt. Coleridge was an Anglican.
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