It is not often I offer commentary on the state of the world without some reference point. However, things are deteriorating so fast that it becomes necessary. CRT, the most pernicious outbreak of lying, is all over television and in our schools. Entertainment is drying up, and education is assaulted.
The Bible, that wonderful Catholic book, is an awfully good spectator at the events that set Israel against God. It may be God’s will that we be spectators to repetition, and there will be no cave in which to hide or mountain top the enemy cannot find. Living off the grid, the profane expression for the catacombs, is unlikely in the modern era, though not completely out of sight, i.e., Catholics living in China. Our work is to love history, not sack it. All of it is present to God the Father. Each of us works a little thread into the tapestry and retires. We can make the tapestry story more beautiful. Let all else takes its course as we follow the Man home.
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“The entire Church of Christ takes part in this drama, which is, indeed, that of Calvary, only that the actors have been vastly multiplied.” The New Roman Missal, 32.
St. Ouen, Rouen, France, [St. Owen] begun 1318 and rebuilt. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=289116 … the days are evil. Sound like our time?
The edition I use is The New Roman Missal in Latin and English by Rev. F. X. Lasance, a faithful reprint of the 1945 Copyright edition of the Father Lasance New Roman Missal with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur, also called the 1962 Missal. Nice bit of advice from St. Teresa of Avila: “Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.” Sounds like Paul. My parents shared her philosophy. We four, two boys, two girls, were not allowed to shut a bedroom door, except when undressing. No secrets in the household. The sum of all natural [positive whole] numbers 1 to 100 can be calculated using the formula, S = n/2 × [2a + (n − 1) × d], where n is the total number of natural numbers from 1 to 100, d is the difference between the two consecutive terms, and a is the first term. There are a total of 100 natural numbers, so n = 100.
Thus, a = 1, d = 1, and n = 100. Let's calculate the sum of the natural numbers 1 to 100. Use the formula. S = n/2 × [2a + (n − 1) × d] S = 100/2 × [2 + (100 – 1) × 1] S = 50 × [2 + 99] S = 5050 Isn’t that answer interesting? Following is an orchestral work by Vivaldi that has been transcribed for organ with a few subtitles added to explain the wintry tableau Vivaldi tried to create. As with any good story, there is a beginning, middle, and ending, and the theme is stated at the end of the beginning section, just as it is done in a good essay, but the master saves the excitement until the end. I think music is the way Vivaldi (and Mozart) prayed. God put so much inside them that they had to let it out. The church in Spain is graced by geometry and fine acoustics, the application of which is present in many aspects of modern society, such as the audio and noise control industries. The plaque reads: Me fecit Gerhard Grenzing I, Gerhard Grenzing, made this organ. See the figures holding up the organ. The piece is 10 minutes long. By Aaron Green June 29, 2018 … Gregorio Allegri composed Miserere mei, Deus in the 1630s, during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII … [Urban] loved the piece so much that he forbade it to be performed elsewhere outside of the Sistine Chapel. For over 100 years, Allegri's piece was performed there exclusively. Anyone caught with a transcription of the piece outside of the chapel could be immediately excommunicated from the Church.
In 1770, a 14-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was present at one of the performances while touring Italy with his father. After hearing the piece, Mozart transcribed the work entirely from memory and even made corrections. He attended one more performance to make his final adjustments. The following year, after meeting with music historian and biographer, Dr. Charles Burney, Mozart gave him the sheet music. Burney took the score to London and published it, which resulted in the papacy lifting its ban. My funeral, Holy Cross, Colma, CA. Be there or be square. Date to be determined. Here are some rules for making Latin or Greek plurals.
Nouns ending in “-a” switch to “-ae” to make the word plural. alga → algae larva → larvae vertebra → vertebrae Nouns with an “-um” ending turn into an “-a” ending. candelabrum → candelabra medium → media spectrum → spectra Words that end in “-is” are swapped to “-es” to make them plural. paralysis → paralyses diagnosis → diagnoses thesis → theses Terms that end in “-us” can be made plural using “-i” in place of “-us.” cactus → cacti alumnus → alumni syllabus → syllabi However, English has gone its own way, and exceptions abound, less so in the sciences than in everyday usage. That’s English, ever-changing, forcing us to use a dictionary. That’s the beauty of Latin, never-changing. I had the help of wordgenius. The only Catholic school in the US that is not a school with a choir attached, but a choir with a school attached, is located at the Church of St. Paul, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. I tutor an 8th grade boy, and his voice has dropped already, and he plays sports, so that's that, but yesterday he said he is learning to play an instrument! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULuPPJoO9ro
Forty is the only numerical word with each letter in alphabetical order.
“Bookkeeper” is the only word in the English language that uses three sets of repeated letters in a row.
Law – Adrian Vermeule AB Harvard College 1990, JD Harvard Law School 1993, mother classical scholar Harvard, father curator Classical Department Boston Museum of Fine Arts, sister literary scholar and Professor of English Stanford
Politics – Senator John Neely Kennedy BA Vanderbilt 1973, president senior class and Phi Beta Kappa, JD University of Virginia School of Law 1977, executive editor of Virginia Law Review, Bachelor of Civil Law first class honors Magdalen College Oxford 1979, studied under Sir Rupert Cross and John H.C. Morris Science – Richard Lindzen Bronx High School of Science, winner of Regents and National Merit Scholarships, AB Physics Harvard 1960, S.M. Applied Mathematics Harvard 1961, PhD Applied Mathematics Harvard 1964, doctoral thesis Radiative and photochemical processes in strato - and mesospheric dynamics Economics – Milton Friedman BA Rutgers University 1932, MA University of Chicago 1933, PhD Columbia University 1934, Professor University of Chicago 1947-1977, visiting scholar Federal Reserve Bank San Francisco, colleague Hoover Institution Stanford Literature – J.R.R. Tolkien English Language and Literature Exeter College Oxford 1915 first-class honors, tutored by Joseph Wright, author of Primer of the Gothic Language, tutor at Lady Margaret Hall and St. Hugh’s College 1919, reader at the University of Leeds 1920 Two Jews, two Catholics, and one Protestant. No one’s perfect, but a few get close. The only information about this third century Roman martyr is a reference to him by Pope Damasus (366–384). One day, young Tarcisius was entrusted with the task of bringing the Eucharist to condemned Catholics in prison. He preferred death at the hands of a mob rather than hand over the Blessed Sacrament. Burial took place in the catacombs of San Callisto, and later, Damasus wrote an inscription. Par meritum, quicumque legis, cognosce duorum, quis Damasus rector titulos post praemia reddit. Iudaicus populus Stephanum meliora monentem perculerat saxis, tulerat qui ex hoste tropaeum, martyrium primus rapuit levita fidelis. Tarsicium sanctum Christi sacramenta gerentem cum male sana manus premeret vulgare profanis, ipse animam potius voluit dimittere caesus prodere quam canibus rabidis caelestia membra. 1. reddit: second line reddit means to submit for consideration. 2. result: Tarcisius is listed in the Roman Martyrology. 3. source: Damasi Epigrammata, Maximilian Ihm, 1895, n. 14. Maximilian Ihm (1863 - 1909) was a German classical philologist, a person who studies historical and comparative linguistics. I have watched plenty of interviews of crime targets. Frequently, the target is asked if he/she forgives the assailant. My reaction is always the same. I want to counsel the target to say, “Forgiveness is between me and God. You don’t need to know.”
One writing prompt for students is, “Have I asked God’s help to forgive someone? Write about it.” For young students, this situation may not have arisen, but for every adult forgiveness becomes a challenge. My faith tells me that God will forgive me according to the measure I have forgiven all others. In life, one gets two choices: do what is right or do what is wrong. As the end nears, the choices are bumped up to three: heaven, purgatory, or hell. The novel is about secrets. If the novel had been a true story, it would have made the news. However, some secrets are not worth revealing.
Reason #1: many people find it difficult to handle the skeletons in someone else’s closet. Reason #2: some puzzles belong in the hands of professionals – doctor, lawyer, accountant, priest. They have a privilege. As the main character in Pretty City Murder says, labels belong on cereal boxes. Labels do not accurately tell what is on the inside. Children do not try to pry open the human box. They must know that a person's totality belongs to God alone, and His forgiveness is His. 1916 born Emil J Kapaun
1946 commissioned US Army Captain 1951 died, the result of malnutrition and pneumonia, Korean War 2013 awarded Medal of Honor, 9th military chaplain recipient 2021 returned home, body accounted for Excerpts from a report by Martina Moyski, Oct 1, 2021:
“There will come a time when we must make a choice between being loyal to the true Faith or giving allegiance to something else ... O God, we ask of thee to give us the courage to be ever faithful to Thee.” - Kapaun Altan (13-year-old whiz) and I learned today:
1) The square root of an exponent is ½ of the exponent. 2) When you want two probabilities to occur (probabilities are ratios, such as 1:5 or one out of five or 1/5), multiply the two fractions, such as 1/5 times 1/4. 3) The square root of a negative number is plus or minus, the square root of the negative number as a positive number, paired with i, the notation for an imaginary number. √-25 = ±5i In math the symbol for √−1 is i for imaginary. The history of English recusancy calls out to every educated person. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – Santayana. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” –Mark Twain Anna Belfrage wrote about recusant Philip Howard 1557 – 1595. “At the time of his father’s execution for treason, Philip Howard was fifteen. His father’s vast estates were attainted and fell to the crown, but … he [Philip] became the Earl of Arundel …. “Philip began developing an affection for his wife – and for her religious preferences. He witnessed a debate at the Tower between Jesuits and Protestants in the early 1580’s that definitely swung him in matters of religion, but for some years more he sat on the fence. Not so his wife [Anne], who converted in 1582. When the queen found out, Anne was placed under house arrest, a whole year of solitude during which she gave birth to a daughter …. “The queen relented. Anne was released and rushed into her husband’s arms. No longer the foppish courtier of his early youth, Philip had developed a serious—and devout—side. The queen’s treatment of his wife had not served to deter him from conversion, instead it made him all that more determined to become a Catholic, just like Anne. Philip probably never had the intention of going public with his conversion, but he lived in an age where every major household had a bevy of servants, and quite a few of those servants also acted as informers on their masters, which was how Queen Elizabeth found out …. “... Philip Howard was … found guilty and was attainted. For the coming years, he lived in constant fear that this would be the day he was dragged out to be beheaded, but in actual fact Queen Elizabeth never signed his execution order – even if no one had the charity to tell him so …. “Some of his despair shines through in the inscription he carved on the stone above the chimney in Beauchamp Tower. In a spidery handwriting it reads “quanto plus afflictions pro Christo in hoc saeculo, tanto plus gloriae cum Christo in future” which translates as, “the more affliction we suffer in the name of Christ in this world, the greater the glory at Christ’s side in the next” …. “… Philip Howard always had a “Get out of jail” card at his disposal. All he had to do was recant, embrace the Protestant faith, and he would be forgiven, his estates restored to him. But he never did. Not even when he lay dying and yet again begged the queen to allow his wife and children to visit him, did he ever consider denying his faith. It must have been a terrible temptation for the ailing man. “Some people are an unknown quantity until life throws them into the fires of fate. Some emerge strengthened by the experience, some crumble to ashes. Philip Howard belonged to the former, which is why he refused to give in. In a last burst of inspiration, he had the following message conveyed to the queen: “Tell Her majesty if my religion be the cause for which I suffer, sorry I am that I have but one life to lose.” And so Philip Howard died, alone in his tower on a cold October day of 1595. He had spent more than ten years behind the walls of the Tower for the single sin of being a Catholic ….” Belfrage 2-25-17 [edited for brevity] https://www.annabelfrage.com/2017/02/25/a-catholic-recusant-in-the-court-of-elizabeth-i/ |
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