tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374158222012-02-01T17:26:27.889ZNotes and essays on a dozen books to which I'm limiting my reading.tdunbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06692665750427668367noreply@blogger.comBlogger1201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37415822.post-58645563966052492472008-03-13T11:33:00.001Z2008-05-02T15:36:00.822+01:00

This blog is structured unusually. Most blog authors add articles periodically and comments are almost always on recent articles. Here, there are 120 (a good round number) interconnected articles.The Maude's Tavern book project has moved to my new blog.

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Revised Standard Bible Seven Comedies; Shakespeare Dante's Paradise; Anthony Esolen Conceiving Parenthood; Amy L Hall Poetry, Plays, Prose; Robert Frost Compendium of the Catholic Catechism Philosophy of Medicine; E Pellegrino Four Romances; William Shakespeare Aquinas on Friendship; D Schwartz Ascension & Ecclesia; D.

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Novum FlumenNovum Flumen is a plainchant singing group based at Radford, in the New River Valley of Virginia. Our guiding principles are:Our chant is grounded in adoration of our Lord, Christ Jesus.We meet at homes in the College Park neighborhood of Radford.We use The Parish Book of Chant

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Sandro Magister has a very useful posting on Pope Benedict XVI's Wednesday catechesis.

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Here's a dry but precise discussion of the Catholic Church's view of church discipline, from the Catholic Encyclopedia:Ecclesiastical DisciplineEtymologically the word discipline signifies the formation of one whoplaces himself at school and under the direction of a master. AllChristians are the disciples of Christ, desirous to form themselves atHis school and to be guided by His teachings and

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Gregorian Chant - variousMasses - Giovanni da PalestrinaMass in B Minor - Johann Sebastian BachMass in F Minor; Anton BrucknerMass & Motets; Ralph Vaughn WilliamsBringing it all Back Home; DylanBlood on the Tracks; Mary Lee's CorvetteRed on Blonde; Tim O'BrienBootleg Series #3; DylanTime out of Mind - DylanEvery Grain of Sand - Barb JungrModern Times - Bob Dylan

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In an article in Communion, Roch Kereszty writes regarding Pope Benedict XVI's recent book: Jesus of Nazareth can indeed be profitably read by a college graduate, but it also provides new insights to learned exegetes and theologians. What is, then, its literary genre? Pope Benedict himself describes it simply as “an expression of my

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Fr. Aidan Nichols notes in The Theology of Joseph Ratzinger (T&T Clark, 1988) that Ratzinger “finds two figures within the Wittenberg Reformer. First, there is the Luther of the Catechisms, the hymns and the liturgical reforms: and this Luther can be received by Catholics whose own biblical and liturgical revivals in this century reproduce many of Luther’s own criticisms of the late medieval

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Musica Sacra has put online Dr William Mahrt's A Critique of Sing to the Lord and I was struck by the poignancy in this paragraph:Another positive statement and a distinct improvement in the present document is the acknowledgement of the role of Gregorian chant, quoting the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, which gives chant “pride of place in liturgical services,” (SttL ¶72) and citing the

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My favorite blogs are the Mom blogs..just came across a new one today:Building CathedralsWe are a group of seven young, Catholic mothers who graduated from Princeton between the years of 2000 and 2003. While at Princeton, each of us found our way to the Catholic faith community, some of us near the beginning of our time at Princeton and others of us at different points along the way....Between

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Susan Woods goes on to say:The sacramental character or "mark" also places us in relationship to the church. It is an ordination in the sense that it gives us our place within the church. Baptism orders us within a priestly community, confirmation orders us within a prophetic community, and the sacrament of orders bestows the ability to represent the church and Christ in the governance and

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In an article on baptism in the book The Marks of the Body of Christ, Susan Woods remarks:Baptism does not just incorporate us into the church as a club or an organization. It does not just bestow grace to us as individuals. It makes us "living stones" to be "built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood." Through our participation in the life, death, and resurection of Christ in

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Cath: Help me with evangelism and discipleship and I'll help you with discipline and magisterium.Prot: Fair enough, but why are you willing to do that?Cath: Evangelism/discipleship is about personal relationship, in whatever community of Christians; discipline/magisterium is corporate and will inevitably lead to the Catholic Church in the long term.

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In a comment on a topic at Welborn's Charlotte Was Both blog, Heath White makes a clear observation:I am an evangelical and also an academic. I have several friends who have become Catholic from evangelicalism, and I know a lot of people who were raised Catholic and became evangelical. The profiles of the two types are extremely consistent.Very consistently, evangelicals who become Catholic are

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There’s an article on church discipline from a Reformed/Baptist perspective by Albert Mohler at:http://www.the-highway.com/discipline_Mohler.html and John Drury discusses a connection between church government and discipline in his article Is Church Discipline Really Possible Any More?Here are some Christianity Today articles on the topic.The evangelical Anglican blog, Stand Firm in Faith, has a

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In an article on catechesis in The Marks of the Body of Christ, Robert Jenson writes:"Finally there is theology. Folks are baptized into the name - that is, worship of and obedience to - a specific God. They have to know who that is. He is not Moloch, and therefore he does not want the blood of our children. He is not the Goddess, and therefore does not reveal himself in polymorphous

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In an article, The Special Ministry of the Ordained, in the book The Marks of the Body of Christ, Carl Braaten writes:"My thesis is threefold: first, that Lutherans have been and are still confused on the doctrine of the ministry; second, that there is no way to resolve the difficulty by going more deeply into our own confessional sources because they bear the imprint of ambiguity inherent in

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Surveys of Christian belief come in many forms. When they are for use among folks accepting the teaching authority of the Church, it is reasonable to follow the common practice of discussing those beliefs in the order of the Nicene Creed (as do, for example, Thomas Aquinas, Karl Barth and various catechisms at various levels). This is still reasonable when the concept of "Church" and "teaching

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From Heim's book, Joseph Ratzinger - Life in the Church and Living Theology, p 347:Rediscovering Jesus Christ - who gathers his people around himself as ekklesia through their listening to his Word and their celebration of the Eucharist - as the spiritual center of the concept "Church" was, in Ratzinger's view, the chief concern of Lumen gentium. Accordingly, the term ekklesia has a fourfold

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On the Touchstone blog, Anthony Esolen has a post: The World That Has No Music In Its Soul....But what happens when you don't have a culture? I've argued this before, but it bears repeating. I'm taking the word literally. You have a culture when you cultivate those beliefs, customs, celebrations, and virtues you hold most dear; and in this sense culture is by nature conservative and often

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The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep, down to the present episcopate. And so, lastly, does the name itself

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Fr. Augustine Thompson has several informative postings, at the New Liturgical Movement blog, about Dominican Chant.....What I am about to describe is how Dominicans have dealt with the problem of rhythm since the 1200s. I do not claim that this system is "better" than any of the modern Solesmes methods, including that of Dom Mocquereau, currently in favor with workshops sponsored by the Church

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(source: http://www.zenit.org/article-21716?l=english )Women have had a hand in aiding and abetting the consumerism that objectifies them, and it's the result of original sin, says Helen Alvare.Alvare, the former pro-life spokeswoman for the U.S. bishops' conference, and a law professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., said this today at the Vatican conference under way

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"I believe today -- as I believed 25 years ago -- in small government; fiscal discipline; low taxes; a strong defense; judges who enforce, and not make, our laws; the social values that are the true source of our strength; and, generally, the steadfast defense of our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which I have defended my entire career as God-given to the born and unborn."

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Amy Welborn writes:....Which I succeeded at up until the last - that last moment when I thought I had escaped, but ’twas not to be.“Please join in our closing hymn…..Ashes.”No, we do not “create ourselves anew.”Well, we do actually. We try and we try to “create ourselves anew” pretty constantly. But Lent reveals to us the opposite - it’s futile and even destructive. Empty yourself and let God

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There are interesting connections between concepts of personality and concepts of language. For example, the McCabe quote below calls to mind Wittgenstein's discussion of private language.

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Here's a quote from an essay, Obedience, by Herbert McCabe:Just as what I called the modern view is based on a certain notion of the human being as an individual of sheer autonomous will whose life is the development of her individual personality (the view we call liberal individualism), so our view is based on another notion of the human being, a more ancient notion, perhaps a more primitive

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Catholic World News has online the first chapter of Philip Lawler's eloquent The Faithful Departed.

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One can only reasonably be a part of parish life if travel time is not too great. If a congregation is particularly evangelistic and new to an area, the travel time can be increased somewhat but there's still a limit. Also, on the 'iron sharpens iron' principle and given various realities which I'll label political, the requirement should be extended to: two congregations in full communion both

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My favorite Flannery O'Connor story is perhaps Parker's Back, both for its words and its images."Sarah Ruth thought churches were idolatrous"

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From page 60 of Herbert McCabe's God Matters (regarding postmodern attitudes towards the Incarnation):One of the concerns of these authors, particularly John Hick, is that the incarnation seems provincial in that it makes Christianity something utterly different from all other world religions. Now quite apart from the presence of grace and therefore of incarnation in the followers of other

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In a recent post on The Continuum blog (continuing Anglican), I commented:Taking this posting to be, broadly, about ecclesiology, I'd like to recommend to those wanting to read current Catholic thinking to look at a recently translated book by Maximilian Heim: Joseph Ratzinger: Life in the Church and Living Theology - Fundamentals of Ecclesiology with Reference to Lumen Gentium. Yes, does sound

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Speaking of McCain, in a useful article about Republican attitudes towards the Gang of 14, Richard Baehr concludes that, contrary to the majority opinion of conservative talk-radio:The gang of 14 compromise helped two Supreme Court nominees get approved quickly and a few Appeals Court nominees to be confirmed as well. Use of the nuclear option in 2005 would have enabled a few additional Appeals

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From John Richardson's blog:Much of the problem is that the Anglican Communion was always a mongrel organization. Ostensibly representing something called ‘worldwide Anglicanism’, it was actually the result of the successful propagation of the British Empire, not Anglican theology....Nevertheless, it should have been obvious that a body bonded more by historical accidents and affections than

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Here's a page of history about the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

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It often happens in complex discussions that one side will say "That's just a secondary issue, it's not of primary importance." However, while in some sense the issue itself may be secondary, it may force a position on primary matters. For example, David Virtue interviews J.I. Packer at the current Anglican Mission in America Winter Conference and there is this:VIRTUEONLINE: On women's

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Seems to me that mothers go through more significant ontological changes than other folks. I was reminded of this by Rachel Balducci's musing on What's a Mom to Do?"....One of the trickiest parts of being a mom, I have found, is that need to remember who I am while becoming someone else entirely. A woman has a baby and she is instantly transformed, whether she likes it or not, into someone who is

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Via Zenit, this translation from Pope Benedict XVI's address to the Slovenian eucharistic conference:The Pope then went on to consider the "main challenge" facing the Church in Slovenia: "Western-style secularism, which is different and perhaps more underhand than Marxist secularism." It results in "the unbridled pursuit of material goods, the drop in birth rate and the reduction in religious

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While most of Rome is to the southeast of the river, Vatican City is on the west of the Tiber and for many swimming is not needed if one does adequate research.

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There is a useful review of Remi Brague's The Law of God by Christopher Morrissey in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review. George Weigel also refers to the book in an article in Commentary.In a review at the Hoover Institute, Benjamin Balint says:Brague argued in his book Eccentric Culture (2002) that Christianity comprises neither a third element in European culture nor a synthesis of Athens and

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1 Glory be to God on high,God whose glory fills the sky:Peace on earth to man forgiven,Man the well-beloved of Heaven!2 Sovereign Father, Heavenly King!Thee we now presume to sing;Glad Thine attributes confess,Glorious all and numberless.3 Hail! by all Thy works adored,Hail! the everlasting Lord!Thee with thankful hearts we proveLord of Power, and God of Love.4 Christ our Lord and God we own,

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1 Sons of God, triumphant rise,Shout th' accomplish'd Sacrifice!Shout your sins in Christ forgiven,Sons of God, and heirs of heaven!2 Ye that round our altars throng,Listening angels, join the song:Sing with us, ye heavenly powers,Pardon, grace, and glory ours!3 Love's mysterious work is done!Greet we now th' accepted Son,Heal'd and quicken'd by His blood,Join'd to Christ, and one with God.4

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1 How happy are Thy servants, Lord,Who, thus remember Thee!What tongue can tell our sweet accord,Our perfect harmony?2 Who Thy mysterious supper share,Here at Thy table fed,Many, and yet but one we are,One undivided bread.3 One with the living Bread DivineWhich now by faith we eat,Our hearts, and minds, and spirits join,And all in Jesus meet.4 So dear the tie where souls agreeIn Jesu's dying love

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1 Happy the saints of former Days,Who first continued in the word,A simple, lowly, loving race,True followers of their lamblike Lord.2 In holy fellowship they lived,Nor would from the commandment moveBut every joyful day receivedThe tokens of expiring Love.3 Not then above their Master wise,They simply in His paths remain'dAnd call'd to mind His sacrificeWith steadfast faith and love unfeign'd.4

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John and Charles Wesley published Hymns on the Lord's Supper in 1745. It contains 166 hymns, organized into six sections:As it is a Memorial of the Sufferings and Death of ChristAs it is a Sign and a Means of GraceThe Sacrament as a Pledge of HeavenThe Holy Eucharist as it implies a SacrificeConcerning the Sacrifice of our PersonsAfter the SacramentI'll be posting the hymns in reverse order and

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There's a nice posting over at Crossed the Tiber on miracles.

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Translation by AsiaNews It is a great joy for me to meet the community of "La Sapienza - Università di Roma" on the occasion of the inauguration of the academic year. For centuries, this university has marked the progress and the life of the city of Rome, bringing forth intellectual excellence in every field of study. Both during the period when, after its foundation at the behest of Pope

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In 1264, Pope Urban IV asked Fr. Thomas Aquinas to compose an Office for the new feast of Corpus Christi, in honor of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, which is celebrated on the Thursday or Sunday following Trinity Sunday. Tom Kreitzberg has a nice page about these hymns.Here are the first four verses from Gerard Manley Hopkins' translation of Adoro Te Devote:Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore,

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Jeff Gannon writes:As the result of liberal historical revisionism, few Americans realize that Democrats ruled the segregated South until the 1960s. Democrats were the party of Jim Crow and Bull Connor. Senate Democrats, including former Ku Klux Klan recruiter Robert Byrd and Bill Clinton mentor William Fulbright and Al Gore, Sr. filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The stalemate was broken by

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Nancy Salvato writes, in The New Media Journal: As an education reformer, I read about education every day. I read about ways to hold institutions of higher learning accountable for their education curriculum, I read about how important it is to have highly qualified teachers, and I read how students not receiving an equitable education should be afforded the right to attend private schools or

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Catena Aurea, The Golden Chain, is a commentary on the four gospels which St. Thomas Aquinas made by organizing selections from the writings of the early Church Fathers (Basil, Chrysostom, Gregory, etc). In the preface to the english edition, John Newman writes:All such commentaries have more or less merit and usefulness, but they are very inferior to the 'Catena Aurea,' which is now presented to

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Speaking of Dr. Carroll, here's an article on Eucharistic hymns:Singing for the Supper or the Sacrifice?Dr. Carroll is organist/choral director at the Carmelite Monastery, Philadelphia; associate professor at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, and Scholar in Residence, PHMC, Ephrata. The article above first appeared, I assume, in the Adoremus Bulletin.

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Here's a good introduction to chant, by Lucy Carrol. She mentions: In the wake of the Council, certain chants were culled from the great repertoire and put into a little book called Jubilate Deo. The easiest Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus were put together into a Missa Jubilate Deo. The same Kyrie, Sanctus, and Agnus, with a different Gloria, became known as the Missa

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While western Virginia is a bit of a Catholic backwater, we are blessed to have, in addition to the common Roman rite parishes, a Maronite Catholic church - Saint Elias (at 4730 Cove Road, just off Peters Creek Road):St. Elias Catholic Church is located in Roanoke, Virginia. The church belongs to the Maronite Rite, which evolved from the Antiochene Tradition of Catholicism. The Maronite Rite

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The various political campaigns prompt this ironic juxtaposition of three links with reference to Alinsky:From a "progressive" site: Jesus and AlinskyAnd on First Things, Neuhaus writes, in passing:Our old hand thinks part of the problem is with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), an effort launched more than thirty years ago by the late Saul Alinsky of Chicago, who made no secret of his

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Richard Owen reports in London Times Online that:Pope Benedict XVI has instructed Roman Catholics to pray “in perpetuity” to cleanse the Church of paedophile clergy. All dioceses, parishes, monasteries, convents and seminaries will be expected to organise continuous daily prayers to express penitence and to purify the clergy.Vatican officials said that every parish or institution should designate

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From Fr John Zuhlsdorf's blog:Epiphany is from the Greek word for a divine “manifestation” or “revelation”. The Church’s liturgy for the feast, especially in its antiphons for Vespers, reflect the tradition that Epiphany was thought to be the day not only when the Magi came to adore Christ, but also the same day years later when Jesus changed water into wine at Cana, and also when He was baptized

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Anthony & CleopatraAs You Like ItCoriolaniusHamletJulius CaesarKing LearMeasure for MeasureMerchant of VeniceRomeo & JulietTempestTwelfth NightWinter's Tale

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There's an excellent new resource for reading early post-apostolic Christian texts: A Patristic Greek Reader by Rodney Whitacre, Professor of Biblical Studies at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry. To quote Mike Aquilina's recommendation on the back cover: "This is more than a book. It's an opportunity to learn Greek from a superlative teacher and to learn Christianity from the greatest

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From Lumen Gentium:8. Christ, the one Mediator, established and continually sustains here on earth His holy Church, the community of faith, hope and charity, as an entity with visible delineation through which He communicated truth and grace to all. But, the society structured with hierarchical organs and the Mystical Body of Christ, are not to be considered as two realities, nor are the visible

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"What can grace mean to us, who live well enough without favors from gracious authority?" - Philip Rieff, Charisma, page 82.I need Thee every hour...

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In these modern times with concern about accessibility, I'd like to propose the thirty-thirty rule: A religious tradition is accessible if its main liturgical events are within 30 miles and 30 hours of wherever one's apt to be in spacetime. Lots of religious sects assume one's not apt to travel and are only accessible on that assumption.

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This eighth day of Christmas is the day of Jesus' circumcision and also the holy day of Mary, Mother of God. Mark Shea writes in This Rock (1994):As a former Evangelical, I know anti-Marian arguments. But, having been a Catholic for nearly six years, I've been surprised to discover how much larger Mary looms in many Protestant minds than in Catholic ones. Maybe I'm languishing in a

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Great comic movie with tight scripting and creative soundtrack (but then, that sort of goes without saying for the genre, in my opinion).

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At First Things, R.R. Reno writes:....The false note of uncertainty does not disguise the imperative: “Only through a ‘sectarian split’ from the standard European legacy, by cutting ourselves off from the decaying corpse of Old Europe, can we keep the renewed European legacy alive.” The real conflict is not between the West and the Rest. By Zizek’s reckoning, the real war concerns the cultural

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Here is a Vatican translation of Benedict XVI's Christmas message, which he delivered from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica today at noon.* * *"A holy day has dawned upon us.Come you nations and adore the Lord.Today a great light has come upon the earth."(Day Mass of Christmas, Gospel Acclamation)Dear Brothers and Sisters! "A holy day has dawned upon us." A day of great hope: today the

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Browsing the various blogs and comments regarding Tony Blair's entrance into the Catholic Church, I'd like to counter by proposing:The Conversion LawAny adult convert to the Catholic faith will be more serious about their faith than the average cradle Catholic, where "cradle Catholic" is taken to mean anyone baptized as an infant in the Catholic Church. Therefore, armchair political quarterbacks

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Richard Neuhaus has a nice meditation on Christmas. In closing he references Adoro Te Devote; however, what he quotes is Gerard Manley Hopkins well known translation (which also is in the English version of the Catechism): Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in

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As many have remarked, most of the disagreement between the Catholic Church and the various Protestant groups comes down to disagreement about the nature of the Church. And, in this disagreement, the nature of holy orders is central and I very much appreciate the explanation in "Sacrifice, Sacrament and Priesthood in the Development of the Church" which is section 2B in part two of Joseph

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There's a thread at the Anglican blog, Stand Firm in Faith, which addresses interesting ecclesiological issues. I think some of the most interesting questions to ask of someone are: "Whom do you listen to?" and "What do you read?" Furthermore, both of those questions deal with matters of trust, at least implicitly.

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The second movie adaptation of Lewis's Narnia series, Prince Caspian, is scheduled to come out next summer. Here's a still from it:

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A real cuisine is developed over hundreds of years and is founded upon the most basic of foodstuffs. Whereas wheat is basic in Europe and rice in Asia, corn is the fundamental food plant in America. This is supplimented with beans and squash, and peppers and may be complimented by a variety of meats and fruits.Over time, if our Lord tarries, a truly American cuisine will arise that can stand

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Fr. Alvin Kimel's blog, Pontifications is active again. Cool

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From the note on evangelization (see earlier entry today): There is today, however, a growing confusion which leads many to leave the missionary command of the Lord unheard and ineffective (cf Mt 28:19). Often it is maintained that any attempt to convince others on religious matters is a limitation of their freedom. From this perspective, it would only be legitimate to present one's own ideas

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A beautiful CD of Renaissance music: 'Beyond Chant - Mysteries of the Renaissance' sung by Voices of Ascension, directed by Dennis Keene. Excellent for bridging between Gregorian Chant and Bach, it covers a wide range of Renaissance composers: Palestrina, Desprez, Byrd, Tallis and others.

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Rachel Balducci has a lovely post about The Poorest of the Poor that reminds me of hearing Heidi Baker.'Being Jesus to others means going the extra mile – not necessarily by doing more or providing more, but by loving more. It’s choosing patience with a family member. It’s choosing to assume the best when you can’t figure out why in the world someone would say such a thing. It’s smiling when you

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Here's summary of today's note from the Vatican on evangelization (the full text is available at the Vatican):DOCTRINAL NOTE ON SOME ASPECTS OF EVANGELIZATIONSUMMARY POINTSI. Introduction1. The Doctrinal Note is devoted principally to an exposition of the Catholic Church’s understanding of the Christian mission of evangelization, which is to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ; the word "Gospel"

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Most folks who've read any Waugh novel have read Brideshead Revisited. Although that's a great novel, it should also be read in the context of Waugh's shorter comic novels. There's a nice little Everyman Library volume with the four:Black MischiefScoopThe Loved OneThe Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfoldupon which I'll be commenting later.Waugh's clearly focused, precise novels strike me as a totally

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Regarding the movie Bread & Tulips, I found a review that said:'For a movie that essentially swept the 2000 Donatello Awards (the Italian equivalent of the Academy Awards), Bread and Tulips is a remarkably light piece of work. One expects more from a film that won nine awards, including best film, director, actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, screenplay, and cinematography.

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CMAA's web site, http://musicasacra.com, now has discussion forums. For example, in a forum on Ordinaries for Advent, William Mahrt writes:The more familiar Kyrie is C under Mass XVII (in the Gregorian Missal and the Graduale Romanum 1974; ad libitum in the Liber Usualis). A small group of us sang for a weekly Latin Mass with a somewhat inexperienced congregation. They knew the Missa de Angelis

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Fr Zuhlsdorf has posted about the beautiful 6th century hymn Vox Clara, saying:Light and reason and clarity and beauty are all associated with the VOICE, the VOX. The Latin word vox means not just "voice" but also "That which is uttered by the voice, i. e. a word, saying, speech, sentence, proverb, maxim." VOX = VERBUM and thus the glorious voice which makes everthing clear and understood,

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There's a wide range of music in the whole Church, the Catholic Church, and the local parish tries as best it can to embody that range. This weekend at St Thomas Aquinas parish, on the edge of the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, I enjoyed participating in a major part of that range.Saturday at the conclusion of the Life in the Spirit seminar which the guest speaker Fr. Tom

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The various Anglican ecclesial bodies are very interesting laboratory for sociology and ecclesiology. In connection with that, Mary Ailes has a great post on the Hammersten Hierarchy of Human Behavior. I follow the Anglican goings on, especially in Virginia; however, the posting is understandable even if one's unfamiliar with Anglicanism.Plus, the post ends with a great Dylan clip. I think '

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For me, Virginia is the center of the United States. Virginia, where eastern government and western freedom come together, which once stretched to the Mississippi. Virginia, where norther intellectual industry and southern spiritual artistry come together, which staged the Civil War battles between centripetal and centrifugal forces as our nation endeavored to purge its original sin.Virginia has

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The encyclical letter SPE SALVI of Pope Benedict XVI addresses one of my favorite topics. Of course, since faith is the hypostasis of things hoped for, it is about faith just as much as hope. As with Saint Paul's letters, it starts theologically and then moves to practice, engaging with contemporary philosophical and political thought. Here there is vibrant Faith which engages the modern world

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With Leon Podles book, Sacrilege, out recently I find various comments on a posting his at Touchstone's Mere Comments about Huessein and Punishment very interesting. A significant percentage of the comments show, in my opinion, the same social irresponsibility. To turn a blind eye and to stop one's ears against just condemnation just compounds the problems. In fact, having browsed through the

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From First Things:The project known as Evangelicals and Catholics Together is now in its thirteenth year—following its initial statement, “The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium,” with much-discussed statements on salvation, Scripture, and the Communion of Saints.The group is currently engaged in studying what can be said together about the Blessed Virgin Mary, and a number of participants

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Father John Heidt (Anglican) writes:Whereas the Protestant Evangelical starts with sin and atonement, the Catholic builds his theology upon creation and grace. The Catholic believes that we are sinful but we are not depraved; we are sick human beings but we are still human; we have lost our likeness to God but we are still made in His image. We can never excuse our sinfulness by saying that we

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Need a soundtrack to go along with the beauty of, say, the Blue Ridge Parkway on Thanksgiving day with sunshine and clouds playing tag? Anton Bruckner's Mass in F minor is wonderful (I was listening to performance conducted by Sergiu Celibidache).

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There's a wonderful little book: Mary: the Church at the Source which contains essays by Joseph Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar. I particularly like the concluding essay by Balthasar, which contains this paragraph:Jesus Christ is called the Alpha and Omega: he has not only bound us back to our lost beginning, the Father, but has also set us in motion toward his absolute future. He alone is

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NT Wright was interviewed by Trevin Wax on November 15, 2007 at Asbury Seminary and the transcript and audio podcast are online. Here's a little excerpt:The word “salvation” denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of evil and decay, sin leads to death. So we are rescued from sin and death.Now those may be the same

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I came into the Catholic Church this past Easter, after 57 years in evangelical/charismatic congregations. I've not written any testimony about that as I don't have much to say on that score that others haven't said many times, for example here.However, this entire blog and the related Little Library spring from the conversion.

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In a meditation on children's literature, Tony Esolen mentions the Young Folks' Shelf of Books. This collection is also known as the Collier Junior Classics, which I read about fifty years ago and still remember the books' appearance.

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"This afternoon at Novara there will be beatified the venerable servant of God, Antonio Rosmini, a great figure of a priest and an illustrious man of culture, animated by fervid love for God and the Church. He bore witness to the virtue of charity in all of its dimensions and at a high level, but that for which he was mostly known was his generous commitment to what he called "intellectual

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Pope Leo XIII issued an encyclical in 1899: TESTEM BENEVOLENTIAE NOSTRAEConcerning New Opinions, Virtue, Nature And Grace, With Regard To Americanism. This is still relevant today.

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For many of us, the first books we remember spending time with were volumes from this or that encyclopedia. Further, it didn't matter a great deal how out of date the entries were; in fact, differences from popular opinion just added interest. Of course, one didn't get poetry there; nevertheless, only the narrow-minded would take encyclopedias as being in conflict with poetical viewpoint.My

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And in Charlottesville at St Thomas Aquinas parish, Fr Augustine Thompson founded (2005) a schola that regularly sings at Sunday's early Mass, see their home page. By the way, Fr Thompson's book "Cities of God" is reviewed by Amy Welborn, who says: it's a book bursting with fascinating details, thoroughly and carefully related.You may wonder..huh. A book about...what? Italian Communes? Religion?

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Dr. William Mahrt is a professor of music history at Stanford who also directs a Gregorian schola (the St. Anne Choir) at St. Thomas Aquinas parish on Homer Avenue in Palo Alto, California.There's an article on Gregorian Chant as a Paradigm by Dr Mahrt at Musica Sacra, as well as an article On Music in Catholic Worship.The Stanford alumni magazine has an article, On Wings of Song which remarks:

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The Protestant Reformation leveraged the printing press and Pentecostals leveraged radio and then television (for a general history, my little library uses Alister McGrath's Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution - A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth-First). With its inherent ability to cross-reference and interconnect, the Internet's World Wide Web gives the

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