Thursday, December 31, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Happy Birthday, auntlori!!
Happeeeee biiiiirthday tooooo yooooou!
Happeeeee biiiiirthday tooooo yooooou!
Happeeeee biiiIIIIrthday, dear auntloooooriiiii!
Happeeeee biiiiirthday tooooo yooooou!
Sunday, December 27, 2009
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Will we *ever* get a cinematic version of Eliza Doolittle who can SING??? It's like they're upping the ante by giving us someone who also can't act!
Friday, December 25, 2009
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
And speak nice to her, cause I want her to be my mother
This is the cutest thing ever, but you'll have to close your eyes because the animation is absolutely atrocious.
The first year I went to Ireland one of the guys from YD had me listen to these. During the 60s(?) a group went into the Dublin schools and recorded children telling different religious stories. Then a few or so years ago some idiot took a really bad actress with a terrible Irish accent and made these crappy animations, but suffer through it cause the kids are worth the pain inflicted on your eyes.
The first year I went to Ireland one of the guys from YD had me listen to these. During the 60s(?) a group went into the Dublin schools and recorded children telling different religious stories. Then a few or so years ago some idiot took a really bad actress with a terrible Irish accent and made these crappy animations, but suffer through it cause the kids are worth the pain inflicted on your eyes.
Amusing side note: Oliver Plunkett's Head is a relic displayed in St. Peter's Church in Drogheda, 35 miles out of Dublin. Apparantly that was this child's reference for a long trip, to go to see St. Oliver Plunkett's head and back. :)
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Getting the ball rolling
Songs to which we must dance at New Years:
Thriller
Maahi ve
Cotton Eyed Joe
With Catlike Tread
Hills of Donegal
Macarena
Suerte
Stayin' Alive
Magic Dance
That Thing You Do!
The Twist
Thriller
Maahi ve
Cotton Eyed Joe
With Catlike Tread
Hills of Donegal
Macarena
Suerte
Stayin' Alive
Magic Dance
That Thing You Do!
The Twist
Sunday, December 13, 2009
A Penguin of a Different Color
Thank you for inviting me to join this dear blog! I thought this might be appreciated here. What a shame it doesn't ship to the U.S....Sigh.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
This may be more awesomeness than a single blog can contain...
Kirk and Rush. It had to be.
Tangentially, why doesn't Rush ever wear socks?
Tangentially, why doesn't Rush ever wear socks?
Monday, December 7, 2009
The Silence of Mystery and Expectation
Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., preached on the Blessed Virgin Mary’s expectation during the first Advent when Christ dwelt in her womb. Here is the text of his homily:
The Virgin Mary, during the Season of Advent, sees what others have not seen. And she hears what others have not heard. She sees and hears the promise of the Archangel, Gabriel, who speaks to her the word of God, “Behold you are to conceive a Son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel, which means God is with us.” Mary lives the mystery of faith, this time of advent, as a time of expectation, a time of waiting for the birth of her Son. But she also lives this time as a time of the presence of God, of a new presence of God, in the womb of Mary.
We have all had the occasion by a moment to sense more intensely the presence of Christ in the Eucharist during the celebration of the Mass, during Eucharistic adoration, or even in the Tabernacle, when we walk into a Church. There is Christ. He is there whether we sense or experience his presence. But precisely because this is the case, we are sometimes given to experience that he is present. Such experience is not the source of faith, but in some way it is its consequence.
But what about the experience of the blessed Virgin Mary during Advent? It is reasonable, like the Fathers of the Church, to see Mary as the original tabernacle. The word became flesh and dwells among us. This being hidden but present among us is first of all realized during the time of advent in the home of Nazareth, in the womb of Mary, under the protection of saint Joseph. Mary meditated upon all these things and kept them in her heart. We can reasonably speculate that she read scripture during this time, in silence, most likely the words of Isaiah, his prophesies, and found in them a sense of the meaning of what was happening to her.
St. Augustine says that she conceived the Word in her heart before she conceived the Word in her flesh. So that her maternity was accompanied by an intensification and growth in faith, in contemplation, in the intelligent perception of mystery. The second Vatican Council says that during the time of her pregnancy the heart of the Incarnate Word beat gently below the heart of Mary, her immaculate heart. Two immaculate hearts, beating silently and prayerfully in the night of this world.
And during this time, Mary grew in faith and in love, in expectation and in quite joy. Such should be also our advent, a time to accept the silence of mystery and expectation, of quiet penance and joy, waiting for the dawn of Christmas, and the light of Christ that is to illumine the world.
The Virgin Mary, during the Season of Advent, sees what others have not seen. And she hears what others have not heard. She sees and hears the promise of the Archangel, Gabriel, who speaks to her the word of God, “Behold you are to conceive a Son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel, which means God is with us.” Mary lives the mystery of faith, this time of advent, as a time of expectation, a time of waiting for the birth of her Son. But she also lives this time as a time of the presence of God, of a new presence of God, in the womb of Mary.
We have all had the occasion by a moment to sense more intensely the presence of Christ in the Eucharist during the celebration of the Mass, during Eucharistic adoration, or even in the Tabernacle, when we walk into a Church. There is Christ. He is there whether we sense or experience his presence. But precisely because this is the case, we are sometimes given to experience that he is present. Such experience is not the source of faith, but in some way it is its consequence.
But what about the experience of the blessed Virgin Mary during Advent? It is reasonable, like the Fathers of the Church, to see Mary as the original tabernacle. The word became flesh and dwells among us. This being hidden but present among us is first of all realized during the time of advent in the home of Nazareth, in the womb of Mary, under the protection of saint Joseph. Mary meditated upon all these things and kept them in her heart. We can reasonably speculate that she read scripture during this time, in silence, most likely the words of Isaiah, his prophesies, and found in them a sense of the meaning of what was happening to her.
St. Augustine says that she conceived the Word in her heart before she conceived the Word in her flesh. So that her maternity was accompanied by an intensification and growth in faith, in contemplation, in the intelligent perception of mystery. The second Vatican Council says that during the time of her pregnancy the heart of the Incarnate Word beat gently below the heart of Mary, her immaculate heart. Two immaculate hearts, beating silently and prayerfully in the night of this world.
And during this time, Mary grew in faith and in love, in expectation and in quite joy. Such should be also our advent, a time to accept the silence of mystery and expectation, of quiet penance and joy, waiting for the dawn of Christmas, and the light of Christ that is to illumine the world.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
A Couple of No-Name Slobs
Until recently re-watching this movie with Anne & Bonnie, I had completely forgotten how much I love it (Buddy Ebsen's creepy and Mickey Rooney's racist performances notwithstanding)!
(You know, I hate Mickey Rooney in pretty much everything...)
(You know, I hate Mickey Rooney in pretty much everything...)
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
When in Rome, do as the Americans do.
Very interesting: a European perspective on the Manhattan Declaration.
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