Tortured Reasoning

I have been writing, when I have been writing at all lately, about small children, birds, and the Divine Liturgy. As some of you may have guessed, I gave up- along with a lot of other things- public political discourse for Lent. As it turned out, not only was this not much of a penance, [...]

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The Cardinal’s Virtue

One of the first things I noticed when I started my new postal route late last summer was the almost total lack of songbirds, especially cardinals. There were crows and blue jays and hawks and sparrows, but few songbirds. This was quite a contrast to my previous route, where I could hear cardinals and other [...]

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The Rest of the Story

I had originally intended the Holy Friday procession to be available on Holy Saturday, when I first saw it and tried to email it to Maclin. The operative word here is “tried”, as I am technologically stupid and it took several tries before I somehow succeeded, and then Maclin apparently couldn’t find it for a [...]

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More About the Distributist Debate

As mentioned by Thomas Storck in a comment on the last post about this conference, this email from Richard Aleman:
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Dear friends of The Society for Distributism,
Photographs and a brief summary of last week’s conference may be found at :
http://distributism.blogspot.com/2009/04/capitalist-socialist-distributist.html
Many of you have asked if the conference was taped. The event was recorded, however we will [...]

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Holy Friday at St. Nicholas

Daniel sent me a link to this video of Holy Friday liturgy at his parish a day or two ago. When I started to watch it and saw that it was 10 minutes long, I had to wait for a more opportune moment. I thought that time had arrived a little while ago, but then [...]

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