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E-Reading For Halloween
2007-10-31 15:50:00 M.R. James' Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary. From Google Books More About: Reading , Halloween , Allo
Now For Some New Halloween Offerings
2007-10-31 15:09:00 A truly neat Memento Mori baseball cap, but I lost the link. It is Cafe Press, but when I went back to look for it, I just came up blank. This is pretty much the way I like to carve a jack. I usually prefer a rounder pumpkin, though. Very Famous Ghost Picture This picture depicts the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, England. I was just reading this story the other day in John Canning's 50 More About: Halloween , Offerings , Offer , Some , Erin
Wanna Huck Pumpkins At Ghosts, Monsters, and Other Greeblies?
2007-10-31 14:53:00 Try this little game, which I first found a few years ago. Loads of fun for the minimally eye-hand-coordinated. More About: Ghosts , Monsters , Pumpkins , Hosts , Mons
Capuchin Cemetery, Santa Maria de la Concezione, Rome
2007-10-31 14:38:00 Sedlac Ossuary, the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Evora, Portugal, the Bone Chapel in Halstatt, Austria are all places where the bones of the dead are displayed as a sort of macabre Memento Mori. This Capuchin Cemetery's bone chapel is another. More About: Rome , Santa , Santa Maria , Maria
Antique Halloween Postcards
2007-10-31 14:36:00 Some old Halloween fun from my archives. Once you have some 8,800 blog entries under your belt, you can lean on the work of years past sometimes, too. More About: Antique , Allo
Trick-Or-Treating
2007-10-31 14:33:00 Another cherished Halloween custom is trick-or-treating. This is another one with some Christian origins. In Celtic times, the inhabitants of the British Isles believed that on the night of October 31, which was their new year's eve, the spirits of those who had died during that year could come back to visit their families. Offerings of food were left by the living for these relatives. Some More About: Trick
The Jack-O-Lantern
2007-10-31 14:29:00 Many of you will be familiar with this story, but it illustrates the Christian origins of one of the most cherished Halloween customs. Back in the days after Saint Patrick had converted Ireland, there lived an Irishman named Jack . Now Jack was a notoriously mean, stingy, and hard-drinking reprobate. Jack wanted a drink, but could not afford one. He somehow summoned the Devil, and offered him More About: Jack-o-Lantern
It's Halloween
2007-10-31 14:27:00 And for many years, this little ditty, that I think I picked up from some Scholastic Books Halloween -themed book of ghost stories back in the 1970s, has been my way of starting off the festivities. The Ghost's Lament Woe's me, woe's me The acorn's not yet fallen from the tree, That's to grow the wood, That's to make the cradle, That's to rock the baby, That's to grow a man, That's to release me! More About: Allo
They Did It Again!
2007-10-29 14:21:00 I could scarcely credit that my eyes and ears had registered the fact that, after midnight this morning, the Red Sox had swept the Colorado Rockies 4 straight (the same Rockies team that seemed invincible a week ago) to win their second World Series Championship in 4 years. This did not have the big, tear-inducing emotional impact that 2004 had. But it is still amazingly sweet. Now we can
Our Blessed Lady's Saturday
2007-10-27 16:27:00 October is dedicated by Holy Mother the Church to Our Blessed Lady and her Rosary, so the October installments of Our Blessed Lady's Saturday are likewise dedicated. The Holy Rosary, by Pope Leo XIII Accept, mighty Maid, we beseech thee, This prayer with its fragrance of flowers; With one soul we seek thus to reach thee And hail thee, God's Mother and ours. Thy heart is made glad by our
Some Prayers For a Happy and Holy Death
2007-10-26 16:46:00 A Subitanea Et Improvisa Morte A subitanea et improvisa morte libera nos, Domine. From a sudden and unprovided death, deliver us, O Lord. Ven. Cardinal Newman's Pray er O my Lord and Savior, support me in my last hour by the strong arms of Thy sacraments, and the fragrance of Thy consolations. Let Thy absolving words be said over me, and the holy oil sign and seal me; and let your own body be my More About: Prayers , Happy , Death , Holy
Friday At the Foot Of the Cross
2007-10-26 16:21:00 God of mercy and compassion, Look with pity upon me, Father, let me call Thee Father, 'Tis Thy child returns to Thee. Jesus, Lord, I ask for mercy; Let me not implore in vain; All my sins, I now detest them, Never will I sin again. By my sins I have deserved Death and endless misery, Hell with all its pains and torments, And for all eternity. Jesus, Lord, I ask for mercy; Let me not implore More About: Cross , The Cross , Friday , Foot
Superlatives All Around
2007-10-26 15:34:00 First of all, the Red Sox, behind sterling pitching performances from Curt Shilling, Hideki Okajima, and Jonathan Papelbon beat the Rockies at Fenway to take a quick 2-0 lead in the World Series. The Series now shifts to Denver, where the thin air, the lack of a DH, and the usual home-field advantage may yet see the Series come back to Boston with the Rockies up 3-2. Game 3 Saturday night! GO More About: Perla
Catholic Ghost Stories
2007-10-25 16:04:00 Taken from Hell plus How to Avoid Hell by Fr. FX Schouppe, S.J. and Thomas A. Nelson. (TAN Books & Publishers, Inc., 1989) A holy priest was exorcizing a demoniac, and he asked the demon what pains he was suffering in Hell. "An eternal fire," he answered, "an eternal malediction, an eternal rage, and a frightful despair at being never able to gaze upon Him who created me." "What would you do More About: Stories , Ghost , Catholic , Ghost Stories
Soul Bread, Soul Cakes, and Donuts
2007-10-25 15:30:00 Trick-or-treating, though it only made its emergence in the US in the late 19th century, has a long history in Europe, and while it has pre-Christian roots, was transformed into a Christian custom by the Church. In Celtic times in the British Isles, villagers would dress in the clothes of those who had died during the year, and go from house to house begging for food for the winter. After the More About: Soul , Cakes , Bread , Donuts
"We Few, We Happy Few, We Band Of Brothers"
2007-10-25 15:14:00 The Battle of Agincourt was fought upon this day, an anniversary those of us whose childhoods were formed around anniversaries of deeds of heroics are inclined to remember. WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day! KING. What's he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin; If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do More About: Band , Brothers , Happy
Saints Crispin and Crispinian
2007-10-25 15:10:00 Crispin and Crispinian, patron saints of cobblers, tanners, and leather workers. Born to a noble Roman family in the 3rd century AD, Saints Crispin and Crispinian, twin brothers, fled persecution for their faith, winding up in Soissons, where they preached Christianity to the Gauls and made shoes by night. Their success attracted the ire of Rictus Varus, the governor of Belgic Gaul, who had them More About: Cris , Crispin
Forty Martyrs Of England and Wales
2007-10-25 14:48:00 Forty representative martyrs of the English protestant rebellion were canonized in the 1970s, and although most have their own feast days which are at least noted liturgically, they are celebrated collectively on this date. This feast post-dates the 1962 Calendar. Here is a list of the Forty Martyrs : * Carthusians o Augustine Webster o John Houghton o Robert More About: England , Wales , England and Wales , Wale
Victory!
2007-10-25 14:38:00 The first game of the World Series ended very well indeed, with the Red Sox giving the Rockies a 13-1 thrashing at Friendly Fenway. Josh Beckett pitched a great game, striking out 9, to advance his own post-season record to 4-0. If his post-season record is like is April/May record, when he started the season something like 8-0, that will be great. The Rockies are still a very dangerous team More About: Victory
And Just As Baseball Reaches Its Zenith,
2007-10-24 17:13:00 So does our New England foliage. Mark had some nice pics he took over last weekend in Ashland at Irish Elk. More About: Baseball , Zenith
Tonight It Begins
2007-10-24 17:08:00 The World Series, in Boston. It doesn't get any better than this. GO RED SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!! More About: Tonight
Ossi di Morti
2007-10-24 16:12:00 So far, on our trans-national Hallowmas cuisine journey, we have stopped in Ireland and Spain's former colonies. Today, we make a stop in Italy. Traditions for Hallowmas in Italy vary greatly, from region to region, and even from town to town within a given region. And the recipes for Ossi di Mort i, or Bones of the Dead cookies also vary. Some are very chewy, and others are like meringue.
Gagne Comes To the Red Sox
2007-08-01 15:26:00 It may just be for the rest of the season, since he becomes a free agent during the offseason, but the Red Sox acquired former Cy Young winner reliever Erik Gagne for Kason Gabbard and two prospects from the Rangers yesterday. The move strengthens the already formidable Red Sox bullpen, where Papelbon and Okajima and the rest have combined for a 2.74 ERA. Papelbon has 23 saves, while Okajima
Lammas and Saint Peter Ad Vincula
2007-08-01 14:53:00 Today is the feast of Saint Peter Ad Vincula. In Europe, it was celebrated as the first fruits of the harvest. "Lammas" probably comes from "Loaf Mass", and a ritual blessing of loaves of bread made from the first grain harvested was part of the Lammas rite. Harvest queens would be crowned in villages, and harvest suppers would be held. The Feast of Saint Peter Ad Vincula is the Feast of Peter's
August
2007-08-01 14:26:00 Typical New England stone wall in late summer, Lexington, MA Important feasts celebrated during August include: 1st St. Peter Ad Vincula (Lammas) and St. Alphonsus Liguori (formerly August 2nd) 4th St. John Vianney (formerly August 8th) 6th The Transfiguration 8th St. Dominic de Guzman (formerly August 4th) 9th St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) 10th St. Lawrence 11th St. Clare of
The Portiuncola Indulgence
2007-08-01 14:14:00 From The Confraternity of Penitents: According to a legend, the existence of which can be traced back with certainty only to 1645, the little chapel of the Portiuncola was erected under Pope Liberius (352-66) by hermits from the Valley of Josaphat, who had brought thither relics from the grave of the Blessed Virgin. The same legend relates that the chapel passed into the possession of St. More About: Indulgence
Rupert Murdoch Now Owns the Wall Street Journal
2007-07-31 17:35:00 Interesting. More About: Journal , Wall Street , Street , Wall , Rupert Murdoch
Catholic Gift Wrap
2007-07-31 16:35:00 Available here. Found this over at The Shrine of the Holy Whapping. And while we are on the subject of Cath olic Goods, allow me to recommend the Gift Shop at the Saint Benedict Center at Still River, Ma. Heading off the "They're Fenneyites!" objections I know are coming, allow me to say that they host the indult Mass for the Worcester diocese at their lovely Immaculate Heart of Mary chapel. More About: Wrap
Our Blessed Lady's Saturday
2007-07-27 16:00:00 Our Blessed Lady earned her title "Star of the Sea" by being always the steady guide through whom we can navigate to her Son, our Lord Jesus. That title is particularly poignant here in New England, where the traditin of seafaring and fishing is so strong. Ave Maris Stella Ave maris stella, Dei Mater alma, atque semper Virgo, felix caeli porta. Sumens illud Ave Gabrielis ore, funda nos in More About: Saturday
Friday At the Foot Of the Cross
More articles from this author:2007-07-27 15:32:00 Threnus Prayer of Saint Augustine If I place before Thine eyes, O Lord, My sins and the wounds I have received, The less I suffer And the greater I merit. I feel the punishment for sin, Yet I do not shun my obstinacy in sinning. My fragile nature is shattered by Thy scourges, Yet my evil ways remain unchanged. My sick mind is wrenched, Yet my stiff neck is not bent. My life sighs in pain, More About: Cross , The Cross , Friday , Ross , Foot 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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