"O God, as once the good angels humbled themselves to adore You appearing before them as a man, may man humbly adore You appearing before us as bread."
PONC is the business acronym for "Price Of Non-Conformance", which basically means putting a price-tag on a screw-up. We were impressed someone could make money saying things like "quality is free".
"Hobbes said that a state must have religion, and there are especially two kinds of citizens that a state can't afford to have: first, atheists and second, papists who are subjects of a foreign potentate." - Cardinal Ratzinger ____
"Christianity brought reverence for what is below us." - Goethe ____
"Your salvation is in the hands of God...There is no purely human knowledge of one's eternal destiny that can contain the infinitely greater certainty contained in your faith and hope through Christ our Lord." - EWTN Q&A ____
"It is a truism in the interpretation of Scripture that its spiritual message is disclosed only to those who bring to their reading a consciousness of their need for God and his mercy. Only they ‘get’ it and appreciate the urgency of the message. The others are all bewildered.” - Msgr. Herron
Beth Griffin of Catholic News Service reported on "Becoming Latino: The Transformation of U.S. Catholicism", a December 9th forum sponsored by the Center on ...
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"Los Inocentes!"
(See also last year's post: The Fourth Day of Christmas: Childermas.)
Anciently on the 6th of December, it being St. Nicholas's Day,...
I’m reading more than at almost any time in my life but spending less time
reading online. The two facts have a common source – a festering impatience
with...
My husband has the flu, so I took the trash out tonight. Seems we forgot to
put it out last week, and the Christmas wrappings of this week meant I made
sev...
The Liturgical Year by Adolf Adam:
Even the oldest liturgical calendars already have a series of saints'
feasts directly following on Christmas. The Middl...
With pictures and diagrams and everything. Yes, once again, you have to know
what shape your face is. If you don’t know, there’s a link for that in the
art...
cross-posted from A Catholic View
Warning:Potential Spoilers
Paul and Meryl Morgan are a well-off New York couple. He's a lawyer and
she's in real estate....
Coming on the heels of the killing spree by Maj. Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood,
the latest terrorist "incident," involving Abdul Mutallab on Northwest
Flight 25...
Gentle Reader, I hope Santa was good to you and, even more, that you were
good to others in this season. As Robert Wilken reminded us Friday, we have
time ...
We are dug out from the snow at my house except we still need to rake some
of it off the roof so we don’t get ice dams when things melt and then
refreeze. ...
In a year-end double issue *Entertainment Weekly* lists its picks for the
ten best fiction and ten best nonfiction books of 2009. Seven of the ten
nonficti...
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Cruise control transfers regulation of your car’s speed to a computer. In
some models, you can upgrade to adaptive cruise control, which monitors the
su...
I must say that my wife makes a magnificent Christmas dinner (belch). I ate
it again last night. Twice. But the question of the day is: what do you make
of...
From the Corpus Christianum website: “CORPUS CHRISTIANUM is an international
Private Association of the Faithful, open both to men and women, dedicated
to ...
For those of us in the Catholic and related liturgical churches, Christmas
season has at least 12 days (although this is highly debated in some
circles--th...
My dad's elder brother John used to enthrall me with this story when I was a kid. At family gatherings, I used to sit on the floor by his chair (on the beer ...
*Found at Inscapes (a blog Bill Luse likes), after clicking on the label
"poetry."*
*1. The first poem I remember reading/hearing/reacting to was .....
2....
The 25 Greatest Christmas Films according to John Nolte at Big Hollywood
#25 -- White Christmas, Bing Crosby
#24 -- Scrooged, Bill Murray
#23 -- Scrooge, Al...
I will be posting and moderating comments only sporadically over the next
week or so.
May God bless all of you during these twelve days of Christmas and
t...
should be a kind of quality assurance system for scholars. But it doesn't
necessarily work that way:
Peer review: Life, death, and the British Medical Jour...
Baby's first Christmas is upon us here at Chez TEV, so I'm shuttering the
site until the new year. Look for signs of life here around January 13, when
I'm ...
A friend of mine took a trip to Paris to visit her daughter. This friend's mother was flying in from Romania so that the whole family could be together. The ...
My very humble attempt to invite people to consider the Holy Father’s
insights on the Christ Child in the UK Catholic Herald. More from today’s
General Aud...
David Ulin, of the Los Angeles Times focuses on the question we kicked down
the road. And, oh yes, he notes that reading is stronger and more prevalent
tha...
*It has to be said*
In comments below, folks are riffing on Fr. Richard Rohr's timely claim
that, "Bethlehem was more important than Calvary." Was Calvary ...
My oldest and I went to the parish penitential service tonight.
The parish had 16 priests ready to listen to sins and a house full of
seekers of reconcilia...
It seems to me that almost all of the reviewers who found fault with Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones--some of them quite harshly--failed to take sufficien...
As if the beautiful hymn O Holy Night weren't already glorious enough, I
have a little extra-special gift for you as we approach the joys of the
Christmas ...
*Ohio State vs Michigan, 2009, Sedan vs Coupe, Ooops*
My ten-year-old Chevy Metro automobile was mortally wounded back in May when
my seven-year-old twins ...
reviewed by John Desjarlais Death in the Choir might be called a “Catholic
cozy,” given its charming Decatur, Georgia setting and recently widowed
heroine,...
Sue Lange, one of the authors from The Book View Cafe, is offering one of
her stories for free for your holiday reading pleasure. Head over to BVC to...
At long last, *Against The Grain* has relocated to a new blog address:
christopherblosser.blogspot.com
The move was occasioned in part by Haloscan's annou...
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/reviews/r0000552.shtml A review of a book that would make a great Christmas present, including for me! I love biographies tha...
Elizabeth: "Emergency Bulletin: Even on the internet, 'yr' does not mean 'your' or 'you're' in English. Thank you."
Theresa: "I totally agree with yr Emerge...
We are here to honor and remember a man whom we loved — Fred Albinus. We are
here to pay tribute to this person, a quiet and gentle man. He was just
that...
*The End
*
Yes, Queen City Survey is ending. Off to do other things. I may spin off ‘*Raise
the Rutherford*’ and ‘*March(itecture) Madness*’ in some manner....
Of course, by this I do not mean something so simple as the "socialization"
of students, which critics of homeschooling often throw at us -- the old
argume...
*Hemingway the Grocer*
See him now
sorting the produce,
shifting it, feeling it--
not for him the rose-dappled
blood orange,
nor the bibb lettuce with
a t...
I love this blog! Writing beautiful things about God with my friends is as
close to having blog-heaven as one can get. However, I find that my life has
be...
If you are one of the many who had a copy of one of the problem Orwell books
that was mysteriously deleted from your Kindle you have already received an
em...
I've decided to take an indefinite amount of time off from instructing the
ignorant - that is, from instructing myself (the ignorant) through all of
the in...
Well, here we go again. Again.I should probably give a prize to those who
have been reading my blogs since 2001 - you certainly deserve it.Yes, that's
"blo...
I have been thinking about gift giving in Shakespeare.
There doesn't seem to be too much of it if I remember rightly.
What there is tends to be more insult...
Here’s a story that demonstrates just how tolerant good liberals are:
Catherine Vogt, 14, is an Illinois 8th grader, the daughter of a liberal mom
and a co...
I came away with a mixed view. Rather than try to build up to a conclusion,
I'll just spit it out: she comes across as a tone-deaf, wide-eyed zealot.
She's...
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Her hair was the first thing I noticed, too. =P
Proving your heterosexuality!
I think the phrase "Buttgate" is the funniest phrase to hit the internets since the Oracle of Starbucks proclaimed Darwin an "asshat".
The Oracle called me "lame" and a watcher of America's Funniest Home Videos. I'll take that over Mr. Goethe's "asshat" designation! :-)
+JMJ+
According to the oracle, I'm a psuedo-intellectual pothead. (Is that actually a compliment?)
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