"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
"The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities,
and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or
much f...
Paul Krugman is on board with slapping a small tax on financial firms'
transactions “to deter financial speculation” and better protect the economy
from Wa...
Nearly unbelievably, Pontiac’s "officially official" demise will be even more depressing: a Mexico-built G3 Wave (neé Aveo) to be sold to a lucky Canadian. -...
AMDG
Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Advent
Why is it that we are thankful for the towel left folded on the foot of our
bed when we are staying at someone's ...
For those in search of Christmas Gifts and good causes to support, Madeleine Scherb's--A Taste of Heaven provides a nice guide to foods and goods made by clo...
This year’s *New York Times* Notable Books of the Year list is out. Sticking
with the fiction exclusively, it appears that we touched upon a few of these
b...
Here.
Thanks to Literary Saloon
Read
*How It Ended*--Jay McInerny
*In Other Rooms, Other Wonders*--Daniyal Mueenuddin--to be reviewed shortly
*Love and Sum...
Moved to read Guy Davenport’s essays by something I had written, Bill Sigler
writes:
“This is the first extended reading I've done of Davenport. Besides se...
Matthew Lickona, who with wife Deirdre and amazing brood hosted us for a
wonderful evening (mousse! poetry! pizza! Brio!) on Tuesday at their
fantastic (mo...
Praise the lord, for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God: yea, a
joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful. - Psalm 147
Eat you shall to y...
Not long ago I applied to join the Sons of the American Revolution, which is
open to all those who are directly descended through the male line from any
ma...
Each week *Entertainment Weekly* reviews a small selection of popular new
books. I guess the folks at ET weren't doing much reading this week. A
seven-page...
One of the blessings I have been reflecting on this year is the friendship
and acquaintance of so many fine Christian young people. Some of them call
me Je...
Before I Wish You All a Happy Thanksgiving...here is the Cranberry Ice recipe that I may have promised last year.My fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Cramer, contrib...
Damian Thompson, "Archbishop Vincent Nichols 'offered flowers at the altar
of Hindu deities'" (Telegraph.co.uk, November 24, 2009), writes: "Archbishop
Nic...
Occasionally reviews are worth reading. Transmission of music data at rates
faster than the speed of light seemed convenient, until I realized I was
hearin...
There is a blanket, a book and a peppermint mocha calling my name this
evening and tonight my dreams will feature vegan enchiladas and pumpkin pie
and tomo...
The season is upon is. My youngest caught a cold, which spread to the next child and on up so that we have varying degrees of illness amongst us. A friend ap...
the powers of paper:
Don’t know how *bookish* this is, but it’s a testament to the magnificent
adaptability of paper. Here, with a hat to to Ari Schulman.
*Salvation by works*
I don't understand Mark Shea's hostility toward diagrams.
Be that as it may, a recent commenter at Catholic and Enjoying It! wrote:
I...
I've been amused to watch some of the arguments going on out in the
blogsphere as discussion of the hacking of the climate change servers moves
off into a ...
“I will not wear a Crown of Gold where my Master wore a Crown of Thorns.”
—attributed to Godfrey de Bouillon, upon being offered the crown of
Jerusalem
S...
Copied from my Maria Lectrix podcast blog, and inspired by today’s patristic
Thanksgiving selection by St. John Chrysostom. “Chrysostom” is a nickname.
It ...
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 turkey is on ice. We have the house pretty clean, plumbing problems *sort
of* resolved, the dryer sort of working, the ceiling for the living room is
o...
Padgett Powell's latest, The Interrogative Mood, is getting much deserved
attention all over the place these days. (Lamentably, too much comes from
reviewe...
When you read a lot of news about the Kindle it's easy to get discouraged
about the attitudes of publishers and authors, some of which are finding
themse...
Three of the four Massachusetts Democrats in contention for the US Senate
seat vacated by the death of Senator Edward Kennedy sound off about the
controver...
Heidi Malott is a wonderful, Catholic, impressionist painter... she's giving
away a painting in a random drawing... just send her an email her your
favor...
Life is a pilgrimage to God in God. –St. Benedict When a minor incident
summons renewed guilt and nightmares over the accidental drowning of her
eight-mont...
Although I agree with Alan Kaufman that for longer works the paper-based book remains a perfectly adequate purveyor of text--I don't own a Kindle and still c...
Pedge called after reading my Ball gown post and said, “I can’t stand it. I
hate this attitude that we would rather be watching from our window while
every...
by a convert:
Verses I Never Saw:
by Marcus Grodi One of the more commonly shared experiences of Protestant
converts to the Catholic Church is the discove...
Before you put the cat out, check to see whether you've got the one whose front claws are intact.
Don't wait until your carpets and upholstery are irretrieva...
Atheism must hold that there is no possibility of God, or a god, or supreme
being, or anything supernatural. Agnosticism says "Could be -- we don't
know." ...
For the past few weeks, we’ve been talking about Digital Rights Management
(“DRM”), and the diversity of comments have been fascinating. I still do not
bel...
For the last two years, John has been taking classes through the diocesan Lay Ministry Formation program. Today, along with about 90 folks, he was comissione...
*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...
*JOE WILSON FOR PRESIDENT*
President Obama lied again last night. His lies have lies. He and the
Democrats are in the process of creating a Big Government ...
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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