tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41168052024-02-06T23:18:34.927-05:00A Long Island CatholicRandom observations from a Long Island "Revert" to the
Catholic faith.Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.comBlogger2114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-25145553891893292512020-05-04T14:22:00.001-04:002020-05-04T14:22:06.694-04:00<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Roboto",sans-serif; font-size: 42px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-eds/bishop-libasci-our-brothers-and-sisters-at-risk-are-not-anonymous/article_21e91da9-c66d-5cbb-a0b0-44329a0f30ff.html" target="_blank">Bishop Libasci: Our brothers and sisters at risk are not </a></span></span><br />
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Former Long Islander, now Bishop of the Diocese of Manchester had the above published. <br />
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This is the Diocese of Rockville Centre! <br />
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<a href="https://www.glencovecatholic.org/canonry" target="_blank">Canons of St. Augustine in Glen Cove</a> along with Fr. Scolaro - the Divine Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite. <br />
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<br />Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-50241943499093502862020-05-01T16:39:00.000-04:002020-05-01T16:39:05.503-04:00<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #efefef; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Freedom,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.dorothydaycwfarm.org/blog/what-i-saw-at-the-abbey-of-the-genesee-and-why-it-matters-for-the-crisis-in-the-church" target="_blank">What I saw at the Abbey of the Genesee and why it matters for the crisis in the Church.</a></span></span><br />
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This article by Larry Chapp is great (found via <a href="http://mindspirit.com/author/michael-liccione/" target="_blank">Michael Liccione</a>). It reminds me of an intellectual version of <a href="http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/facade.htm" target="_blank">The Great Façade</a> by Thomas Woods and Christopher Ferrera. I am putting two bits from the article here but the whole thing is really worth reading and pondering:<br />
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<i>"A<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #efefef; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Freedom,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">nd so my larger point is that the bishops are/were not singularly evil men, but were rather the products of the ecclesiastical culture of their age. And that culture is largely reflective of the culture that surrounds us. But therein resides the true nature of the “winter” in which we find ourselves, and the true nature of the disease that afflicts us. In short, at some point in her history the Church in North America and Europe ceased to be culture-forming and came to be, instead, formed by the culture. </span></i><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #efefef; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Freedom,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>"<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #efefef; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Freedom,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">My claim, therefore, is that the fundamental crisis in the Church today is not rooted, primarily, in sexual perversion. It is rooted, rather, in the idolatry of worldly comfort, which I take to be the very essence of the bourgeois spirit. It is an idolatry made respectable (and therefore unrecognized as idolatry) by the Church’s modern acceptance of the Enlightenment’s co-optation of the Kingdom of God by politics and economics. This entails as well the </span>de facto<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #efefef; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Freedom,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, practical atheism that ensues when God’s Transcendence comes to be viewed competitively over and against our worldly fulfillment. In such a bourgeois regime, where Christianity has been tamed and has become just one more aid or help to our self-improvement in this life (Shmemann’s genius insight), the Kingdom of God has to be gutted of its true supernaturally transformative power and replaced with either the ridiculous Gospel of prosperity or the totalizing social/political Gospel of the Left. And, as Schmemann further points out, our status as </span>homo adorans<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #efefef; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Freedom,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, as primarily in our essence “worshipers of the true God”, is thus replaced by </span>homo faber<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #efefef; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Freedom,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">, or humanity viewed as a mere economic commodity, either as a producer or as a consumer, and as a forger of brave new worlds in the here and now."</span></i></span>Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-85293462019785360242020-05-01T10:30:00.000-04:002020-05-01T18:35:56.508-04:00<span style="font-size: large;">An Inside Look at Voice of the Faithful on Long Island</span><br />
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In January of 2004 I <a href="https://revertedxer.blogspot.com/2004/01/i-just-received-january-2004-issue-of.html#links" target="_blank">posted about an article in Crisis Magazine</a> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">that gave a behind the scenes look into Voice of the Faithful on Long Island </span>(when I was getting the print edition). It showed how the group had good intentions but seem to end up doing nothing more than being another forum for liberal dissenters. I did not link to the article at the time but it is <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=6003" target="_blank">on line here</a>. One line that jumped out at me was this line about Newsday's Bob Keeler speaking at a local VOTF meeting:<br />
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This was written 16 years ago and the day has arrived! Some pastors are much more traditional but I do not hear much complaining about them. So far, I have heard positive feedback and no one seems to be pushing for the 1970's style Catholicism to return. Again, I think a lot of the people in the 1970's - 1980's thought that everything in the Church had to change but the vast majority of Catholics just want solid, true Christianity. <br />
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<br />Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-70457192405670321062020-04-30T21:42:00.001-04:002020-04-30T21:42:49.783-04:00<a href="https://www.glencovecatholic.org/canonry" target="_blank">The Canons of St. Leopold in Glen Cove </a>celebrate the Ordinary Form, Extraordinary Form and apparently apparently the Byzantine Rite as well -<br />
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Their Livestream is on Facebook -<a href="https://www.facebook.com/GlenCoveCatholic/" target="_blank"> https://www.facebook.com/GlenCoveCatholic/</a><br />
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I do not know much about the Byzantine Rite so this should be interesting to see.<br />
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<a href="https://www.catholic.com/qa/what-can-you-tell-me-about-the-byzantine-rite-of-the-catholic-church" target="_blank">Catholic Answers</a> give a little info -<br />
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<i>"The Byzantine rite is one of several Eastern rites recognized by and in full communion with the Bishop of Rome. Its origin can be traced to the ancient city of Byzantium (modern-day Istanbul), renamed Constantinople when the emperor Constantine relocated his capital city there from Rome in A.D. 330.</i><br />
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<i>Although in full communion with the Church in the West, the Byzantine rite retains distinctive features. Byzantine churches are beautifully adorned with icons, and the sanctuary is separated from the congregation by an iconostasis, a screen covered with icons. Leavened bread is used for the consecration of the body of Christ in the liturgy (not called the “Mass” in Eastern rites), which is either the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom or that of St. Basil the Great. Communion is received under both kinds and administered by the priest from a spoon."</i></div>
Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-1861637138864179752020-04-30T17:25:00.000-04:002020-04-30T21:10:57.447-04:00<a href="https://sistersoflife.org/virtualgala" target="_blank">Sisters of Life Virtual Gala</a><br />
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Tonight at 8 PM EST - click the link above to register<br />
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UPDATE: Due to technical difficulties the Gala has been postponed to tomorrow night.Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-14103274759966036472020-04-30T13:52:00.001-04:002020-04-30T13:52:39.918-04:00<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #353535; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span id="goog_1296211540"></span>With safety in mind, dioceses look to reopen </span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You may see every other pew roped off to keep the faithful 6 feet apart from each other. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers could be located throughout the building. The seating capacity will probably be reduced, so not everyone who wants to go to church may be allowed inside.'</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"As more governors begin talking about reopening their states, most of which have been shut down for almost two months because of the coronavirus pandemic, a growing number of the nation’s Catholic bishops are looking to bring back public Masses, albeit with restrictions.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Proper distancing, all must wear a mask, holy Communion only on the hand,” Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville, Tennessee, tweeted April 28 in announcing that public Masses in his diocese will return on Pentecost weekend.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By late April, the dioceses of Great Falls-Billings and Helena in Montana, as well as Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Lubbock, Texas, had resumed public Masses, but with conditions that limited the number of people who could attend the liturgies and that mandated the gatherings still comply with public health regulations aimed at stemming the pandemic.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Great Falls-Billings, for example, social distancing has to be maintained at all times. The sign of peace is prohibited, as is receiving Communion on the tongue. The offertory procession is not held, the precious blood is not available to the faithful and baskets are not used for collections."</span></i></div>
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The above link is to the latest from one of my favorite writers <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/" target="_blank">Rod Dreher</a>. I have been reading him since he wrote in the NY Post, remember him writing of his conversion to the Catholic Church and then his exit to the Orthodox Church. I consider him to be one of the most reliable sources of info and ideas on the Church, especially because he has written from an outside-inside-outside viewpoint. I was able to read <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/547188/the-benedict-option-by-rod-dreher/" target="_blank">The Benedict Option</a> during this lockdown and highly recommend it. In today's link he quotes Ryan Burge:<br />
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Of course the corruption of the clergy accounts from a lot of it, but most Catholics were not aware of how extensive this problem was until recently. What has driven people from the Church is that for 50 years we were told that anything traditional was bad, no good, terrible and also immature. They built or redecorated Churches to make them look bland or just without any beauty. They tried to water down all the teachings and when all is said and done most Catholics did not see any reason to continue with any of it. The traditional Mass is making a big comeback (I can longer keep up with how many of the newer priests celebrate it) and hopefully with the Mass will come more traditional teachings and practices. In the end though, the most traditional priest celebrating the most traditional Mass will mean nothing if he and the people are not authentic followers of Jesus Christ. This is why I consider myself a 'Reform of the Reform' guy, whereas so many in my shoes have gone full Traddie. Catholics, especially those in positions of authority in the Church have been so fearful and angry of anything traditional that they lost sight of what it was Catholics were looking for - authenticity. </span>Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-19262058798305682622020-04-29T21:58:00.000-04:002020-04-29T21:58:04.496-04:00<span style="font-size: large;">The Catholic Church during Coronavirus</span><br />
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During this whole Covid 19 and lockdown situation I have seen more veiled chalices, traditional latin Masses, Ordinary Form Masses celebrated Ad Orientem, Eucharistic processions and house blessings than ever before. This is amazing when you lived through the 1970's and 1980's. When I first was blogging (17 years ago!) I followed all the arguments and discussions on the Church and kept up with all of it. Now, I can't keep up with it all and don't have any desire to but the Church on Long Island is looking a lot more traditional than in the past. One of the best bloggers <a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Amy Welborn at Charlotte Was Both</a> puts it best in this post: <a href="https://amywelborn.wordpress.com/2020/04/23/pendulums/" target="_blank">Pendulums</a>. It is well worth a read.<br />
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<i>UNESCO announced last week that construction has commenced on the Conventual Church of Our Lady of the Hour in Mosul. Mosul was once Iraq’s second-largest city before it was overrun by the Islamic State terrorist group in 2014 but liberated by U.S.-backed coalition forces in 2017. </i></div>
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<i>"With the official approval from The Dominican order, UNESCO — in close collaboration with relevant authorities — will now start the stabilization and rehabilitation of The Conventual Church of Our Lady of the Hour in Mosul,” the international body said in a <a href="https://en.unesco.org/news/start-stabilization-and-rehabilitation-conventual-church-our-lady-hour" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1774ce; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">statement</a>. "</i></div>
Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-11735502582091975702020-04-27T13:25:00.003-04:002020-04-27T13:28:26.346-04:00<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.ccwatershed.org/2020/01/31/two-reasons-fewer-vocations/" target="_blank">Two Reasons for Fewer Vocations</a></span><br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><i></i><br />Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-85982917426056024402020-04-27T09:13:00.000-04:002020-04-27T19:17:44.766-04:00The <a href="https://untitledcatholicpodcast.podbean.com/" target="_blank">Untitled Catholic Podcast</a> is back to airing new episodes. One of their <a href="https://untitledcatholicpodcast.podbean.com/e/lets-not-with-fr-steve-ries/" target="_blank">recent ones featured guest Fr. Stephen Ries </a>who is a Long Islander and former Marianist Brother who became a priest for the Archdiocese of NY. He currently serves as secretary to Cardinal Dolan. Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-23865097070431452872020-04-24T21:55:00.002-04:002020-04-24T21:55:21.761-04:00<h2>
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Yes, I am still here and still not updating this site. But I thought it might be good to show some of the good things being done here on Long Island during this weird lockdown. </div>
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<a href="http://notredamenhp.com/" target="_blank">Notre Dame Parish in New Hyde Park </a>has been featuring <a href="http://notredamenhp.com/news/" target="_blank">some good stuff on Facebook</a>. They are live streaming Masses, including last night's <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form on the Feast of St. George. the parish is led by a young traditional minded priest Fr. Joseph Scolaro and he did the excellent videos Behind the Catholic Mass and Stump the Priest.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #b01200;">And of course <a href="https://www.catholicfaithnetwork.org/" target="_blank">The Catholic Faith Network</a> has been showing the Mass from St. Agnes Cathedral.</span></div>
Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-35373845388807681282019-05-14T21:18:00.002-04:002019-05-14T21:18:35.737-04:00<a href="http://sthughofcluny.org/2019/05/solemn-mass-at-us-merchant-marine-academy.html" rel="bookmark" title="Solemn Mass at US Merchant Marine Academy"><span style="font-size: large;">Solemn Mass at US Merchant Marine Academy</span></a><br />
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Thanks to the Society of St. Hugh Cluny for this info:<br />
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Saturday, May 18 at 10 AM will be the first Traditional Latin Mass held at the Academy.<br />
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Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-43557363452640598072019-05-09T21:33:00.005-04:002019-05-09T21:33:56.507-04:00<h1 class="a-size-large a-spacing-none" id="title">
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The above link is to the Amazon page for an interesting new book about the long time head of Notre Dame. Famous for both civil rights and public activity, Hesburgh also was part of the Land O Lakes statement that ushered in the era of Catholic Universities downplaying their Catholicism to appear 'independent'. The author of the book is Fr. Wilson Miscamble, C.S.C, a fellow Priest of the Holy Cross who was friends with Hesburgh but who apparently has written a balanced account of his legacy. I just finished watching a good interview with the author by <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/tv/live/worldover.asp" target="_blank">Raymond Arroyo on EWTN.</a> Fr. Miscamble was clearly on the side of those who felt the Land O Lakes statement and subsequent actions in Catholic higher education hurt the transmission of the faith to the younger generations. It seems like this book will be a great book about a great and imperfect priest. Crux News has a <a href="https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2019/03/12/new-book-looks-at-mixed-legacy-of-notre-dames-longtime-president/" target="_blank">shorter written interview on the book here</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>"Father Walter Kedjierski has been appointed Executive Director of the Secretariat of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The announcement was made at noon April 24 in Washington, DC, by Msgr. J. Brian Bransfield, General Secretary of the USCCB. The appointment will take effect on June 3, 2019.</em><br />
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<em>Father Jason Grisafi, pastor of the Church of Saint Joseph in Babylon, will assume Father Kedjierski’s ecumenical and interreligious responsibilities in the Diocese of Rockville Centre.</em><br />
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” With these words the Oxford professor J.R.R. Tolkien ignited a fervid spark in generations of readers. From the children’s classic <em>The Hobbit</em> to the epic <em>The Lord of the Rings,</em> Tolkien’s adventurous tales of hobbits and elves, dwarves and wizards have introduced millions to the rich history of Middle-earth. Going beyond literature, Tolkien’s Middle-earth is a world complete with its own languages and histories. <em>Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth</em> celebrates the man and his creation. The exhibition will be the most extensive public display of original Tolkien material for several generations. Drawn from the collections of the Tolkien Archive at the Bodleian Library (Oxford), Marquette University Libraries (Milwaukee), the Morgan, and private lenders, the exhibition will include family photographs and memorabilia, Tolkien’s original illustrations, maps, draft manuscripts, and designs related to T<em>he Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings,</em> and <em>The Silmarillion</em>.<br />
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This exhibit is at The Morgan Library and Museum in NYC until May 12th.Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-52643708196216877982019-04-23T22:15:00.004-04:002019-04-23T22:15:29.107-04:00<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/national-catholic-prayer-breakfast-hears-call-for-catholic-great-awakening-64181" target="_blank">National Catholic Prayer Breakfast hears call for 'Catholic great awakening'</a></span><br />
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<span class="noticia_byline"><em>Washington D.C., Apr 23, 2019 / 01:30 pm (</em><a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/" target="_self"><span style="color: #006699;"><em>CNA</em></span></a><em>)</em></span><em>.- The National Catholic Prayer Breakfast heard an uncompromising call to holiness and the defense of every human life Tuesday, with speakers calling for a “Catholic great awakening.”</em><br />
<em>A total of 1,400 gathered in Washington, DC for the 15th-annual prayer breakfast, where keynotes were delivered by Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix and Curtis Martin, founder and director of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students."</em><br />
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<em>"In his keynote address, FOCUS president Curtis Martin noted that human history was punctuated by periods of renewal, sparked by a return to God in a spirit of atonement. But instead of doom and gloom, he said, the coming generation of young Catholics has the potential to do great things.</em><br />
<em>The current generation, he said, are “survivors by God’s design” having been born after abortion was legalized and are poised to “wake up” and “vanquish the devil in this generation.”</em><br />
<em>The United States has experienced ebbs and flows in religious devotion before, and has seen two “great awakenings” among Protestants that resulted in renewed faith for believers. Perhaps, said Martin, this is what the Church in America needs.</em><br />
<em>"Wouldn't it be a great time for a Catholic great awakening?"</em>Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-76147658412321818982019-04-23T21:56:00.000-04:002019-04-23T21:56:35.415-04:00<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://cruxnow.com/church-in-asia/2019/04/23/knights-of-columbus-pledge-support-to-sri-lanka-after-church-bombings/" target="_blank">Knights of Columbus pledge support to Sri Lanka after church bombings</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"In response to Easter bombings in Sri Lanka that left over 320 dead, the Knights of Columbus have pledged support to the diocese of Colombo to help rebuild the local Christian community.<br />
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<em>“The Knights of Columbus stands in solidarity with our Christian brothers and sisters in Sri Lanka during this time of trial. Terrorist attacks like those on Easter Sunday are the acts of those who reject the sanctity of life, human rights and religious freedom,” said CEO Carl Anderson in a statement."</em><br />
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<em>"Every country should protect its religious minorities, and freedom-loving countries must demand nothing less of their neighbors. Talk of human rights and religious freedom rings hollow when people are killed for nothing more than worshipping the one who taught us to love one another,” he continued.</em><br />
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<em>The financial support of $100,000 from the Knights has been sent to Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, archbishop of Colombo, who has criticized the Sri Lankan government for failing to heed warnings of the attack."</em></span>Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-22814216850078166382019-04-23T21:50:00.001-04:002019-04-23T21:50:55.423-04:00<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2019/04/23/in-praise-of-james-v-schall-s-j/" target="_blank">In Praise of James V. Schall S.J.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over at The Catholic Thing, some authors remember Fr. Schall. I learned he was a fellow fan of Peanuts and <a href="https://schulzmuseum.org/about-schulz/schulz-biography/" target="_blank">Charles M. Schulz</a>. I only knew him from his writings so it is great to read of his considerable personal charms, which some intellectuals lack.</span><br />
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<em>This Schall manifestly did every step of his life. I saw him once befriending a camera crew who had come to film an interview with him and then doing the same with the cab driver who arrived to take the crew away.</em><br />
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<em>Even more I think of an incident as he and I descended a large stone stairway at White Gravenor Hall after class, deep in conversation over Plato. Just ahead of us, a lass began sobbing on the landing, no doubt after some treacherous youth had dumped her there. Schall instantly dropped Plato and was at her side, consoling her and taking her away for a private talk."</em><br />
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<em>"A wave of bombings that killed 290
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little-known local jihadist group, National Thowheed Jamath, although
no-one has yet admitted carrying out the bombings.</em><br />
<em>Another 500 people were injured in the suicide attacks on churches and hotels.</em><br />
<em>Police arrested 24 people in a series of raids and the president's office declared a state of national emergency."</em><br />
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Hundreds more Catholic martyred on Easter Sunday by the followers of that horrible and violent ideology of islam. Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-62238250510204234282019-04-19T22:49:00.000-04:002019-04-19T22:49:02.264-04:00<a href="https://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/southern-state-parkway-accident-1.29978913?utm_source=fb_nd&fbclid=IwAR1VxOmvDXUsv8uCCadXGYBTuJrTreP75lOr11tN55xWeuEKFnkR66UQhTY" target="_blank">Retired Priest from Merrick killed by impaired driver</a><br />
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<em>"Family and parishioners of a Merrick church are mourning the loss of a
retired priest who delivered a sermon on Jesus' life and resurrection,
then died hours later on Good Friday in a crash allegedly caused by an
impaired driver on the Southern State Parkway.</em><br />
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<em>The Rev. T. Chacko Mammen, 69, was driving
west in his GMC sport utility vehicle when a Honda driven by Christopher
Gomez-Almendarez, 23, rear-ended his vehicle about 12:10 a.m. near Exit
30 in North Massapequa, State Police said. The GMC careened onto the
shoulder and hit a tree. Mammen was rushed to St. Joseph Hospital in
Bethpage, where he was pronounced dead, police said."</em><br />
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This is a tragic loss for his family and for the Mar Thomas Church - this is a Church not in communion with Rome but with its origins going back to St. Thomas the apostle. God Bless his family and his parish.Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-602309399475951892019-04-19T21:56:00.002-04:002019-04-19T21:56:23.091-04:00<span style="font-size: large;">More Podcasts of interest to Catholics</span><br />
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I was listening to the <a href="https://tomwoods.com/ep-1387-how-to-understand-notre-dame-cathedral-jewel-of-western-civilization/" target="_blank">Tom Woods Podcast episode on the Notre Dame Cathedral</a> with guest Denis McNamara, professor at the <a href="https://www.liturgicalinstitute.org/" target="_blank">Liturgical Institute</a> at <a href="https://usml.edu/mundelein-seminary/" target="_blank">Mundelein Seminary</a> and author of <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Churches-Ecclesiastical-Architecture/dp/0847835987/ref=as_li_ss_tl?keywords=how+to+read+churches&qid=1555529106&s=gateway&sr=8-1&linkCode=ll1&tag=thomacom-20&linkId=2aa966c8626b594a42312a520437d655&language=en_US" target="_blank">How to Read Churches</a> . </em>He discussed Catholic architecture and also happened to mention another podcast called <a href="https://www.liturgyguys.com/" target="_blank">The Liturgy Guys</a>. Their most recent episode was about interesting rubrics in the Triduum so of course I had to listen to it. I will have to check out more of their podcasts.Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116805.post-83201401888404164232019-04-19T21:38:00.000-04:002019-04-19T21:38:07.881-04:00<h1 class="sf-article-header__title" itemprop="headline name">
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Center and the Moroccan secret service, 23-year-old Zouhair el Bouhdidi
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<em>The arrest took place after the Spanish authorities informed the
Moroccans that el Bouhdidi had traveled to Morocco, allegedly in
preparation for the attack, according to Spanish newspaper El
Confidencial."</em>Gen X Reverthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16099005505898025284noreply@blogger.com0