Illuminations

Nothing original.

Jeffrey at Roving Medievalist has an exhibition of stunning images taken from the Paris Psalter. The example shown here depicts the Crossing of the Red Sea. The other pages on Jeffrey's post are reminiscent of ancient Roman frescoes depicting pagan myths. One can see how Christian iconography adapted the method, technique and style of pagan iconography.
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[Note in the lower corner the two homosexual men perishing in the Red Sea!]
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[ LOL! I'M SO KIDDING!!!]

As Good as it Gets - You're a wonderful man!!

Nurse Diesel

Don't worry about me, I'm under doctor's care.

It is today!





I am so happy it is Wednesday the 28th of May!




Aren't you? What a wonderful day in the neighborhood. I just love it!




I am so positively happy about it. Every day is a gift - don't you agree? I just love it!

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"Honey, where's Tricia?"

Memorial Day weekend.


In the US this is a long holiday weekend.
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Few people will be online since most people seem to surf the Internet only at work. (How do some people keep their job? Or accept a pay-check in good conscience?) Anyway - I'll still be posting on all my blogs. I'll have extra juicy, tasty and nasty stuff, so if you are online, you will be entertained. (I'll take it all down by Tuesday when people get back to work.)
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You may look forward to the following posts:
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Was she really Well-born?
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What is wrong with Canadians?
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How dark was it before the Dawn?
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A short report on Naus-eating food.
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Does the Catholic roam?
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Dissecting Catholics in recovery.
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Cornered Catholic.
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Not O.K. in the U.K.
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And many other insightful articles. I'll be back after I take my meds.

After getting her hair done...



Cathy of Alexandria attended a wedding last weekend. Read all the fun details here.

Nothing to blog about - AGAIN!

So anyway...
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I researched my sources and it is the same old, same old. If I felt better, I'd write about some stuff, although it would be redundant. Have you noticed I have themes I return to all of the time? I'm like that. I could be watching TV with a friend and come up with something that annoyed me 10 years ago. I am really like a dog with a bone at times, even if I buried it many years ago - I'll dig it up eventually.
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I skimmed the blogs this morning too - I found nothing to critique or start a fight over. Although Gerald is pretty PO'ed about Obamarama - telling people they may have to do without big SUV's, and air conditioning - I'm not sure of the context - but Gerald's reaction is typically American. No one tells us what we can or can't do! (I'm not fond of Obamarama either. I don't trust anyone, but he is at the top of my list of people I don't trust.)
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I do want to thank everyone for the birthday greetings, cards, calls I never picked up, best wishes, and prayers. I really do appreciate that. Please understand I do not celebrate my birthday, even though I may pretend to... Funny thing, I never forget those who ignore it either. LOL!
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Sometimes I miss the fights with my parents... so I blog. Oooooooooo! I'm getting all misty-eyed! LOL!

"All of them witches"


All of them gay?
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It just strikes me as strange how many people come out of the closet to protest Vatican directives that homosexuals should not be accepted for ordination. I wrote about it here.
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Photo: Scene from "Rosemary's Baby" - this year is the film's 40th anniversary... The title of this post is a line from the film.

Priest

Remember the film "Priest"? When it was released, many Catholics were upset because it was about a young gay priest and his assignment at a liberal parish whose pastor kept a mistress. Many claimed the film was anti-Catholic. It seems more like a documentary in retrospect.

Happy Birthday Mary Kay!

Today is my friend Mary Kay's birthday! Yeah! Pope John Paul II was born today too.

Like a whisper no one heard...

The woman died and no one noticed.
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Hedviga Golik's body was discovered in her apartment in Croatia - she had been dead for 35 years - and no one missed her. Story here.

Unwed parents.

Angelina and Brad are pregnant.
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Do you think it's a sign of the feminizing of men to say "we" are pregnant when it is really just the woman who is? I was just wondering.
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Anyway, Angelina Jolie is expecting bastard twins. Yay! But why don't people get married anymore?
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Maybe they will start to do so again, now that gay people can. Gays are always out front with fashion and trend, and now that they want to get married, and can, maybe straight people will want to do it again too. Or maybe marriage is just gay?
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I don't know, what do you think Jennifer?
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Did I tell you my idea for a priest t-shirt? On the back it says, "Unwed Father" and on the front, "Catholic Priest". Great idea, don't you think? Whatever Father.

"Goes to church on Sunday...

But oh, oh, watch out on Monday."
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That is pretty much the screed of those who do not go to church but criticize their neighbors who do. There is an element of truth to it I suppose - although the devil likes to show people our faults. But I can do a pretty good job of showing off mine on my own without his help. That poor ol' devil gets blamed for a lot of stuff we do very well on our own.
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Anyway. Last night after working in the yard, I was really tired and crabby. I posted in that mood. So I took some of the posts down this morning. You didn't miss much. (Never post when angry, over-tired, sick, drunk, or on pain-killers.)

The meme no one asked for.

So here's the deal.
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Write whatever comes to your mind about yourself.
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That's it.
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It is called: Voices from the couch. (As in psychiatrist's couch - no, I've never been on one.)
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Start.
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1) So here's the deal, I feel burnt out on this blogging thing - as my mother would say, "I'm so sick of this blogging BS!" I don't mean to complain - and you see, that is just it - I have to be nice, and everyone knows snarky is more fun. Well, not really, which is why I stopped reading some blogs. Truth is, I don't know what to write about and it is spring and I have other projects - work on the house, in the yard, etc.. And I've wasted over two years blogging. That is pathetic. Do people realize we will be judged on every word we say - which includes writing?
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2) And face it - some days you just want to rip on people. But that is a mistake because deep down everyone is nice, good, what have you. If they are bitchy and mean it is because they hurt inside - something is off - so why go nuts on them? And if they are in error, they will come to realize it eventually, that's what hell is for.
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3) I love comedy - and I so want to share it with all of you - but so few want to see my favorite sitcom episodes from Youtube because everyone is so darn religious - which is good - don't get me wrong - but I'm older and a lot of stuff just doesn't bother me the way it does other younger men who get turned on by just about anything that walks. (Oh! Oh! That may be another reason they get so angry about stuff!)
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4) Sometimes when I'm at the store I want to pretend I'm insane and talk to strangers really loud with a big smiley face - and then laugh really hard. And like when I'm at the vegetable section - I want to rummage madly through the heads of lettuce laughing and singing and talking really loud, and then walk away totally serious, quiet and reserved. Wouldn't that be funny? And then, and then, I want to like dance by myself down the isle, like in Thriller. I don't though.
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5) Sometimes people are rude in the grocery store. I encounter many snobs there. No, I'm not intimidated - but I wish they weren't so snobby - for themselves - not me. I think it is fun to watch and listen to snobs - I used to be a big snob. Sometimes, if someone I thought was nobody said hello to me I'd turn and look the other way. Not so much because I thought I was better - altho I was cooler - but because I was afraid others would see me being nice to them. That was so mean.
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6) Which is why snobby people should avoid snobbism - someday they will realize they are big losers anyway. This is what sickness, getting old and ugly, depression, losing a job, or a house, or a spouse, and all the other bad things that happen to good people are for - to help us realize we are all really a bunch of losers. If these things don't work, then hell pretty much takes care of any miscommunication.
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My parents didn't like me -so sometimes when they got really angry with me, they would tell me they were going to disown me. In their mind, I'd be out of the will. We were poor! Wasn't that lame? So you see, snobs do not have to have money, position, status, or anything else to be snobs.
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Time is up! This session is over.

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(I tag anyone who likes stupid, crazy, silly humor - there are a few nut-jobs out there I'd like to hear from - so if you really do this - leave a comment so I can read what you wrote. Thanks Father.)
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Photo: Cathy of Alexandria preparing dinner - she fixes a mean roast.

Evolution Revolution

The Vatican newspaper had an article about it last week.

Bad Chimp

I can be such a jerk - much like the chimp in this video. My apologies.

The ban on Mother's Day...

In the United States, yesterday was Mother's Day.
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I want the celebration stopped. (I need a cause!) Yesterday I picketed outside of a Hallmark store, moved on to a Walgreen's, and then I finished picketing outside a garden center, with my "Stop Mother's Day" sign and brochures. Stop the waste of paper for cards. Stop exploiting garden plants for gifts - how many plants die needlessly for nothing? Stop alienating kids without moms. My mother died in 1982 and I have been an orphan ever since. The holiday is discriminatory and humiliating. Stop the insanity! (So many times my mom ended our phone conversations with, "I think we should have you committed!" And then she hung up. Subsequently, every Mother's Day I am reminded how much I miss her.)

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Next year we march onto the Cathedral! The slogan will be, "Run for an end to Mother's Day!"

Scandals


"Doby will have to shut his ears in the oven door for this."
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I had to take down a Will and Grace clip because someone felt it was inappropriate. I am happy he told me because I honestly do not want to scandalize others with things I post on any of my blogs. My apologies. I don't always realize others may have a much more sensitive conscience than I do. My friend who called my attention to my error said he prayed for me. I'm very grateful and ask all of you to keep me in your prayers as well. Thank you.

Did you know...


So, did you know?
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That the Amish people dress very old fashioned, but they are normal; they know about modern things and have studied and are smart and stuff. They do not practice polygamy, but marry and have children just like regular people do. They are very nice. Anabaptist people are similar to them and they are normal too. They are Christians, but they do not have a liturgy or sacraments, save for baptism I believe. They are all very nice.
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Jewish people have no sacraments at all, and only really orthodox Jews dress differently - I think it's the Hassidic group. Shawls, hats, black suits - wigs for the women. I don't know any, but I think they are nice.
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Many Islamic people dress differently too - the women sometimes look like nuns. The Islamic religion does not have sacraments either. In fact Jews and Muslims are not Catholic, nor are they even Christian - but many of them are real nice.
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Mormons are real different too. Some people do not think they are really Christian either. Some people say they have no sacraments whatsoever. But they do baptize people, often dead people by proxy, but that doesn't count. Many of these people are very nice - almost too nice - like Donnie and Marie - yeah, they are almost too nice.
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Then there is Tom Cruise and Scientology. Scientology has no liturgy or sacraments either. Personally, I do not think it is a religion at all, but the people are very nice. I like Tom and Katy Cruise a lot - they are very nice. Katy is very pretty and Tom has a wonderful smile and seems to be as nice as can be.
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I will pray for all the people I mentioned who are not Catholics, especially for Tom and Katie that they return to the Catholic Church. (Did you even know they were Catholics?)
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Baptism is very important - real Christian baptism, that is. Some Catholics are not really baptized you know, but the priests who did the fake baptisms were real nice. (No one talks about this any longer.)
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Oh - and Oriental religions - they are just pagan - but the people seem real nice. I'm not interested though. (Most religious people do seem real nice though, don't you think? I wonder if it is genuine?)
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The End.

Rumour Has It!!!

It is Cathy's Birthday today! Happy Birthday Catherine of Alexandria!

DYAO!

This is simply incomprehensible...

Myanmar fatalities are estimated above 22,500 with a further 41,000 missing.

News Story here.

More "lost" art.



Bad photos!
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Two Carmelite images:
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Top: Triptych Madonna of the Scapular, side panels, Prophet Elijah and St. Eliseus, and St. Simon Stock receiving the scapular.
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Bottom: Prophet Elijah, "Behold a little cloud rising from the sea."
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Images now belong to two Carmelite communities (the lower image being one of two of the same image).

The big one is coming...

It could happen.
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I feel the earth move under my feet

I feel the sky tumbling down

I feel my heart start to trembling

Whenever you're around

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Oh baby When I see your face

Mellow as the month of May

Oh darling I can't stand it

When you look at me that way

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I feel the earth move under my feet

I feel the sky tumbling down

I feel my heart start to trembling

Whenever you're around - Carol King

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I think it is safe to say a huge earthquake will hit the United States sometime in the very near future. There have been too many in the past couple of weeks. Of course, I'm just guessing here, but I bet it could be the build up to a big one. Another small one was felt in Missouri today. Story here.

More from St. Christina the Astonishing...


By Cynthia Large
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This is Cynthia's latest work depicting St. Christina the Astonishing, entitled "A Pelican In the Wilderness" - a verse taken from Psalm 102 (101 depending on the translation). Cynthia's work is masterful, I hope you enjoy it. Please visit her website for a description of the painting as well as her narrative on the saint. Visit Cynthia Large

You mean we didn't win?

White House admits fault on 'Mission Accomplished' banner!
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"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended," Bush said at the time. "The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on Sept. 11, 2001, and still goes on." The "Mission Accomplished" banner was prominently displayed above him—a move the White House came to regret as the display was mocked and became a source of controversy. - Story
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You mean to tell me that wasn't true? Does that mean we are still fighting in Iraq then? Nice time to tell us. All I can say is that Bush is definitely not getting my vote this fall.

Switzerland grants unprecedented “rights” to plants and animals - "Isn't that funny?"



"Save the liturgy, save the planet.".
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Yeah... That one doesn't work for me on this story. Anyway - read this...
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"Geneva, Apr 30, 2008 / 04:01 pm (CNA).- Switzerland has now become a country in which the unborn are less important than plants and animals. The country’s Federal Ethics Committee is encouraging the defense of the “dignity” of plants, and Parliament has approved a law granting animals unprecedented rights.
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According to a report on LifeSiteNews.com, the Swiss Parliament passed a law last week requiring prospective dog owners to complete a course in canine treatment that will include both theoretical and practical elements. Due to concern over recent studies suggesting the pain experienced by fish, anglers are now subjected to a preparatory course on humane fishing. The new laws will also dictate how farmers treat their livestock and even regulates the proper treatment of rhinoceroses." - Story
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My thoughts:
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I'm all for the humane treatment of, and the prevention of cruelty to animals, but things get out of hand when human life is no longer respected or given pride of place. If human life is considered secondary or of equal importance to plant and animal life, then a science and technology that is powerful enough to dictate legislation, seems to be rapidly propelling us toward that brave new world Aldous Huxley warned about in his novel.
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That said, the so-called "rights" of plants may have more to do with genetic manipulation and "Frankenfoods" - that can affect fertilization and cross pollination processes; while the reasonable rights of various species, such as rhinoceroses, may have more to do to do with protection from poachers who contribute to their extinction. Not all of these measures originate in so called fringe theories, anthropomorphic emotionalism, or even "new age" principles - although it is obvious an international movement to control society through arbitrary and immoral legislation is currently underway. Regardless, the implication that an unborn child has less rights than animal and plant life is a great evil and seems to me to be the final warning that civilization is in decline.
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Disclaimer: Yes, I know, the popular slogan is "Save the liturgy, save the world" - I meant to use "planet". No, I don't think fishing is cruelty to fish - well maybe the huge ocean nets that disturb and disrupt aquatic life... And no - I am not against hunting, eating meat or fish, and so on. Yes, for the record, I am against zoos that confine animals, and circuses that exploit animals for entertainment, as well as the inhumane farming of animals - I hate that stuff.
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[I know, I know - I sound like a nut. I keep waiting for something big to happen and it never does. LOL!]