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Morning Roundup - Pentecost Monday - Missa 'Cibavit Eos' - Octave of Pentecost - May 24th, 2010

ADW Blog >> First Huddle then Hustle! Pentecost and Evangelization Ars orandi >> Collect of the Day: Whit Monday A Trail of Flowers >> Whit Monday Charlotte was Both >> Lost Chiesa.expressonline.it (Sandro Magister) >> A Holy Alliance between Rome and Moscow Is Born Colleen Hammond >> Man Made DNA: Vatican Warns Scientists NOT to Play God Creative Minority Report >> Comedy Central Attacks Israel Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Monday, Wk 8 Ord Time: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ " New Liturgical Movement >> German Gothic: A Model for New Church Construction New Liturgical Movement >> Once Again: The Octave of Pentecost RORATE CÆLI >> "The unity of the Spirit is manifested in the plurality of understanding " RORATE CÆLI >> Day of Prayer for the Church in China (note: The Magnificat had the Prayer to Our Lady of Sheshan for China in its evening pray

Afternoon Roundup - Vigil Mass of the Ascension - Missa 'Vocem Iucunditatis' (Rogation Day) - May 12th, 2010

Beyond These Walls >> A Tough Pill to Swallow: An Introduction to the Health Risks Associated with Oral Contraceptive Use Catholic Hour >> In Defense of Marriage First Thoughts >> Science and the Decline of the Liberal Arts Insight Scoop >> "Did they miss the last fifty years? " (the Pill...) OSV Daily Take >> Cast your vote for Mother Teresa Secondhand Smoke >> Global Warming Hysteria: Science Uses Fake Photo to Defend Warming Scientists (Well, I'm dashed!) SECRET HARBOUR >> Trials: An Effect of God's Mercy The Divine Life >> “You cannot bear it now” and the development of doctrine The Way of the Fathers >> Like MTV for Patristics Nerds Transalpine Redemptorists at home >> Profound need to learn penance again WDTPRS >> SSPX Superior Bp. Fellay interviewed WDTPRS >> Ascension PODCAzTs Whispers in the Loggia >> "Fidelity to Man" in "The Maze of Time and Hist

Afternoon - St. Anselm, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor - Missa 'In Medio Ecclesiae' - April 21st, 2010

Damian Thompson >> You stitched up the Pope and this is how you did it, law professor tells New York Times Love Remains the Same >> Looking for a Cheerful Thought ? New Liturgical Movement >> Liturgical Arts Quarterly 1935: "Christian Art in the Far East " Secondhand Smoke >> Politicized Science Sowing Distrust of Real Science The Curt Jester >> Keynote Speakers The Divine Life >> Killer Marriage Tips The hermeneutic of continuity >> Documentary on the Vatican The New Theological Movement >> St. Anselm and the Interior Life Vultus Christi >> The Rule of Saint Benedict: A School for Bishops WDTPRS >> NEWS FLASH: Card. Castrillon will not be celebrant for Washington DC Mass . Word on Fire >> Fr. Barron & Dr. Scott Hahn: Theology & St. Irenaeus

Morning - Feria - Missa 'Esto Mihi' - February 16th, 2010

ADW Blog >> Are You “Scientifically Illiterate!?” Someone Thinks You Are . Ars orandi >> Collect of the Day: Feria in Quinquagesima Week Bill Petro >> History of Mardi Gras: Why is it called Fat Tuesday ? Catholic Spiritual Direction >> Spiritual Direction – A Bishop’s Perspective – Part III of III Creative Minority Report >> The Baby Gianna Story Part II Domine da mihi hanc aquam >> Against the Leaven of the Pharisees Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Tuesday, Wk 6, C: "God is not subject to temptation " New Liturgical Movement >> A Visual Meditation for Shrove Tuesday: Pieter Bruegel's Fight Between Carnival and Lent RORATE CÆLI >> A warning that has gone unheeded RORATE CÆLI >> Gregorian Chant Network Rosamundi's rambling >> Why am I a Lay Dominican (the term, "Lay Dominican," is a frequent search term on this blog. Here is your chance to read what the life entails from a Brit

Evening - Feria or Comm: St. Blaise, Bishop & Martyr - Missa 'Sacerdotes Dei' - February 3rd, 2010

AmP >> Arch. of New York on St. James Scandal A Trail of Flowers >> Hero Insight Scoop >> Benedict XVI on St. Dominic, "true preacher of the gospel " Minnesotans for Global Warming >> Michael Mann as innocent as OJ - possibly more so - finds internal Penn State investigation New Liturgical Movement >> The Sacred Liturgy: The Neglected Foundation to Building the Culture of Life New Liturgical Movement >> Can Music Really Be Sacred ? Patrick Madrid >> Neuroscientist Explores How Porn Hijacks Male Brain Patrick Madrid >> Russian Orthodox Church to appoint 400 priests as military chaplains Secondhand Smoke >> Surrogates and Caprica: Splendid SciFi Warnings Against Transhumanism WDTPRS >> Still hacking away at the SSPX book WDTPRS >> QUAERITUR: St Blaise blessing but not on 3 Feb

Early Afternoon - Fourth Sunday in Advent - December 20th, 2009

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A Priest Life >> Healthy debate on health care plan: Stupak says "not acceptable " (I pray he holds out...) Insight Scoop >> The Old Testament and the Messianic Hope Insight Scoop >> Humble Praise and Joyful Anticipation: Fourth Sunday of Advent Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> December 20: O Clavis David New Liturgical Movement >> Faithfulness in God Points to Christ RORATE CÆLI >> Rorate cæli : The silence of His coming RORATE CÆLI >> "The only true union " Rosamundi's ramblings >> Hooray for Science ! (I must confess, I am a dog person...Golden retrievers are a delight...) Standing on My Head >> Copenhagen (Lord Monckton video; definite must watch) The Way of the Fathers >> In Today’s Mail … The Way of the Fathers >> St. Menas the Martyr and Healer WDTPRS >> NY Daily News article on Pius XII (POLL ALERT) WDTPRS >> WDTPRS: 4th Sunday of Advent - COLLECT (2002MR)

The Judgment of God

Father James V. Schall, S.J. posts an incredible essay on Ignatius Insight dated February 18th. Here is just a snippet: [...] For a long time, even into early modernity, it was considered that "human nature" would itself be the criterion for establishing the "limits" of science. It was understood that what man is from nature cannot and ought not to be experimented with or radically altered. If from Hume on there is a doubt about whether a nature, human or otherwise, exists or can be known, such a limit disappears. Nothing now prevented the elimination of a given human nature as a norm of human worth. Once man himself became an object of his own scientific studies, however, the very structure of man was called into question. Science becomes not so much a study of what is as of what "ought to be"—as if what man actually was had no prior meaning. We only want to know "What we can do." Man himself becomes an object of "scientific" im