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Friday, June 12, 2009

Blogfast until Sunday

Folks, I'll be busy this weekend and I will resume posting on Sunday. Please, enjoy the contents already served on line.

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Ελληνομπάχαλα! - *Ο συμπαθής Πλούτο (Pluto) του Ντίσνεϋ.* *Ελληνομπάχαλα* Συνήθως οι πολιτικοί υιοθετούν το κατατρεγμένο θυμικό των ΝεοΕλλήνων ψηφοφόρων που περιλαμβάν...
louange de sa gloire

Pentecost Sunday - “I was prepared with great care to receive the visit of the Holy Spirit, and I did not understand why greater attention was not paid to the reception of th...
Divine Life - A Blog by Eric Sammons

Just released! - I am excited to announce that my latest book, Holiness for Everyone, has just been released! Yesterday I received a box full of the book (an author’s most ...
Latin in Patton

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My Chocolate Heart

Awake. Alive! - In the dark and silent tomb there is suddenly a gentle wind Father and Spirit are there He leans in close to whisper in a blood-stained ear "Son...Son...
Salve Regina

Untitled - Okay, I haven't really started blogging again, but I am thinking about it. I just wanted to share this very clever pro-life picture.
The Catholic Key Blog

Little Sisters of the Poor urgently oppose HHS Mandate - *On March 1, the Little Sisters of the Poor’s center for communications in Baltimore released a statement claiming the HHS insurance mandate “violates th...
Secular Franciscan Order

- *LENT—HAVE YOU GIVEN UP ON GIVING UP?* BY: SUSAN VOGT A year ago, I was facing Lent—again. I was ready to repeat the routine of what I usually do for Le...
Roman Catholic Blog

Suggestions for Lent - From an old priest who acted as my spiritual advisor at UCLA twenty five years ago..... (No this is not him) Suggestions for Lent: prayer, sacrifice and gene...
Stumbling After Francis

Graphic Design Blog - I'm taking a Graphic Design course this semester to fulfill an Art credit for school. I chose graphic design because I wanted to be able to compliment the...
Soulful Longings

Pain - When a person is under the influence of pain there isn't much they want to do, at least for me that is true. I must say that healing is going very well at ...
Accepting Abundance

What is a Snowflake? Repost - *This is a repost from last December for the Catholic Free Press. I have a busy week, and the kids have achieved some mathematical impossibilities. My husb...
Ten Reasons

finis - This blog is inactive and is maintained for archival purposes. Rich now writes at Over the Rhine and Into the Tiber.
My heart was restless

Adriana Lima Hot Wallpapers Post 10 - Adriana Lima Hot Wallpapers Adriana Lima Hot Wallpapers Adriana Lima Hot Wallpapers Adriana Lima Hot Wallpapers Adriana Lima Hot Wallpapers Adriana Lima Ho...
Mind in the Heart

The Life and Miracles of St. Nicholas - The following is a good podcast Dr. Chrissi Hart reads from the book “The Life and Miracles of St. Nicholas”. Joyous Feastday! Dr. Chrissi Hart reads: The...
Traditional Catholic Reflections and Reports, Works of Mercy and Life

Sexiest Women - Megan Fox 12 - [image: Sexiest Women] Sexiest Women - Megan FoxSexiest Women - Megan Fox [image: Sexiest Women] Sexiest Women - Megan FoxSexiest Women - Megan Fox [image: S...
Orthodox and Catholic Dialogue

orthodoxcatholicreunification -
Shouts In The Piazza

2012 HUSABERG FE390 wallpapers and specificastions - Motorcycle Desktop Wallpapers 2012 HUSABERG FE390 Motorcycle wallpapers, insurance information, review and specifications 2012 HUSABERG FE390 Click Thumb...
De Cura Animarum

The Final Post for the Private Blog For Some Time - Well, the time has come for me to put a close to a chapter of private blogging. I am preparing to embark upon a time of reflection and formation and my lif...
Me monk. Me meander.

The Southern California teenage girl who grew up to wear a pectoral cross - [*I first posted this in 2006. A new comment just came in.*] At St. Walburga Abbey in Colorado, as at all Benedictine monasteries, the nuns weave daily l...
View from the choir

UKULELE - BLITZKRIEG BOP! - The Ramones on ukulele. Amazing.
Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice

Las Américas y su destino - Carlos Caso-Rosendi Como resultado de mi presentación reciente de una traducción al español de la visión de George Washington en Valley Forge, he recibido...
Roamin' Catholic

Photos for the Feast of Title at St. Paul's Church 2011 - ere are some photos from the Solemn Mass at St. Paul's Church for the External Solemnity of the Feast of Title--the Commemoration of St. Paul (June 30, 201...
The Four Mass'keteers

Beatific Vision - “He was the face of Jesus to all of us,” St. Charles Borromeo School principal Linda Lacot's comment about our friend Athos in an article yesterday in the...
Lead kindly light

Heart Speaks Unto Heart - new blog! - I've given up with my google problems & thought that the time had come with our new house to start a new chapter! My new blog Heart Speaks Unto Heart will ...
Notes from Stillsong Hermitage

Questions on the Concert, Oakland Civic Orchestra, etc. - [[Sister Laurel, how was your concert? Will you be playing others? Also, you said this was an amateur orchestra. Are there any pro's [sic] playing in it?]...
One Monk of the Order of Saint Benedict

For Wednesday of the Octave of Easter - Luke 24:13-35 Emmaus may have been the home of Cleopas and his fellow disciple. At least it was their goal to spend the night in Emmaus after leaving Jerus...
A Catholic Man

Apostolic Succession By Francis J. Beckwith - Francis J. BeckwithIn 2007, when I was prayerfully thinking about returning to the Catholic Church, there were four theological issues that were deal break...
Ashley Weis

- Deep in the trenches of Los Angeles, California Skipp Townsend entered a gang at the age of thirteen. While most American families watched their pre-teens ...
SUB TUUM

Angelic Movers for Beatrice of Nazareth - A medallion of Beatrice from a painting of Cistercian women. The entire image can be seen here. Today the Menology has a posthumous postscript on the grea...
Patrick Madrid

patrickmadrid.com is the new home for this blog - At the urging of a priest friend of mine, Father Bud, I first launched this little blog back on *November 8th, 2008*, and had no idea whether my musings h...
Living Gracefully

Tom Young with Audrey Assad February 4th @ Ave Maria University. - Audrey Assad shot to the top of the Christian Music Scene with her debut album “The House Your Building.” The album features good friend Matt Maher and is...
Journey to Rome

Catholic and Thinking for Myself - Recently I was informed that a Reformed Presbyterian gentleman who pastors the congregation where we were formerly members had expressed his opinion, his c...
Path Of The Weis

Feast of Theophany! - Today we celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of our Lord, and the revealing of the Trinity! What a beautiful celebration. In early Christianity, this was ce...
COMMONPLACIANA

O Come, O Come - From the website Vivificat the wonderful O Antiphons of the octave before Christmas. If you pray the Liturgy of the Hours from Christian Prayer, I commend...
Aprehendite disciplinam

The Tipping Point: Entering the Catecumenate of the Antiochian Orthodox Church - For all my reader’s edification and much to the scandal of my detractors my wife and I have been consulting with an Orthodox hiermonk priest and will be en...
Catholic Perspective on Paul

The Catholic Perspective on Paul is Published! - My new book The Catholic Perspective on Paul is now officially published and available! Please consider watching the book’s trailer on YouTube: You can dow...
Desert Songs

Awesome! Pop-Up Hallelujah Chorus at Macy -
Return to Rome

Return to Rome has moved to Patheos.com - Beginning today, October 11, 2010, this blog, Return to Rome, has permanently moved to Patheos.com. You can find it here. You can also access it directly v...
Lisa Graas

Examining Social Impact: Recycling, Eating Habits.........and Genocide - Dr. Alan Keyes makes a brilliant point. The Left would never dispute the necessity of looking at the social impact of recycling.....or the social impact o...
Reditus: A Chronicle of Aesthetic Christianity

Once more on morality - A moralizing Philistine’s favorite method is the lumping of reaction’s conduct with that of revolution. He achieves success in this device through recourse...
Clairity's Place

Katyn Forest Massacre Movie Trailer -
The Sign of the Mustard Seed

Opening up - You'll want to read A Cracking of the Heart after viewing this post on*Inside Catholic * by William Doino Jr. Very moving. Very convicting.
DREADNOUGHT - SITE ARCHIVED

A Statement from John Heard - * "I was rather young to be so far north, but there is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanage...
Blest Atheist

Sabbath Sunday #29 - Fr. Christian Mathis (Blessed Is the Kingdom) has made the suggestion that we "rest" on the Sabbath by taking a break from our normal blogging and sharing ...
Benedictine Beacon

WELCOME - Welcome to the "Benedictine Beacon," which focuses on how ancient monastic thought might impact upon the issues and interests held in our own time. Likely it...
Luke Coppen

A new home for Morning Catholic Must-Reads - From today, Morning Catholic Must-Reads has a new home on The Catholic Herald’s new website. Thank you for reading the blog here. I look forward to seeing ...
Steve Ray's Blog

Tour de Arizona -
The Integrated Catholic Life

The Truth About Pope Benedict and Abuse in the Church - Many of us have been concerned, frustrated and bewildered over the reported cases of abuse in the European Church and the reporting of this crisis in the m...
In the Light of the Law

Roman Catholic Arch / Bishops of the USA - Besides regularly updating my Roman Catholic Arch / Bishops of the USA page, I have recently been improving the layout of and links offered on the page. Now,...
Intentional Disciples

Moving Day - Dear ID readers and lurkers: You may be wondering about the strange little header that says this blog has moved and the link that sends you to a new blog o...
Ad Rem Salva Veritate

Guess which one is the Atheist - Here are two brothers who took divergent paths in life. . Guess which one is the atheist. . . Be sure to read this interesting article at th...
So. . . This Is The Road I Am Traveling On

Please Pray for Us - I found out a few minutes ago that my daddy is being airlifted to a Seattle hospital for chest pains. He has had an heart attack a few years ago that resu...
Maria Lectrix

#1721: Ch. 5, The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis by Clemence Housman - The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis continues, as a single line of Malory is retconned into a brilliant and evocative Arthurian episode. Chapter 5. 13:45. Th...
Robert Steven Duncan

Alien Invaders Pack The Milky Way - [image: A Hubble Space Telescope image of the typical globular cluster Messier 80, an object made up of hundreds of thousands of stars and located in the d...
Priests in Crisis

Fr John Zuhlsdorf Requests Prayers - Would you please take a moment and visit Father Z’s site, WDTPRS, to offer your prayers for these priests who contact him? Prayer Requests for Priests Help...
The Catholic Hack!

Your almost there! - Sorry folks! This blog is no longer being maintained... go to http://CatholicHack.com for the latest's posts! God Bless You Joe
Catholics in the Public Square

"A Respite from Politically-Oriented Blogging" - As you may have noticed, 'Catholics in the Public Square' has been quiet of late. There are a number of reasons: What started out as a collective blogging ...
In Persona Christi Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

The Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience - I have no words to describe how happy I am or even how to thank all those who worked on this and have been the original signers. This is what we have been ...
The Deacon's Bench

Homily for World Priest Day - You can find it over here. It's a re-post of my talk from 2008.
Urban Sit Spot

Blog Moved to WordPress - *Hello!* Both of my Blogger based blogs, "*Urban Sit Spot*" and "*a hermit's journal*" have been combined (old posts and comments) and moved to the WordPre...
Roman Catholic Examiner

It may or may not be the end times, but in the meantime... - I hear the buzz around about the end times woven with the speculation if this is it for the world. I don’t know, and quite frankly, no one does, except for...
Chicago Roman Catholic Examiner

The sacred events of Holy Week - Holy Week is quickly approaching. This Sunday, April 5th, is Palm Sunday when Christians of all persuasions commemorate Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. The or...
ProLife Coalition

Father Eugene's Thoughts & Reflections (Part 1) -
Disputations

You're nobody in this town ... until you've made ... - *You're nobody in this town* ... until you've made the Google Doodle.

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Eastern Orthodox Blogs

This is a list of Eastern Orthodox Christian blogs I've found informative and insightful. Again, by listing them here doesn't mean that I agree with everything they say.

Ad Orientem

Concelebrated Patriarchal Liturgy
Eirenikon

Im getting paid!
Fr. John Whiteford

Stump the Priest: The Prayer of the Heart
Holy Protection

To be or not to be?
Koinonia

What is Orthodox Hell?
Lost Innocents

Yet another addition...
Musings from the Fourth Rome

Syriac Orthodox Metropolitan Consecrated for Guatemala
MYSTAGOGY

My Last Post?
Notes from underground

Blogger's new user-hostile interface and other atrocities
On Pilgrimage

Operation Live
orrologion

World Cup Miscellany (NYTimes); "Beware the newly revealed game of soccer"
Orthocath's Blog

Conference on Married Priests in Rome — November 13th
Orthodoxical.com

Episcopal Church Lifts Ban on Ordaining Gay Bishops
Pater Noster

10 Lessons the Orthodox Church can learn from their rapprochement with the Miaphysites
Pious Fabrications

Sins Against Philosophy
Salt of the Earth

Elder Porphyry the Kapsokalivite Sees a Provocatively Dressed Woman
Scholé

Time
This Is Life!

New Blogpost: The Obligatory Post on Using Outlines

About the Designers

This blog's design is the work of a young married couple, George and Ashley Weis, the dynamic duo behind Tekeme.com. I heartedly recommend their work. A listing of their work for other Catholic and Orthodox blogs follows below.

Army of Martyrs
Biblical Evidence for Catholicism
Called to Communion
Practical Christian Mysticism by Yaholo
r e g u l a — f i d e i
Saint Patrick Parish
St. Demetrius Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral
Standing on My Head
The Catacombs

Other Worthy Pages

These are other blogs, portals, or publications, Christian or secular, which I believe are also good to read. You know the caveat! "I don't necessarily agree with what they say in whole or in part."

Good 2 Read!

Anchor for the Soul
blonde sagacity
dwelling alone
Eye On Islam
Generación Y
hermit's thatch
Interrupting the Silence
Islam and Christianity
Islam Speaks
Jihad Watch
Kenneth Hynek
Lisa Graas
Liturgy
Long War Journal
Memri Latest Blogs
Monastic Skete
Open Cuba
PaleoJudaica.com
Persecution
RNS Blog
Robert S. Duncan
Solid Rock or Sinking Sand
Stand Up for Religious Freedom
Stop The ACLU
The Catholic Evangelical
Then and Now
Translating Jihad

My Basset Hounds

My Basset Hounds

Lily

Sadie

Big Lily Two Socks, RIP :-(

Katie (RIP) :-(

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