tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61621711607166008922024-02-19T11:49:00.296-05:00Inigo HicksThoughts on topics of interest mainly to Catholics, including sacraments, the Virgin Mary, saints, angels, popes, feast days, liturgy, liturgical music, prayer, Church Fathers, Doctors of the Church, rosaries, religious congregations, novenas, Catholic education, and the Sacred Heart.Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.comBlogger1170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-75510403547802281152018-07-18T17:41:00.000-04:002018-07-18T17:41:03.076-04:00Liturgists At Work<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-6180586035996289562017-08-01T11:24:00.000-04:002017-08-01T11:59:39.515-04:00All your cathedrals are belong to us<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You might think that almost eight centuries of continuous use and control would be enough to establish title to real property, but in the case of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Cordoba, you would be wrong.<br />
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For more than 15 centuries ownership of the cathedral's site has been determined by conquest. A Catholic basilica established on the site in the 5th century AD by Visigoth invaders was replaced in the 8th century by Moorish invaders, who thereupon began construction of the Great Mosque. In 1236, once the Moors had been driven out of Cordoba, the mosque was converted into a church, and has remained so ever since. This may be about to change <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449866/cathedral-cordoba-belongs-catholic-church">due to an alliance between Muslims and anti-church Spanish politicians</a> which seeks to place the cathedral under public ownership. This change of ownership, if it comes to pass, will also be due to conquest, but this time it will be a cultural conquest rather than a military one.<br />
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Explanation of this post's title <a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us">here</a>.<br />
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Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-82340798235460652282017-05-31T17:50:00.002-04:002017-06-01T15:04:06.709-04:00St. Teresa of Avila on Venial Sin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"St. Teresa in Ecstasy" Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 - 1680)</span></div>
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In case you thought one venial sin was not a big deal, consider what St. Teresa of Avila, mystic and Doctor of the Church, wrote on that subject:<br />
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May it please His Majesty that we fear Him whom we ought to fear, and understand that one venial sin can do us more harm than all hell together; for that is the truth. The evil spirits keep us in terror, because we expose ourselves to the assaults of terror by our attachments to honours, possessions, and pleasures. For the the evil spirits, uniting themselves with us, - we become our own enemies when we love and seek what we ought to hate, - do us great harm. We ourselves put weapons into their hands, that they may assail us; those very weapons with which we should defend ourselves, It is a great pity. But if, for the love of God we hated all this, and embraced the cross, and set about His service in earnest, Satan would fly away before such realities, as from the plague, He is the friend of lies, and a lie himself. He will have nothing to do with those who walk in the truth. When he sees the understanding of any one obscured he simply helps to pluck out his eyes; if he sees any one already blind, seeking peace in vanities, - for all the things of this world are so utterly vanity, that they seem to be but the playthings of a child, - he sees at once that such a one is a child, and ventures to wrestle him - not once but often.<br />
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Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-64261051520397714442017-05-25T14:19:00.000-04:002017-05-25T14:20:00.155-04:00If only bishops spoke like this<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I look upon it as a most certain truth, that the devil will never deceive, and that God will not suffer him to deceive, the soul which has no confidence whatever in itself; which is strong in faith, and resolved to undergo a thousand deaths for any one article of the creed; which in its love of the faith, infused of God once for all, - a faith living and strong, - always labours, seeking for further light on this side and on that, to mould itself on the teaching of the Church, as one already deeply grounded in the truth. No imaginable revelations, not even if it saw the heavens open, could make that soul swerve in any degree from the doctrine of the Church. </span></span><br />
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Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-20382475237808443452017-05-12T12:18:00.000-04:002017-05-12T12:46:12.927-04:00"It was very hot and the express from Barcelona would come in forty minutes."<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I wonder how that sounds in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Men-Without-Women-Chinese-Hemingway/dp/7532769003/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1494605417&sr=8-2&keywords=men+without+women+chinese">Chinese</a>?</div>
Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-73201768160621383592017-04-17T13:36:00.000-04:002017-04-19T12:36:00.960-04:00New Inigo Hicks Short Story!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">“Writers who see by the light of their Christian faith will have, in these times, the sharpest eye for the grotesque, for the perverse, and for the unacceptable…. To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.”<br /><br />Readers will note the great extent to which Flannery O’Connor’s dictum has inspired Inigo Hicks’ new short story,”The Suburbs of Gomorrha”, in that the story not only contains much that is grotesque, perverse and unacceptable, but also a lot of shouting, as well as several large, and sometimes startling figures. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Which doesn't mean it isn't funny. Malcolm Muggeridge suggested that the fall of man was just the old bananaskin joke on a cosmic scale. The humor in "The Suburbs of Gomorrha" belongs to the bananaskin genre.<br /><br />“The Suburbs of Gomorrha” is affordably priced at just 99 cents (cheap) on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Suburbs-Gomorrha-Inigo-Hicks-ebook/dp/B06Y15TJWY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1492619719&sr=1-1&keywords=suburbs+of+gomorrha">Amazon Kindle</a>. Where else can you get so much perversity (seen by the light of Christian faith), not to mention laughs, for less than a dollar? </span><br />
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Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-29083812127128217452015-08-17T13:48:00.000-04:002015-08-17T16:18:04.947-04:00Edward Cardinal Koch?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-33657141916865291432015-05-28T09:54:00.002-04:002015-05-29T08:31:39.841-04:00Are galeros making a comeback?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In 2001 Avery Dulles was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II, but did not receive a galero, the cardinal's distinctive red hat. Pope Paul VI had abolished those in 1969 AD, on the grounds that a galero was at odds with "the spirit of humility and poverty, which must always and preeminently shine forth" from cardinals. And yet Dulles' galero hangs in the university church at Fordham University, where Dulles had resided for many years. So where did the galero come from?<br />
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Perhaps Cardinal Humberto Medeiros' galero provides a clue. Medeiros was made cardinal in 1973 AD by Pope Paul VI, the abolisher of galeros, and naturally didn't receive a galero on that occasion. However, in 2010, Medeiros' galero was raised to the ceiling of Holy Cross cathedral in Boston. Since Medeiros didn't get a galero from Pope Paul VI, where had the galero come from? According to the <a href="http://www.thebostonpilot.com/articleprint.asp?id=11665">Boston Pilot</a>, Cardinal O'Malley of Boston had bought the galero while on a visit to Rome on other business. The galero which was recently raised to the ceiling of Holy Name cathedral in Chicago had likewise been purchased for the late Cardinal George as a gift. Cardinal George's galero joined Cardinal Bernardin's galero up on the ceiling, and Bernardin's (made a cardinal in the post galero year of 1983) had been a gift, too. <br />
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So Pope Paul VI may have abolished galeros, but galeros are making a quiet comeback as a popular gift item for a cardinal, though it's generally a posthumous gift, as in the cases of Cardinal Medeiros and Cardinal Bernardin. If the cardinal is alive when he receives his galero, as Cardinal George was, a well-behaved cardinal will be mindful of Pope Paul VI's strictures, and modestly set his galero aside until the time comes for raising it to the cathedral ceiling. In the meantime, a certain amount of private gazing upon or even wearing of the galero is to be expected.<br />
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If you're interested in buying a galero for a cardinal of your acquaintance, where is the best place to shop? Alas, that seems to be a well-guarded secret. For instance, <a href="http://www.barbiconi.it/categoria.asp?idscat2=81">Barbiconi</a> of Rome sells saturnos and various cords to be worn on saturnos, but no galeros. <a href="http://www.gammarelli.com/ing/listaProdotti.aspx?lingua=EN&cat=14">Gammarelli</a> has black felt hats, and a variety of cords, but no galeros. Maybe the best thing to do is ask Cardinal O'Malley where he bought that galero for Cardinal Medeiros.<br />
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Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-9440687156342359462015-05-19T14:03:00.001-04:002015-05-20T09:37:44.299-04:00Galeros in the news<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I'm happy to report the extremely long drought of galero-related news has at last ended: last Sunday in Chicago, Cardinal George's galero was raised above the sanctuary in Holy Name Cathedral. Cardinal George, who died on April 17, had received the galero as a gift but, sadly, never wore it, perhaps fearing to fall afoul of Pope Paul VI's "<a href="http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/instruction69.htm">Instruction on the Dress, Titles and Coat-of-Arm of Cardinals, Bishops and Lesser Prelates</a>," which among other things, banned the galero. Pope Paul VI, though an estimable pope in many respects, was not much given to mirth or whimsy, a quality which shines with particular clarity in this Instruction.<br />
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The present pope is cut from very different cloth, though one suspects he may be even less galero-friendly than Paul VI was. In naming Pope Francis its "Best Dressed Man" of 2013, Esquire magazine noted approvingly his ''black shoes and unadorned, simplistic regalia.'' A black shoed, "unadorned" pope seems unlikely to top off his "simplistic regalia" with a galero, or look approvingly upon those who do. <br />
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However, Esquire's reference to Francis's regalia as "simplistic" may be unintentionally telling. Webster's dictionary defines simplistic as "not complete or thorough enough: not treating or considering all possibilities or parts." That strikes us as perfectly apt. The red shoes, capes and hats Pope Benedict was mocked for wearing were not only traditional, which, for the leader of a 2000 year old Church, has value in itself, but also red to recall the martyrs' blood which helped the Church grow. We would thus urge Francis to consider more "possibilities and parts" in his regalia. We would further urge Francis to permit more "possibilities and parts" in the regalia of cardinals, too. Indeed, we'd recommend Francis instruct cardinals as follows: "If you've got a galero, flaunt it." And if you don't got a galero, get thee to a galerory.</div>
Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-11160047724124215852015-04-16T17:47:00.000-04:002015-04-17T12:47:23.457-04:00Beverly Sills and the Production Lodges of South America<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The internet is funny and kind of mysterious. Somebody for some reason (probably hoping to make lots of money) went to the trouble of translating the Wikipedia page for Beverly Sills into another language and then back into English. Then they put that material, plus a lot of other weird Beverly Sills-related text into a book called "Beverly Sills 108 Success Facts." Here are a few typical sentences:<br />
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In South America, she chanted in the production lodges of Buenos Aires and Santiago, a musical performance in Lima, Peru, and emerged in some performances in Mexico City, containing Lucia Di Lammermoor with Luciano Pavarotti. On November 9, 1971, her execution in New York City Opera's manufacture of The Golden Cockerel was telecast live to wire TV members.<br />
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Here are those sentences as they appear in Wikipedia:<br />
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In South America, she sang in the opera houses of Buenos Aires and
Santiago, a concert in Lima, Peru, and appeared in several productions
in Mexico City, including <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_di_Lammermoor" title="Lucia di Lammermoor">Lucia di Lammermoor</a></i> with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Pavarotti" title="Luciano Pavarotti">Luciano Pavarotti</a>. On November 9, 1971, her performance in the New York City Opera's production of <i>The Golden Cockerel</i> was telecast live to cable TV subscribers.<br />
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"Beverly Sills 108 Success Facts" is available from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Beverly-Sills-108-Success-Facts-ebook/dp/B00QE4B4UG#reader_B00QE4B4UG">Amazon</a>, and the Kindle edition costs only $24.99.<br />
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The publisher, Emereo Publishing, does this a lot. As of August, 2014 there were <a href="http://www.amazon.com/forum/top%20reviewers?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx2Z5LRXMSUDQH2&cdThread=Tx23GENTZ77TIQF">2,441 similar books for sale</a> on Amazon. My advice is don't buy these.<br />
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Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-21705458276323449292014-12-02T11:56:00.001-05:002014-12-03T06:47:03.828-05:00For that obscure Christmas music lover on your list<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There are some nice songs on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/En-Fete-Noel-Holy-Night/dp/B00002R2X7/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1417543538&sr=1-1&keywords=en+la+fete+de+noel">this cd</a>, the most interesting of which is "Huron Carol" by St. Jean de Brebeuf, the Jesuit missionary and martyr. It's Canada' s oldest carol (1642 AD), and fairly popular up there (covered by <i>Crash Test Dummies</i>, among others), but rarely heard down here in the lower 48. Brebeuf composed the lyrics in Wyandot, the Huron language, which he'd worked tirelessly to master, but they are sung here in English, alas. The English translation dates from 1926, and appears to be a bit on the fanciful side. Google translate doesn't work on Wyandot, so this is difficult to confirm (though the use of " 'twas" is a tip off).<br />
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Here is the first verse in Wyandot:<br />
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Ehstehn yayau deh tsaun we yisus ahattonnia<br />
O na wateh wado:kwi nonnwa 'ndasqua entai<br />
ehnau sherskwa trivota nonnwa 'ndi yaun rashata<br />
Iesus Ahattonnia, Ahattonnia, Iesus Ahattonnia.<br />
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And in English:<br />
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'Twas in the moon of winter-time<br />
When all the birds had fled,<br />
That mighty Gitchi Manitou<br />
Sent angel choirs instead;<br />
Before their light the stars grew dim,<br />
And wandering hunters heard the hymn:<br />
"Jesus your King is born, Jesus is born,<br />
In excelsis gloria."<br />
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"Gitchi Manitou," the Algonquin word for God, appears in the third line of the translation, even though Huron and Algonquin are totally different languages, and St. Jean de Brebeuf didn't use the Huron word for God in his carol.<br />
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The Huron were allies of the French, and were all but wiped out by the ferocious Iroquois, the allies of the English who also martyred St. Jean de Brebeuf (martyrdom is a mild, polite term for the <a href="http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~gsayre/Brebeuf.htm">beastly violence inflicted upon de Brebeuf</a>). The Huron language has pretty much disappeared, too, though it is partly preserved in a Wyandot dictionary compiled by none other than St. Jean de Brebeuf. </div>
Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-18416441244362003402014-11-13T09:04:00.001-05:002014-11-13T14:22:36.973-05:00God chooses the weak to confound the strong<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Brendan Kelly had Down Syndrome and died last year at 15 of leukemia. Yet in his short, pain-filled life, Brendan established a world-wide reputation for sanctity, counting popes and senators among his friends. Though in his amazing life Brendan worked miracles, perhaps his greatest achievement was to <a href="http://www.ncregister.com/blog/joseph-pronechen/boy-with-front-door-key-to-heaven">demonstrate the irresistible power of sacrificial love</a>. (h/t Creative Minority Report)</div>
Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-70259629642187985722014-11-09T15:44:00.005-05:002014-11-09T15:45:52.716-05:00See you again when we hit 200,000, Al!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Al was doing this a lot; not sure why</div>
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We just waved goodbye to Al Gore who, as inventor of the internet, is obliged to congratulate every blogger who reaches the 100,000 page view plateau, which we did a little while ago:<br />
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Unfortunately, no one guessed it would happen on November 9, so we will save the prize, a rosary handmade by the <a href="http://www.sistersofcarmel.com/rosaries.php">Sisters of Carmel</a>, for the contest to guess when this blog will reach 200000 page views.<br />
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In Tudor times England liked to flatter itself that it was an enlightened nation ruled by law, by contrast with Spain, which the English considered a benighted land of autocratic brutality. So, in "A Man for All Seasons," when Thomas More confesses to the Duke of Norfolk that he is afraid, Norfolk replies "This isn't Spain, you know. This is England." In fact, it would be in England where the rights of the vibrant and popular Church would be trampled, its property seized, its priests and other faithful put to death (Thomas More among them), and where crushing fines would be levied upon Catholics, and their rights restricted in other ways. The Duke of Norfolk himself barely escaped execution. That legal formalities were often observed doesn't obscure the autocratic brutality of these acts. <br />
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America, like Tudor England, flatters itself that it's the land of the free, with a government of laws, not men. In California, at least, this is no longer the case. There, in August, the Department of Managed Healthcare (!) <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2014/10/22/california-orders-churches-to-fund-abortions-or-else/">ordered all elective health plans in the state to cover elective abortion</a>. "All" of course includes health plans administered by religious institutions, even those with objections to elective abortions based upon their religious beliefs. In other words, California permits a mere bureaucratic body, not even its legislature, to trample on rights guaranteed to its citizens and churches by the first amendment to the US Constitution. Six churches have filed lawsuits.<br />
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it sounded familiar, since I had proposed something similar back in <a href="http://inigohicks.blogspot.com/2014/08/my-unsolicited-advice-to-bill-and.html">August</a>. At that time, I had called upon the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Melinda is Catholic) to take a break from spending millions to teach Swedes and poor people how not to procreate, and instead raise a volunteer army to defend Christian populations under threat from Muslims. I even emailed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation directly, in case they don't follow this blog. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been maintaining a discrete silence with regard to my proposal ever since.</div>
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The man in the picture is Jordan Matson, and although he may not be a Marine, as he seems to have claimed, he is fighting ISIS because he "couldn't just sit and watch Christians being slaughtered anymore" and for this I commend him.</div>
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Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-39822379017190718542014-10-09T10:08:00.002-04:002014-10-10T12:08:07.536-04:00100,000th page view less than a month away (probably)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Inigo Hicks will reach the prestigious 100,000 page view plateau soon.
The contest to guess the day this historic event will actually happen is
still going on, and it's pretty wide open, since to date we have
received only one guess. As of right now, we've had 97,860 page views,
and we've been getting around 2,500 page views a month. The prize for
the first person to guess the date Inigo Hicks hits 100,000 page views
is a rosary custom made by the Sisters of Carmel, who make the best
rosaries on the web. Everybody gets one guess. <br />
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The rosary has black oval cocoa wood beads on a black cord, an Our Lady
of Fatima centerpiece, and a St. Benedict crucifix. It was supposed to
have a St. Ignatius medal attached to the centerpiece, but I must have
clicked the wrong button, because it has a St. Hubert medal instead.
For those not familiar with St. Hubert (<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">c. 656–727 <small>A.D)</small></span></span>
here is his story. After his wife died in childbirth, St. Hubert spent
all his time hunting in the Ardennes forest. According to legend, one Good
Friday, when everybody else was in church, Hubert was out hunting in the forest when he had a vision of a stag with a crucifix between
its antlers. Hubert also heard a voice saying "Hubert, unless thou
turnest to the Lord, and leadest an
holy life, thou shalt quickly go down into hell". Hubert duly turned to
the Lord, giving away his possessions, becoming a priest and eventually
a bishop. His feast day is Nov. 3. It would be kind of interesting if
that turns out to be the day this blog hits 100,000 page views.<br />
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Another interesting thing about this contest is that the prize was lost
for about a month. The Sisters of Carmel emailed me that they shipped it on the same day as another rosary I'd ordered a few weeks earlier. The
other rosary arrived, but the prize rosary didn't. After a few days
passed, and the prize rosary still hadn't arrived, I assumed the rosaries had been shipped in the same package and I'd accidentally thrown
out the prize rosary along with the packaging of the rosary that was
delivered. The rosary was in a pretty big envelope with a lot of plastic
peanuts so it was possible the prize rosary was in there but I didnt see it. I didn't want to hassle the Sisters of Carmel about it, so I said a
prayer to St. Anthony of Padua, the go-to saint when you need help
finding a lost object, and figured I'd have to order a replacement.
After about a month, though, I got an email from the Sisters of Carmel
telling me they'd found the rosary, and would ship it right away. That
was a little weird, since I never told them I didn't receive the
rosary. I've also been imagining how the discovery of the unshipped rosary might have taken place.<br />
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"Who keeps leaving their rosary on the "Rosaries to be Shipped" table? I swear this one has been here everyday for at least a month."<br />
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"It's not mine."<br />
"It's not mine."<br />
"It's not mine."<br />
"I keep my rosary in this small, holster-like device."<br />
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"Fine, then whose is it?"<br />
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"Maybe that rosary needs to be shipped to somebody. That's probably why it's on the "Rosaries to be Shipped" table."<br />
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"Hmm."<br />
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Anyway, the rosary finally arrived, and it's a beauty.<br />
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Please enter your guess in the comments section of this post.<br />
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<i>St. Hubert and St. Anthony of Padua, pray for us.</i></div>
Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-51248210028855457912014-10-07T09:30:00.001-04:002014-10-07T17:03:49.970-04:00Dave Brubeck, Catholic convert<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Dave Brubeck (1920 - 2012 AD), the American jazz pianist and composer, best known for the jazz classic "Take Five," was a convert to Catholicism. Although the horrors he witnessed during his service with Patton's Third Army in World War II jolted Brubeck into a spiritual awakening, he didn't actually convert until 1980. However, Brubeck didn't think "conversion" described his case very well, since, as he said "I didn't convert to Catholicism, because I wasn't anything to convert from. I just joined the Catholic Church." In 2006, the University of Notre Dame awarded Brubeck its Laetare Medal, its oldest and most prestigious honor.<br />
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Brubeck composed a jazz Mass, which is not my cup of tea, but you can listen to some of it here:<br />
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Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-3715831807409886722014-10-04T20:52:00.000-04:002014-10-07T06:15:59.358-04:00Benedict Groeschel, RIP<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Fr. Benedict Groeschel died last night, the vigil of St. Francis, at the age of 81. Born in Jersey City, Fr. Groeschel entered the OFM Capuchins a few days after graduating high school, and remained a Capuchin for the next 36 years. In 1987, motivated by his desire to live the Franciscan vocation more faithfully, Fr. Groeschel, along with 7 fellow Capuchins, left the order to found the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. The FFRs now count 115 members, and a similar order for women, the Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal, now numbers 35. <br />
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Fr. Groeschel had a PhD from Columbia, and although he didn't publish his first book until 1983, he would go on to author 46 books in all, and was at work on number 47. His wispy beard and raspy, slightly lisping voice were familiar to viewers of EWTN, where he appeared regularly for 30 years. Fr. Groeschel was humble, learned, orthodox and funny, and he had many admirers and friends, some of whom, like Mother Teresa, are now saints. He will be missed, and I hope his own cause for canonization will move quickly.<br />
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Long ago, during my high school and college years, I met Fr. Groeschel several times at the retreat house he'd founded at the request of Cardinal Cooke. At first I had no idea Fr. Groeschel was famous, and not just for his holiness and learning, but that became clear enough at meals, when everyone in the place, and especially his fellow Capuchins, would crowd around to hear his table talk, which was often uproarious, even though Fr. Groeschel barely spoke above a whisper. Once, his gentle gaze having fallen upon the awkward, shy lad at far end of his table, he asked me what college I was attending. When I told him Columbia, he asked if I'd ever visited Riverside Church, the towering, gothic, cathedral-like Baptist church built at enormous expense by John D. Rockefeller. I replied that I had (it's a landmark a few blocks from campus), whereupon Fr. Groeschel said, in a confiding tone, "You know what that is, don't you? Rockefeller's fire escape."<br />
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Fr. Groeschel's obituary <a href="http://franciscanfriars.com/wp-content/uploads/fatherbenedictgroeschelobituary.pdf">here</a>. <br />
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<i>Requiem Aeternam dona eis, Domine<br />et lux perpetua luceat eis:<br />
Requiescat in pace. Amen</i><br />
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Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-13979210559348061332014-10-03T17:55:00.000-04:002014-10-03T21:23:17.075-04:00First Friday Devotion - You still have a few hours left<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today is the first Friday of the month, so if you go to Mass today and receive communion, and keep that up for nine consecutive Fridays, you will not only receive the grace of final repentance, you won't die under God's displeasure, nor without receiving the sacraments; the Sacred Heart of Jesus will be your assured refuge in your last hour.<br />
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That is a promise St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647 AD - 1690 AD) received from Jesus Christ himself. This promise was given in a vision; from her youth, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque had been granted many visions of Jesus (she at first assumed everybody got them). In the course of these visions St. Margaret Mary received from Our Lord many tender expressions of his great love for mankind, along with many promises of graces to those who practiced devotion to his Sacred Heart.<br />
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At the age of 9, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque had made a vow to enter religious life, but she did not enter a Visitation convent until she was 24 (after having been reproached by Jesus, in a vision, for not keeping her vow). According to her fellow novices, St. Margaret Mary was humble, simple and frank, but above all kind and patient. Jesus seems to be drawn to this type. St. Margaret Mary was assigned to the infirmary,where she wasn't very good at her tasks. Jesus also doesnt seem to care much whether you're a superstar at your job or not.<br />
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Her lifelong visions continued in the convent, but St. Margaret Mary had a lot of trouble convincing her superiors to take these visions seriously. They eventually did, though a panel of theologians which investigated the visions did not consider them authentic. St. Margaret Mary's own religious community shared the theologians' skepticism, and they made her life miserable for many years. Finally, St. Margaret Mary visions found support among influential religious persons, in particular the Jesuits, who began to foster the devotion to the Sacred Heart taught by Jesus to St. Margaret Mary, and this devotion began to grow. <br />
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However, for nearly a century, the teachings and revelations of St. Margaret Mary, as well as her own personal qualities, continued to undergo a severe scrutiny. At last, in 1928, St. Margaret Mary's visions and revelations received official approval in Pope Pius XI's encyclical <i>Miserentissimus Redemptor</i> (Most Merciful Redeemer). In the words of the encyclical:<br />
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"[T]here is surely no reason for doubting, Venerable Brethren, that from this devotion piously established and commanded to the whole Church, many excellent benefits will flow forth not only to individual men but also to society, sacred, civil, and domestic, seeing that our Redeemer Himself promised to Margaret Mary that "all those who rendered this honor to His Heart would be endowed with an abundance of heavenly graces."<br />
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Other promises Jesus made to those who practice devotion to the Sacred Heart <a href="http://here is surely no reason for doubting, Venerable Brethren, that from this devotion piously established and commanded to the whole Church, many excellent benefits will flow forth not only to individual men but also to society, sacred, civil, and domestic, seeing that our Redeemer Himself promised to Margaret Mary that "all those who rendered this honor to His Heart would be endowed with an abundance of heavenly graces."">here</a>; I like this one very much:<br />
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<i>I will give peace in their families</i>.<br />
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Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-10521152107101341152014-09-30T14:48:00.001-04:002014-10-01T19:55:53.930-04:00Poor Richard III, still getting the short end of the stick<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Imagine you are the devout Catholic king of a famous country until one day you are killed in a battle, which your side loses. Imagine further that the guy who led the other side in the battle becomes king. That much seems seems fair enough. The other guy's son also becomes king after him, which also seems fair. However, one of the most important things the son does is to start a new religion that everybody in the kingdom is forced to join. Meanwhile, your body is never recovered from the battlefield, and remains lost for centuries. Finally, your body is found, under a parking lot. [A reader kindly points out that Richard's body was indeed recovered from Bosworth field and buried in Greyfriars church, Leicester. Henry VIII, the son of the guy who defeated Richard, dissolved the friary in 1538 and sold the real estate to developers. The developers demolished the buildings and sold off the stones, making it much harder to figure out where Richard's body lay, which is how eventually a parking lot came to be placed above it.] <br />
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Everyone agrees that your bones should be interred with suitable ceremony. Would you want that ceremony to be according to the rites of the Catholic religion, the religion you practiced devoutly, or according to the rites of some crazy new religion started by the son of the guy who defeated you in the battle in which you got killed? You'd want Catholic rites, right? Well, so undoubtedly would King Richard III (1452 - 1485 AD), to whom all the things in my imaginary story actually happened, but that's<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/29/richard-funeral_n_5800442.html?cps=gravity"> not what he's going to get</a>.</div>
Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-75647644008374532172014-09-30T09:53:00.001-04:002014-09-30T10:15:49.197-04:00Hail, St. Jerome, translator and scholar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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St. Jerome (347 AD - 420 AD) was the leading Biblical scholar of his day, and St. Jerome's translation of the Bible into Latin, known as the Vulgate, was not only a tremendous contribution to the Church but also a remarkable scholarly achievement, which displays not only deep knowledge of Biblical languages, but also a thorough understanding of the geography and history of the Holy Land.<br />
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The Vulgate formed an important part of the framework from which the Romance languages grew.<i> </i>Words borrowed from Greek such as <i>episcopus, presbyter, diaconus, Christus, Paraclitus, baptisma, anathema </i>and Christian coinages such as <i>Salvator, Incarnatio, Resurrectio, Trinitas</i>, <i>compassio, ingratitudo, immortalilas, impossibilitas </i>would not have gained universal currency without the Vulgate. More on the literary influence of St. Jerome <a href="http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=9264">here</a>.<br />
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St. Jerome was a prickly man who did not relish criticism, a trait which made him many enemies and which shows clearly in his correspondence. The following is taken from a letter from St. Jerome to St. Augustine of Hippo concerning the Septuagint. St. Augustine considered the Septuagint, the translation of the Hebrew scriptures into Greek made by 70 translators in the 2nd century BC, to have been inspired, whereas St. Jerome believed only the scriptures themselves to have been inspired, not the translation. <br />
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" ... [<i>Y]ou ask why a former translation which I made of some of the canonical
books was carefully marked with asterisks and obelisks, whereas I
afterwards published a translation without these. You must pardon my
saying that you seem to me not to understand the matter . . . Do you wish to be a true admirer and partisan of the Seventy
translators? Then do not read what you find under the asterisks; rather
erase them from the volumes, that you may approve yourself indeed a
follower of the ancients. If, however, you do this, you will be
compelled to find fault with all the libraries of the Churches; for you
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Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-70690766215251432252014-09-26T10:22:00.001-04:002014-09-27T13:41:55.434-04:00Mortification and Self-Denial - Still good for you<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Redemptorists, the religious order founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori, compiled selections from the great saint's ascetical writings into a single volume with 12 chapters called "The School of Christian Perfection," which you can buy <a href="http://www.amazon.com/School-Christian-Perfection-Alphonsus-Liguori-ebook/dp/B00B7WPAMI/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411735699&sr=1-1&keywords=school+of+christian+perfection">here</a>. Each chapter is organized around a particular virtue or salutary spiritual practice, and there are 12 chapters so that a reader can focus on a different one every month of the year. This is what the Redemptorists themselves do (or, perhaps, used to do). <br />
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If you'd started "The School of Christian Perfection" at the beginning of the year and concentrated on a different chapter each month by now you'd be up to Chapter 9, which is entitled "Mortification." Although we don't hear mortification discussed much nowadays, according to St. Alphonsus, "[i]n as far as it is necessary to avoid sin, every Christian is bound to practice mortification." St. Alphonsus compares mortification to a somewhat bitter and distasteful but necessary medicine, and notes that "[o]ur Lord once said to St. Francis of Assisi: 'If you desire me, take the bitter things of life as sweet and the sweet as bitter.'"<br />
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What's the point of mortification? St. Alphonsus says it "elevates the soul," citing St. Francis de Sales, who wrote: "[t]he soul can never ascend to God unless the body is brought into subjection by penance." Mortification also helps us master our self will, which is the destroyer of all virtues. As St. Bernard of Clairvaux said: "he who ... follows the suggestions of self-will subjects himself to a veritable fool."<br />
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Mortification and self-denial may be out of fashion, but you may be surprised to learn that the Church continues to recommend these practices. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (published 1992 AD), “[t]he way of perfection passes by way of the Cross. There is no holiness without renunciation and spiritual battle. Spiritual progress entails the ascesis and mortification that gradually lead to living in the peace and joy of the Beatitudes” (n. 2015)</div>
Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-20362176498210807592014-09-25T09:32:00.001-04:002014-09-25T12:59:32.690-04:00Very rare bird sighted<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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That rarest of birds on primetime network tv, a character who is a practicing Catholic, has, according to reliable reports, been spotted recently. The character even quotes St. Thomas Aquinas. The show is called <i>Madame Secretary</i>, and the executive producer, Barbara Hall, is a convert, which helps to explain this marvel: more <a href="http://www.cruxnow.com/life/2014/09/24/cbs-madam-secretary-dares-to-be-a-little-catholic/?s_campaign=crux:email:daily">here</a>.</div>
Inigo_Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16593326490909892110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162171160716600892.post-76777062397246627322014-09-15T12:55:00.001-04:002014-09-15T13:18:33.482-04:00Archbishop gives "Calvary" thumbs up!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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stars Brendan Gleeson, and it's the story of a good priest in Ireland in
the wake of the sex abuse scandal. From Archbishop Chaput's review:<br />
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the first frame to the last, “Calvary” has an understated power – a
blend of everyday pain, faith, despair, humor, candor, bitterness, and
forgiveness – that brands itself onto the heart with spare simplicity.
It’s also the best portrayal of a good priest in impossible
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Full review <a href="http://www.cruxnow.com/life/2014/09/12/calvary-is-an-unblinking-unforgettable-film/">here</a>.<br />
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I don't go to the movies often, because I find they're usually not worth the ticket price, but Calvary may be an exception.<br />
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