Eric and Paige will enjoy this since they were once students of Russ Penney.
Below is my voice teacher singing Nessun Dorma with the Fairfax Wind Symphony.
March 2007 Archives
This Washington Times article begs the question:
Is eating at Long John Silver's a penance?
The last line is a bit depressing:
"As a rule, generally, we have a really good Friday," said Deborah Kearney, spokeswoman for Legal Sea Foods, which has six restaurants in the Washington area. "During Lent, it's even stronger. Good Friday, it's probably triple [the business] of a very busy Friday."
LiveScience has some handy pieces on-line debunking myths about the practice of justice in the Middle Ages: Medieval Justice Not So Medieval and 10 Biggest Myths about medieval torture.
While we're setting things straight, researchers have apparently confirmed that the Spanish weren't making it all up when they reported that Aztec and Maya societies engaged in human sacrifice.
We really have to try out some of these quaint Catholic customs from Latin America.
Bravo to Fr. David Barnes of Star of the Sea Church in Beverly, MA: he's inspired a general recovery in a once-struggling parish. With a praiseworthy sense of liturgical dignity, he graciously invites us chanteurs to sing in his church once a month, which we are only too happy to do. It's especially gratifying to see students from the nearby Evangelical college attending Mass there.
A motorists' association in Portugal is writing to the Pope to complain about a priest with a souped-up Fiesta. Offhand, I doubt the letter will get much sympathy in Rome. Isn't driving fast practically mandatory in Italy?
LISBON (Reuters) - A Portuguese group campaigning for safe roads has asked the Vatican to ensure that a priest who owns a souped-up Ford Fiesta "resist the temptations of speed."Father Antonio Rodrigues, Portugal's only owner of a 150-horse-power Ford Fiesta 2000 ST, has boasted of his car's rapid acceleration to 130 miles per hour and "thanked God" for never being fined, the Association of Motorist Citizens said in a letter to the Pope.
"I am no speed freak," daily Correio de Manha quoted Rodrigues as saying Monday. "I have a car that I like but I drive with prudence."
The association's letter, which was published on its Web site (www.aca-m.org), cited the priest as saying he uses the car to take youngsters for spins and to zip around to "arrive on time to the three parish churches."
"We ask Your Holiness to help this unfortunate priest to ponder the gravity of his acts and the immodesty of his words and to resist the temptations of speed and boasting," the letter to the Pope said.
In a turnaround being called an "incredible victory", pro-life voters in Vermont persuaded the legislature to reject an "assisted-suicide" bill patterned after Oregon's. Calls to legislators ran 10-to-1 against the bill, and a state House member warned colleagues that such a bill would "tell our old citizens, our dying citizens, that we regard them as a burden."
[Episcopal] Bishops refuse alternative for traditionalists
NEW YORK (AP) -- Episcopal bishops meeting privately in Texas have rejected demands from the world's Anglicans that they provide an alternative leader for conservatives who oppose ordaining homosexuals -- a move that brings the church to the brink of expulsion from the Anglican Communion.
In the strongest and most direct language yet defending their support for homosexual relationships, the bishops said that accepting a second leader for traditionalists would violate Episcopal Church law and the founding principles of the church.
"We cannot accept what would be injurious to the church and could well lead to its permanent division," the bishops said in the resolution.
No mention of how ordaining practicing homosexuals violates the founding principles of the church.
I'm going to eat it. So... don't worry yourself with using "only eggs from hens that have lived cage-free; veal from roaming calves; and lobsters that have been removed from their ocean traps quickly to avoid crowded holding tanks." Whole thing here.
It's food - not family.
In more than one case, the population-controllers have been imposing vaccines on poor countries that cause infertility. (ALL has info on UNICEF/WHO programs exposed in 1995 and 2004.)
Now Merck's HPV vaccine distributed in the US turns out to contain two troublesome chemicals: a roach poison and a chemical associated with infertility in rats.
Latin to replace DylanCATHOLICS could soon be singing Gregorian chants during worship after Pope Benedict announced he wants the singing style to make a comeback.
The 79-year-old German Pope, who last week told the world he does not care much for Bob Dylan, said the Catholic faithful should learn more of the chanting traditionally sung in Latin by choirs of monks.
"The better-known prayers of the Church's tradition should be recited in Latin and, if possible, selections of Gregorian chant should be sung," he said... full article here.
I guess "Latin to replace Haugen" is a little to much to ask during Lent...
Congratulations to seminarian Bryan Jerabek (Mount St. Mary's), who was ordained a deacon on Saturday at Immaculate Conception Church in Portsmouth, NH. He was born in New Hampshire, but has resided more recently in the diocese of Birmingham, AL, to which he now belongs; Bp. David Foley kindly agreed to celebrate the ordination up north where much of Bryan's large family lives. More photos from the Mass and reception are on-line.
Publisher Charlene Cothran of Venus magazine, once a "card carrying lesbian", shares her testimony and encourages others to let Christ lead them out of homosexuality to chastity.
(HT: David Virtue)
