An article on Perpetual Adoration with a nice photo of the chapel at St. Agnes parish.
And Fr. Groeschel Attracts 1,000 to Blessed Sacrament Parish.
All the above from the Arlington Catholic Heretic Herald.
And some non-Arlington news: Vatican not impressed with threat to sue over access to archives from CNS.
Yesterday I heard a homily about how progressive St. Angela Merici was because she founded a community of women that wore lay clothes and lived and worked among the laity. This was centuries, the priest said, before it occured to religious communities to cast off their religious garb and live with the people. What a load! The sisters would become the Ursulines didn’t wear religious garb because their group wasn’t a religious order.
Though convinced of her divinely appointed mission to lay the foundations of an educational order, Angela for seventeen years could do no more than direct a number of young women who were known as “The Company of St. Ursula” but who continued to live in the midst of their own families, meeting at stated times for conferences and devotional exercises. The many difficulties that hindered the formation of the new institute gave way at last, and in 1535, twelve members were gathered together in a community with episcopal approbation, and with St. Angela de Merici as superioress.
The Ursulines, it says, to this day are still faithful to the mission for which the order was founded, namely to educate young girls. St. Angela Merici and the Ursulines are not really the model of the orders that liberated themselves from the shackles of fidelity to their respective charisms. How could they be? They took up a habit and a rule and have remained faithful to their charism.
The orders that are thriving today have an identity. Don’t convince me that The CFR’s or the Nashville Dominicans aren’t “among the people” in the apostolates. Bah. That homily nearly spoiled my day.
From The Arizona Republic
Two co-founders of Life Teen, the nation’s largest Catholic youth ministry based in the Valley, were accused Thursday in a lawsuit of covering up and helping carry out sexual attacks on a 14-year-old boy two decades ago.
The lawsuit, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, also claimed that the Life Teen program at St. Timothy’s parish in Mesa had “a social culture which inappropriately focused upon sexual activity . . . and fostered an environment that led to inappropriate sexual behavior.”
I’m in the market for a new digital SLR and happened upon this fascinating site for something decidely low-tech: a large-format pinhole camera called the “Snapdragon.”
Since it is, as you can see, totally manual, they recommend the “Point and Pray” method to control the exposure.
Check out the gallery while you’re there!
Professor’s Saturn Experiment Forgotten
David Atkinson spent 18 years designing an experiment for the unmanned space mission to Saturn. Now some pieces of it are lost in space. Someone forgot to turn on the instrument Atkinson needed to measure the winds on Saturn’s largest moon.
“In total, the core of our team has invested something like 80 man years on this experiment, 18 of which are mine,” Atkinson wrote. “I think right now the key lesson is this – if you’re looking for a job with instant and guaranteed success, this isn’t it.”
