Blogworthies X

Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything.

Noteworthy entries @ ProfessorBainbridge.com, small dead animals, The Mighty Barrister, Lead and Gold, Irish Elk, Dyspeptic Mutterings, Lex Communis, SecretAgentMan's Dossier, The Mighty Barrister (again), Hoystory.com, Catholic Analysis, and Catholic Ragemonkey.

Chris Matthews Misrepresented Rice's Testimony @ ProfessorBainbridge.com:

On Hardball, which I was just watching, Chris Matthews played this excerpt from Condoleezza Rice's testimony for the 4 9/11 widows he was interviewing: ....

Rice: Testimony Manipulation @ small dead animals:

Just after the Rice testimony had concluded, the local talk-radio station had their usual hourly news blurb. They're a CNN affiliate — I will assume this was a CNN feed....

The Truth Will Come @ The Mighty Barrister:

I have a lawyer friend who likes to look at the courtroom as a "Crucible of Truth" in which the facts are ground down until there is nothing left but The Truth.

Frankly, I think he got that from a Captain Picard quote, but, occasionally, a courtroom certainly works like that....

Information overload? @ Lead and Gold (italics in original):

Kevin Holtsberry writes:

I wonder at what point you have more information coming in than you can possibly handle. I feel like I am at that point right now. I have never been very good at focusing my interests.

I feel his pain. Between the internet, online booksellers, and magazines, information comes at us in torrents. It really is like trying to drink from a firehose.

But i have come up with a few coping mechanism....

The Rwandan genocide that commenced 10 years ago this week took 800,000 lives in 10 weeks. @ Irish Elk:

That's a rate of 80,000 a week. Much of the job was done by machete.

The United States, to its shame, did nothing. (One of loudest voices against intervention: Richard Clarke.) ....

Kerry. Again. @ Dyspeptic Mutterings (italics in original):

Kerry's candidacy and faith keep intersecting. Count on it to continue through November. Yesterday's New York Times documents the latest example.

Mr. Kerry became combative when told that some conservatives were criticizing him for being a Roman Catholic who supported policies, like abortion rights and same-sex unions, that are at odds with Catholic teaching....

Needless to say, but I'll say it anyhow, if this statement had been made by a Republican candidate for President, it would be Exhibit A in the case for that candidate's incompetence. @ Lex Communis:

But the New York Times gives John F. Kerry a "do-over" in this statement: ....

Another Draft Uncovered @ SecretAgentMan's Dossier (brackets and quoted ellipses in original):

In time for April 1, the National Catholic Register published a story titled, "Bishops Plan to Make New Hymn Rules." True to the occasion, the story made it clear the Bishops aren't planning to make any rules about anything, and that they are not doing that with all deliberate speed. The Dossier has obtained a draft of the story.[**] Changes from the published version have been indicated by blue text. For those not in the know, this story is part of an interminable installment series published in various Catholic media titled, "U.S. Bishops.... Stall.... Stall.... Stall... Forever.... Stall.... Stall... Stall.... on... Stall... Stall... Stall... Liturgiam... Stall.... Stall.... Stall.... Authenticam." ....

New Day Dawning @ The Mighty Barrister:

I've blogged before about the sad state of Catholic higher education. Many so-called Catholic universities think the Vagina Monologues is high art and compatible with Catholic teaching. It is neither....

Photos of the protest @ Hoystory.com:

You've asked for them (well, maybe you haven't, no matter) so here they are....

The Bible is Catholic @ Catholic Analysis:

Many Catholics are used to being asked if they "have been saved" or are sure "they have been saved" by well-meaning evangelical Protestants whom one has to admire for taking the obligation of evangelization so seriously. The short answer by a sincere practicing Catholic can be "Yes, I have been saved and am continuing to work out my salvation with fear and trembling." This succinct response goes back to the Bible: ....

Learning to Ask All the Right Questions @ Catholic Ragemonkey:

Since I am in the process of engaging in a bit of narcissitic autobiography for Crisis, and what is a blog but a live action autobiography, I will sharpen my writing skills here and tell you how I became a Catholic. How I became a priest comes later....

See also Blogworthies IX and Blogworthies XI.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 04/11/04 03:48:49 PM
Categorized as Blogworthies.

Easter Related Sermons

By Ven. John Henry Newman, D.D.

Easter

• The Resurrection of the Body
• Witnesses of the Resurrection
• Christ, a Quickening Spirit (Easter Day)
• Saving Knowledge (Easter Monday)
• Self-Contemplation (Easter Tuesday)
• Keeping Fast and Festival (Easter Day)
• Difficulty of Realizing Sacred Privileges (Easter Day)
• The Gospel Sign Addressed to Faith
• The Spiritual Presence of Christ in the Church
• The Eucharistic Presence
• Faith the Title for Justification
• Attendance on Holy Communion (First Sunday After Easter)
• Judaism of the Present Day
• The Fellowship of the Apostles
• The Gospel Feast
• Love of Religion, a New Nature
• Religion Pleasant to the Religious
• The Three Offices of Christ
• The Influence of Natural and Revealed Religion Respectively

Ascension

• Mysteries in Religion
• Rising with Christ
• Warfare the Condition of Victory
• Waiting for Christ
• Subjection of the Reason and Feelings to the Revealed Word

Pentecost

• The Indwelling Spirit
• The Kingdom of the Saints (1)
• The Kingdom of the Saints (2)
• The Communion of Saints
• The Gospel Palaces
• The Visible Temple
• Offerings for the Sanctuary
• The Weapons of Saints
• The Unity of the Church
• Connection between Personal and Public Improvement
• Christian Nobleness

Trinity Sunday

• The Christian Mysteries
• The Gospel, a Trust Committed to Us
• The Mysteriousness of Our Present Being
• Faith without Demonstration
• The Mystery of the Holy Trinity
• Peace in Believing

See also Lenten Related Sermons.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 04/11/04 02:36:54 PM
Categorized as Historical & Literary & Religious & Speeches and Suchlike.

Easter Sunday

The Lord is risen! The Lord is risen indeed!

Good Friday in my Heart

Good Friday in my heart! Fear and affright!
My thoughts are the Disciples when they fled,
My words the words that priest and soldier said,
My deed the spear to desecrate the dead.
And day, Thy death therein, is changed to night.

Then Easter in my heart sends up the sun.
My thoughts are Mary, when she turned to see.
My words are Peter, answering, "Lov'st thou Me?"
My deeds are all Thine own drawn close to Thee,
And night and day, since Thou dost rise, are one.

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)

Resurrection

As the slow Evening gather'd in her grey,
   And one clear star its ancient pathway trod—
With long, low cadences of dear delay
   The lark, descending, left his song with God!
And Peace came, like a reverential soul,
   With far-off tremors of a further world,
And thro' the silver mist of twilight stole
   Unto the heart of all. And upward curl'd
The April moon, resurgent of the sun,
   To the blue dusk of the exalted dome
Of heav'n; and the white wind-flowers, one by one,
   Shook in light slumber on their hilly home.
It was so sweet to stoop and feel around!
   Each blade of grass a breathing lyre of life
Whereon the wind, in arias of sound,
   Told subtle music; how the great World, rife
With scent of violet, and primrose-strewn,
   Strain'd tender fingers from each dewy sod
To the dear Christ of chrysalis and moon—
   And, dusk descending, left her soul with God!

Fred G. Bowles

Easter Song

I got me flowers to straw Thy way,
I got me boughs off many a tree;
But Thou wast up by break of day,
And brought'st Thy sweets along with Thee.

The sunne arising in the East,
Though he give light, and th' East perfume,
If they should offer to contest
With Thy arising, they presume.

Can there be any day but this,
Though many sunnes to shine endeavour?
We count three hundred, but we misse:
There is but one, and that one ever.

George Herbert (1593–1633)

The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1917), ed. D. H. S. Nicholson and A. H. E. Lee, pp. 449, 577f, 23.

See also Edmund Spenser: Easter.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 04/11/04 11:32:18 AM
Categorized as Literary & Religious.

Spring Flower Show: Splashes of Spring

Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Ten photos, Saturday, April 3, 2004.

Vide.

[Follow-up: Spring Flower Show: Colorful New Beginnings.]

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 04/11/04 11:15:56 AM
Categorized as Other & Photos.

Three by Meynell II

Three poems by Alice Meynell.

"I am the Way"

         Thou art the Way.
Hadst Thou been nothing but the goal,
         I cannot say
If Thou hadst ever met my soul.

         I cannot see—
I, child of process—if there lies
         An end for me,
Full of repose, full of replies.

         I'll not reproach
The road that winds, my feet that err.
         Access, Approach
Art Thou, Time, Way, and Wayfarer.

(from "Later Poems")

Via, et Veritas, et Vita

"You never attained to Him?" "If to attain
         Be to abide, then that may be."
"Endless the way, followed with how much pain!"
         "The way was He."

(from "Later Poems")

Veni Creator

So humble things Thou hast borne for us, O God,
Left'st Thou a path of lowliness untrod?
Yes, one, till now; another Olive-Garden.
For we endure the tender pain of pardon,—
One with another we forbear. Give heed,
Look at the mournful world Thou hast decreed.
The time has come. At last we hapless men
Know all our haplessness all through. Come, then,
Endure undreamed humility: Lord of Heaven,
Come to our ignorant hearts and be forgiven.

(from "Later Poems")

The Poems of Alice Meynell: Complete Edition (1923), pp. 64, 65, 69. The book is on line here.

See also Three by Meynell: Three poems by Alice Meynell.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sun. 04/11/04 07:47:13 AM
Categorized as Literary & Religious & Sunday Poetry Series.