Polish Madonna

Another favorite. It is said
that Mary would do the laundry
the day before the Sabbath, so
everything would be spotlessly
clean for the next day.

This magnet, or a framed copy
of this painting, can be found
at CatholicPosters.com (link)

By Joe LeClerc

Warrior angel.

.............Don’t mess with him jim.

.........................He kicked Lucifer down through the stars

till Luc hit ground in the basement - boiler blazin.


Who is God? Mike asked.

...................................................Not you, numbnutz!

Nor me…,

............................but I aspire to fight

............................................................at the right side of

The Warrior Angel.

A Question from an email

from Barbara Beyer Malley:

"These comments make me
very, very happy. I have been
feeling sad because for some
reason, my new activity book,
Read Me a Rhyme, Please, has
not done well since publication
a year ago. It may be because
it is much longer than the first
two and therefore much more
expensive. But the publisher
kept saying, "The longer the
better." I would appreciate
feedback. I know the poems
are wonderful. Could it be
that the illustrations are off-
putting because some are too
much like cartoons? Thank you
dear people for lifting my spirits.

Jeeves, Jr."

Well, in my opinion $19.95 is not
an outrageous price for an activity
book of this quality - an excellent
teaching tool that can be used over
& over again for instruction, & for
the introduction of both reader &
listener to the ever-enchanting
verse of Ernestine Cobern Beyer.

Barbara has, for quite a while now,
allowed me to publish her mother's
work on this blog. For the month
of October, 'spooky' poems will once
again be featured.

For anyone interested, search this
blog for the poetry of Ernestine
Cobern Beyer - & please comment
if you find yourself enchanted by
the work of this woman, who sang
with Enrico Caruso before giving up
singing to raise her family, provided
additional income by her published
verse, & received an award from
the National League of American
Penwomen in the early seventies,
before she passed away...

& are as confused as I am as to why
she has remained a virtually unknown
American treasure.

I thank you again for taking the time
to be delighted by her delightful work,
which will continue to be posted here,
so long as I'm a-bloggin'!

The Pieta

by Sister Mary Jean Dorcy-
( 3/10/14 - 5/5/88 ).

Below are figurines based on
her scissor-cutting silhouette
art.

















& this link to a biographical (&
rather amusing!) article, written
with love by her exceptional
student, Dan Paulos, about the
life of his sweet-faced mentor:)

The picture below is linked to
Alibris, and some of the books
that Sr. Dorcy wrote &/or
contributed to.
























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Was married on

the grounds
here...

almost twenty-five
years ago:)

Thanks to Carolina
Cannonball @

The Crescat

for the
neat photos!

Obtained this masterpiece

of cinematic art recently:

Moulin Rouge (1952) -

Starring the great Jose Ferrer
(who won the Best Actor Oscar)
as the great French painter,

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Not to be confused with the
recent movie of the same name,
which was not a remake.

October marches on

Time to listen to & vote for
our favorite weekly podcast,
Episode #100 of:

Christus Vincit ANYWHERE!

Follow the link to vote at
Podcast Alley -

Email verification required.

PS:
Anybody else having a
difficult time connecting
to the podcast?

Excellent coverage

of this past weekend's
Chesterton conference
over at:

Chesterton and Friends,

by

View from the choir's

Lee Strong.

Love the man...

But not his politics.

Catholics Against Rudy.

A confession...

I went to a Chesterton conference
this past weekend, with the most
wonderful speakers…

Included were two of my favorites -
Dale Ahlquist,the President of the
American Chesterton Society & host
of G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of
Common Sense on EWTN (usually on
Sunday @ 9PM ET & Thursday @
10AM ET) & dear biographer & editor
of The Saint Austin Review, Joseph
Pearce.

All I can say is, pardon me…

but I'll be doing a lot of this

:) :) :) !!!

for a while!

Got this from

the

Catholic Answers Forums,

where I've been spending some
time lately - usually in the

Clubhouse...

A lotta fun - hope to see you there -
registration is free, & OPEN TO
EVERYONE!!!

Are you smarter than

a preschooler?

Study the bus above...

which way is it traveling - to the left,
or to the right?

Get the 'right' answer from Michelle

@:

Justitia.

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Great contribution

yesterday from

Nick

who participated in
the bloggers'
Stop the Abuse(s)
awareness campaign.

I can't say for sure, but
I think he had a little help
from Alex, his owner -

but don't tell him you
heard it from me!

Catch blogger Dawn Eden

from The Dawn Patrol

& author of:

The Thrill of the Chaste:
Finding Fulfillment While
Keeping Your Clothes On

on
EWTN's Life on the Rock
tonight at 8 PM ET.

Can't wait! :)

P.S...

Don't forget to vote over
at Podcast Alley for the

Christus Vincit Anywhere!

podcast, for the month of
September...

Follow the link above - email
verification required to vote.

A new look, too

for the site of the
Saint Austin Review

(StAR) magazine.

Everybody's changing
their look -

& I do believe I may
have started the trend,
when I switched to a
lighter shade of pink! ;-)

AND...

Wikipedia has a new entry
on one of my favorite poets:

Ernestine Cobern Beyer.

Did you know?

In the year 2000, Pope John Paul
II was named an honorary Harlem
Globetrotter.

Can you name...

all fifty states?


Quiz found courtesy

of BMP @


Christus Vincit.

You know...

You really do have to

draw me a picture... (link)


I'm no

Columbo. (link)














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"Faith...

... is to believe what you do not see;

the reward of this faith is
to see what you believe."

Saint Augustine

Thanks to
Holy Cards for your Inspiration,
(Beautiful!)

found via:

Back to Damerosehay.

Fun!

How fast can you type?


Thanx to:

PhatCatholic Apologetics.

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There's an interesting post

(or two) on Harry Potter over
at:

The Blue Boar

I haven't read the books,

but am amazed at the number

of adults that have enjoyed them.



Can not say that fairy tales

interest me much anymore, but a

well-told tale is usually a welcome

read.



That's why I'm looking forward

to the detective story J. K. Rowling

is said to be working on. Have read

most of the best already...



Can't wait to meet this great story-

teller's adult hero!

A Get Well Wish

for Brian Michael Page

from the snarky

Christus Vincit blog,

&

my favorite podcast:

Christus Vincit ANYWHERE!

who has been in the hospital
this past week...

Prayers your way Brian -

Get rest, & get well soon!

& read this one, too

from Terrance,

with assistance from
G. K. Chesterton, by way

of:

Common Sense 101 -
Lessons from Chesterton,

by Dale Ahlquist.

New [crickets] linked

on the right...

View great photos at:

Fotos Cofrades

thanx to Jeffrey Smith @

Catholic Architecture and
History of Toledo, Ohio

&

June Cleaver After a Six-Pack

via Eric @

The Daily Eudemon

& Terry:) from

Abbey-Roads2.

Next month

Dawn Patrol's Dawn Eden,
author of:

The Thrill of the Chaste,

will be on EWTN's Sept. 27th
episode of

Life On the Rock.

Yippee!

&

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

Speaking of Christus Vincit...

It's August, & time to vote for









@ Podcast Alley -

Follow the link above...

& to Ernestine Cobern Beyer

From Barbara & Kathie...(Wikipedia link)

With love:)

Two new blogs

on the right...

Charlotte was Both,

Amy Welborn's new blog, as
she's discontinuing Open Book...

&

The Blue Boar,

from Chestertonian.

Both via
The Daily Eudemon.

PLUS...

The tropics and other stuff

has a new look, too.

A link for

Holy oil.

Blessed art thou

"All ages to come
shall call me blessed."
(Luke 1:48)

Our Lady of the Prairies. (link)

I had posted this before
I knew how to link photos.

Been meaning to repost -

& it's now linked to the family
owned business where I first
read about her.

Be back...

soon.

From Barbara Beyer Malley

In her older years, Ernestine Cobern Beyer

became a successful poet and lecturer,

describing to her fans the power of the

subconscious mind. She dubbed hers

"Jeeves," after the problem-solving butler

in P.G. Wodehouse's novels, and credited

him with helping her complete many of

her poems. At 35, however, she was so

discouraged by rejections slips that she

considered giving up. What a sad loss that

would have been to the world of poetry.


[from 1928 letter written to husband
David, away on a business trip]

"All my poems are coming back and

back. Each time it is like a kick in the

stomach! I know just how Dempsey

felt when Tunney pummelled his bad

eye! I wish it didn't affect me that way.

I almost think I'll have to give it up, I

get so blue. And I feel so lost, as if I had

nothing to do. I lecture myself the way

I used to Mother. In fact, I do it so much,

perhaps lecturing should be my vocation.

It is sad to think yourself a sky lark, and

find you are only a mud one! It is really

the cruelest form of torture, and I can

sympathize now with Mother's longing

to be a writer and her battered hopes

and ambitions. I do hope my children

will not try to fly high.


I am like those winged ants you see.

What good are their wings? They do

not fly! But I suppose they think they

will some day!"


[Mother, your wings were destined to

fly. By the 50s and 60s, your poems

were appearing in all the popular

children's magazines, and you were

giving talks in schools and libraries

about the power of the subconscious

mind. You named yours Jeeves...

mine is Jeeves, Jr.]

Inspired by the garden dancers

of Back to Damerosehay -

(Well, it reminded me of them,
anyway)...

Dancers in Blue
by Edgar Degas c.1895


(Courtesy Allposters)

This Thursday past

Saw the book,

But didn't look -


Would be a HUGE

fan,



















If t'was more

Alan Rickman.

A Most Amazing Site

Wieliczka-daVinci's The Last Supper,

sculpted in salt. Pic from Wikipedia. (link)

Courtesy of Thomas from

Living Next Door to Alice. (link)

Who linked to this a while back &
kindly looked it up again, reposting
some great links.

They're of the magnificently sculpted

works from the
Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland - (link)...

Here's the
Wikipedia entry... (link)

Thanks again, Thomas:)


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An amazing acrylic painting

of the Crucifixion!

By Ria

@


Smallpax. (link)


Y

From an email

Would you like to strip Planned
Parenthood of millions of tax dollars
each year?

Today, Thursday July 19, the
United States House of
Representatives will continue to
consider the Labor, Health and
Human Services funding bill
(H.R. 3043). This bill authorizes
funding for Title X - the domestic
family planning program.

Planned Parenthood receives over
$65 MILLION A YEAR from this
one program.

The current bill actually increases
the Title X program to $311 million
and would mean approximately a
$15 million increase in funds going
to Planned Parenthood.

Representative Mike Pence of Indiana
will be offering an amendment to the
bill. His amendment will state:

AMENDMENT TO H.R. 3043, AS REPORTED
OFFERED BY MR. PENCE OF INDIANA

At the end of the bill (before the short title),
insert the following:

SEC. ___. None of the
funds made available under this Act shall be
available to Planned Parenthood for any
purpose under title X of the Public Health
Services Act.

Please call your representatives immediately
and let them know how you feel about "the
Pence amendment toH.R. 3043." If you do
not know your representative's name or
contact information, go to:
http://www.house.gov and enter your zip
code in the upper left-hand corner of the web
page. Please take action on this now, before
it's too late......

And spread the word to every pro-lifer you know!

(From the American Life League)

Here are a couple of

Wikipedia links

to some like-minded

heroes

of mine.


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Hmmm...

Most

interesting...


a

Fascinating story

Read the article,

Sisters of Loretto: The
Miraculous Staircase, (link)

written by Dan Paulos, (whose
silhouette art, The Babysitters,
is featured at the top of this blog.)

It's about the true story of The
Miraculous Staircase of St. Joseph,
& was made into the movie:

The Staircase, (link)

starring Barbara Hershey &
William Petersen, in 1998.


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Reposting

these bumper stickers...


from:

Leaflet Missal online.


Pro-life bumper stickers

being one of many topics @


Catholic Answers Forums.


Registration is required for

participation in the forum -


But being a Catholic is not

required for registration.

A new addition

to the right:

International Perspectives
on Family Violence and Abuse,
by Kathleen Malley-Morrison. (link)

(& a note from Dr. Malley-Morrison):

...I am now working on developing four
books on international perspectives on
war and peace, and anyone who would
like to contribute their views on war
and peace is invited to complete our
online survey at:

http://people.bu.edu/jdgmnts

Don't let me forget

to vote for my favorite
podcast... (link):









for the month of July!

From Thomas

who's

Living Next Door to Alice. (link)


An excellent link to

Poetry by Hilaire Belloc. (link)


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Neat stuff

available from the:

American Chesterton Society, (link)

including this Flying Disc, proving that
even really big angels can fly:)

Thanks to the:

ChesterTeens, (link)...

&

More info on the ACS conference,
from:

The Dawn Patrol (link)

&

The Blog of the American
Chesterton Society. (link)

Beautiful pics

& paintings @ The Crescat...

Especially like this one,

by Polish painter Jan Matejko...

(July 24, 1838 - Nov. 1, 1893)

Liking the

forum here... (link)


Registration required.


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Scary!

from

Terry.

A Neat Link

to some

Classic Short Stories. (link)


Thanks to:

Thomas. (link:)


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An unfinished tribute

Dickens' Dream

a watercolor
by Robert W. Buss.

I guess I'm introspective, too

Your Personality is Very Rare (INFP)

Your personality type is dreamy, romantic, elegant, and expressive. Only about 5% of all people have your personality, including 6% of all women and 4% of all men You are Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, and Perceiving.

How Rare Is Your Personality?

This & the post below

were lifted from

Back to Damerosehay. (link)

~ Oh heh!

You Are Midnight

You are more than a little eccentric, and you're apt to keep very unusual habits.Whether you're a nightowl, living in a commune, or taking a vow of silence - you like to experiment with your lifestyle.Expressing your individuality is important to you, and you often lie awake in bed thinking about the world and your place in it.You enjoy staying home, but that doesn't mean you're a hermit. You also appreciate quality time with family and close friends.

What Time Of Day Are You?

A Great Tribute for Today

(as usual!)


from:


Nick's Bytes... (link:)



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What does your name mean?

rhapsody -- [adjective]: Similar to butter in texture and appearance 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Thanks to Mr. Smith from

The New Roving Medievalist (link)

for the link.

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