The Pro-life, longtime Raving Atheist

is now The Raving Theist!

Hat tip: Dawn Eden.

Angels of Music

Celtic Woman, singing O Holy Night.

Thanks to Jetuber, @ Youtube.

Trivia quest

Who said,

"They're gone for the day."

& too, who said?

"Something else by Verdi"...

1) Name the character

2) Name the actor

24 hr. Eucharistic Adoration

here.

Great vid & song from

Beyoncé - If I Were A Boy (link)

Can't post the vid, but can post
the link to it. I'm more of a music
person, as I can't always catch
the lyrics - & at first the words to
this song were kind of confusing.
However, the melody & Beyoncé's
beautiful singing drew me to the
video, which makes the meaning
clear.

Am actually more familiar with
the work of Beyoncé's sister
Solange Knowles, from the enter-
taining cheerleader-themed movie
(yes, you heard right), Bring It On:
All or Nothing (2006), with
Gus Carr & a hilarious (IMO)
performance by Heroes star
Hayden Panettiere - talented
performers all.

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday, Gerard Butler!

From one of your many Phantom phans! :D

Having only been recently introduced to the
character of Erik (the Phantom), I found it
to be an extraordinary story that shook me
to my roots. I'd of course heard of the
1925 silent movie starring the great Lon
Chaney as The Phantom of the Opera, based
on the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel, Le Fantôme
de l'Opéra. The story that struck me, however,
was the 2004 version starring Gerard Butler,
Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer
Ellison, & Miranda Richardson - directed by
Joel Schumacher, with an outstanding score
with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and
lyrics by Charles Hart.

I like musicals when they are well done.
IMO, this had everything I look for in a tale
well told, & then some.

Phantom of the Opera photo courtesy of:
Phantom of the Opera Screencaps.

Dr. Thursday is blogging again!

A regular at
The Blog of the American
Chesterton Society

& Mrs. Brown's
Flying Stars,

Dr. T has re-ignited

GKC's Favourite,

as well as starting a blog featuring
original short stories:

Dr. Thursday's Stories.

It's been a long time since I've
stomped those blogs...

I wonder if they'd remember me?

?

5 *****'s!!

Via YouTube...

THE VOTE REAPER

From: Machosauceproductions,

Who's got my vote!

From Father Frank Pavone's

YouTube channel...

An important

pro-life message,

from a press conference at the
National Press Club, prior to
the 2000 Presidential
election...

Which still applies, this
election year.

From YouTube...

& Catholic Fire...


Fred Thompson's speech

at the

Republican National Convention
last night...

IMO, he gets ***** & an A++ !!!

Thr

~ust...

&

Parry!!

@ First Things...

Found courtesy of II Scoop,
concerning a review of
The Quest for Shakespeare:
The Bard of Avon and the Church
of Rome, by Joseph Pearce -

and its author's reply.

HOW


DO


YOU


DO


THAT?



------------------------>

From St. John Vianney...

“Look at this other one, who seems to
want to give his whole life for God, whose
ardor all the torments there are cannot
damp. A tiny bit of scandalmongering …

a word of calumny … even a slightly cold
reception or a small injustice done to him …

a kindness returned by ingratitude …
immediately gives birth in him to feelings
of hatred, of revenge, of dislike, to the point,
often, of his never wishing to see his neighbor
again or at least of treating him coldly with
an air which shows very plainly what is
going on in his heart. And how many times
is this his waking thought, just as it was the
thought that almost prevented him from
sleeping? Alas, my dear brethren, we are
poor stuff, and we should count very little
upon our good resolutions!” - Source

Thanks to Terry from Abbey-Roads2.

Eric, over at The Daily Eudemon, wrote a
very interesting article on St. John Vianney
as well.

Breathtaking!

Our Lady of the Oaks, by

Jef Murray, whose work can be viewed
& is available at Mystical Realms.

Mr. Murray also did the illustrations
for Joseph Pearce's recent book of poetry,

Divining Divinity.

A Pro-Life Petition

The 50,000,000 Project,
found through

Catholic Answers Forums.

Please sign if you support
their efforts, over @

911babies.com

Good advice

& fascinating facts on:

Angelology...

from Fr. John A Hardon.


Thanks to Terry from

Abbey-Roads:)

On "The Quest for Shakespeare"...

in the words of its author,

biographer Joseph Pearce...


(Scroll down to the "J"s)

About Saint Clare

CLARE OF ASSISI

July 16, 1194 – August 11, 1253

Go forth in peace, for you have followed

the good road. Go forth without fear, for

he who created you has made you holy,

has always protected you, and loves you

as a mother. Blessed be you, my God,

for having created me.

Clare was born Chiara Offreduccio in Assisi, a

small town in Umbria. She was the beautiful

daughter of a count and a devoutly Christian

mother who had made pilgrimages to Rome,

Santiago de Compostela, and the Holy Land.

Clare was sixteen when her parents singled

out a wealthy young man for her to marry.

However, any hope of a marriage of aristocratic

comfort for Clare ended when she heard

Saint Francis preaching in the streets of Assisi.

Like Clare, Francis was from a noble family,

yet he had cast aside all material wealth for the

life of a mendicant. When Clare heard Francis

speak, she was filled with a desire to imitate him.

Shortly after their meeting, a bishop handed Clare

a palm on Palm Sunday. Clare took it as a sign

and ran away from her parent’s palace at night to join

Francis’s order. Francis cut her hair and gave her a

rough brown tunic to wear. From him she took the

veil of religious vocation at his newly founded

Church of Our Lady of the Angels in Assisi.

Clare founded the Order of Poor Ladies

(the Poor Clares) to compliment Francis’s order of

brothers. Throughout Europe, wherever Franciscans

established themselves, there too went the Poor Clares.

They ate no meat, wore no shoes, lived in modest houses,

and spent their days in prayer and silence. They depended

entirely on alms and their faith that charity would provide.

In art, Clare is usually shown with a monstrance. The

image alludes to the time when she warded off attackers to

her convent by standing at the gates, holding the Blessed

Sacrament aloft. In her last days, when she was too ill to

attend mass, Clare was said to have seen visions of the

ceremony on the walls of her cell. Thus Clare is known as

the patron of sore eyes.

Clare was canonized by Pope Alexander IV in 1255.

Lake Saint Claire and the Saint Claire River in the

Great Lakes region were named on her feast day in

1679 by French explorers.

Janet Hamill

Originally posted 7/16/07

Frat Man...

aka Doctor Thursday-

Who so nobly answered
the 'frat signal' earlier
and helped me with a
commenter's question,
has posted over at
GKC's Favourite that
we are welcome to join
The Rosary Confraternity.


The site, courtesy of the
Dominican Fathers, is now
permanently linked on the
right. It provides complete
instructions on how to pray
the rosary-

Enrollment is free for
anyone who is interested...

but I'm going to refrain from
humming the theme.

:)

Originally posted 5/06