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

A prayer for Senator Ted Kennedy

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph -

I love you -

Save souls!

An Amazon review

I wrote (& rewrote!) is up for a new
book of poetry:

Divining Divinity, By Joseph Pearce,

and illustrated by

Jef Murray, whose work can be seen
at his site, Mystical Realms.

Omigoodness, I can't believe how
many times I edited it (add a word
here, a comma there - sheesh! writing
isn't easy!)...

Well, poor writing skills aside, I
wanted to like this book, and do
indeed. It is what I expected in
its subject and to some degree, in
its substance, although at times
the pictures it evokes are startling -
especially since one can tell the
person behind the pen is writing
from the vantage point of God's
grip.

Very well done, Gentlemen!

America's Most Wanted

airs its

1,000th capture tonight,
@ 9:00pm ET,

on Fox.

Saw this

RECENTLY...

BRAVO!!!

**

信念 意味相信什麼是難以置信的, 或這是沒有賢良根本。
希望 意味希望事是絕望的, 或這是沒有賢良根本。並且
慈善 意味pardoning 什麼是不可寬恕的, 或這是沒有賢良根本。
~ GK Chesterton, 異端者





The Chesterton quote at the bottom of this page,
in Taiwanese:)

Many thanks to the person who translated this blog!

Recently added a

playlist like the one
I found at the hilarious blog

June Cleaver After A Six-Pack,

which I found thanks to Terry
Nelson from:

Abbey-Roads

&

Up Your Street.

They're free and have a great
selection of music to choose from.
I've got everything from sappy to
Oh no!...

Enjoy!

My new signature

over at

Catholic Answers Forums

is a Pro-life bumper sticker
available from :

Leaflet Missal Company.

An unbelievable story

from:


Saint Nick...


Follow the links.

A Book of Poems

Just got through ordering this new
0ne:

Divining Divinity, by Joseph Pearce.

With many thanks to Mr. Pearce for
permission to post.

Want to recommend

an excellent book about the benefits
of harnessing the power of the wind
along the Massachusetts coastline,
and the controversy surrounding
the efforts to do it:

Cape Wind, by
Robert Whitcomb.

Great work BMP!

For those of us who are
a little slow, a link to:

Christus Vincit

made the
Washington Post online...

Congratulations again, Brian!

:)

Wow...

Just heard some "expert"
on CBS News refer to Pope Benny
as the "bad cop" to Pope JPII's "good
cop"...

He also referred to Pope Benny as
less charismatic than his predecessor...

WT?

A word to such "experts"...

While you are entitled to your
opinions, please don't parade them
about as facts...

Thanks for listening!

Can anyone tell me

how often

"Moral Philosophy, 101"

with

Richard Geraghty

is on EWTN?

I can't find it on their
program schedule...

Available from Ignatius Press

THE QUEST FOR SHAKESPEARE:
The Bard of Avon and the Church of Rome,
By Joseph Pearce














And from the Ignatius Critical Editions,
edited by Joseph Pearce:


FRANKENSTEIN,

By Mary Shelley














KING LEAR,

By William Shakespeare














&


WUTHERING HEIGHTS,

By Emily Bronte















With many thanks to
Joseph Pearce for permission
to post his upcoming book.

And too, to Deb from
Debra's Random Thoughts,
for her excellent posting tips:)

Originally posted 2/3/08.

And while we're on the subject...

What is the criteria
for getting books reviewed by
the New York Times?

As posted above, Joseph Pearce,
editor and author of many
biographies on, among others,
Alexander Solzhenitsyn and
Oscar Wilde, is coming out
with another book in April,
The Quest for Shakespeare.

It can't be that the NYT
hasn't heard of these men...

So what's the problem?

Joseph Pearce with Alexander Solzhenitsyn
from
An Interview with Alexander Solzhenitsyn,
(St. Austin Review Feb. 2003)
courtesy of the
Catholic Educator's Resource Center.


Originally posted 2/7/08

The Annunciation

By:

Mikhail Vasilievich Nesterov.
Found at Jeffrey Smith's blog:

Russian Art.