Even the Devils Believe

This month’s First Things has a great article by Ross Douthat called, “Lost and Saved on TV.” (The full text is here if you’re a subscriber.)
Douthat is trying to show how our comparatively permissive media environment makes possible some incredible, even incredibly moral, art. I think he’s successful. He starts out discussing Lost [...]

Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum! Wait, that’s for a different event.
I do have great news, though — furthering what seems to be an informal apostolate of our beloved jurisdiction, my prior-general, Fr Joseph Menna, AIHM, has started a blog of his own, A Restless Heart. Fr Joseph will be writing “to foster the charism of [...]

I’m still kind of exhausted from traveling yesterday, so I thought I would pick up on Mother Laura’s post and do the (RevGals?) Friday Five today. Theo-blogging will resume on Monday.
What are you…?
1. Wearing: Khakis and a t-shirt, more or less my daily uniform when I’m not doing priestly/pastorly stuff and it’s [...]

I nearly forgot to blog about this, but in addition to being the feast of St Fidelis of Sigmaringen, priest and martyr, in the Universal Kalendar, today is also the Conversion of our holy father, Augustine, in the Augustinian kalendar. There’s some information on the feast available here.
I like this day in particular [...]

Today the beginning of the Mec Ejer’n, the Armenian Holocaust, is commemorated. A number of people around the blogosphere have posted about it, including Serge (John) and Kyle.
Armenia is very close to my heart. My host family in Russia is Armenian, long-time residents of the RSFSR/Russian Federation, but loyal to Hayastan nonetheless. The memory of [...]

It has been a good week so far! Late last week, my friend Mother Laura made her way to Philadelphia to visit my bishop, Tim, and go to the Michaelines retreat to profess vows as a novice.
While in Pennsylvania, Laura decided to incardinate into the Independent Catholic Christian Church. We are thrilled to have [...]

Just a quick note, as this week has been really hectic and draining. About all I’ve gotten done outside of work and taxes are transcriptions of the daily Lauds hymns for the AB, and I thought I would post those:
Lauds Hymns (PDF, 45K)
Lauds Hymns (TeX, 20K)
It’s mostly the same tune through the week.
Eventually I’ll [...]

Pam reports that Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church are going to protest the funerals of the victims from yesterday’s horrible tragedy at Virginia Tech. I wish it were a no brainer, from the moment every Christian walks into a church or picks up a Bible, that hate of their kind has no place [...]

Laura tagged me to do the Thinking Blogger meme — I got sidetracked by ecumenism and liturgy in French, but now I can respond.
Almost all the blogs on my blogroll make me think, but just scanning down my blogroll, these are five that stood out particularly to me this afternoon (in addition [...]

Michael S. and I had a long conversation over the phone about the liturgy (among other things) this past week, and one of the topics that came up was “And also with you” in the English liturgy vs. “And with your spirit” in, well, just about every other language on the face of the [...]