Even the Devils Believe

I hope all of you have a wonderful Vigil of All Souls tonight — and hope that it involves both prayerful preparation for tomorrow’s holiday and some fun as well.
I was thinking back this weekend to my childhood. Halloween was ok in my parents’ book, but our church also had a “Marty Party” [...]

After all the discussion in the last couple of weeks about the Liturgy of the Hours, I wanted to mention some of the resources I’ve found online.
LotH podcasts:
* Monastery Podcast — Lauds and Vespers posted after the Sisters pray each Office, so not always timely, but it’s sung. This uses a two-week Benedictine cycle, [...]

From the we’re-being-replaced-by-robots department, this recent BoingBoing Gadgets post describes an industrial robot that has been reprogrammed for a more sublime use…

The robot, Kuka, is now programmed to scribe the entire Martin Luther Bible on a roll of paper. So far it’s an eremitical scribe — no word of a monastic order of robots being [...]

Some of you may have been following the story of “ex-gay” singer Rev. Donnie McClurkin and the Obama campaign. McClurkin was invited to perform at a campaign event in South Carolina, presumably by staffers who were not aware of his outspoken opposition to same-sex relationships. The whole thing has been embarrassing enough for the campaign, [...]

Just a bit of news — I’m back from Philly but not planning on spending much time in front of the computer today. I just wanted to post something Fr Joseph mentioned to us over the weekend: the Roman Catholic Church today beatified 98 Augustinian martyrs who were killed during the Spanish civil war. [...]

Our apartment building had a costume contest tonight — for pets. So we brought the boys down, as well as a kitten some friends of ours are fostering for a local shelter. (Shiver, the kitten, didn’t have a costume — she was cute enough on her own.) Anyhow, here are some pictures, as [...]

I meant to write this review of the Mundelein Psalter sometime next week, but since music for the Office came up frequently in the comments to my last post, I thought I’d do it now instead.
Paul is mostly right in his comment that there is very little official chant available for the Liturgy of the [...]

I mentioned before that I hoped to write more about the Liturgy of the Hours — certainly as a way to process my own reactions and talk about them here, but also because there is so little out there on the web about the LOTH compared to the old Office in the Roman rite or [...]

Last week was a bit crazy — I didn’t mean to leave things with a routine liturgical post, but my schedule got a bit out of hand.
During the middle of the week, I was in Washington visiting my representatives in Congress. A number of clergy from around the country were there advocating for federal [...]

I’ve been learning a bit lately about the post-Conciliar Roman Office, the Liturgia Horarum, and came across this site, which I thought I’d share. It’s an on-demand broadcast from Vatican Radio with Lauds, Vespers, and Compline for each day. Since Rome is six or more hours ahead of most points in North America, [...]