tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126791192024-03-13T12:57:28.928-07:00Finding PastureTrust in the Lord and do good;
settle in the land and find safe pasture.
Delight in the Lord,
and he will grant you your heart's desire. Ps. 37:3-4Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.comBlogger305125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-79161564034918937862021-06-12T12:37:00.006-07:002021-08-10T14:45:25.102-07:00What happened to the Church? A philosophical glimmer.Over at the indispensable Fr. Z's blog, there is an excellent post which provides a name for a defining event in my life: "moral injury."REVISITED: Moral Injury, traditional Catholics and burnt out priestsAn excerpt:...Warfighters sometimes will manifest moral injury after being in
combat situations for only a short time. A lot of traditional
Catholics have been enduringAuthor Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-9134849348459292272021-02-03T15:25:00.002-08:002021-02-03T15:25:35.465-08:00Which is the church in schism, again? Archbishop Vigano suspects that Pope Francis foresees an opportunity to accuse the traditional church of "schism" if it doesn't accept his absurd statements about the death penalty, civil unions, et-so-much-else-cetera. (h/t 1P5)I've got a surprise for both of them: while they weren't looking, maybe Vatican II actually seeded the schism that's in progress now... what do you Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-27636863714303600392021-02-03T15:12:00.003-08:002021-02-03T15:12:47.711-08:00When "Progressive" ideas retard in real life: animal shelters In an article on Areo, Nathan J. Winograd reviews a book by Katja Guenther, The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals. Nathan refutes Katja's attempt to view the logistical and real-world challenges of managing the population of animals in shelters through the lens of critical race theory.Like the attempt to declare the science of mathematics "racist," Nathan reports that Katja's Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-87564590207108321472020-10-16T05:40:00.002-07:002021-02-03T15:50:35.305-08:00Fifty years a Catholic in 2021 On April 10, 1971, I was received into the Church during the Easter vigil Mass as a new convert. I was fifteen years old.I read and prayed my way into the Church. I'd "met" St. Therese of Lisieux in my mother's Manual of Prayers, and was pretty sure I wanted to be a Carmelite nun. In order to do that, I had to be, you know, a Catholic, so I pursued getting conditional Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-47319464679951832682020-10-13T08:34:00.000-07:002020-10-13T08:34:47.887-07:00Jesus is asleep on a cushion. Let's wake him up! (Mark 4:36-40)And sending away the multitude, they take him even as he was in the ship: and there were other ships with him. And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that the ship was filled. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, sleeping upon a pillow; and they awake him, and say to him, Master, doth it not concern thee that we perish? And ising Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-79719822580235214822020-07-14T08:55:00.003-07:002020-07-14T12:04:47.820-07:00Bari Weiss resigns ... read her letterResignation Letter - Bari Weiss.
This is why I both fear writing for public consumption, yet am impelled to do so.
People in a Republic cannot vote intelligently if they do not have enough information. That is why the presentation of certain information is being stifled today. Those who shut down, silence, censor, and cancel have no good ideas. There is nothing they can offer Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-54718357482070676542020-05-05T13:22:00.002-07:002020-05-05T13:22:46.014-07:00Today is the dayToday is the day when I start my work as a writer.
I just looked up the day in the Calendar: St. Pope Pius V. The fifth Pius, May the 5th, the fifth month. St. Pope Pius V seems like a good one whose prayers to ask as I begin. He had a long and busy reign and oversaw some momentous stuff.
"What do you write?" I've identified as a writer for decades, even though I Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-20686102007574008282017-06-29T13:14:00.000-07:002017-06-29T13:14:09.694-07:00Steve Skojec: "What We're Fighting For"After a long time away from One Peter 5, just dropped by and found this outstanding piece by Steve. Go there, and read it.
I have reason to know that this is pure truth:
What the spiritual life does, as we seek to embrace humility, is to strip away the impediments that keep us from victory.
It has been so long since I've updated this blog. Sigh. Sorry. Reasons.
Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-46123299265196164412015-10-04T14:15:00.000-07:002015-10-04T14:05:46.026-07:00Oh, for the love of God!Finding Pasture is back on the air. I've been pried from under my rock in the pasture by reading the comments on various blogs about the Fourteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops starting today, October 4, 2015, and to end on October 15, 2015. In particular, Hilary White's What's Up with the Synod?, and the story behind it, has confirmed my own growing sense that IAuthor Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-16121353472759903272015-10-04T13:29:00.002-07:002015-10-04T13:33:27.780-07:00Thoughts on reading the Bible In exploring how the evangelicals
think, I learned to read the Bible in its entirety. We Roman Catholics
still, to this day, are not taught to do this. It is one of the great
unmentioned scandals of the implementation of the "spirit" of Vatican II
that, despite the frequent assurances from Those In Charge that we use more Scripture in our
worship, we are actually being starved ofAuthor Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-4581138313967571832015-05-22T14:27:00.002-07:002015-05-22T14:27:55.942-07:00resipiscenceresipiscence
n. acknowledgment that one has been mistaken
from Futility Closet Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-46724829615378481832014-11-07T12:36:00.001-08:002020-07-31T15:20:31.415-07:00Anthony Esolen's powerful articleAnthony Esolen has written a powerful article in Crisis Magazine. Read the whole thing. H/T Rod Dreher.
It is a rebuke to the bishops who would smooth people's feelings by turning against our Lord's clear teachings.
When will we learn that the answer to hard teachings is not to soften them, but to impose them upon ourselves, to force our selves to grow into our true image?
Anthony Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-69662463234474142192014-10-25T17:35:00.002-07:002014-10-25T17:35:20.874-07:00Reveling
Just enjoying being in the pasture. The Lord invites me to rest, and makes a nice place for that, and I bounce all over it spiritually, loving it and Him and everything!
Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-23403511530938544842014-10-12T17:23:00.000-07:002014-10-12T17:23:07.122-07:00Words matter: the BibleWords matter. Changes to words in Bible translations into English make a big difference to the way they're heard and understood, and sometimes can change the meaning. I've done examples of this before, and will likely do so again, so will name the series "Words matter."
The Douay-Rheims Bible is a translation into English of the Latin version of the Bible known as the Vulgate, which Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-8792509144874614492014-10-11T18:01:00.002-07:002014-10-11T18:09:58.167-07:00Re-beginning.A friend's questions, and subsequent observations about my replies, have made me think again about to Whom I belong, and where I need to go to connect with that Person and my heavenly family.
No saint, I've been wandering around, getting spiritual nourishment here and there. My struggles with the Roman Catholic church are adequately described elsewhere in this blog. But, when pressedAuthor Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-49475638122838240612013-02-01T14:01:00.000-08:002013-02-01T14:01:08.074-08:00And now, a note about firearms.
Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
That is all. Thank you for your attention.Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-85033231169111499902013-01-05T21:07:00.000-08:002013-01-05T21:07:06.291-08:00Prayers for Jennifer of Conversion DiaryOK, so I've been off the air here for a long, long time. I was coming back to recount my latest picked-up-by-the-nape-of-the-neck-by-God moment, which came via Conversion Diary and the Saint's Name Generator program, and the first episode of Minor Revisions (still available as of Thursday last week). So I toodled over there to get the above links, and saw: --
Update from the hospitalAuthor Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-5219919426227110802012-04-17T13:34:00.001-07:002012-04-17T13:34:31.848-07:00
'It was all done anonymously, long before DNA
tests were invented. I am sure my father thought there was no way that this
would ever come out.'
Nor could his wife, Mary Barton, ever have
anticipated the repercussions of her academic interest in linking women with
sperm donors all those years ago.
Her husband fathered possibly hundreds of children in the course of her practical solution for Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-82964701573378923262012-03-26T16:20:00.003-07:002012-03-26T16:20:30.467-07:00Birth of a Book (link to video)Lovely video by Glen Milner. It's a short vignette of the production of a book by traditional methods. I wish it was longer and dwelt more on each piece, but it's still haunting and informative.Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-32692453857309368972012-03-21T20:18:00.001-07:002012-03-21T20:20:12.975-07:00The SSPXMonsignor Nicola Bux has written a beautiful and heartfelt letter to Bishop Fellay and the priests of the SSPX. Fr. Z mentioned that it's at Rorate, but he also posted it, along with his comments and emphases.
With Saint Catherine of Siena, we wish to say: “Come to Rome in complete safety,” next to the house of the common Father who was given to us as the visible and perpetual principle Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-90496106506620559782012-03-11T12:47:00.000-07:002012-03-11T12:47:01.656-07:00What's next?Ask The Futurist.
The markets are broken thanks to central control and the ignorant meddling of academics. As the survivors of WWII and The Great Depression have died off, what they learned is no longer taught in families or in schools, resulting in the staggering debt load of Western economies. Along with the unprincipled use of credit, we have been conducting ourselves with Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-50043190532012350772012-03-08T08:35:00.000-08:002012-03-08T08:43:21.356-08:00Slut-sensitiveGlenn Reynolds over at Instapundit is puzzled at the outrage over Rush Limbaugh's comment about Ms. Fluke: "The political reaction to “slut” was opportunistic, of course, but it worked with a lot of women because — apparently, even in this age of sexual liberation and “slut pride” — women are still somehow deeply affected by charges of wanton and undiscriminating sexual behavior."
I'm Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-85122266005245007012012-03-08T08:05:00.002-08:002012-03-08T08:05:23.066-08:00Fender gets an IPO, but ......Gibson Guitars still is undergoing an investigation?
There wouldn't be a political reason why Gibson and Fender are getting such different treatment, would there? Nah ... this administration is much too scrupulous when it comes to that kind of thing.Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-8157836628837240342012-03-06T18:15:00.001-08:002012-03-06T18:15:06.978-08:00You are what you eat
16Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. (Jeremiah 15:16)
This year I have taken on the M'Cheyne Bible Reading Plan. I discovered it in the back of the KJV Master Study Bible, which I obtained when I got homesick for the Holman Master Study Bible which was published in the Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12679119.post-34591754110757691802011-09-06T20:21:00.000-07:002011-09-06T20:21:16.225-07:00Liturgy of the Hours: I'm a believerI do not pray the Liturgy of the Hours regularly yet, but I'm doing better than I ever did before.
Christian Prayer, the shorter one-volume version, is harder for me to use, for some reason. The full four-volume set is easier.
Some time ago I purchased Universalis, the iPhone/iPad app for the Liturgy of the Hours. It was a great way to get to know what it's like to use the LotH and Author Knownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14231946368075733351noreply@blogger.com0