April 2007
8 posts
Lumen, a timewasting utility. Quite Addictive. →
“Marxism is not as fashionable today of course as it once was. No one reads...”
– Sean Tribe from The New Liturgical Movement on a LTP movie entitled “A History of the Mass”
A link to the below mentioned blog. →
Medi-Evil?
Stolen directly from Dennis' blog:
Bishop Arthur: Old woman!?
Dennis: Man!
Arthur: Old man. Sorry. What Abbot lives in that Abbey over there?
Dennis: I'm thirty-seven.
Arthur: I… what?
Dennis: I'm thirty-seven. I'm not old.
Arthur: Well, I can't just call you 'Man'.
Dennis: Well, you could say 'Dennis'.
Arthur: Well, I didn't know you were called 'Dennis'.
Dennis: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?
Arthur: I did say 'sorry' about the 'old woman', but from the behind you looked--
Dennis: What I object to is that you automatically treat me like an inferior!
Arthur: Well, I am Bishop!
Dennis: Oh, Bishop, eh, very nice. And how d'ya get that, eh? By exploiting the laity! By hanging on to outdated papist and apostolic dogma which perpetuates the religious and spiritual differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress with the--
Old Woman: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh! How d'ya do?
Arthur: How do you do, good lady? I am Arthur, Bishop of this Diocese. Whose Abbey is that?
Woman: Bishop of the who?
Arthur: This Diocese.
Woman: Oh, you got a disease?
Arthur: No, no, no! Di-oh-cese
Woman: What's a Diocese?
Arthur: Well, we are a diocese. It is our local community as part of the universal Church. We are all Catholics, and I am your Bishop.
Woman: I didn't know we had a Bishop. I thought we were an autonomous faith community.
Dennis: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship: a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
Woman: Oh, there you go bringing class into it again.
Dennis: That's what it's all about. If only people would hear of--
Arthur: Please! Please, good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that abbey?
Woman: No one lives there.
Arthur: Then who is your abbot?
Woman: Oh, we dropped the habits years ago!
Arthur: Not habit, abbot, ABBOT!
Woman: We don't have an abbot.
Arthur: What?
Dennis: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week...
Arthur: Yes.
Dennis: ...but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting...
Arthur: Yes, I see.
Dennis: ...by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs...
Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis: ...but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major--
Arthur: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
Woman: Order, eh? Who does he think he is? Heh.
Arthur: I am your Bishop!
Woman: Well, I didn't vote for you.
Arthur: You don't vote for Bishops.
Woman: Well, how did you become Bishop, then?
Arthur: The Vicar of Christ, the Successor of St. Peter, the Bishop of Rome...
[Angels singing.]
...clad in the purest shimmering white watered-silk sash, was enlightened by the Holy Spirit, signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to fulfill the apostolic succession in this diocese.
[Singing stops.]
That is why I am your Bishop!
Dennis: Listen. Albino pigeons swooping out of the air and hovering over an old man in an Italian Baroque Museum is no basis for an ecclesial hierarchy. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical pneumatic ceremony.
Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis: Well, you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some guy in Italy heard voices come from a tongue of fire?
Arthur: Shut up!
Dennis: I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because my uncle Vito in Rome gave me a hot pink hat, a hot pink sash, one of those robes from The Matrix but with red piping and a big gold ring, they'd put me away!
Arthur: Shut up, will you? Shut up!
Dennis: Ah, now we see the abuse inherent in the Church!
Arthur: Shut up!
Dennis: Oh! Come and see the abuse inherent in the Church! Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!
Arthur: Ruddy layman!
Dennis: Oh, what a give-away. Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about. Did you see him oppressing me? You saw it, didn't you?
“Western legal systems “are a secular residue of religious attitudes and...”
– Professor Harold Berman quoted in How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
15 days of school. I'm almost crazy.
I sit here in Puccino’s (a close runner up to CC’s) trying to concentrate and type out an outline of the last for chapters of this book, which is rather good. The problem is, everything within me is checking out! And quickly! Other countdowns to note: 39 days until priestly ordination. 61 days until we depart for a Roman holiday. yet none of these events can occur soon enough as I...
Vandals Take to Our Cathedral.
Looks like Good Friday is just too much for Satan (no surprise there!). Here’s the link from 2theAdvocate.com, Baton Rouge’s newspaper.
“A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how...”
– Madelein L’Engle via HouseHatke