Clik here to view.
The Draconids
FOR NORAH And especially were we led to cultivate that discipline developed in respect to divine and heavenly things as being the only one concerned with the study of things which are always what they...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pantoum for the Fifty Percent
The dinner détente dies, the candles fade, The tension mounts, a cat that climbs the stairs. Like clowns out of step in a sad parade, The wind and rain repeat, but no one cares. The tension mounts. A...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shakespeare on Ice*
“Thou speak’st aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night.” *Taken at the Kohl Center at the opening game of Wisconsin Badger’s basketball season. They played Northern Kentucky University, whose...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Joe Cocker, RIP
God bless and rest his soul – at the very least for doing more with this song than it deserved.
View Article“impactful”
Al Michaels just said it during the Super Bowl pre-game. I guess it’s here to stay.
View ArticleSKA2
Last week I referred to Newsweek as “a magazine that nobody reads any more”, but now here I am, linking to it again because of an article I was referred to on suicide. Of course I can’t think of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘…My Victim, Which I Slay for You…’
From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450 ‘Assemble yourselves, make haste, come together from every side to my victim, which I slay for you, a great victim...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘…Even the Man Who Ate My Bread….’
From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450 ‘… Even the man … in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has greatly supplanted me.’ Psalm 41: 10
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘…They Shall Bind You…’
From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450 ‘And you, O son of man, behold they shall put bands upon you, and they shall bind you with them: and you shall not...
View ArticleDarkness
From the Dominican Office of Tenebrae (‘Darkness’) for Good Friday, A.D. 2009, at Blackfriars, Oxford. The text for this portion of the service is the Benedictus, or Canticle of Zechariah. Though...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘I have not turned away my face …’
From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450 ‘I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘I am ready for scourges….’
From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450 ‘For I am ready for scourges: and my sorrow is continually before me.‘ Psalm 38: 18
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘… He Shall Be Led as a Sheep to the Slaughter …’
From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450 ‘He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘They Parted My Garments Amongst Them….’
From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450 ‘They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots.’ Psalm 22: 19
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘… Wounded for Our Iniquities …’
From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450 ‘… he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins….‘ Isaiah 53: 5
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Let Him Not Lose What He So Dear Hath Bought.’
From Cell 25 of the Convent of San Marco, by Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), 15th Century Think on the very làmentable pain, Think on the piteous cross of woeful Christ, Think on His blood...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘… His Sepulchre Shall Be Glorious.’
From the Armadio degli Argenti of Blessed John of Fiesole, OP (Fra Angelico), c. 1450 ‘In that day the root of Jesse, who stands for an ensign of the people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Heads up.
Martyrdom: The Coloring Book Illustrated by the supremely grim, superlatively talented Julia Gfrörer * Due September 2015 from Zest Books Blurb: The lives of the saints are filled with inspiring,...
View ArticleFrom the YouTube Music Video Archives: Clarinet Quintet in A major by Mozart...
The most abstract idea conceivable is the sensuous in its elemental originality. But through which medium can it be presented? Only through music. Kierkegaard, Either/Or In the comments to the post of...
View ArticleThree Very Short Poems about Genital Mutilation
A Wife with a Knife By far the most woeful and despised gobbet Was the far-flung penis of John Wayne Bobbit. Miracles of Modern Medicine, Case No. 358 Some kind of help was needed to intumesce, but the...
View ArticleFor Yhwh
Maybe you’ve already heard of Goat Simulator. Maybe you’re already playing it, or maybe, like me—until yesterday, anyway—you have no idea what it’s all about. I have a feeling the best part about Goat...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Franz Wright: RIP
A loss to the world – and the world of Catholic letters… Parting Word As for me I have no mind to lose anymore, I am through with all that– the sky is my mind today. (And it always is and always was...
View ArticleFrom the YouTube Music Video Archives: Thus Sprach Zarathustra, by Richard...
The most abstract idea conceivable is the sensuous in its elemental originality. But through which medium can it be presented? Only through music. Kierkegaard, Either/Or Along with a few Beethoven...
View ArticleThree Very Short Poems about Authors Who Wrote about the Sea
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski After years at sea, he adapted a nom de plume for English language readers, still recognized as a Polish phenom, among the very best of modern writers. Had He Caught...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kevin Drum on Assisted Suicide
It would be unfair to call this “banging on”, but Kevin Drum of Mother Jones has written a very sad story backed up with all sorts of facts and figures, as well as charts to help marshal those facts...
View ArticleFrom the YouTube Music Video Archives: Mahler’s Symphony No. 2...
“Why have you lived? Why have you suffered? Is it all some huge, awful joke? We have to answer these questions somehow if we are to go on living – indeed, even if we are only to go on dying!” These...
View ArticleHappy Feast of Saint Rita
Here’s a little bit from the oratorio I helped with, performed last year in Dallas. CHORUS Good Friday. Day of evil deeds The lamb is slaughtered, pierced and hung The heavenly choir stills its tongue...
View Article
