Archive for the 'Religion' Category

May 19 2009

Beyond Parody

Published by rightwingprof under Idjits, Religion, Wackjobs

This comment is obviously a parody of mainstream Christ-free Christianity.
Our non gender specific guardian,
Who art in a safe and non judgemental cocoon,
Hallowed by thy preferred choice of nomenclature.
Thy contitutional republic, come,
Thy mission statement reach fruition,
On our commune, as it is the Sustainable Ecosystem,
Give us this day our non exploitive,organic bruschetta with balsamic reduction,
And forgive us […]

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Apr 20 2009

Life Changes

Published by rightwingprof under Odds 'n Ends, Religion

I not only did not blog here much during Lent (and not at all during Holy Week). I didn’t keep up. Having done a cursory read-through, I see that I missed a great deal.
However, the real point is that my priorities have shifted. I am more interested in faith, prayer, and worship than I am […]

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Apr 11 2009

First Down

Published by rightwingprof under Religion

Finish “lunch,” eat, back to help clean the church, choir practice at 5, Great Vespers at 6. The schedule:
Sat: 11-Apr
Lazarus Saturday Liturgy: 9:00 AM
Choir: 5:00 PM!
Vespers: 6:00 PM
Holy Week
Sun : 12-Apr
Divine Liturgy: 10:00 AM
Bridegroom Matins of Holy Monday: 7:00 PM
Mon: 13-Apr
Presanctified Liturgy: 9:00 AM
Bridegroom Matins of Holy […]

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Mar 26 2009

Comment Of The Day

Published by rightwingprof under Religion, Conservatism

From Damian Thompson’s blog:
Peter51: you are a homicidal liar out to confuse what is sufficiently clear. The Catholic Church did not “force” a nine-year-old girl to have twins; the Catholic Church does not have a penis and does not produce fertilizing sperm. The child’s stepfather had and did. Sorry to have to introduce you to […]

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Mar 19 2009

Bong-Sucking Idiots Unite!

Published by rightwingprof under Idjits, Religion, Wackjobs

It’s just depressing. Every time you’ve seen what you’re sure must be the st00pidest a member of the genus homo can possibly stoop, an even st00pider dolt comes along. Let’s do a retrospective, starting with this bong-sucking dolt.
It seems that a single teacher at a Catholic school in New York got pregnant, and told her […]

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Mar 16 2009

Just Horrifying

Published by rightwingprof under Religion, PA, *

Grace Prep High School, here in Centre County.
We believe in academic rigor.
Awful!
We believe that schools should be efficient enough to teach your kids in the 30-40 hours per week of class time.
Disgusting!
We believe it is the school’s privilege to help them discover their spiritual gifts and to show them who God meant them to be.
Un-American!
We […]

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Mar 07 2009

Unconscionable

Published by rightwingprof under Religion, Conservatism

From Fr Z (a link to the text of the bill is in the comments).
Yesterday, Connecticut Judiciary Committee of the Connecticut State Legislature
introduced bill #1098/2009 that directly attacks the Roman Catholic Church (please see attached copy of it). Should it pass, the bishop and pastors will be deprived of any administrative, financial and legal […]

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Mar 05 2009

A Bit More Appropriate

Published by rightwingprof under Religion

“The Orthodox are the only Christians who write basso profundo church music, or need to.”
–Leon Podles, The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity

From Rachmaninoff’s Vespers:

O Gladsome Light of the holy glory of the Immortal Father, heavenly, holy;
Blessed Jesus Christ, now that we have come to the setting of sun, and see the light of evening,
we […]

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Jan 21 2009

Blink! Blink! Blink!

Published by rightwingprof under BSG, Religion

Fr. Z watches BSG !
Give me a minute to wrap my head around that.

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Jan 04 2009

Epiphany

Published by rightwingprof under Religion


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Dec 25 2008

Merry Christmas!

Published by rightwingprof under Religion


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Dec 24 2008

Unheard Voices

Published by rightwingprof under Religion

A voice from the unheard voices of the Christians of the Middle East who have been witnessing to faith in the Saviour since His incarnation in their midst.
An Arabic Christmas Carol (Byzantine Hymn of the Nativity)
Today is born of a virgin He who holds the whole creation in His hand.
Today is born of a […]

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Dec 24 2008

For Unto Us A Child Is Born

Published by rightwingprof under Religion

Handel. Sir Colin Davis, London Symphony Orchestra and the Tenebrae Choir.

Madrigale, He Shall Purify:

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Dec 24 2008

Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Published by rightwingprof under Religion

Charpentier, Magnificat (St. Luke 1:46-55).

Magnificat anima mea Dominum,
et exsultavit spiritus meus in Deo salvatore meo,
quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae.
Ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes generationes,
quia fecit mihi magna, qui potens est,
et sanctum nomen eius,
et misericordia eius in progenies et progenies
timentibus eum.
Fecit potentiam in brachio suo,
dispersit superbos mente cordis sui;
deposuit potentes de sede
et exaltavit […]

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Dec 24 2008

Hail, Holy Queen

Published by rightwingprof under Religion

Pergolesi, Salve Regina, sung by Andreas Scholl:

Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae,
vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.
ad te clamamus
exsules filii Evae,
ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
in hac lacrimarum valle.
Eia, ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos
misericordes oculos ad nos converte;
et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,
nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.
O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria.
Ora pro nobis sancta […]

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Dec 24 2008

Fortune

Published by rightwingprof under IN, Religion

It’s a good thing I decided to search online to see if the parish had a webpage so I could check the schedule, or I would have driven to where the church used to be for Midnight Mass.
They moved.

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Dec 24 2008

The Mystery Of The Nativity

Published by rightwingprof under Religion

The Gospel According to St. John, 1:1-14.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light […]

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Dec 23 2008

On-The-Road Music Post

Published by rightwingprof under Odds 'n Ends, Religion

Our secular selection, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Judy Garland from Meet Me in St. Louis:

Indiana University’s own Straight No Chaser, Silent Night:

Carol of the Bells:

Il Divo, O Holy Night

Domingo and Pavarotti:

Gregorian Christmas Day Mass, monks of the Abbey of Our Lady of Assumption, São Paulo, Brazil. As the monks process into the church […]

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Dec 22 2008

Christmas In Baghdad

Published by rightwingprof under Religion, GWOT

“All Iraqis today are Christians.” -Iraqi Interior Department spokesman.

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Dec 21 2008

Today’s Carol

Published by rightwingprof under Religion

Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming! Frederica von Stade and the American Boys Choir:

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Dec 21 2008

For God’s Sake — Literally

Published by rightwingprof under Idjits, Religion, Wackjobs

We now have anti-incense whiners at the parish. The priest felt it necessary to announce the — and I do quote — “smoke-free” Masses for the Christmas season.
Had I been the Monsignor, I would have told the whiners, “The Baptist church is that way.”

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Dec 19 2008

So Wrong

Published by rightwingprof under Religion

The Crescat held a Catholic kitsch contest. Some of my favorites include the glow-in-the-dark holy water bottles, the St. Sebastian pin cushion, and the Magic 8-ball Jesus. The categories are, appropriately, Someone’s going to hell for that and I’d buy that for a buck. There is a picture for every entry. It’s well worth seeing […]

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Dec 18 2008

Find!

Published by rightwingprof under Religion, Food

The Abbot at The Virtual Abbey has a continuing series of food and recipes: Eating at the Abbey. Great recipes. Even greater pictures.

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Dec 17 2008

Veni, Veni Emmanuel

Published by rightwingprof under Religion

Veni, Veni Emmanuel is a synthesis of the great “O Antiphons” that are used for Vespers during the octave before Christmas (Dec. 17-23). These antiphons are of ancient origin and date back to at least the ninth century.
Zoltan Kodaly, arr.:

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Sep 27 2008

Pointer

Looking at the “Catholic vote.”

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Sep 24 2008

Must See

Published by rightwingprof under Palin, McCain, Religion, '08

Maybe the one must see of the entire election season. One of the most powerful ads I’ve ever seen, from Catholic Vote. Beautifully done, moving, and very powerful.

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Sep 02 2008

It Matters

Just not in the way they think:
Everybody had heard the rumors, spread on The Atlantic and DailyKos websites, that Palin’s fifth child, Trig, born last April, was not really hers — that Trig was really Palin’s 17 year-old daughter’s child, and Palin faked pregnancy to cover up her daughter’s condition. None of that was true, […]

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Sep 02 2008

Liberals Campaigning For McCain

If these idiots had any clue about conservatives, they’d realize that every smear they spread about Palin or her family is driving voters to McCain.
Tennessee Guerilla Woman, who is no moderate (boy, is that the understatement of the decade) is really pissed off:
The ‘progressive’ men are actually counting the months of the woman’s pregnancies! That’s […]

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Aug 15 2008

The Search For Sorghum

Published by rightwingprof under Idjits, McCain, Religion, Food, PA, Wackjobs

continues, now that I know that yes, people do make and eat sorghum in Pennsylvania. Since I have to go across town to Mass fairly soon (it’s the Feast of the Assumption), I can hunt on the way back.
There seems to be a lack of small groceries here. But there’s that place down by Mt. […]

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Jun 26 2008

Definition Problems

Published by rightwingprof under Idjits, Religion

There are some interesting results in the Pew Religion report. Hey, let’s play Jeopardy.
Ready? Here we go.
Of this group, 21% believed in God (6% believed in a personal God, 12% in God as an impersonal force, and 3% don’t know).
What are Presbyterians?
No.
What are Methodists?
No. And you?
I give up, Alex.
What are atheists. Atheists.
I don’t think that […]

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Jun 21 2008

Why Am I Unsurprised?

Published by rightwingprof under Religion, Wackjobs

I really have to start reading about pages on blogs. I just discovered Brutally Honest, and Rick says this in his about page:
My current confused spiritual state was probably affected (if not birthed) in some way by my stint as a potential ordinand of the Episcopal Church in 1998. During that two year Ordination Exploration […]

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Jun 18 2007

Church Shopping In The 80s

Published by rightwingprof under Religion

Technorati: orthodoxy, orthodox christianity, roman catholicism, anglicanism, episcopalianism
Back in the early 80s, I lived in Louisville (that’s pronounced lou-a-vull, for those who don’t know, not lou-is-ville or lou-ee-ville; that’s why those bumperstickers say “I heart lou-a-vull”), where I was a chef. While there, I was, for some reason, surrounded by Episcopalians […]

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Dec 25 2006

LWW Scenes

Published by rightwingprof under Religion, TV/Movies

Aslan gives himself as a sacrifice

Aslan is resurrected

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Dec 25 2006

While I Wait

Published by rightwingprof under Religion, TV/Movies

I’m afraid I got a late start cooking. I slept until 4:30 — unheard of for me (I have an internal clock that wakes me at 3:30 every morning. I haven’t slept as late as 4:30 in months.) I started the stock yesterday and simmered it for about eight hours, then put it in the […]

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Dec 09 2006

Idiot Of The Week Award

Published by rightwingprof under Religion, Conservatism

This week we have to issue joint awards, both to World Net Daily for putting a mouthbreather spin on the story, and to the parents named in the story. Pagan Christmas ritual pressed on young kids:

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Sep 15 2006

I’ll Take “Apathy” For $500, Alex

Published by rightwingprof under Religion

In the spirit of that earlier post, I’d like to respond to this, from the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler:
Muslim leaders condemn Pope’s speech, want apology
Uhm, “Who could possibly care?” Alex?

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Jun 14 2006

Christian Kool-Aid

Published by rightwingprof under Religion

One thing that bothers me is that it certainly seems that every time I read a Christian blog, the author drinks the “Socialism is Christian” kool-aid. Given that most churches also partake of the Stalinist beverage to some extent (that includes Rome and to a lesser extent, the Orthodox), I suppose this shouldn’t be surprising. […]

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Jun 12 2006

Nicene Creed

Published by rightwingprof under Religion

We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible;
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only-begotten, Begotten of the Father before all worlds, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, Begotten, not made; of one essence with the Father, […]

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Jun 12 2006

Trisagion

Published by rightwingprof under Religion

+Glory to Thee, our God, Glory to Thee.
O Heavenly King, Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, Who art everywhere present and fillest all things, the Treasury of good things and Giver of life: Come, and abide in us, and cleanse us from every stain, and save our souls, O Good One.
+Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal: […]

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Jun 11 2006

Whither Christendom?

Published by rightwingprof under Religion

I don’t blog much about religion, because it’s something that to me is deeply personal, and out of respect for readers of different faiths. But I’m going to make an exception today to that policy.
God or the Girl is on right now (TiVO) — and believe it or not, it is actually pretty good (and […]

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