Apr
14
2006
I just got back a little while ago from Good Friday services at OLV. My first mistake was not leaving early enough; OLV is on the other side of town, and I have no choice but to drive through State College. The traffic was bumper to bumper all the way, and as I discovered, there […]
Apr
14
2006
Crucem tuam adoramus Domine; et sanctam resurrectionem tuam laudamus et glorificamus: ecce enim propter lignum venit gaudium in universo mundo.
The Gospel According to Saint John, 18:1-19:42
When Jesus had said these things, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where there was a garden, into which he entered with his disciples. 2 And […]
Apr
14
2006
Technorati: moonbats, wackjobs, nutcases, abortion, northern kentucky university, sally jacobsen, liberals, leftists, progressives, idiots, morons, idiotarians
If I write a letter to the university president and tell him this moonbat makes me feel “unsafe”, will the university bring sexual harassment charges against her, do you […]
Apr
14
2006
I want to take a trip back in time, some fifteen years ago, when liberals were starting to push “sexual harassment” legislation. Just like gun control legislation, and the anti-smoking crusade, they guffawed and ridiculed conservatives for saying they were headed down a slippery slope.
“We just want to keep men from forcing sexual favors on […]
Apr
14
2006
I was a little stir-crazy, so I decided to go for a drive. You can take the expressway around State College to nearly anywhere, but with only a couple of exceptions, you can’t take the expressway ALL the way, and I wanted to see what was going on, with the warm weather and all, so […]
Apr
14
2006
Western Christianity calculated the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. In Eastern Christianity, Easter must also fall after Passover. This is the reason that Easter falls on different dates in most years between East and West.
Western Easter is this Sunday. Eastern Christians will celebrate Easter […]
Apr
14
2006
Today we remember Our Lord’s passion, first in the afternoon, then in the evening, with the Tenebrae (Latin for “shadows”), one of the oldest unchanged liturgies in the Church. During the prayers and chants of the Tenebrae, the candles in the church are extinguished one by one and the altar is stripped, then veiled. The […]
Apr
14
2006
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