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PULP CATHOLICISM

by David January 30, 2013

February will mark the beginning of my 7th year here at the B-Movie Catechism (I guess you can get away with anything on the Internet these days), and up until now, I haven’t really felt compelled to subject anyone to…

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Finding Joy Everyday

by Daria Sockey January 30, 2013

You know those days when some verse in the day’s Divine Office jumps out at you, as if your guardian angel had gone over it with a highlighter? You notice a verse that you’d read many times before, and suddenly,…

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Chill Out and Cheer Up With St. Thomas Aquinas

by Daria Sockey January 28, 2013

 
“Blessed be the Lord; for love of him St. Thomas Aquinas spent long hours in prayer, study and writing.” (Lauds, Jan. 28th)

(a popular post re-run from last year.)
St. Thomas Aquinas is a favorite in our family, so…

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What Teaches Wisdom – Poetry, Clear Prose or Beautiful Art and Music?

by David Clayton January 25, 2013

An education in truths that cannot be expressed in words 
In his book, the Love of Learning and the Desire for God, Jean Leclerq describes various tensions playing out in education in the medieval period.

One arises from the love…

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Beauty Communicates Something That Words Cannot

by David Clayton January 22, 2013

A case for making an education in beauty with the liturgy at its heart part of everybody’s education I was intrigued by the following passage written by St Augustine in which he talks of communication of truth beyond words. What…

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Trailing Clouds of Glory

by Cari Donaldson January 22, 2013

But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
-William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood

 
We were at Mass one Sunday, and a…

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CUTAWAYS: SUPERMAN II – GUILTY!

by David January 21, 2013

Is there anybody who reads this blog who doesn’t know this clip by heart?

What brought this scene to mind was a sobering statistic I ran into over at Servant and Steward which noted that while approximately 133,115,440 children have…

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Equal Dignity

by Fr. Frank Pavone January 21, 2013

“In him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28).
Reflection: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., fought for the equal dignity of every human life. “If we are to have peace on earth,” he wrote, “we must be…

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LIFE’S LIKE A MOVIE: THE SIMPSONS

by David January 17, 2013

Okay, so this is actually a scene from The Simpsons television show and not the movie, but hey, blogger’s privilege or something like that. Anyway, I don’t know about all of you out there who probably have perfect families, but…

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Venus and Mars at Prayer

by Daria Sockey January 16, 2013

Yesterday at the National Catholic Register blog, Simcha Fisher (a really fun and wise writer) linked  my personal  blog in an article on “Praying as a Couple.”  One of her suggestion for couples was to do part of the Divine…

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