Happy Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul!
Pray for Pope Benedict, successor of St. Peter, who is celebrating his 60th Anniversary of Ordination today!
If we lived in Rome, it would be a public holiday today! But since we don’t — well, back to work.
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Memorial Day weddings
For three years in a row now, Memorial Day has meant wedding. My streak may be broken after this; the only engaged person I know (besides the friend getting married this fall) is my cousin, who most certainly is not getting married Memorial Day weekend. (For those of us from Indiana, Memorial Day is synonymous […]
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How’s your blood pressure?
Every morning I receive an email with the rough text of the Pope’s homily that morning from his daily Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae residence. While every Holy Father has celebrated Mass daily, some privately, some for small groups, we have never had access to daily homilies from the Popes before. […]
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back to the Ordinary
I meant to post on Monday that it was Ordinary Time again. I always feel like celebrating that on this blog. For obvious reasons. I also need to post about the premier Nashville spring event, aka the Iroquois Steeplechase; a fun new(ish) restaurant; my summer Prohibition project; the new convention center; and a variety of […]
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Finally… anthems done right.
We’ve all witnessed some pretty bad renditions of the National Anthem. The people lucky enough to be at the Yankees game last week (or the Orioles game a few days later) actually heard both the Canadian anthem and our National anthem sung well. Because they were sung by none other than Ramin Karimloo. You know, […]
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is this crazy hereditary?
This post in the same genre as yesterday’s. I leave you to name that genre. This weekend Megan commented on my random wall and said she liked it. At least I think she said she liked it. I was happy, because I’m still not sure about it — I’m almost too pleased with it, because it really […]
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