tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60947904966768970782024-03-18T13:11:50.625+00:00Books, Babble and Blarney... with plenty of Serious Bits in Between. A Blog by author EA BucchianeriEA Bucchianerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03685067504150348329noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6094790496676897078.post-82092201665944128252023-10-13T14:38:00.002+01:002023-10-13T14:40:32.459+01:00My "Rainbow" Writing Hack - A Simple Trick to Get Past the "Blip-ity Blank"<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPMKuPA2a7zkw_qXGTj5UchFBBU7i6FTNjD7uam8wFZg20FKBN5ZJAJ6dtfFiyXFyiPys07Ti1Ds8ig7plOM9rwbYQelTNkBrXynJj5ph8cz9pVsgTuDIlRALCbIPy1G5ld2HkYiTVQDWC00xTylxGTa-ASJtkNmuunUKLP95dk7upa2CAV3xSvcvEYAIz/s854/Blank%20Page%20Rainbow%20EA%20Bucchianeri%20writing%20tips%20writing%20hacks.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="740" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPMKuPA2a7zkw_qXGTj5UchFBBU7i6FTNjD7uam8wFZg20FKBN5ZJAJ6dtfFiyXFyiPys07Ti1Ds8ig7plOM9rwbYQelTNkBrXynJj5ph8cz9pVsgTuDIlRALCbIPy1G5ld2HkYiTVQDWC00xTylxGTa-ASJtkNmuunUKLP95dk7upa2CAV3xSvcvEYAIz/s320/Blank%20Page%20Rainbow%20EA%20Bucchianeri%20writing%20tips%20writing%20hacks.png" width="277" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
am sure this happens to a lot of you writers out there.</span></p>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">You
just get a great idea for a blog post, or, you have an idea for a
book. You eagerly fire up your computer and open the word processor
to begin jotting down the first ideas, or, to get the rough draft
started however so rough, when almost imperceptibly at first, as you
stare at the blank page, your motivation to begin flexing those
fingers and have them dance across the keys ebbs, then digressively
drains away with each successive blinking of the that vertical blip
called the cursor. </span>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
is aptly called that, certainly seems like a 'curser'. You feel like
every good idea and just got sucked right out of you, like some
vampiric curse is draining you of your author-powers when a moment
ago you were all revved up and ready to reveal your imagination and
thoughts into the visible realm via the written word. </span>
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now,
trying to nail down that very first sentence let alone the first
paragraph becomes an energy- sapping ordeal, your inspiring thoughts
seem morphed into the strange sensation felt during those
debilitating nightmares when you try to run, but your legs move with
a lumbering stumble as though your were wading through a field of wet
cement bogged up to your knees. </span>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then
the doubts set in. </span>
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: small;">'Will
this sound good?' 'Is this just good in my head, but will be boring
to everyone else'? 'Wow, this story could take a thousand
directions. Maybe I need to think about this...'</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
dreaded bane of a writer next makes its presence felt –
procrastination.</span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 'Maybe I need to do more research', you ask
yourself, (the internet begins to beckon....) </span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Worse yet, impostor
syndrome. 'Gasp! Am I really a writer at all?'</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Before
you realize it, the ideas just don't want to come out, or, you are
now unsure if it was such a good idea, and struggle to put things
into a visible, legible form. You had a whole outline in your head,
and here you are, staring at a blank page – for hours! </span>
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">And
/ or, you got lured into 'doing more research', your hours spent
Googling diddly-squat having fallen prey to the pretext your were
being productive as long as you were researching, but basically,
doing anything to escape the white brick wall you were banging your
head against, hoping you just might get your elusive writer's mojo
back.</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
horror!</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
does this happen?</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Frankly,
I don't know. I wish I did. I've wasted so much time sitting
staring at a screen because of this curse. But, it must be something
that 'clicks off' in our brains the minute we sit down to a blank,
white page, especially when writing on a computer. That's my guess,
anyway.</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
may not seem related, I once read an article theorizing why we tend
to forget what tasks we go to do the minute we enter another room,
or, go up or down the stairs. I wish I could find the article, but
the gist of what I remember is, our brains are set to remember
actions in specific 'patterns', and the theory was that for some
strange reason, 3D shapes could affect these patterns. When we go
through the rectangle frame of a door, or rise up to another level of
the house, or down, we could be hitting a certain type of visually
activated 'reset' switch in the brain, which then resets short-term
memory. I guess it is like when our computer gets jammed and simply
turning the thing on and off resets it and clears the cache. Maybe
our brain gets bogged down with mundane tasks, does a bit of a stall
and then resets when it goes through the door frame? Interesting
concept.</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">I've
also read articles on how colours can affect mood, productivity and
spending habits, you probably have as well trying to build a website
people will engage with, design an appealing book cover, or effective
advertising, packaging, etc. The interesting thing I read is that
certain paper colours can help you retain information you are
reading, crème and yellow paper works best for this if I remember
correctly. I always wondered why I liked legal pads for doodling, and crème
colour book pages over white paper when reading ....</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
thought then came to me – perhaps I am getting mentally closed off
by just the blank white background? Starting a new blank page, even
when already well into a story just seemed to halt progress on
getting words out and down, some times seemed worse than others.
Psychologically the plain, rectangular white block in front of me
<i>could</i> be suggesting the 'emptiness' of 'nothing', or, the
strange impression <i>everything</i> I write is starting from
'scratch', even when I have already progressed pages into a draft.
So, it was possible the colour was also 'resetting' the brain to feel
like this.</span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Intrigued
with the idea of the brain resetting itself, and, wondering if
colours could influence this during the writing process, I thought
why not try experimenting <i>with changing the page colour</i>? </span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"> I
was going into a particularly dark area of my second novel <a href="https://ea-bucchianeri.blogspot.com/p/vocation-of-gadfly.html" target="_blank">Vocation of a Gadfly</a> when I thought of it, so, why not pick something that was
matching the 'feel' of the scenes I was trying to describe and see
what happens? </span>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">At
that point I chose a dark grey. Yes, dark grey. </span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">But, isn't the
colour more depressing? Won't it make things worse? Hey, the scene I
was working on features an half-abandoned, gruesomely nefarious
insane asylum after all. No harm in experimenting .... </span>
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
didn't think it would help much if at all, it was just a change of
page background, but words were coming out, the colour helped keep me
in the 'feel' of things, it made it harder for the dreaded
'procrastinating screen stare' to settle. When the mood changed in
the story, I did it again, switched the page background to a
different colour. Creme, light yellow, tan, even light pink and sky
blue, depending where the plot went. When my document program
didn't have a preset colour that was 'just right' I used the 'colour
picker' and played around with the rainbow of colours until I got a
shade that matched the mood of the scene, or, was depicted the mood I
was aiming for. </span>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Could
something so simple do the trick? Huh. I guess so. I certainly got
my draft finished with less 'screen stare' getting in the way!</span></p>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now,
I am sharing my little 'rainbow' draft hack with you. </span>
</p>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">If
you haven't already stumbled upon this idea yourself, try it, you may
be surprised. I was.</span></p>
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EA Bucchianerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03685067504150348329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6094790496676897078.post-57857041928741696412023-05-02T11:27:00.002+01:002023-05-02T11:27:33.286+01:00Guess what everyone?<p> Hi everyone!</p><p></p><p>Guess what? I've figured out how to publish on KINDLE - so what's now on Kindle?</p><p>My two novels of course!</p><p></p><p><b><a href="https://ea-bucchianeri.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_5.html" target="_blank">"BRUSHSTROKES of a GADFLY"</a> - a biting tale of art and love in the Big Apple.</b><br /></p><p></p><p>and the sequel, <br /></p><p><b><a href="https://ea-bucchianeri.blogspot.com/p/vocation-of-gadfly.html" target="_blank"> "VOCATION of a GADFLY"</a> - creepy things happen here, things go bump in the night: if you want to jump straight into the scary stuff, this can be enjoyed as a stand-alone book.</b></p><p></p><p>Click on the titles for book info and the Kindle links!</p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyWaSDOsq2iJM_Lk_gvqG4J_C3ybZoMhlkK4mcJSCD4jYYsVpYNTfAg87cmWET-_tQO4qlq0EgTsxY6357HVE6G98i7qsVRgDsyUUyHD1hAvBPTqtVzPzTmIziQq_EnRwPzkpu5SYmmUgOKqsA7igB_wjDyLbDX7kty0h5_87kD5xv1hzDLn9Qpko_8Q/s702/Brushstrokes%20and%20Vocation%20of%20a%20Gadfly%20%20EA%20Bucchianeri.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="702" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyWaSDOsq2iJM_Lk_gvqG4J_C3ybZoMhlkK4mcJSCD4jYYsVpYNTfAg87cmWET-_tQO4qlq0EgTsxY6357HVE6G98i7qsVRgDsyUUyHD1hAvBPTqtVzPzTmIziQq_EnRwPzkpu5SYmmUgOKqsA7igB_wjDyLbDX7kty0h5_87kD5xv1hzDLn9Qpko_8Q/w640-h362/Brushstrokes%20and%20Vocation%20of%20a%20Gadfly%20%20EA%20Bucchianeri.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::: </p><p></p><p><a href="https://ea-bucchianeri.blogspot.com/2017/02/homepage.html" target="_blank">Check out the rest of my books, click here.</a> <br /></p><p> <br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>EA Bucchianerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03685067504150348329noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6094790496676897078.post-44329873804400389482022-12-01T15:32:00.001+00:002022-12-01T15:32:07.202+00:00"The First and Second Joseph"<p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Announcing the latest book release!</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ_7XdxJ7gVcsjfkhljKITvdLYs3nt3-FdKO177AB7lnocdEX_lDh8mOVIeSit06knpMen3aenJACDdOwM8105sCnMCqq5CzacHDI_NrudCueCKC3St3FPCYjqWcI9vlqRVX3crbaledFqNbaZuhDseaCW5RmzJdZPelgZ1k3p0CssR9l751LJnb6fpQ/s577/9789895372621.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="360" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ_7XdxJ7gVcsjfkhljKITvdLYs3nt3-FdKO177AB7lnocdEX_lDh8mOVIeSit06knpMen3aenJACDdOwM8105sCnMCqq5CzacHDI_NrudCueCKC3St3FPCYjqWcI9vlqRVX3crbaledFqNbaZuhDseaCW5RmzJdZPelgZ1k3p0CssR9l751LJnb6fpQ/w250-h400/9789895372621.png" width="250" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #0c343d;">"The FIRST and SECOND JOSEPH" </span><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Another spiritual classic by Fr. Marin de Boylesve written in honour of St. Joseph, translated for the first time into English. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span>If
you wish to increase your trust, love and devotion for St. Joseph,
this beautiful collection of thirty-one meditations is a must-have
for your spiritual reading collection. Noted for his book, <a href="https://amzn.to/3OQtDli" target="_blank">'<i>Little
Month of Saint Joseph</i>'</a>, <b>Fr. Marin de Boylesve, S.J.
(1813-1892)</b> shows in his next set of reflections how the
greatness of St. Joseph was foretold through the life of the
favourite son of Jacob. God blessed the first Joseph of the Old
Testament with so many graces, great power and authority, but this
was only a prelude to what He had prepared for the second Joseph of
the New Testament, the hidden, humble son of David chosen to be the
foster father of His beloved Son and the spouse of His Immaculate
Mother. </span></span></span><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span>
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</span></span><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>In
addition to the meditations, there are several accounts of the
miraculous interventions of this great saint, also thirty-three
sacred illustrations and various pious devotions are included. Are
you in need of a great heavenly intercessor to safeguard your
spiritual and temporal interests? “Go to Joseph, and do all that
he shall say to you.” (Gen. 41:55)</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span>
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</span></span><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>About
the Author:</b></u><b> </b>Fr. Marin de Boylesve is best remembered
in France for spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart with his
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Table
of Contents</b></u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> About
this Edition <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…………………………
9</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> About
the Author <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…………………………
10</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Part
I: 31 Days of Meditations: </b></span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Joseph
of the Old Testament</b></span></span></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> and
</b></span></span>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Joseph
of the New Testament <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… Pages 25 to 85</span></b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Part
II : The Power of St. Joseph</b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Demonstrated
by </b></span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Recent
Events <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……… 86</span></b></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ~
<u>CONVERSIONS</u>:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 1
~ Abjuration <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……………………
86</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 2
~ A Family Man <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……………… 87</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 3
~ A Protestant <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……………… 88</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 4
~ An Illness <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……………………
90</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 5
~ A Freemason <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……………… 91</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 6
~ An Elderly Man <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…………… 91</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 7
~ An Old Impious Man <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…… 92</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 8
~ Go Fetch the Priest <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……… 95</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 9
~ Three Conversions <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……… 98</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ~
<u>TEMPORAL FAVOURS:</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 10
~ A Calmed Storm <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…………… 100</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 11
~ A Child is Healed <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">………… 102</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 12
~ Health Strengthened <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…… 103</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 13
~ A Parish Preserved <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……… 104</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 14
~ Affairs Settled <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……………
105</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 15
~ A Healing <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……………………
106</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 16
~ Prosperity of </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> a
Boarding School <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……… 107</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 17
~ The Garibaldians and </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> the
Jesuits <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">………………… 108</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 18
~ A Demon Cast Out <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……… 110</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 19
~ Moral and Physical Healing 112</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 20
~ Hope Against All Hope <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…… 112</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ~
<u>ST. JOSEPH AND THE DYING</u>:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 21
~ The Pious Magistrate <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…… 116</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 22
~ The Dying Religious <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…… 118</span></span></span></p>
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</p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>Appendix</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Apparition
of St. Joseph </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
to the Breton Stigmatist, </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Marie-Julie
Jahenny <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……… 121</span></span></span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Devotion
to the Seven Joys</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> and
the Seven Sorrows</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> of
St. Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">………… 130</span></span></span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Prayer
to St. Joseph</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> for
a Soul in Purgatory <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…… 139</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
A Novena to St. Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">………… 141</span></span></span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Saint
Joseph, </span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Dear
Guardian of Mary <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 144</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Prayer
to St. Joseph </span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> in
Any Great Necessity <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 146</span></span></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Prayer
of Confidence</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
in St. Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……………… 146</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The
Chaplet of St. Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……… 148</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Indulgenced
Prayers to St. Joseph:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ~
Indulgences granted during March</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
for Devotions said</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
in Honour of St. Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……… 150</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ~
Novena in Honour of St. Joseph,</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Spouse
of Mary Most Holy <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…… 151</span></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ~
The Memorare to St. Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">………
151</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ~
Prayers in Honour of St. Joseph</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> for
Those in Their Last Agony <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 152</span></span></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ~
Act of Consecration to St. Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…
153</span></span></span></p>
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<br />
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ~
Prayer of St. Pius X</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> to
St. Joseph the Worker <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……… 155</span></span></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ~
Short Invocations to St. Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……
156</span></span></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ~
Prayer for Purity <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">………………………
157</span></span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ~
Prayer to St. Joseph,</span></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Patron of the Universal Church 157</span></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ~
Prayers for </span></span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> St.
Joseph's Intercession <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">……… 158</span></span></span></p>
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</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ~
Short Prayers to the Holy Family <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…
160</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">:::::::::::::::::::</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://eabucchianeri.blogspot.com/p/past-blog-posts.html" target="_blank">Past Blog Posts: Table of Contents </a><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><br /></p>EA Bucchianerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03685067504150348329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6094790496676897078.post-60280372272147506572022-09-14T17:51:00.003+01:002022-09-14T17:53:29.358+01:00Now Available! "The Month of Saint Teresa"<p style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRzW9wCl8bj29OrXAu7pvEx4pJY5knmnkW7Gqcp0ra7pmvWmNa99ja7d6IFWCjOsai7k2R5TgGfHi9ZTH0IGwrwI7s2vDIwngCBsK9uLHiij8C6_Azki0t7GV2owBdbmUeOZ4PCUYms7l23fFt2WauZW34Zd10tj9mmnWXkAvXQ6Sv8FNn4NrkiYDaNQ/s2402/9789895372614.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2402" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRzW9wCl8bj29OrXAu7pvEx4pJY5knmnkW7Gqcp0ra7pmvWmNa99ja7d6IFWCjOsai7k2R5TgGfHi9ZTH0IGwrwI7s2vDIwngCBsK9uLHiij8C6_Azki0t7GV2owBdbmUeOZ4PCUYms7l23fFt2WauZW34Zd10tj9mmnWXkAvXQ6Sv8FNn4NrkiYDaNQ/w250-h400/9789895372614.png" width="250" /></a></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Yes, a new classic spiritual book by Fr. Marin de Boylesve has been released!</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>"The Month of Saint Teresa"</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b> </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span style="color: #4c1130;">First published in 1882 to celebrate the tercentenary of
St. Teresa of Avila's entrance to heaven, this text continues to be a
spiritual treasure today. Selecting quotations from the famous
spiritual writings of St. Teresa Fr. Marin de Boylesve provides for each day of October
spiritual nuggets of advice and wisdom that may be prayed as a month
long novena honouring this blessed saint, as well as proving to be a
simple and efficacious text to help progress in the
spiritual life any time of the year. </span></b></span></p><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #4c1130;">This first ever English
translation also features a biography of the author, prayers and
quotations by St. Teresa not included in the original printing, in
addition to prayers to St. Teresa by St. Alphonsus de Liguori and
fifteen illustrations. </span></b></div><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></b></div><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #4c1130;"><u>About the Author</u>: </span><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span class="a-text-bold">Fr. Marin de Boylesve is best remembered in
France for spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart with his writings
thereby promoting the cause for the construction of the Sacre Coeur
Basilica in Paris. </span></span></b></div><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span class="a-text-bold"> </span></span></b></div><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span class="a-text-bold">:::::::::::::::</span></span></b></div><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span class="a-text-bold"> </span></span></b></div><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span class="a-text-bold"> </span></span></b><br /><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #660000;"><u><span><b>About the 'The Month Of Saint Teresa': </b></span></u></span></div><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b> </b></span></div><div class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; 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Boylesve </b></p><p><b>translated into English for the first time is now available!</b></p><p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>"The Blessed Virgin According to the Gospels - </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>Readings and Stories for Each Day for the Month of Mary"</b></span></span></div><p> <br /></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="color: #783f04;"><b><span> </span>“I am the mother of fair love, and
of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. In me is all grace of
the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue. …
My memory is unto everlasting generations. … He that hearkeneth to
me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin.
They that explain me shall have life everlasting.”</b></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="color: #783f04;"><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> ~ (Eccles. 24:
24-25, 28-31)</b></span></p><b>
</b><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><b><br /><br /></b>
</p><b>
</b><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>Answering this holy call in the Bible to explain
the greatness of the Mother of God, <span style="color: #4c1130;">Fr. Marin de Boylesve, S.J.
(1813-1892)</span> provided a beautiful set of thirty-one meditations on the
life of the Blessed Virgin as presented in the Gospels for May, the
Month of Mary, which also aptly serves for the other months dedicated
to her or contain her feasts, such as March for the Annunciation,
August in honour of the Assumption, October, month of the Holy
Rosary, and December, month of the Immaculate Conception and the
Birth of Christ. This set of meditations is also perfect spiritual
reading for any time of the year.</b></span></p><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>
</b></span><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b><br /></b></span>
</p><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>
</b></span><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>The first English translation from
the original French, this new edition also features a biography of
the author, information on the Holy Rosary and the Brown Scapular,
the original secrets of La Salette sent to Pius IX, additional
devotions to the Blessed Virgin, and also 37 illustrations. A
classic for your spiritual reading library.
</b></span></p><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>
</b></span><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b><br /></b></span>
</p><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>
</b></span><p class="western" lang="en-GB"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b><u><span style="color: #20124d;">About the Author</span>:</u> Fr. Marin de
Boylesve is best remembered in France for spreading devotion to the
Sacred Heart with his writings thereby promoting the cause for the
construction of the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris.
</b></span></p><b>
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than ever, it is opportune to tell people <span>at what price our souls
were redeemed.</span> We must let it be known how t<span>he Blood of Christ
cleanses souls and sanctifies them, particularly by means of the
sacraments</span>.” </i></span></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><b><span><i><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>~ St. Gasper del Bufalo (1786-1837).</i></span></b></span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;">Answering
this call, <b>Fr. Marin de Boylesve, S.J. (1813-1892)</b> composed an
inspirational devotion booklet consisting of a trinity of novenas for
each day in July, the month dedicated to the Precious Blood of Jesus
Christ. </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;">Through the short daily meditations of the novenas he shows
how the shedding of Christ's Blood was necessary for the redemption
of the human race, beginning with the <span lang="en-GB">Blood of
Jesus p</span>refigured in the Old Testament, continuing with Its
manifestation in the New Testament, and concluding with the Precious
Blood present in the sacraments of the Catholic Church.
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</span><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;">Included
from the original edition are pious devotions to the Precious Blood,
also in this new English edition a biography of the author is
included, additional prayers, indulgenced prayers, and twenty-seven illustrations. This
book will prove to be a treasure not just for July but also excellent spiritual reading material for Lent and for
all times of the year.</span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><u><b>About
the Author:</b></u> Fr. Marin de Boylesve is best remembered in
France for spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart with his writings
thereby promoting the cause for the construction of the Sacre Coeur
Basilica in Paris.</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #274e13;"> ::::::::::::</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"> <b><u>Book details:</u> </b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>Paperback <br /></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>Batalha Publishers</b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>Publication date: March 25, 2022 <br /></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>156 pages</b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;">5 x 8 inches</span></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #274e13;"> :::::::::::::::::</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="color: #660000;">WHERE TO ORDER:</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="color: #660000;"> </span></span><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #660000;"> Click the store links below!</span></span></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #660000;"> </span></span></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #660000;">*<u> <a href="https://amzn.to/3DaT4II" target="_blank">Amazon </a></u><a href="https://amzn.to/3DaT4II" target="_blank">(+ ships internationally) </a></span></span></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #660000;"> * <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-month-of-the-precious-blood-marin-de-boylesve/1141254128" target="_blank">Barnes and Noble (USA + ships internationally)</a></span></span></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #660000;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Month-Precious-Blood-Marin-Boylesve/dp/989332808X" target="_blank">* Amazon UK</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank"> (ships to Europe)</a><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #660000;"></span></span></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #660000;"><a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-month-of-the-precious-blood/marin-de-boylesve/e-a-bucchianeri/9789893328088" target="_blank">* Waterstones UK (also ships to Ireland)</a></span></span></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #660000;"><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/dp/989332808X" target="_blank">* Amazon (Canada) </a><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #660000;"> </span></span></b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: #660000;">~~ You can also order your copy at your local brick and mortar book store! 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The "Month of Saint Michael" and "The Sacred Heart of Jesus"<p style="text-align: center;"><b>At last these two beautiful Traditional Catholic classics </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>by Fr. Marin de Boylesve <span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="color: black;">S.J. (1813-1892)</span> </span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"> </span></span>are now available for the first time in English!</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhi4kkJSFPY3Rbr3L9woxJWkBUNGvqYweuUSkamzwgM6nNYVZHZhOHiTCU0fSpr2AR9RE7MoUHYJJfuUYGdE0llM8xHeNQZm90w2owcomwSPkQN2OEATtvkECqIikrwrN4MX-PxZeqSmXredxA2WBPGnw3dbQH2w8EvI5Hu0Hp_Dbiqojz6de1ftB30Eg=s648" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="405" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhi4kkJSFPY3Rbr3L9woxJWkBUNGvqYweuUSkamzwgM6nNYVZHZhOHiTCU0fSpr2AR9RE7MoUHYJJfuUYGdE0llM8xHeNQZm90w2owcomwSPkQN2OEATtvkECqIikrwrN4MX-PxZeqSmXredxA2WBPGnw3dbQH2w8EvI5Hu0Hp_Dbiqojz6de1ftB30Eg=w250-h400" width="250" /></a></b></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /><span style="font-size: large;">"The Month of Saint Michael:</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span>Saint Michael According to the Bible </span></b><span><b>and According to Tradition"</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><b> </b></span></p><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span><span>“Who is like unto God?” </span></span></b></span></p><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span><span> </span></span></b></span></p><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span><span> To this day St. Michael
the Archangel burns with the same fiery zeal for the glory of God as
when he thrust Satan from the heights of Heaven. The defender of
God's people, this mighty prince is always ready to come to the
assistance of those who call upon him. If you are devoted to this
great saint, wish to increase your devotion, or in need of spiritual
encouragement in these dark times “The Month of Saint Michael” is
for you.</span></span></b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span><span>
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</span></span></b></span></div><p lang="en-GB" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span><span>Written by<span> Fr. Marin de Boylesve, S.J. (1813-1892)</span>,
'The Month of Saint Michael' features short inspiring and
encouraging meditations drawn from the Bible for every day for the
month of September in honour of the great commander of the Heavenly
hosts, as well as passages recounting the graces, apparitions and
interventions of the Archangel according to holy Tradition and
history. </span></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span><b><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">This
new, first ever English edition of Fr. de Boylesve's text contains
additional traditional prayers of protection and devotions, forty-two
sacred illustrations, a biography of the author and informative
annotations. A spiritual gem for any time of the year, not just
September!</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #20124d;"><span><b><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">::::::::::::::::::::</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #20124d;"><span><b><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">Book details: <br /></span></b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Batalha Publishers</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #274e13;">PAPERBACK <br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Size: 5" x 8" <br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #274e13;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Pages: 232</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #274e13;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #274e13;">ISBN: 978-989-96844-92</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #274e13;">:::::::::::::::: </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Where to order, click the store links below! 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that has so loved men and desires to be loved in return, </span><br /></b></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
</p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>yet, we cannot come to
love what we do not know or understand.</b></span></p><span style="color: #660000;"><b>
</b></span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b><br /></b></span>
</p><span style="color: #660000;"><b>
</b></span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b> <span> </span>To encourage devotion
to the Heart of Jesus, <span>Fr. Marin de Boylesve</span>
provides short reflections based on the Scriptures showing how
everything God planned came from His Love: that this most Loving
Heart is present throughout the Gospels, how the actions of the
Blessed Trinity are completely connected with the Heart of Christ,
and that the most perfect prayer, the Our Father, springs from the
font of the Sacred Heart. Fr. de Boylesve also explains how the
Sacraments of the Church come forth from this Furnace of Love, and
how the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit are united with the Sacred
Heart. </b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b> If you desire to
understand and increase your love for the Heart of Jesus, this book
is a must-have for your spiritual library. Included are a biography
of the author, additional prayers and sixteen illustrations.</b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span><u><b> Book details:</b></u></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span>Paperback. 132 pages.<br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span>Batalha Publishers </span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span>Size: 5" x 8"<br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span>ISBN: 978-989-33-2807-1</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span> </span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>Where to order your copy, click the stores links below:</b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b> </b></span></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/3nNyE1Q" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>* Amazon.com (USA-International shipping available depending on country)</b></span></a></p><p><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>* <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-sacred-heart-of-jesus-marin-de-boylesve/1140895815" target="_blank">Barnes and Noble (USA+ worldwide shipping) </a><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>* <a href="https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Sacred-Heart-Jesus/Marin-De-Boylesve/9789893328071" target="_blank">Books-a-Million </a>(USA only)<br /></b></span></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/3G3bYkF" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>* Amazon.co.uk (UK, also ships to Ireland)</b></span></a></p><p><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>* <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-sacred-heart-of-jesus-2022/marin-de-boylesve/e-a-bucchianeri/9789893328071" target="_blank">Waterstones (UK, also ships to Ireland) </a><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;">* </span><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Sacred-Heart-Jesus-Marin-Boylesve/dp/9893328071" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0c343d;">Amazon.ca (Canada)</span></a></b></span></p>* <b><a href="https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9789893328071/marin-de-boylesve/the-sacred-heart-of-jesus" target="_blank">McNally Robinson (Canada)</a></b><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b> :::::::::::::::</b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>Book Review for "The Sacred Heart of Jesus"</b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb7JrxyjvDNTEWq9BAcH3-qK_BIwChLeNkQebaCs5N9r1H3n6g7IUEpEgk9Ru-HwKa1LD4fhS_4Ze7UVEDfN4Z_7hENNDwnxoshi5Lq7iIPNUWx312vzJH3jEMHAUgjeSVC3rt_XSRVIkszNCUey5qJTiQDbZ7xtT_RluU4UyuRlz_CdZLJTW-RE5RRQ/s1059/Book%20Review%20-%20The%20Sacred%20Heart%20of%20Jesus%20-%20Marin%20de%20Boylesve.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="1059" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb7JrxyjvDNTEWq9BAcH3-qK_BIwChLeNkQebaCs5N9r1H3n6g7IUEpEgk9Ru-HwKa1LD4fhS_4Ze7UVEDfN4Z_7hENNDwnxoshi5Lq7iIPNUWx312vzJH3jEMHAUgjeSVC3rt_XSRVIkszNCUey5qJTiQDbZ7xtT_RluU4UyuRlz_CdZLJTW-RE5RRQ/w640-h271/Book%20Review%20-%20The%20Sacred%20Heart%20of%20Jesus%20-%20Marin%20de%20Boylesve.png" width="640" /></a></b></span></div><span style="color: #660000;"><b><br /> </b></span><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b> <br /></b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>::::::::::::::</b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>These books can also be ordered from regular brick and mortar bookstores!</b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b> :::::::::::::::::::</b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://eabucchianeri.blogspot.com/p/past-blog-posts.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>Previous Blog Posts - Table of Contents, click here. </b></span></a></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b><br /></b></span></p>
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</p><p><br /></p>EA Bucchianerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03685067504150348329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6094790496676897078.post-83225973921419742252022-01-27T19:27:00.005+00:002022-01-27T19:46:39.930+00:00Art and Design – Does Heaven Care?<p>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNKfzxfrw3usZSb30OP9lzYteIMuBDd4MktJTX1KE-fuybVXWMmSsW_fqK2zwdHrxC4yq3P4h0VZTHFk_RjzqJoCc2Ru7BjUD-s5JdaEWeEPOg3feDD6cH01IRAQVvqbLC9L9Dy88eo6nyUyhaWOMcEG3NX3eWcINWAWmDPR-g2AVJBH2rrGmAk2_GhA=s1280" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNKfzxfrw3usZSb30OP9lzYteIMuBDd4MktJTX1KE-fuybVXWMmSsW_fqK2zwdHrxC4yq3P4h0VZTHFk_RjzqJoCc2Ru7BjUD-s5JdaEWeEPOg3feDD6cH01IRAQVvqbLC9L9Dy88eo6nyUyhaWOMcEG3NX3eWcINWAWmDPR-g2AVJBH2rrGmAk2_GhA=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Most
of us have heard the expression 'art is in the eye of the beholder',
I've even expanded this in my novel <a href="https://amzn.to/32Bt8bc" target="_blank">Brushstrokes of a Gadfly</a>: </span>
<p></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">Art
is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own
interpretation.”</span></p>
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</p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>It
is human nature, we can't help but interpret what we see depending on
our personal experiences and tastes. Often the artist means to depict one
thing, and the viewing public sees something completely different! </span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5wm3QqMuegIZAnAjbhtUVTf_RAfY6vUIzd5759vbVZ8hQze-_3YhEIdMLdzommgYI4pBQ4dZR5eKhVoBacWrW-D0WkIgsMWFFOlnNvAtM1wrYNDN56c7ye8i7doWg53CZ2tZ6W9J5ZAAIAlomcR8GCo51O7xIT9KnNrSd9Waog9mqjFuEAG8253dazQ=s3024" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5wm3QqMuegIZAnAjbhtUVTf_RAfY6vUIzd5759vbVZ8hQze-_3YhEIdMLdzommgYI4pBQ4dZR5eKhVoBacWrW-D0WkIgsMWFFOlnNvAtM1wrYNDN56c7ye8i7doWg53CZ2tZ6W9J5ZAAIAlomcR8GCo51O7xIT9KnNrSd9Waog9mqjFuEAG8253dazQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<p></p>
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</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>(Is it just me, or does a bowl of spaghetti has more 'art' to it than this?) </i><br /></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><span style="font-size: medium;">I for one cannot help but shake my head at the modern monstrosities creators in the art world are producing, (and
I bet most of you out there do too!) </span><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What happened to
honest-to-goodness skill and artistry?</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Like
this? Beautiful! Dashing! Dramatic!</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRSEpedHJ_-_4gsDUAkC7a2Dpo5zB85s5b-XeCqakEVtKFHyWO_-WZKx9Kg9NkVMc3NStSPX_1zERBdqUA6Y3yJcsNgpnFrPEia6Ad3fs0gSG_25Bn0iTiPxJncnrcE1RLUuOGNu_OcplDzeLUKjoB78YQjQlROOeYweUHJFMoCI7UzYfytr-Ej3oFiA=s767" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="767" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRSEpedHJ_-_4gsDUAkC7a2Dpo5zB85s5b-XeCqakEVtKFHyWO_-WZKx9Kg9NkVMc3NStSPX_1zERBdqUA6Y3yJcsNgpnFrPEia6Ad3fs0gSG_25Bn0iTiPxJncnrcE1RLUuOGNu_OcplDzeLUKjoB78YQjQlROOeYweUHJFMoCI7UzYfytr-Ej3oFiA=s320" width="267" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(<i>Image: Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David, 1803</i>)</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Or
this? Impressionism is beautiful too!</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxqpaYrzCH2K8uMTKj1a-VlHsjmiOB-g4a-aj5kYNWGuJcATW1xjfsydjOGmBG4doS5sXBRAZeYbgomOVn_LmygorG_QwKH59aRD6xJJgirFCRZzR5jsuRmLLmfbvjow3irMMywid3mgNyMCGM_fo7rdX2Cj2o1Mh0HdFbIf60-IvD90HYK4auAgSClQ=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="640" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxqpaYrzCH2K8uMTKj1a-VlHsjmiOB-g4a-aj5kYNWGuJcATW1xjfsydjOGmBG4doS5sXBRAZeYbgomOVn_LmygorG_QwKH59aRD6xJJgirFCRZzR5jsuRmLLmfbvjow3irMMywid3mgNyMCGM_fo7rdX2Cj2o1Mh0HdFbIf60-IvD90HYK4auAgSClQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(<i>Monet's famous 'Poppies'</i>)</span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But
now we've come to this? Seriously?<br /></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3waUIRJwB60ZMwQ6PkuSuQMjpJNvylYpWnBflPyCtHaSQvTSYKuo4UOj4t9Ukrah8oXsVqA_I8qmdIgw4sCMbRr6FwDfF02CQEGtUeE5exX-eo22yd3HHc9FEobiwJFT28fNI4PjEw6qRSqbv-9ED__YsXbBixW8xEv3poJpkk_5ngBGm7kyEuyY67g=s374" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="374" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3waUIRJwB60ZMwQ6PkuSuQMjpJNvylYpWnBflPyCtHaSQvTSYKuo4UOj4t9Ukrah8oXsVqA_I8qmdIgw4sCMbRr6FwDfF02CQEGtUeE5exX-eo22yd3HHc9FEobiwJFT28fNI4PjEw6qRSqbv-9ED__YsXbBixW8xEv3poJpkk_5ngBGm7kyEuyY67g=s320" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> Uggggh.</span><p></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Do
modern artists of today truly think what gobbledygook they are
producing is really 'beautiful'?</span></p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(<i>Picaso's first and last self portraits.</i> </span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <i>I can't help but say he did not think much of himself later in life</i>.)</span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>Again,
it just feels like a scam market at times, galleries and art dealers
wowing would-be investors with stories of how 'this is the latest
collectible trend', pumping up a market that sells nothing more than
splotches on a canvases , a 'hot-air balloon' system which one of my
characters in the<a href="https://amzn.to/32Bt8bc" target="_blank"> same novel</a> also notices:</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span style="font-size: medium;">They
lived off each other's hypocrisy, fueling a worthless market of
trash.” </span>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>Then,
more importantly, they seem to forget to ask the question: does
Heaven care about what we draw, paint or design?</span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>As
Our Lord said Himself noted: “For out of the abundance of the heart
the mouth speaketh.” (Luke 6:45)</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span> </span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If
spoken words display what is in the heart of a person, what does a
picture show if indeed one picture is worth a thousand words?</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">I've
come across several examples that show yes, Heaven does care.</span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> </span>The first is an account of an artist who came
back from the dead to warn the owner of a beautiful but scandalous
painting he produced for him:</span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span> </span><span style="color: #660000;">“A
painter of great skill and otherwise exemplary life had once made a
painting not at all conformable to the strict rules Christian
modesty. It was one of those paintings which under the pretext of
being 'works of art' are found in the best families, and the sight of
which causes the loss of so many souls. (…) The artist of whom we
speak had allowed himself to be misled to this point by bad example.
</span></span></span><span style="color: #660000;">
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> </span>Soon however, renouncing this pernicious style, he
confined himself to the production of religious pictures, or at least
of those which were perfectly irreproachable. Finally, he was
painting a large picture in the convent of the discalced Carmelites,
when he was attacked by a mortal malady. Feeling he was about to
die, he asked the Prior to allow him to be interred in the church of
the monastery, and he bequeathed to the community his earnings, which
amounted to a considerable sum of money, charging them to have Masses
said for the repose of his soul. He died in pious sentiments, and a
few days passed, when a Religious who had stayed in the choir after
Matins saw him appear in the midst of flames and sighing piteously.</span></span></p><span style="color: #660000;">
</span><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <span> </span>“What!”
said the religious, “have you to endure such pain, after leading so
good a life and dying so holy a death?” “Alas!” replied he,
“it is on account of the immodest picture that I painted some years
ago. When I appeared before the tribunal of the Sovereign Judge, a
crowd of accusers came to give evidence against me. They declared
that they had been excited to improper thoughts and evil desires by a
picture, the work of my hand. In consequence of those bad thoughts
some were in Purgatory, others in Hell. The latter cried for
vengeance, saying that, having been the cause of their eternal
perdition, I deserved at least the same punishment. Then the
Blessed Virgin and the saints whom I had glorified by my pictures
took up my defense. They represented to the Judge that that
unfortunate painting had been the work of youth, and of which I had
repented that I had repaired it afterwards by religious objects which
had been a source of edification to souls.”</span></span></span></p><span style="color: #660000;">
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> </span>“In consideration of these and other reasons, the
Sovereign Judge declared that, on account of my repentance and my
good works, I should be exempt from damnation but at the same time,
He condemned me to these flames (Purgatory) until that picture should
be burned, so that it could no longer scandalize anyone.”</span></span></p><span style="color: #660000;">
</span><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> </span>Then the poor sufferer implored the Religious to take
measures to have the painting destroyed. “I beg of you,” he
added, “go in my name to such a person, proprietor of the picture;
tell him in what a condition I am for having yielded to his
entreaties to paint it, and conjure him to make a sacrifice of it.
If he refuses, woe to him! To prove that this is not an illusion,
and to punish him for his own fault, tell him that before long he
will lose his two children. Should he refuse to obey Him Who has
created us both, he will pay for it by a premature death.”</span></span></p><span style="color: #660000;">
</span><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #660000;"> <span> </span>The
religious delayed not to do what the poor soul asked of him, and went
to the owner of the picture. The latter, on hearing these things
seized the painting and cast it into the fire. Nevertheless,
according to the words of the deceased, he lost his two children in
less than a month. The remainder of his days he passed in penance,
for having ordered and kept that immodest picture in his house.”</span> </span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">
(Source <a href="https://amzn.to/3GbRpSN" target="_blank">“Purgatory: Explained by the Lives and Legends of theSaints” by Fr. F.X. Schouppe, original edition 1893, reprint TAN,1986.</a>)</span></i></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>Here is one example Heaven will judge on artist on the
damage their work will do – for their art <span style="font-style: normal;">could
be a means causing</span><i> </i><span style="font-style: normal;">the
edification and salvation of many, or, bring about grave scandal and
the eternal loss of souls. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Immodesty is a big
no-no.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span> </span>I
found another example of the danger of immodesty in a picture, this
time with regards to sacred art, with </span><b><i>Satan making </i>an
attempt to trip up and trap a holy priest, </b>t<span style="font-weight: normal;">he
humble</span><b> Pére Lamy (1853-1931),</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
who received many visits from Our Lord, Our Lady and the Angels. (Yes, he is an
approved mystic.) </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>As usual with mystics whose spiritual gifts are
extraordinary like his were, which included the discernment of souls,
his fame as a visionary quickly spread. Naturally people asked
him what Our Lady and Our Lord looked like. Not many people get to
see Christ and His Mother! In some instances, Pére Lamy tried to
give examples of what Our Lady was like, no statue or painting made
by human hands was good enough, but he indicated a couple of statues
he thought looked the closest to her manner of bearing and
expression.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> </span>One day in 1915, however, he was brought to see a newly
built church, Saint Michel de Batignolles in Paris, where they were
pleased to show off a sculpture of the Madonna and Child that
apparently had won the prestigious 'Prix de Rome'. </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> </span>While everyone was
proud of the prize-winning sculpture and the purity of the marble used, Pére Lamy
had a different reaction, especially with the depiction of the Christ
Child Who was depicted "completely naked", according to the words of
Père Lamy, Our Lady holding the Child with a mere piece of cloth,
but only as an artistic effect, not a proper covering. Père Lamy
said he found this 'disconcerting' and even made a furious glare at
it. </span>
</p>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> </span>To confirm his feelings, The Madonna appeared to him right then
holding the Christ Child in front of the statue, and, he noted with
satisfaction the Child was fully and properly dressed in his little
brown wool tunic. Then Our Lady warned Père Lamy:</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “<i>Take care,
Lucifer is after you like a dog tracking down a hare.”</i></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span> </span></i>He
noted this was her way of showing her displeasure with the statue.
She then warned him to be very careful of his words regarding it, no
doubt this was due to the fact that any indication of an approval
coming from him would imply the statue was accurate when it in fact
displeased Our Lady, and of course, and would end up giving bad
example. So, he carefully replied that the statue “<i>did not
answer the great dignity of the Mother of God</i> and that the statue
did not please me.”</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">There you have it. </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Nakedness in art for "art's sake" is not approved of by Heaven.</span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> </span>Fr. F.X. Schouppe explains what true art is when giving
his example of the artist who came back from Purgatory to demand his
immodest picture be burned:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> <span style="color: #660000;"> </span></span><span style="color: #660000;">“True art is an inspiration from Heaven, which
elevates the soul to God; profane art, which appeals to the senses
only, which presents to the eye nothing but the beauties of the flesh
and blood, is but an inspiration of the evil spirit; his works,
brilliant though they may be, are not works of art, and the name is
falsely attributed to them. They are the infamous productions of a
corrupt imagination.”</span> (<a href="https://amzn.to/3GbRpSN" target="_blank">Purgatory: Explained by the Lives and Legends of the Saints</a>) </span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">As we have seen with Satan attempting to trip up Pére
Lamy, this point is indeed the case.</span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <span> </span>But,
what is even more unnerving, I've hunted down a picture of the statue
that caused Our Lady's displeasure. According to the person telling
this story they heard from Père Lamy, the statue was carved c. 1920
by </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Arthur-Joseph
Gueniot (1866 – 1951). </span></span>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i> </i></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The
statue </i></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">does not look
immodest to our standards at all! </span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span>
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</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS1wMCvzJadG4pUBM48GyfQnCFJXJb65ONFf5VWk1nseeSX7c4usuTlsRBYrw0D-CTguHBOrt9YLtp47nY62PIBufwNpDcK1rHs20S-L7uYw6n17JD4Cr0ACeq6s9iz0D0ObDjGcPeJCMhHu8gB_M_BqZC7w_jN70WVHNcv34yWciFpLQIoyEijxAAEg=s600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhS1wMCvzJadG4pUBM48GyfQnCFJXJb65ONFf5VWk1nseeSX7c4usuTlsRBYrw0D-CTguHBOrt9YLtp47nY62PIBufwNpDcK1rHs20S-L7uYw6n17JD4Cr0ACeq6s9iz0D0ObDjGcPeJCMhHu8gB_M_BqZC7w_jN70WVHNcv34yWciFpLQIoyEijxAAEg=w426-h640" width="426" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">("Mater Dei" in Saint Michel des Batignolles by <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Arthur-Joseph
Gueniot.)</span></span></i></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span> </span>Our
Lady looks perfectly clothed, her neckline does not seem open or that low
at all to our eyes, and while the Christ Child is wrapped in a cloth,
He is not 'completely' nude from the waist down like many other pieces as the text seem to have suggested!</span></span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Oh. </span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If this piece displeased Our Lady, what does Heaven consider to be
improper 'nudity'? </span></span>
</p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
answer can be found in the book of Genesis. </span></span>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span> </span>When
Adam and Eve fell, already they had become blinded by their sin and
did not even know how to fully clothe themselves. They took fig
leaves and made simple aprons, but God let them know this was not
enough – He had to make them tunics of skins after they confessed
their misdeed. </span></span>
</p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span> </span>A
tunic or robe-like garment covers the whole upper half of the body,
over the shoulders, and slightly below the knees. Having an
uncovered chest and torso was still considered nakedness by God. But
also observe: to make the skin-tunics, something had to be sacrificed
and shed its blood to make them proper garments, a symbol of the
Great Sacrifice the Lamb of God would offer to cover the whole human
race with His Precious Redemptive Blood. Those re-clothed in grace
with the Blood of the Lamb at the end of time are given full white
robes as we see in the Apocalypse. Pére Lamy noted the Christ Child
in the vision with Our Lady was fully dressed in a tunic when He
appeared</span></span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Wow,
it makes you take stock of how bad most of our Renaissance and
Classical art must look like to Heaven!</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> Père Lamy also noted the Mother of God's “tastes are
very artistic”.</span></p>
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<span> </span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> </span>In one instance he tells the story of a little plaster
statue of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal he once had as a child and
that he had daubed up with his paints. He said the thought he was
doing something wonderful in painting it, but agreed with the wisdom
of hindsight gained from his adult years that his childish attempt at
statue-painting was a real mess! </span>
</p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> </span>He had painted her white, apparently he had painted her
hands and face white, her cloak blue, and her veil white, but then
gave her a yellow girdle, which clashed with the whole white and blue
ensemble. However, the statue was lost when the family home burned
down. One day in a vision Our Lady commented on the statue he had
painted when a child, declaring, “He thought to give me a yellow
girdle: it was very very ugly!” She then laughed heartily, and said
“but I liked the intention.”</span></p>
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</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Yes, Père Lamy noted Our Lady does laugh at times! </span>
</p>
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<span> </span>
</p>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> </span>And, we see the Queen of Heaven and Earth, the Mother
of Wisdom and Truth, has no qualms in saying when something is ugly.
We can hazard a guess she still liked the messy statue because she
could see he had painted it with love even if it had not been
aesthetically perfect, just like any charitable mother would who
goes ahead and tapes up their child's finger painting on the front of the
refrigerator as though it belonged in a gallery. Those childish
gifts are well meant, splotchy though they may be! </span>
</p>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> </span>Pére Lamy confirmed this again when he noted Our Lady
does not find many of her statues good to look at, but still, she
loves them for they “are signs of the affection people have for
her”, and therefore the ugliness of the statues does not hinder her
from using them as channels of grace. (Source for the information and quotes on
Père Lamy: “<a href="https://amzn.to/32B07fI" target="_blank">Père Lamy: 1855-1931”, by Comte Paul Biver, TAN,1973</a>.)</span></p>
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</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span> </span>In
all, Heaven will make concessions for some 'ugly' pieces of art, but
we have to ask: if Heaven will punish those artists who create
scandalous pictures, and Satan could attempt to trap a very holy
priest with an immodest statue, not to mention Our Lady has very
high artistic tastes, then <b> </b></span><b><i>what does Heaven think of modern art</i>?</b></span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Holy Souls from Purgatory give the answer to this.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> <span> </span>Maria
Simma (1915 -2004)</b> from Sonntag, Austria, had been chosen as a
victim soul to receive visits from the Holy Souls in Purgatory and
aid their release. (Note: her case is still under investigation by
the Church, but there has been no negative rulings on her as yet,
and, she was permitted to speak of her experiences by her local
bishop. I personally have not seen anything contrary to Church
teachings in her visions.)</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> </span>According
to the book <span style="text-decoration: none;">“<a href="https://amzn.to/3rTKNnb" target="_blank">My Personal Experiences with the Poor Souls” (Franciscan Herald Press, Chicago,1979, p. 61</a>),</span> she one day received a message from the Blessed
Mother via the visit of a Holy Soul requesting that a chapel be built
in Sonntag. Maria's spiritual director agreed with the request,
because he realized the exact spot where the chapel to be built
according to the Holy Soul's directions once had a wayside shrine
there long ago dedicated to the Blessed Mother, but it was removed
during roadworks. The villagers had promised to put it back up, but the
promise was forgotten, and as the years passed, only the older
generations barely remembered it. So, Our Lady obviously wanted the
promise kept, but now wanted a chapel big enough to where Mass could
be said. </span>
</p>
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</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> </span>When
the chapel was finished, a new request came from the Blessed Mother
via the visit of a Holy Soul: Our Lady desired a picture be painted
and hung in the chapel depicting her as “Mother of Mercy for the
Poor Souls”, but, the request also demanded <b>“it should be a
picture of natural beauty, not a contorted work of modern art.”</b></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Wow. </span>
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Heaven considers modern art a 'contortion', with no
'natural beauty'.</span></p>
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</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Basically, that it is twisted and therefore grotesque!</span></p>
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<br />
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>Maria Simma would later give another example, I believe
it is in the book '<a href="https://amzn.to/3o0SNli" target="_blank">Get Us Out of Here!”, by Niki Eltz</a>.
Unfortunately I only borrowed that copy and gave it back to its
owner, so I don't have it on hand and will have to paraphrase what I
recall. When asked about art and what the Holy Souls had to say
about modern art, I believe it was about sacred art, she said the
Holy Souls have told her Heaven does not approve of it as it is a
<b>mockery of what it represents</b>.</span></p>
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<br />
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Uh oh. Modern 'sacred art' of today therefore is more
than just a mere fashion.</span></p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Heaven
calls out modern “sacred art” for what it is -- a contorted,
twisted, mocking sacrilege.</b></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Heaven has also
extended its disapproval to modern church designs. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span> </span>In
the prophecies of the mystic Ven. Sister Domenica of Paradise
(1473-1553)</span> Our Lord warned that nearer the end of time a
dark period was coming when the faith would drastically wane, one of
the signs would be when church buildings <b>would resemble caverns:</b></span></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span> <span style="color: #990000;"> </span></span><span style="color: #990000;">“<span lang="en-US">My
bride, pray and weep for My faithful, there will come a time when My
faith, declining, will be missed in many and few (faithful) will
remain, when souls fall into the hands of My enemy for the scarcity
and lack of the Word God,</span><span lang="en-US">
(i.e. when the Word of God will not be taught or preached, the word
'lack' also means it may not be preached properly as it should)</span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span lang="en-US"><b>and when the temples of the Christians
will resemble caverns than churches</b></span><span lang="en-US">,
then the night of blindness will reign, and the day and the sun of
cognisance will be extinguished, and amid so much </span>darkness few
will know those who can exercise virtue, and employ themselves in the
worship of My faith (...)”</span><a href="https://greatmonarch-angelicpontiffprophecies.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_40.html" target="_blank"> (For more info, click here.)</a></span></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>Therefore,
modern art and architecture are displaying the corrupt nature of the
times and the loss of faith.</span></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Interesting
how everything seemed to take a nose-dive after Vatican II. By their
fruits, you will know them.</span></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All
one has to look at is the infamous “church” that has been dubbed “Our Lady of Minas Morgul” built in the 1960s. </span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilBfx8zvmZjd6-KCavGPjxFFOv1I8pMH3qitfQwVbgoaItwuW25WZTF4loFpmDSYZ9cGms0OSJ9V_8yavbnEv6MpvjVLV3oBiVpecP5Wo4s76kBYD26DTIAx413vftuUboh6116f0hpSr7WQm6-LJltx8bUl81S-_LYrrzlvNlFYbvW669NurhtIQHCA=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilBfx8zvmZjd6-KCavGPjxFFOv1I8pMH3qitfQwVbgoaItwuW25WZTF4loFpmDSYZ9cGms0OSJ9V_8yavbnEv6MpvjVLV3oBiVpecP5Wo4s76kBYD26DTIAx413vftuUboh6116f0hpSr7WQm6-LJltx8bUl81S-_LYrrzlvNlFYbvW669NurhtIQHCA=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> (Real name: "</span></span>St. Francis de Sales", Muskegon, Michigan, USA)</i></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span> </span> </span>The
dark joke is not far off: I can't help but imagine a hoard of
Sauron's orcs from <a href="https://amzn.to/3g37T5h" target="_blank">Tolkien's</a> <a href="https://amzn.to/3g37T5h" target="_blank">'Lord of the Rings'</a> conducting a black
mass here. Yikes.</span></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
times are growing dark indeed.</span></span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>Fr.
Schouppe observed:<span style="color: #660000;"> “If such is the consequence of an immodest
picture, what then, will be the punishment of the still more
disastrous scandals resulting from bad books, bad papers, bad
schools, and bad conversations?”</span></span></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
loss of Faith.</span></span></p>
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<p align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span>Being
a writer today is a daunting occupation knowing what you do may
affect the eternal condition of a reader's soul … but that is for
another post!</span></span></p>
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EA Bucchianerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03685067504150348329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6094790496676897078.post-42904054467619901002021-12-17T21:52:00.007+00:002023-12-26T15:07:29.000+00:00I am an Apostle, I Don't Wait on Tables!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEip7lPOv9MCiiVnKPDx-tl40O8f49ojTAMYiBJDRXq-2y-nFNsTN3vGh3Yg88RClikP_4-STCyJCEwqMefnxYV7dM6eiY0qF-0igCnmyYtA2GfrWr2V8sjkhAiemXDR8odlQZXga_HlV-YpIPmN5wHAn1DjOidgERfpTHiWcwO-Yi_F9fM6W1w7o4HReg=s843" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="843" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEip7lPOv9MCiiVnKPDx-tl40O8f49ojTAMYiBJDRXq-2y-nFNsTN3vGh3Yg88RClikP_4-STCyJCEwqMefnxYV7dM6eiY0qF-0igCnmyYtA2GfrWr2V8sjkhAiemXDR8odlQZXga_HlV-YpIPmN5wHAn1DjOidgERfpTHiWcwO-Yi_F9fM6W1w7o4HReg=w400-h246" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<p></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Yep, you
read the title right. Around the feast of St. Stephen, this always
struck a chord with me, that the Apostles still had a lot of figuring
out to do, even though they spoke with Our Lord directly while He was
on earth, and also received the Holy Spirit who gave them wisdom and
knowledge. You think they might have caught on right away on how
Christ wanted His Church to run!</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">For
instance, God had to prepare Peter to welcome the Roman centurion
Cornelius and his whole family into the Church. Our Lord had already
told the Apostles and disciples to go preach to all nations. The
Gospel was not for the Jews alone. Still, God had to remind him yet
again what His Church is all about, and to do this, He presented to
him in a dream a group of animals that were considered unclean in the
Jewish faith and was a sin to eat, and told Peter to kill and eat
them. St. Peter was horrified, saying to the Lord he had never eaten
anything unclean, but the Lord reminded St. Peter “That which
God hath cleansed, do not thou call common,” this happened three
times, and Peter then saw all the animals drawn up to Heaven. Peter
wondered what this meant until the Spirit told him to meet the men
had had just sent him, and Peter was brought to Cornelius and his
family. Peter then realized the vision of the unclean animals represented the once
'unclean' Gentile nations that were now cleansed by the Passion and
Blood of Christ and were now to be part of the Church, Christ came
for all mankind who accepted His Word, not just for the Jews!</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">So Peter
still needed a little prompting to be shown what to do, the 'old Jew'
was still too much ingrained in him, even after receiving the Holy Spirit.</p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Now, I
could be wrong how I read this, someone who is more knowledgeable in
theology can perhaps point out I may have made a mistake here, but I
can't help but see another 'boo boo' when the fault of favouritism
started to arise in the early Church.
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">In the
beginning, anyone who joined the Church had to sell what they owned
and deliver it to the Apostles as everyone lived a complete community
life together similar to a monastery today. Nobody privately owned
anything and the whole proceeds of everyone's donation upon entering
the Church was distributed to all the believers according to their
needs, so no one was left wanting according to Acts 4 (32, 34). No
doubt this was how they interpreted Christ's words of giving up
everything to follow Him, and of course, as He once asked them, they
were not found to be in want.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">But then,
the Greek Jews noticed things were not getting distributed fairly:
their widows were not getting their fair share to live on. Now,
this is not just widows who lost their husbands, but also women who
wished to live a single life for Christ. The term consecrated
virgins had not been introduced yet as far as I know, or 'nun' for
that matter! So single women living in chastity were considered as a
'widow', a woman with no husband, even if they had never been married. They were considered 'widows' for Christ. You can see this when St Paul says it is better to accept the older
widows than the younger ones as the older ones are more constant in
keeping to a life of chastity, while the younger ones are tempted to
break their vow of chastity and marry. (1 Tim. 5: 9-12)</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I don't
mean to digress, the point is, the Christian Greek Jews were not
getting the same treatment in the Church as the Christian Jews born
in Israel. Their widows and consecrated women were getting neglected
in the <i>daily</i> administration, so how long did this go on
before someone had to say, 'Hey, we're getting hungry here and could
use some help?' Oopsie.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Now, the
Apostles came up with an idea – they couldn't manage <i>everything</i>
themselves. The Church was growing, the Gospel needed to be spread,
it was their duty to do that, and, the daily mundane stuff like clothes and food
needed administering on top of it. So, with the agreement of the
members of the Church, they decided that the disciples should look
for and appoint seven holy and wise men to become deacons to see to
the daily administration of the Church's goods.
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Great
idea! God obviously had no problem with that, for the fruits that
blossomed later after this decision shows it was acceptable to do this - the Word continued to
spread and the discipleship grew after they came to this decision we are told in the Acts. So yes, the necessity of forming an administration procedure was
bound to make itself felt as the numbers of believers grew.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">But, this
is where the kicker comes in. When the Apostles were first
approached with the problem that the Greek widows were getting
neglected in the daily administration and something needed to be
done, they responded:</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“It is
not reason that we should leave the word of God, <b><i>and serve
tables</i>.</b>” (Acts 6:2)</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Oh. Ouch.
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Waiting on
tables was considered a low, demeaning task in those days, given to
servants and often to the slaves.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The
Douay-Rheims Bible says this occurred in the year 33 AD, so the
Church was not even a full year old when they apostle considered themselves too high and mighty to wait on a table. Therefore,
this happened not long after Our Lord Himself had given the example
of washing the feet of the Apostles at the Last Supper. They had already forgotten the example He set them!<br /></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> The act of
washing the feet was one of the most hateful and lowliest tasks a
household servant could do, even worse than waiting on a table, and was usually delegated to the most
insignificant and lowest slave. Touching the feet and preparing to clean them still has cultural implications in the East, no doubt due to the muck, animal refuse and dirt of the city streets of the old days before sewage systems, not to mention the dust of the desert, and dirty feet do tend to get really pungent! Remember God told Moses to remove his shoes from his feet as he stood on Holy ground? Today it is even considered a grave insult in Iraq to hit someone with a shoe, due to the connotations of 'dirty feet'. </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> So, on the flip side, this also become a symbol of the deepest humility, when St. John the Baptist said to even touch the sandals of the Messiah was too great an honour so great was his humility. Therefore, we can understand when St. Peter nearly had a conniption
fit when he saw the Son of God down on His knees at the Last Supper willing to wash his
feet like the meanest, lowest slave! How could the Son of God do this?<br /></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Yes, this
was symbolic of Christ's completely emptying of Himself to save us.
He Himself also said He came to serve, not be served, and gave us the
example, <u>saying they were to do this for one another,</u> and yet now the
Apostles refuse to 'wait on tables', which was a step higher than
washing someone's feet?</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Again, oh,
ouch!</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">God
however gently showed them again in one of the very deacons chosen
that it was possible to do both, one was just as important as the
other.
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St.
Stephen was shown to be not only a holy and wise youth who could do
the administrative tasks of distributing the goods justly,<u><b> but was
also noted</b> for his excellent preaching of the Gospel,</u> and, was given
the grace of signs and wonders among the people. His preaching
was so wise and sound he angered the Jews of the Libertine synagogue,
the Cyrenian synagogue, the Alexandrian Jews, also those of Cilicia
and Asia. They were, “unable to resist the wisdom and the spirit
that spoke,” through Steven. (Act Acts 6:10) </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> Wow, he was not even an Apostle, and yet his preaching
reached all those Jews. That is some reach! Despite all his spiritual success in preaching the Word which had made the Apostles so 'high and mighty' with pride to where they refused the grace of humility to wait on tables, St. Stephen did
not balk when asked to administer the daily goods to the women. He no doubt he
happily and humbly did his task as ordered.
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Of course,
since the Jews could not argue against him or acknowledge the wisdom
given him, instead of joining Christianity, they sought to kill
Steven, so they paid false witnesses to speak evil of him and rile up
the people, hence he was dragged before the elders and put on trial. </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">But, he then put them all to shame with his excellent preaching,
turning the tables and speaking against his judges and placing <i>them </i>on trial before God,<b>
<u>which literally fills up a whole chapter in the book of Acts</u>,</b> ending with a
magnificent vision of Christ seated on the right hand of the Father.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">So, the
youth who humbly waited on tables was granted wisdom and eloquence,
and, the grace to be the first to shed his blood for the Faith, which
in turn would lead to the conversion of St. Paul the great Apostle of
the Gentiles. St. Paul obviously picked up on this, for he noted in his epistles how Christ humbled Himself to the point of being a slave, like a table or foot-slave to save us, and how this was mirrored in the election of St. Stephen as a 'humble table servant', and his graced eloquence and death that led to his own conversion. <b> Through St. Stephen it was as as if the Lord was telling the Apostles the daily humble, insignificant and even degrading tasks
done for Me out of love are no hindrance to spiritual greatness!</b> As
Christ told Peter he could have no part of Him if he did not allow
Him to serve him this way, and, that we are to do this to one
another, forgiveness of one another and humble service, so it stands
to reason we cannot have any part with Christ if we refuse the humble
daily tasks set before us.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB">“<b><span style="color: #660000;">If then I being your Lord and
Master, have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another's
feet. For I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, so
you do also. Amen, amen I say to you: The servant is not greater
than his lord; neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him.
If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them.</span></b>”
(John 13: 14-17)
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This is
the secret of many of the saints: doing their daily duties of their
state in life well, like the 'little way' of the St. Theresa of the
Child Jesus: if the daily tasks God sets before us to do are done for
pure love of Him, no matter humble, even waiting on tables and picking up a pin, it is just
as pleasing to Him as if we had converted nations.</p>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Therefore,
don't forget to make a morning offering each day before starting your
work, your whole work will become a prayer and a pleasing offering to
God and will help save many souls. Nothing is insignificant before
God when done out of love for Him and the desire to fulfill His will
in our state in life, no matter what it may be.</p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">::::::::::::::</p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://eabucchianeri.blogspot.com/p/past-blog-posts.html" target="_blank"> TABLE OF CONTENTS: Past blog posts, click here.</a></b></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">::::::::::::</p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ea-bucchianeri.blogspot.com/2017/02/homepage.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>If you like my posts, you will LOVE my books!</b></span></a></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><a href="https://ea-bucchianeri.blogspot.com/2017/02/homepage.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>Click here to check them out!</b></span></a></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimrNe7NesxS5dqlxkuSOQS2v97ca05yy13ojT4mh6O__XR7i6Lp7Y7kGg563dzwqL-rLWN4tu-NNB5N4AspHfdna2OBeUzdHLqdlBClPYA4tA_mQdwDRsMqo-rVM3udAEDAZFqqc2OrQjf5Hcp9nE8LnFcdv-cCgbJVtTvOnYHoMjjspDqTA1icGYIiw=s627" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="627" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimrNe7NesxS5dqlxkuSOQS2v97ca05yy13ojT4mh6O__XR7i6Lp7Y7kGg563dzwqL-rLWN4tu-NNB5N4AspHfdna2OBeUzdHLqdlBClPYA4tA_mQdwDRsMqo-rVM3udAEDAZFqqc2OrQjf5Hcp9nE8LnFcdv-cCgbJVtTvOnYHoMjjspDqTA1icGYIiw=s320" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><br /> </b><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b> </b></span><br /></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
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EA Bucchianerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03685067504150348329noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6094790496676897078.post-37376591701466383862021-09-23T00:48:00.004+01:002021-09-30T18:16:54.194+01:00A Thought for Each Day of the Year<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzUmJyiC7GlQvLQamVr_1INj-q-Noi9KMYRes8tafUMu02yD9PS7XpGk5oGRYBGrvo9Espb_mf58K-wxzComOSGPFRM8Nculw46hbDUkhNVxhCiAzogHI_g_qFK1mb7q1qRK26haoQNYq6/s648/A+Thought+for+Each+Day+of+the+Year+Fr+Marin+de+Boylesve.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="420" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzUmJyiC7GlQvLQamVr_1INj-q-Noi9KMYRes8tafUMu02yD9PS7XpGk5oGRYBGrvo9Espb_mf58K-wxzComOSGPFRM8Nculw46hbDUkhNVxhCiAzogHI_g_qFK1mb7q1qRK26haoQNYq6/s320/A+Thought+for+Each+Day+of+the+Year+Fr+Marin+de+Boylesve.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><br /> <b><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #274e13;"> </span></span></span></b><p></p><p><b><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Meditation,
or contemplative prayer, is the practise of dwelling upon the truths
of religion in order to awaken within the mind good resolutions to
practise. Together with vocal prayer, meditation aids the faithful
to gain graces and to advance rapidly on the path to spiritual
perfection. </span></span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #274e13;"> In addition to daily vocal prayers, the Catholic Church
recommends the practise of meditation for at least several minutes a
day in order to progress in the spiritual life. </span></span></span></b>
<span style="color: #660000;">
</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="color: #660000;">
</span><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <b><span> <i> </i></span><i>But
meditation is difficult you say?</i></b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> 'I don't have the time!' </b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>'I don't
know how to meditate!' </b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>'I don't know what to meditate on!' </b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>'How do I
form a good resolution to practise?' </b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><b><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Fr. Marin de Boylesve, S.J.
(1813-1892) provided an easy way to overcome these seeming hurdles
with his helpful and motivational spiritual guide book </span><span style="color: #0c343d;">'A Thought For Each Day of the
Year', <span style="color: #274e13;">which has become a spiritual classic. </span></span></span></span></b></span>
</p><span style="color: #660000;">
</span><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="color: #660000;">
</span><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span><b><span style="color: #660000;">Featuring a
short passage from the Gospel readings for each Sunday, a
clear and concise reflection to meditate upon and a prayer inspired
by the reflection is provided, followed by a resolution drawn from
the passage that anyone can easily put into practise, </span><span style="color: #0c343d;">'A Thought For
Each Day of the Year' </span><span style="color: #660000;">will provide a simple and time effective way to
help fulfil your daily meditations in union with the liturgical year
of the Church.</span></b></span></span></span></p><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span>
</span></b></span><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span>
</p><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span>
</span></b></span><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span><span style="font-size: medium;">About the
author: </span></span></b><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Fr. Marin de Boylesve is best remembered in France for
spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart with his writings thereby
promoting the cause for the construction of the Sacre Coeur Basilica
in Paris.</span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<br /></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Book details: </b></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; text-align: left;">5.5 x 8.5 inches</b></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; text-align: left;"> </b><b style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large; text-align: left;">PAPERBACK ONLY</b></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: medium;"><b>336 pages</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: medium;"><b>Batalha Publishers</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: medium;"><b>ISBN: 9789893319956</b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>NOW AVAILABLE as of September 30, 2021!</b></span></span></p><p></p><p>::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::</p><p><b>(NOTE: this new edition is only available in paperback. 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would it be if we were to know everything? Not only does an enormous
stone close the entrance to the sepulchre, but this stone is sealed by
the powerful enemies of Our Lord and is surrounded by soldiers. Go on in
spite of all this; God asks of you only that which you are able to
perform; He takes what seems impossible upon Himself. When you draw
near, all these obstacles have disappeared. True, your sweet spices are
of no service, but your wishes have been accomplished and even
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</p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4vq5Qs2YaWb_Ummh1PFLBIa915BgIndOKiek4zMCjsfmUbhDaT87hvbYD4K5lgX9bCiHXdUxpVNA7hc4Ikmeig4Jujm0JgPTsG9bhHqJZK6dF4XAnMysWNt9AYpsyC345VyYH7at1uO3b/s900/Erik+Satie+Painting.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="438" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4vq5Qs2YaWb_Ummh1PFLBIa915BgIndOKiek4zMCjsfmUbhDaT87hvbYD4K5lgX9bCiHXdUxpVNA7hc4Ikmeig4Jujm0JgPTsG9bhHqJZK6dF4XAnMysWNt9AYpsyC345VyYH7at1uO3b/w311-h640/Erik+Satie+Painting.png" width="311" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span lang="en-GB"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://youtu.be/82DhgsTJOc8" target="_blank"> UPDATE! (March 13, 2024) -</a></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span lang="en-GB"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://youtu.be/82DhgsTJOc8"> Before you continue, I have made a YouTube video on this post, with more images and extra details </a></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span lang="en-GB"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><a href="https://youtu.be/82DhgsTJOc8"> if you would like to watch it, click here!</a></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span lang="en-GB"><b><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/82DhgsTJOc8" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1879" data-original-width="3279" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidJAD71YDfJyRA1HEPjbnP9-HLFpqFyCp38Ij-a0oTYnbEPJwgWAEg1imkH-vbwtT9xb2_zigjdnNFWWO4FZpeLWZbw_5zF_WDHVVfm185xIDWD8NTiQPBYObMnszunLe7FEUSUeq8QioYCUzXeh5bbkEEw7Qx2OdpdianWhNF-O0zIb_zxDaedD9jh2Xr/w320-h182/FRAME%206%20Erik%20MYSTIC.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span lang="en-GB"><br /></span><p></p><p><span lang="en-GB"><br /></span></p><p><span lang="en-GB"> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::</span></p><p><span lang="en-GB">::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: <br /></span></p><p><span lang="en-GB">Lately
the music of a particular composer has been running through my mind,
the </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Gnossiennes</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> and the </span><i><span lang="en-GB">Gymnopédies</span></i><span lang="en-GB">
of <a href="https://amzn.to/3ySjKKs" target="_blank">Erik Satie (1866-1925)</a>.</span></p><p></p>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Deceptively
sounding like a set of 'easy-to-play' compositions for piano
beginners, these pieces are in fact haunting and quite captivating
due to their very simplicity. I love listening to them. You have
heard them too – here are a couple of YouTube links, click on the
titles. (I won't put the video itself on the blog as these embedded
files from YouTube seem to disappear.)</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<ol><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://youtu.be/wnacdOIoTBQ" target="_blank"><i><span lang="en-GB">Gymnopédies</span></i><span lang="en-GB"><i>
–</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;">
(Graceful – you've definitely heard these.)</span></span></a></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://youtu.be/5bIeYqpn0Gk" target="_blank"><i>Gnossiennes</i> -- (Haunting! I bet you've heard these too in movie
music.)</a></p>
</li></ol>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <i>(Image: painting of Erik Satie entitled "El Bohemio, Poet of Montmartre" by Ramon Casas, 1891. The Moulin de la Galette in Montmartre can be seen in the background.)</i> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA2sEQeXQjG41TPjoyACeMRvQ_vag1ljsO9VzXG0GRSo_r2kP0lULIidny3zwxIDUDpfp3CQtq4YXNTcpUJk0IDeuVbhUIfmjuJsizDgojyllCKYrd2lBnjIuoMn3yuG08LqOkdpvjFZrr/s504/Original+1911+cover+of+Phantom.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="315" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA2sEQeXQjG41TPjoyACeMRvQ_vag1ljsO9VzXG0GRSo_r2kP0lULIidny3zwxIDUDpfp3CQtq4YXNTcpUJk0IDeuVbhUIfmjuJsizDgojyllCKYrd2lBnjIuoMn3yuG08LqOkdpvjFZrr/s320/Original+1911+cover+of+Phantom.png" width="200" /></a></div>I first
became acquainted with Erik Satie and his compositions during my
music student days, and not because his work was featured in the
courses, which unfortunately they weren't, but because of my other
obsession - with French author <a href="https://amzn.to/3zZo0sW" target="_blank">Gaston Leroux's (1868-1927)</a> <i>The
Phantom of the Opera </i>(1910).<p></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>(Image: cover of the first French novel publication of </i>The Phantom of <i>the Opera (1911), which originally was published as newspaper serialisation in</i> Le Gaulois, 1910).<br />
</p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> In
Leroux's classic tale of the deformed 'Angel of Music' taking up his
abode in the labyrinthine cellars of the Palais Garnier, or as is
commonly known the Paris Opéra, the hidden genius is a great
eccentric<i>. </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Among</span><i>
</i>his various talents he plays the organ, composes Masses, and,
continually contemplates the inevitability of one's own death and the
Four Last Things by turning his bed chamber into a great <i>memento
mori</i>, taking his nightly repose in an open coffin surrounded by
copies of the medieval music from the 'Dies Irae' of the Latin Mass
of the Dead on the walls. There is even some slight evidence in the
text he has read that monumental spiritual classic the 'Imitation of
Christ' by <a href="https://amzn.to/3l2H5Ek" target="_blank">Thomas A, Kempis</a>.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This
displays a surprising element of contemplative reflection, even deep
piety, from a character portrayed most of the time as a maniacal
monster, but then the author Leroux was Catholic who obviously
struggled with his own inner demons.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Researching
Leroux's story is when I discovered Erik Satie for the first time,
and couldn't help but note the similarities between him and the
Phantom – both are French and bear the same first name. Erik
Satie was born in Honfleur, which is not that far from Rouen. Erik
the Phantom is described has having been born in a village outside of
Rouen. They are Catholic, have a deep mystical side to them, and,
share the same 'gothic' eccentricities. For instance, Erik the
Phantom and Erik Satie the composer had the notion to write their
music in red ink. I found out Erik Satie also had rigged up one of
his apartments to where it had to be opened with a secret system of
tripwires, (the Phantom was a master of secret passageways and known
as the 'Trap Door Lover'), and, Satie refused to allow anyone inside
his apartment near the end of his life. Satie once challenged the
manager of the Opéra to a duel when he received no reply after
sending him one of his manuscripts – he took the silence as a
personal insult and was not about to let it pass! The Phantom
declares war on the Opéra mangers too. Of course, I couldn't help
but wonder if the composer didn't influence Leroux in some way – he
was contemporary with Leroux after all.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">A<span style="font-style: normal;">bout
Satie, although he is arguably not as famous as the composer</span><i>
</i><a href="https://amzn.to/2Yy0TI0" target="_blank">C</a><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2Yy0TI0" target="_blank">laude Debussy (1862-1918)</a> who
he became friends with and influenced greatly, he is famous of course
as one of the father-composers of Impressionist music and is also
associated with the French Symboliste movement, his </span><i>avant-garde</i><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span>harmonies are capturing the attention of more people these
days. His work definitely caught the attention of another composer
friend, <a href="https://amzn.to/3tuCrCT" target="_blank">Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)</a>, who described Satie as “the
most rare and consistently witty person” he had ever known.
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7-Y3VjuSyjD2yw8zrgoJ1rCTRKxG8goOCFPAMQV0GJ_vY9HEwp5x5v1sLuifO52OH6K0HfmBREMdwGFRTRrBSeXw3mc2tEDgW41WTT2aStMtGxRB57X0MKylLQvmcpTakfrbwTmDMNFsb/s603/Debussy+and+Satie+taken+by+Stravinsky.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="603" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7-Y3VjuSyjD2yw8zrgoJ1rCTRKxG8goOCFPAMQV0GJ_vY9HEwp5x5v1sLuifO52OH6K0HfmBREMdwGFRTRrBSeXw3mc2tEDgW41WTT2aStMtGxRB57X0MKylLQvmcpTakfrbwTmDMNFsb/w400-h253/Debussy+and+Satie+taken+by+Stravinsky.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>(Image: a photo of Debussy, left, and Erik Satie, right, taken by Igor Stravinsky.)</i><br /></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Learning a
little more about Satie, he definitely was eccentric, at one point he
got the notion to eat only white foods, and, could be very touchy
about his art. When a critic accused his music of having no shape
or form, he got back at him by composing music with the whimsical
title –<a href="https://youtu.be/VQmuAr93OlI" target="_blank"> 'Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear'. (YouTube link).</a> He is also noted
for having created the first 'ambient music', composing works
intended to be played in the background and to be practically <i>ignored</i>
– he even grew angry when people attempted to pay attention or
tried to study the form of his ambient creations!</p>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu9MTWspDi1dX1X6mKSPNsHD_x5harUTCCjsGuHxzU1trsPvzUUC01l3IYockixOdAY3Pr_f9D2TEU23aup1X9VeuPF32S-u8v-8HWbF4QBbFjbyc-agYXA4DqIUEQ4IyDCmXfZJBXzFSY/s599/Suzanne+Valadon+by+Renoir.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="312" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu9MTWspDi1dX1X6mKSPNsHD_x5harUTCCjsGuHxzU1trsPvzUUC01l3IYockixOdAY3Pr_f9D2TEU23aup1X9VeuPF32S-u8v-8HWbF4QBbFjbyc-agYXA4DqIUEQ4IyDCmXfZJBXzFSY/w209-h400/Suzanne+Valadon+by+Renoir.png" width="209" /></a></div>As for
love, he had only one deep brush with romance with <a href="https://amzn.to/3njoNBi" target="_blank">Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938)</a> who had been a model for the painters <a href="https://amzn.to/38TQAA3" target="_blank">Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)</a>
and <a href="https://amzn.to/3BYCGcg" target="_blank">Renoir (1841-1919)</a>. Despite seeing each other for some time, they only spent
one night of passion together after which Satie asked her to marry
him -- and she flatly refused. She eventually ended their
relationship five months later, after which Satie wrote this rupture
had left him “flooded by an icy loneliness that fills the head with
emptiness and the heart with sadness”. <p></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">He spent the rest of his
life a single man. Upon his death they found numerous letters her
had written to Valadon, but never had the courage to send to her.</p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
<br /><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>(Images - Right: Renoir's painting '</i>Dance at Bougival'<i> featuring Valadon, 1882. </i></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i> Below: Erik Satie in his Montmartre apartment c. 1891, painted by Santiago Rusiñol.<span></span> )</i><br />
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSpFtEkhCkXaOn3rMZIMLmIJ_hTiT5NU4Lg593DE6FAFF0uKe6xTO0uIdwPyFb_ju8bv0r_6Td0W7h5p2GTfhbyjAqsWpu59Ap1ti0JMWMbABF5eZNgD1M_kikeNH0Nno6lxyabKQg0n1j/s599/Satie+alone+in+his+Montmartre+apt+1891.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="471" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSpFtEkhCkXaOn3rMZIMLmIJ_hTiT5NU4Lg593DE6FAFF0uKe6xTO0uIdwPyFb_ju8bv0r_6Td0W7h5p2GTfhbyjAqsWpu59Ap1ti0JMWMbABF5eZNgD1M_kikeNH0Nno6lxyabKQg0n1j/w315-h400/Satie+alone+in+his+Montmartre+apt+1891.png" width="315" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I couldn't
help but be interested in the fellow. Despite the eccentricities,
it's interesting to see Catholics like Satie making a mark in the
creative world … and then I discovered some other things that were
disturbing.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Erik Satie
was a friend of the Catholic literary art critic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9phin_P%C3%A9ladan" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Joséphin
Péladan</span> (1858-1918)</a> who was also a Martinist and deeply
interested in dubious mysticism. He dabbled in what would be considered the 'white occult', the search for hidden
knowledge and wisdom in ancient texts and symbols, such as in
alchemy, Kabbala, the Far East, and also Gnosticism.</p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXRzA7dtoagAbCRCD4sRKWd5db1LYhM1M1Xup4lthcoHkLYpkvneBcgv_HE2sP2zVvHuF7jbNEo3ktAsPS-v6FbXkR8X7OJyes0KDf2BQcJQ-GsGBLjpo-s2XFwUzzYQT4MBG0LXJXPpYi/s600/Peladan.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="442" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXRzA7dtoagAbCRCD4sRKWd5db1LYhM1M1Xup4lthcoHkLYpkvneBcgv_HE2sP2zVvHuF7jbNEo3ktAsPS-v6FbXkR8X7OJyes0KDf2BQcJQ-GsGBLjpo-s2XFwUzzYQT4MBG0LXJXPpYi/s320/Peladan.png" width="236" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i> (Image: Josphin Péladan)</i><br /></p>
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<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Influenced also by Rosicrucian ideals, Péladan founded a
'Catholic-Rosicrucian' type order called the “Ordre du Temple de la
Rose + Croix” that functioned as an outlet for his beliefs
regarding idealism and spiritualism in the arts. Not intended
primarily as an order like the Freemasons or the Rosicrucians, it
was more of a quasi-mystico clique for artists and musicians, but
there is evidence Kabbalistic and heretical gnostic mysticism was
involved. Erik Satie was one of the musician-members and he composed
music for the 'order'.</p>
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</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">It is
thought Satie's exploration of gnosticism <i> </i><span style="font-style: normal;">was
the prime source of inspiration for the</span><i> </i><i>Gnossiennes</i>,
a term which he in fact coined as a distinct form of musical
composition for the first time. However, some published versions of
the score claim that the word derives from Cretan "knossos"
or "gnossus" supporting the theory linking the <i>Gnossiennes</i>
to the myth of Theseus, Ariadne and the terrifying Minotaur. Several
archaeological sites connected to the myth of the inescapable maze
were famously excavated around the time that Satie composed these
pieces. Perhaps his <i>Gnossiennes</i> were influenced by both –
the haunting melody bears all the hallmarks of a wandering soul lost
in a profound spiritual and emotional labyrinth trying to find
answers that seem to slip beyond his grasp at each turn.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3z_3lFiJ1uioM-avMO9iRr8SH845BK5DkpBNXClqgjFdcizrHFVeUFtL8PR7lfrjhyphenhyphenrORQLxMt-yzmlBAoAOOK9TsowGvWmpPRKcosG4ys-03idk7zvp0fJvz6_rV0TclqcxgfUj11-ac/s599/Satie+c.+1895+mystic+phase+in+robes.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="279" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3z_3lFiJ1uioM-avMO9iRr8SH845BK5DkpBNXClqgjFdcizrHFVeUFtL8PR7lfrjhyphenhyphenrORQLxMt-yzmlBAoAOOK9TsowGvWmpPRKcosG4ys-03idk7zvp0fJvz6_rV0TclqcxgfUj11-ac/w186-h400/Satie+c.+1895+mystic+phase+in+robes.png" width="186" /></a></div><br />Eventually
Satie parted ways with Péladan when they didn't see eye to eye
regarding the arts and mysticism, and so Erik founded his own
'church' in 1893 ~ the “Metropolitan Church of Art of
Jesus-Conductor”, of which he was high priest, treasurer, chapel
master and sole believer. According to him his aim was to create “a
refuge where Catholicism and the arts that are inextricably linked to
it will grow and prosper under the shelter of any and all
profanation”.<p></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> It was during this time that he adopted gothic-style apparel similar to dark
monastic robes and assumed “the unctuous manners of a priest”,
also calling his humble dwelling “abacial”. Also this artistic phase in his life occurred around the time his relationship with Valadon had ended, so no doubt
his sorrow only magnified his eccentric side and his attempt to seek
solace for life's griefs in unorthodox mysticism.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>(Image: Erik during his 'mystic phase', c. 1895)</i><br />
</p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Eventually
he abandoned his 'church', the priest-like robes gave way to a
flannel suit, umbrella and bowler hat which remained his personal
style to the end of his days. However, the piano-playing bohemian of
the Montmartre cafés forever suffered from the grip of one
particular afflication, alcohol, and, his personal favourite poison was absinthe, the 'Green Fairy', or rather, the enticing devil of the Belle Epoque days of Paris.<br /></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-FaLHxWOKqYY_bf9m4Lp_ISsY_0wWPWTO8Dmn3kqhyphenhyphenqGuVYpXcF1ynRUN1U0ryYtWJFsGnFetOPtmAD1tj9Wm0eYWnSdbeCLlpQnxVbqJUkGWQn4vrChqsN492K60ajZyIDr3JoTv9mKi/s617/Degas+the+Absinthe+drinker.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-FaLHxWOKqYY_bf9m4Lp_ISsY_0wWPWTO8Dmn3kqhyphenhyphenqGuVYpXcF1ynRUN1U0ryYtWJFsGnFetOPtmAD1tj9Wm0eYWnSdbeCLlpQnxVbqJUkGWQn4vrChqsN492K60ajZyIDr3JoTv9mKi/w291-h400/Degas+the+Absinthe+drinker.png" width="291" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i> (Image. Edgar Degas' famous work,</i> L'Absinthe,<i> c. 1875)</i><br /></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">In 1925 Satie
was admitted to St. Joseph's hospital after he fell gravely ill with
pleurisy brought on by cirrhosis of the liver and passed away on July
1 of that year.
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Sometimes,
I cannot help but wonder where the souls of the famous end up for
eternity.
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> So many
people in the creative spheres have given so much to the world, only
to be dragged down dark twisting paths by its tantalizing snares in
their search for beauty and truth in all the wrong ways and places.
The eccentric and the creative souls in particular appear to be
enticed and led away by the false promises of this life dangled
before them.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">At least
Erik of the Opéra house is given his chance of redemption. Leroux, who claimed long after his story was published that the Opéra Ghost was indeed real, had pity on the
man isolated in the depths of the cellars and prayed for his soul according to the Epilogue. One cannot help
but wonder what became of Satie the composer who apparently inspired
the fictional side of the Opéra Phantom.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Then, I
discovered this.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Satie's
few close Catholic friends also worried for him, in particular, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Maritain" target="_blank">Jacques Maritain (1882-1973)</a>, a philosopher and professor at the
Catholic University of Paris. He was also France's ambassador to the
Holy See and is famous for his influence in the development and
drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpMHowO4nb97zEE_0isobGvkhtu_VzSGzzOUG7bKpHfqFuALjjKp_OHZZ6ibtv1WqNQUcQ_d69FMWYLgbOd6qKtPpvfo5tuLzi08OOLC_oFq5WEP39BhiXspZH-CVGWF-NbOMDZvMHJdjO/s600/Jacques+Maritain.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpMHowO4nb97zEE_0isobGvkhtu_VzSGzzOUG7bKpHfqFuALjjKp_OHZZ6ibtv1WqNQUcQ_d69FMWYLgbOd6qKtPpvfo5tuLzi08OOLC_oFq5WEP39BhiXspZH-CVGWF-NbOMDZvMHJdjO/s320/Jacques+Maritain.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><br /><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i>(Image: Jacques Maritain).</i><br />
</p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Maritain
was among the friends who came to see Satie in the hospital the first
day he was admitted. It was obvious that Satie was not going to
leave the place, but the composer himself didn't know it, or, was in
denial his end was approaching. Apparently he was gently urged to
make his peace with Heaven, but said that 'once he got better' and
was out of the hospital he would then amend his life, but “not too
suddenly, as that would upset his friends.” No doubt he meant the
other bohemian free-livers he hung out with! Considering his
drinking, and his dabbling with the occult and heretical off-shoot
mysticism, no wonder Satie's friends were worried for him.
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">They were also deeply concerned he was delaying to complete his
Easter Duty before the season passed, that is, confession and
Communion once a year during the Easter period, practically the
absolute minimum the Catholic Church requires of those professing to
be its members if they hope to attain salvation. The fact he was delaying something so important suggested he hadn't been attending the Sacraments regularly either. However, there was
some hope he had not lost the true faith completely as Erik held up a
crucifix he carried saying his only hope was: “In this One.” But, he was still in denial of his approaching end, and not
accomplishing his Easter duty, a dangerous thing to do.
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">A thought
then struck Maritain – if they couldn't get the touchy artist to
prepare properly for death, perhaps someone else could ....<br /></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> He
suggested to Satie that he should see the 'Parish Priest of the
Rag-Pickers', he just might like him, and, the composer consented.
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Seizing
this opportunity, Maritain bolted out of the room to fetch the priest.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> Who was
the 'Parish Priest of the Rag-Pickers'? </p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9hXhO2gXQBx9BH6p_uaDreSb2khCM4UK-fgCH8OFBYA5lPtVzb7kPhpem4s-9P0ZQSPZ39ZqA4Q3Yfuh1e8A2VLqCyEsPX66chfqfT1HJzQY17yVKfVxwi17sKg6r-RgIaqy2mOpY5nP/s250/Pere+Lamy.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="216" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9hXhO2gXQBx9BH6p_uaDreSb2khCM4UK-fgCH8OFBYA5lPtVzb7kPhpem4s-9P0ZQSPZ39ZqA4Q3Yfuh1e8A2VLqCyEsPX66chfqfT1HJzQY17yVKfVxwi17sKg6r-RgIaqy2mOpY5nP/w346-h400/Pere+Lamy.png" width="346" /></a></div><br /><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">None other
than the mystic <a href="https://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2009/11/pere-lamy-father-john-edward-lamy.html" target="_blank">Père Lamy (1855-1931)</a> gifted with the discernment of souls,
prophecy, and who also received numerous visits from Our Lady and the
angels. He also saw the devil numerous times. He once witnessed a
battle of wills and words between the Queen of Heaven and Satan. The
Archbishop of Paris once said with grateful admiration that they had
another saintly Curé of Ars in their midst!
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">If anyone
could reach Erik's soul it would be Père Lamy.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">But, they
had to handle this carefully. As they
drove to the hospital Maritain tried to gently explain the
situation to the humble unassuming priest of the backstreets...the composer was touchy, and great <i>artiste</i>
... it was easy to upset him. Satie himself once declared: <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">"The musician is perhaps the most modest of </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">animals</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">, but he is also the proudest". </span> Satie's friends knew this was probably
their last and only chance to reach Satie and they had to tread
softly lest he shut them all out.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">As they
entered Satie's room the priest and the composer exchanged very
polite greetings with “interest and respect”, but then against
all the quiet warnings tactfully imparted by Maritain, Lamy launched
into the most unexpected and banal conversation!</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">They
small-talked about the rain and fine weather, health and sickness,
then proceeded to share an absurd amount of old wives tales regarding
home remedies and quack nostrums. They even seemed to enter a friendly
'competition' or 'one up on you', bantering to see who had the most
bizarre cure-all for different ailments.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Imagine
the scene.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We're
trying to save a soul here, and all you two can talk about is --
<i>that</i>?
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Wut?</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Then,
Satie made a passing reference to music.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“Ah, you
are musician,” Père Lamy enquired.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“Yes, a
bit,” Satie modestly replied.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“You
conduct an orchestra?”</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“No,”
Satie replied, smiling into his sleeve.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“Then
you give piano lessons.”</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“No.”</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Oh no.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> Satie's
friends were mortified with this turn in the conversation .... to
think the great <i>artiste</i> was taken to be an obscure teacher who
could not compose or perform and was therefore ended up giving
lessons in some apartment.
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“Ah, I
see you are a Master?” Lamy asked.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The priest
didn't know the man and was asking polite questions, but to suggest he was 'unknown' was dangerous
territory! Was Satie insulted? Maritain thought by now all was
lost... .
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Then, Père
Lamy changed his tone, and with a regal gravity that was known to
transform his jovial nature to majestic bearing, he asked:</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“Will
you let me give you the benediction of the Blessed Virgin?”</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The
composer consented, and the old priest slowly and solemnly gave
him his blessing.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">As Père
Lamy left the room, he turned to Maritain:
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“He is
an honest man, a straight soul.”
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This gave
Maritain hope.
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“You
will come back to see him again Father,” he asked, no doubt of all
people would convince Erik to accept his fate and fulfil his duty.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Apparently,
Père Lamy could read his thoughts.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“There
will be no need to – the chaplain will do everything.”</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">As `Père
Lamy foretold, the hospital chaplain found Satie quite willing to
accept his spiritual help after that. When asked if he wished to
make his Easter duty, Satie declared;</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“Yes,
certainly. I am a Catholic.”</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsQW3jHZco6krkc-9dz-wpHrGBGo9B77AYooTt4uO_PfHFN1ETSHinjrQu9KlVIelEd3td-OgaZDHNfjnw4CKQVADH8LBgfAHqkSWtEPMCmZR97LFE0gMomCeEKY70gSiaDEs5lB7X0gSU/s220/Pere+Lamy+with+his+Rosary.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="150" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsQW3jHZco6krkc-9dz-wpHrGBGo9B77AYooTt4uO_PfHFN1ETSHinjrQu9KlVIelEd3td-OgaZDHNfjnw4CKQVADH8LBgfAHqkSWtEPMCmZR97LFE0gMomCeEKY70gSiaDEs5lB7X0gSU/w218-h320/Pere+Lamy+with+his+Rosary.png" width="218" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pére Lamy<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Before his
death he received Communion twice as well. The musician's heart had
been touched by the benediction of the mystic to the great relief of
his friends.<p></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">And that's
something they don't tell you about in the music books.</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">:::::::::::::::::::::</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">(Source
for the information Satie's deathbed moments - <a href="https://amzn.to/3nk5tUO" target="_blank">“Père Lamy (1855-1931)” by Comte Paul Biver.) </a></p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
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</p>
<p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
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EA Bucchianerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03685067504150348329noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6094790496676897078.post-82734628944221365712021-09-01T19:43:00.003+01:002021-09-01T19:43:57.927+01:00My Review of: "Fifty-Seven Saints for Boys and Girls"<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3WjSP-nfe5dzGdzWwrm0yi9XTDSVOsCdjpGMyetwmDs8YB33uk-RDOtFrIRwMNjRKpBd4mjBEBDD7oXpxbXawyECy64Hh3FvyPRRmSGF9NSDEjYwdLdZRxE4lorVVAvGPiiGNwvEpQTxv/s499/Fifty-Seven+Saints+for+Boys+and+Girls.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="332" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3WjSP-nfe5dzGdzWwrm0yi9XTDSVOsCdjpGMyetwmDs8YB33uk-RDOtFrIRwMNjRKpBd4mjBEBDD7oXpxbXawyECy64Hh3FvyPRRmSGF9NSDEjYwdLdZRxE4lorVVAvGPiiGNwvEpQTxv/s320/Fifty-Seven+Saints+for+Boys+and+Girls.png" width="213" /></a></div><br />
<p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Excellent book for the
young ones</b></p><b>
</b><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span>I give it FIVE STARS *****</span></b><br />
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> If you are trying to
find a decent biography of the saints for your children, even those
in the early teens, and by decent I mean not 'fluffy' or over cutesy
to where your children's intelligence is <span lang="en-ZA">dumbed</span>
down, this edition is fantastic. Yes, it is written in an 'easy'
style for children and young adults to enjoy and understand, but at
the same time well done to where even I enjoyed it when in my later
teens. Even now I kinda enjoy flipping through it! This kid in me
still loves this.</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Not only is there a
decent biography of each saint told in a story style, but at the end
of each chapter there is a recommended virtue or spiritual exercise
that can easily be put into practice and therefore help youngsters
learn how to imitate the saints, which is why we read books about
them in the first place. For instance, I'll quote the recommend
spiritual practice from the end of the chapter on St. Peter:
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“One of the most
beautiful qualities St. Peter had was his willingness to admit he was
wrong and to accept corrections well. If we imitate him in this we
will acquire the virtue of humility.”</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">There are also about 60
brown illustrations in a water <span lang="en-GB">colour</span>
style, but not cartoony in a 'silly' fashion. They are tastefully
executed in the style of the late 1950s or 1960s as this book was
first printed in 1963 according to the imprint page.
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Below is the Table of
Contents – you can see there is a good selection of saints
featured:</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Table of Contents:</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Michael the
Archangel – Prince of the Heavenly Hosts</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Anne – Mother of
Our Lady</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Joseph – Patron
of the Universal Church</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Peter - Prince of
the Apostles,</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Paul - Apostle of
the Gentiles</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Thecla – Valiant
Virgin</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Cecilia – Martyr
with a Singing Heart</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Tarcisius - First
Martyr of the Holy Eucharist</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Sebastian –
Patron of Soldiers</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Lucy – The
Shining Light</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Agnes – Lamb of
Jesus</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Helen – Seeker of
the Cross</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Martin of Tours –
Soldier of Christ</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Monica – Model of
Perseverance</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Patrick – Apostle
of Ireland</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Brigid – Mary of
the Gael</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Benedict –
Patriarch of Western Monks</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Kevin – Kevin of
the Angels</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Columban –
Missionary Monk</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Dymphna – Patron
of the Emotionally Disturbed</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Margaret of
Scotland – Patroness of Learning</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Francis of Assisi –
Herald of the Great King</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Clare – Patroness
of Television</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Anthony – Wonder
Worker of Padua</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Elizabeth of
Hungary – Queen Who Sped to Heaven</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Peregrine –
Patron of the Cancer-Stricken</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Gertrude – Herald
of Divine Love</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Catherine of Sienna
– Ambassador of God</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Frances of Rome –
Friend of the Poor</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Rita of Cascia –
Patron of the Desperate</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Joan of Arc –
Warrior Maid</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Francis Xavier -
Apostle of the Indies</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Philip Neri –
Saint of the Joyous Heart</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Benedict – the
Holy Moor</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Stanislaus Kostka –
Angelic Novice</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Camillus de Lellis
– Patron of the Sick</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Aloysius Gonzaga –
Patron of Youth</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Jane Francis de
Chantal – Model of Fortitude</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Germaine –
Shepherdess of the Pibrac</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Rose of Lima –
Flower of the Andes</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Martin de Porres –
Everyone's Brother</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. John Berchmans –
Patron of Altar Boys</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Isaac Jogues –
North American Martyr</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Katherine Tekakwitha –
Lily of the Mohawks</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Margaret Mary –
Apostle of the Sacred Heart</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. John Baptiste de la
Salle – Patron of Teachers</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Elizabeth Seton –
American-Born Saint</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Joseph Cottolengo –
Model of Faith</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Bartholomea
Capitanio – Lily of Lovere</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. John Bosco –
Friend of Youth</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Dominic Savio –
the Teenage Saint</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Bernadette of
Lourdes – Petitioner for Penance</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Frances X. Cabrini
– First U.S. Citizen Saint</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Therese of Lisieux
– Patroness of the Missions</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Gemma Galgani –
Example of Eucharistic Life</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">St. Mary Goretti –
Martyr for Purity</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Alphabetical Index</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>This book definitely
gets a thumbs up.</b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b> </b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>:::::::::::::::::::::::::::</b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://eabucchianeri.blogspot.com/p/past-blog-posts.html" target="_blank"><b>TABLE OF CONTENTS - Past Blog Posts</b></a></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>::::::::::::::::::::::::::::</b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b> </b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://ea-bucchianeri.blogspot.com/2017/02/homepage.html" target="_blank"><b>If you like my review, you may LOVE my books! Click here to check them out!</b></a></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b> </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVb5JIbytmtf5a0EfSBgEGVNE0EAlaU6Ol6I8dPfgO7SNwmb-iYwhojlnSGTb96wEaIba_Y0qaUSje5r0DUArXibr2wB3MEVStV7tjZ-s0y38hI3PI4IJ8kJs-wCU5X94Aa265X2v_ZPRz/s627/FB+and+Twitter+cover+of+my+books.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="627" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVb5JIbytmtf5a0EfSBgEGVNE0EAlaU6Ol6I8dPfgO7SNwmb-iYwhojlnSGTb96wEaIba_Y0qaUSje5r0DUArXibr2wB3MEVStV7tjZ-s0y38hI3PI4IJ8kJs-wCU5X94Aa265X2v_ZPRz/w400-h213/FB+and+Twitter+cover+of+my+books.png" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b> <br /></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b> <br /></b></p>
EA Bucchianerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03685067504150348329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6094790496676897078.post-18762265144981849272021-05-18T18:25:00.009+01:002021-08-25T22:40:58.233+01:00Phantom Phan having some Phun ....<p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhai8q6fc35NrzL-QCSbPPNjNiGtkn8A-h2IM7BPuSfH_f-Gw3LSX4odOKqp4k-ITtVhW9VEe-kiQnyQeXmsfLs4X_JpBT86Gdn6PBSFc6pPm9WiOrtLQIFDJ_a0_kuZQmdjz2Hqa6gwWk4/s849/CharlesDanceTerriPoloPhantomOfTheOpera.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="849" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhai8q6fc35NrzL-QCSbPPNjNiGtkn8A-h2IM7BPuSfH_f-Gw3LSX4odOKqp4k-ITtVhW9VEe-kiQnyQeXmsfLs4X_JpBT86Gdn6PBSFc6pPm9WiOrtLQIFDJ_a0_kuZQmdjz2Hqa6gwWk4/w213-h320/CharlesDanceTerriPoloPhantomOfTheOpera.png" width="213" /></a></div><br />For a blog I intended to manage as a somewhat fun project, aka the 'Babble and Blarney' bit of the title, it tends to get more serious posts than I intended, so here is some light entertainment just to break things up a bit. <br /><p></p><p> If you've noticed one of my books is called <a href="https://ea-bucchianeri.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_16.html" target="_blank">'Phantom Phantasia'</a> then it's no secret I'm a Phantom of the Opera 'Phan'. </p><p> I've been completely hooked on the story since I first saw the <a href="https://amzn.to/3zkyWkn" target="_blank">mini-series in 1990 featuring Charles Dance and Teri Polo</a> as the Phantom and Christine. In fact, I must confess, this story introduced me to many other things from the French opera 'Faust', which then sent me on my<a href="https://ea-bucchianeri.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_56.html" target="_blank"> 'Faust' book project</a>, to classical music, opera, musicals, you name it, I will confess my 'phan obsession' was a curious blessing hidden behind a mask (please forgive the reference, I couldn't help it.)</p><p> I still love the TV series, and while it is very loosely based on the story by <a href="https://amzn.to/3yfSy7V" target="_blank">Gaston Leroux</a>, perhaps in some ways its even more poetically romantic and tragic than the original book. It's the only film version that was shot on location in Paris and at the opera house set in the novel, except for the auditorium scenes which were filmed at the Odéon Theatre. (One of my pet peeves, but at least it's still Paris, right?)</p><p> The other thing that always irked me about this version is the Phantom plays practically every musical instrument befitting a musical genius, except the one for which he is most famous. The Debussy-like music soundtrack by John Addison, as beautiful as it is, lacks this instrument.</p><p>Then, I watched the epic film 'Fall of the Roman Empire' and had an epiphany moment - what an overture! Perhaps its my latest project putting a list together of epic films for my previous blog post that's made me reflect on the grand orchestral music of old Hollywood, but lo and behold - the overture to that film was composed using the same folk tunes John Addison incorporated into his soundtrack for the Phantom miniseries. I couldn't help but wonder what that epic score would sound like when added in ... in fact, curiosity got the better of me, I couldn't rest until I tried it. <br /></p><p> So, here's my latest little film project I did for some fun as a 'phan tribute' (and also to practice a bit with my annoying glitchy video editor ...) </p><p>(UPDATE May 24: I've just uploaded another little film I did for fun, not fancy or anything, but hopefully interesting, '<u>The Dies Irae in The Phantom of the Opera'</u> - it's under the first video.) <br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hope you enjoy.</p><p> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXF3A9dmD1U&list=PLCG9pD_NxUJ7-cT20XDmyNJBJbsAW_c0B&index=1" target="_blank">If video isn't showing below, click here for the You Tube link).</a></p><p>(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7RQrPx2vp4&list=PLCG9pD_NxUJ7-cT20XDmyNJBJbsAW_c0B&index=2" target="_blank">Click here for the 'Dies Irae' video</a>). <br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XXF3A9dmD1U" width="320" youtube-src-id="XXF3A9dmD1U"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W7RQrPx2vp4" width="320" youtube-src-id="W7RQrPx2vp4"></iframe></div><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p><a href="https://ea-bucchianeri.blogspot.com/2017/02/homepage.html" target="_blank"><b>If you like my blog, you'll LOVE my books! 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downs. We're sick of them, but looking at the bright side, they've
given us a legitimate excuse to vegetate in front of the 'Idiot Box'.
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</b><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> I personally love a good
old classic or action packed 'sword and sandal' movie, especially the
Catholic or Christian themed ones, and after running through the old
favourites I've bumbled upon a few others I've never seen or heard of
before. Anyway, thought I'd make a list and share the classics we've
all come to know and love and also some movies that slid under the
radar for me – I've discovered quite a few here I've never seen
before thanks to people sharing what movies they've found during the
global pandemic.
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</b><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Basically, these are films
I've seen, (not to mention I may have forgotten to put some good ones
up), so if there are any old classics that would fit nicely here
please drop it in the comment box at the end. Also, if I find
anything else, it will be added below, so check back from time to
time.
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<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #783f04;"><u>*** WHERE TO WATCH FOR
FREE</u>: </span><u><span style="color: #783f04;">If I actually find a link you can watch the movie
online for free, I'll put it up</span>.</u> Just click on “YouTube” or
“OK Videos” which is just as good as YouTube. They're safe
links. Hopefully there are no restrictions depending on what country
you're watching from, and I hope they don't take the videos down. The
links were working when I found them.</b></p><b>
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<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #660000;"><u><b>Epics or Feature
Films set at the Biblical Times, the Time of Christ, the Early
Church, or Later Times</b></u></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Ten Commandments
(1956):</u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/1458075994779">OK Videos</a>
The classic starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. Fantastic.
Who could forget the famous parting of the Red sea in this? Also
love the sweeping epic music. I think we can safely say after this
film came out we cannot picture Moses in any other way than how
Heston portrayed him. Fun trivia fact: it is said that the producers
were inspired by Michelangelo famous statue of Moses when it came to
the make-up for Heston as the 'older' Moses.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Ben-Hur: (1959)</u>
<a href="https://ok.ru/video/367702837992">OK Videos</a>. Fictional
tale set at the time of Christ, the Jewish Prince of Hur played by
guess who, Charlton Heston, discovers what happens to his misfortune
when ambition and the lust for power in the Roman Empire corrupts
what was once an unbreakable friendship, and in the process, finds
himself coming into contact with a Preacher from Nazareth which will
change his life. This epic is timeless, a movie one never grows
tired of watching.
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Quo Vadis (1951) </u>
<a href="https://ok.ru/video/1848388356788">OK Videos </a> Starring
Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Sir Peter Ustinov. This epic is right
up there with Ben-Hur. A Roman Tribune returns from the wars a hero,
but of all the rewards offered to him, sets on a beautiful Christian
and wants her come what may. Fantastic and disturbing scenes in this
with Sir Peter Ustinov as the insane Rome-burning,
Christian-persecuting Nero.
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Silver Chalice
(1954)</u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/1083257063938">OK Videos</a>
An epic fictional tale about what is supposed to have happened to the
chalice of the Last Supper. Okay, in my opinion this one is not that
good, the story bears no resemblance at all to what happened to the
chalice, (we Catholics know where it is, it was never lost), but hey,
this film is something clean to watch, and is a piece of watchable
Hollywood history as Paul Newman was introduced in this film. If
only the plot did not feel so contrived and the sets didn't look like
a weird art house experiment from the 60s more suitable for a live
theatre stage and not a Hollywood studio. The fact the story mixes
in the little known weirdo fake Simon Magus legends that were popular
chapbook fodder centuries ago all spun around the real Simon Magus
mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles makes it a bit wacky and
cringy, at least to me. Jack Palance stars as the cursed magician of
the fabricated legends who parodies the miracles of Christ and the
Holy Spirit and then comes to a bizarre end. Probably why this movie
didn't fly over so well and become as popular as the other epics.
(Forgive the pun, you'll get it when you see it.)</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>*) The Egyptian
(1954)</u></span><span lang="en-GB"> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/289166592675">OK
Videos </a> The story of this epic is not set around the early
Church, but way back in ancient Egypt about a young man who sets out
to help the poor with his skills as a physician. I found this
intriguing as the story is set during the reign of the historical
Pharaoh Akhnaton who attempted to abolish the multitude of gods and
introduce one god to Egypt. An interesting fictional tale of a young
man searching for love, truth, and the meaning of life in all the
wrong ways and places spun around historical events. Will he finally
find the answer he seeks? This movie is not bad, but seems to be
under the radar when when compared to other old epics.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>*) The Land of
the Pharaohs:</u></span><span lang="en-GB"> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/1975179152083">OK
Videos</a> True, this is not a Biblical film at all, but if you like
those classic old Hollywood colour extravaganzas set in the ancient
world this is another good one to watch, so I'm also putting it up on
the list. Tells a fictional tale of greed and treachery during the
building of the Great Pyramid</span><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
of Khufu. </span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Bible: In the
Beginning (1966)</u> – <a href="https://ok.ru/video/990779083311">OK
Videos</a>. Five sections from the Bible are portrayed from Genesis
to the sacrifice of Isaac. John Huston narrates the scenes and also
plays the part of Noah. Other famous stars also had cameo roles,
e.g. Richard Harris played Cain, and Peter O'Toole as one of the
Three Angels, George C. Scott played Abraham while Ava Gardner played
Sarah.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Sodom and Gomorrah
(1962): </u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/2054170151503">OK Videos </a>
Long epic with Stewart Granger as Lot. Yikes, the only point in
the story that resembles the Bible at all is when Lot's wife turns to
a pillar of salt, but hey, it's something else to watch, and, Stewart
Granger is in it. Too bad about the wacky artificial plot.
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Story of Joseph
and His Brethren (1962)</u>: <a href="https://ok.ru/video/1655145040581">OK
Videos</a> Italian 'sword and sandal' film about Joseph of the Old
Testament who is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Story of Ruth
(1960)</u>: <a href="https://ok.ru/video/1758570809894">OK Videos</a>
Hollywood version of Ruth and how she converted from her paganism
and became one of King David's ancestors.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Esther and the King
(1960):</u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/992831867393">OK Videos</a>
the account of Esther of the Old Testament saving her people when
there is a plot to massacre them. Joan Collins plays Esther.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) One Night With the
King (2006):</u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/429927893592">OK
Videos</a>, Again, the Book of Esther. Omar Sharif plays one of the
King's advisors.
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) King David (1985) :</u>
<a href="https://ok.ru/video/1918828153524">OK Videos.</a> Richard
Gere plays King David in this. Title gives this one away. LOL.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) David and Goliath
(1960)</u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/833484163707">OK Videos</a>
Italian flick with Orson Wells as King Saul. Meh. Okay, ho-hum,
production, but at least it's something to watch.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) David and Bathsheba
(1951):</u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/823623158274">OK Videos</a>
Gregory Peck is King David, Susan Hayward is Bathsheba, and well, you
can also guess from the title what this one is about.
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Solomon and Sheba
(1959):</u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/1167067581108">OK Videos</a>
Yul Brynner stars as King Solomon, Gina Lollobrigida as Sheba, keep
in mind this strays widely from the Bible and to be watched simply
for entertainment value.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Sins of Jezebel (1954)<a href="https://youtu.be/PqPiDaGNWaI?list=PLBFa2yUBFRr4DCc-_IBbjPdYi_OOv0L8p" target="_blank">: </a></u><a href="https://youtu.be/PqPiDaGNWaI?list=PLBFa2yUBFRr4DCc-_IBbjPdYi_OOv0L8p" target="_blank">You Tube. </a> The story of the ruinous marriage of King Ahab of Israel with Jezebel and their clash with the prophet Elijah. Budget film that gets interrupted with a preachy pastor as narrator. <br />
</p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Day of Triumph
(1954):</u> <a href="https://youtu.be/FIBc3PoUM1k?list=PLEAY6n0VjjTkksp9naH89KbZMxbYtqB7e">YouTube
</a>Semi-fictionalised film set around the Gospels featuring a
zealot who wishes to use Jesus for political ends while witnessing
His teachings and miracles.
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Great
Commandment (1939)</u> <a href="https://youtu.be/Uh4uFBHXzxI?list=PLEAY6n0VjjTkksp9naH89KbZMxbYtqB7e">YouTube</a>.
Another fictionalised tale set within the historical setting of the
Gospels. Two zealot brothers wish like many others to free Israel
from Roman occupation while in the meantime their father's plans for
their lives messes everything up and sets a tragic series of events
in motion.
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Prodigal (1955)</u>:
<a href="https://ok.ru/video/1410317355721">OK Videos</a> An
imaginary account of what the prodigal son in Christ's parable
possibly got up to when he left his father's house. Invention.
Still, another one of the those old colour extravaganzas that were
all the rage in the golden days of Hollywood.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Robe (1953):</u>
<a href="https://ok.ru/video/1083602504432">OK Videos</a>. Fictional
tale woven around the robe worn by Christ and what happened to it
after the crucifixion. (Forgive the pun). Excellent performances by
Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Demitrius and the
Gladiators (1954): </u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/1230979533397">OK
Videos</a> The sequel to The Robe. This was Hollywood's idea for a
sequel to their movie and not the actual sequel to the Robe by the
original novelist. (The Big Fisherman was the 'real' sequel, or
rather, the 'spin-off'. ) The tale turns a bit dark as Demitrius'
faith is severely challenged while the insane Emperor Caligula
hungers to posses the robe believing it has magic powers.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Big Fisherman
(1959)</u>: <a href="https://ok.ru/video/2555381746342">OK Videos</a>
Yes, they made this movie too, the real 'spin-off' to the Robe,
(eventhough the Robe isn't in the story at all in this film or the
book). Features a plot line with St. Peter and an Arab princess, but
frankly, doesn't make the cut as a 'believable' fictional tale
inserted into historical events. Still, it is another clean film to
watch if you're stuck.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Power of the
Resurrection (1958)</u>: <a href="https://youtu.be/wvuwc-hOehA">YouTube</a>
One hour film that is an imaginary account of St. Peter comforting a
fellow prisoner with the account of Christ and the Resurrection as
they await martyrdom.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) I Beheld His Glory
(1953)</u>: <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwip1dCc_LrvAhUQO8AKHVIABLQQwqsBMAB6BAgCEAM&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQnUagvHfsw&usg=AOvVaw0mOBmw9sttHVgHiLGufjwA">YouTube:
</a> Another imaginary story, this time featuring the Roman centurion
Cornelius after spearing Christ's side during the Crucifixion.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Barabbas (1961):</u>
<a href="https://ok.ru/video/1364780518086">OK Videos.</a> Another
'let's make up an inventive story about a real person in the Bible'.
This time, about Barabbas, the criminal whom the mob chose to set
free instead of Christ. Interesting piece of fiction on what
happened to the man after he was freed. Anthony Quinn plays
Barabbas.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Give us Barabbas!
(1961)</u> <a href="https://youtu.be/fjtLVH7_PxU">YouTube</a>. TV
movie – another fictional story about Barabbas.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Pontius Pilate
(1962)</u> (There is an English edition, but I can't find a link,
sorry). An Italian film depicting events leading to the Crucifixion
from the viewpoint of Pontius Pilate.
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Herod the Great
(1959)</u> <a href="https://youtu.be/s2KYunGyrpM">YouTube</a>. -
Oldie about the infamous king of Judea.
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Fall of the
Roman Empire (1964)</u> <a href="https://youtu.be/3cYVLXric5E">YouTube.
</a>Not 'Biblical' as much as a great old Roman Empire flick made
during the golden days of epic films with no computer graphics.
Seems this should be put up here on the list too.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>*) The Fall of
Rome (1963)</u></span><span lang="en-GB"> <a href="https://youtu.be/uCfZxEMU7rU">YouTube.
</a>An Italian peplum film, the story based on persecution of
Christians after the death of Emperor Constantine directed by
Antonio Margheriti. </span>
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Cleopatra. (1963) </u>
<a href="https://ok.ru/video/285251996323">OK Video </a>The version
with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Yeah I'm sticking this
here too, why not? Another colourful extravaganza set in the ancient
days.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Alexander the Great
(1956)</u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/374981790391">OK Videos</a>
Ancient days epic with Richard Burton as the great conqueror.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Spartacus (1960</u>)
<a href="https://ok.ru/video/1551587543637">OK Video</a>. Another
great Roman Empire classic. Kirk Douglas stars as the slave who
dared start a revolt and lead the slaves of the empire to freedom.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) El Cid </u>(1961) <a href="https://ok.ru/video/1021980707330">OK
Videos</a> Another Charlton Heston classic epic, this time
recounting the story of Spain's famous intrepid and loyal Christian
knight during the early days of the Spanish Reconquest in the Middle
Ages.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Kingdom of Heaven
(2005)</u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span><a href="https://ok.ru/video/1766024284719"><u>OK
Videos</u></a><span style="text-decoration: none;"> Epic about
Jerusalem</span> during the Crusade era and the Battle of Hattin.
Of course we know historical events regarding the life of Balian of
Ibelin have been mushed around a bit, but who doesn't like epic
medieval battle scenes and exotic locations? (Director's cut in the
link is probably the best version.)
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Agony and the
Ecstasy (1965)</u>: <a href="https://ok.ru/video/83928156738">OK
Videos</a> Michelangelo and his struggle to paint his famous
frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. Charlton Heston plays the artistic
genius while Rex Harrison is the grumbly Pope Julius II hounding the
procrastinating sculptor to finish his work. 'When will you be
finished!'.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>*) The Shoes of
the Fisherman (1968)</u></span><span lang="en-GB">: <a href="https://ok.ru/video/1906468784820">OK
Videos</a> Anthony Quinn stars as a (fictional) pontiff named Pope
Kiril who is faced with the challenge of guiding the Church in a Cold
War world threatened by real war from famine-ridden Communist China.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>*) The Prisoner
(1955) </u></span><span lang="en-GB"> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/1297497393683">OK
Films.</a> A disturbing fictional film about a unnamed Eastern
European country that has turned Communist. One of the patriotic WWII
heroes of this country who was stood up to and was tortured by the
Nazis is the Cardinal Archbishop played by Alec Guinness – but now
as the country is Communist, he is seen as an enemy by the
government. Yet, they simply cannot arrest him, he is loved by the
people who remain staunchly Catholic and also consider him a patriot,
so the government has to prove he is a criminal to the state. The
tactics used are psychological mind games as they know he is
conditioned to physical torture so that won't work. Still, will the
Cardinal hold out against their insidious probing? A modern
cautionary tale of Communism / Socialism and its attacks on the
Church that will leave you with a uneasy knot in your stomach. One
detail regarding the music in this – I loved the choral responses
at the end of the Mass in the first scenes, (around minute 3:20 ) –
if only choirs could sing the responses like this, wow. </span>
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*)
The Cardinal (1963): <a href="https://ok.ru/video/1029798169243">OK
Videos</a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;">. Like many of the
other movies here, based on a a novel. The story of an Irish
American priest named Fr. Fermoyle from Boston who rises from rank to
rank until finally that of Cardinal, the various struggles,
challenges, temptations and tough choices he faces along the way
shown via flashback starting from the turn of the last century to the
eve of WWII. Not a ho-hum story as this synopsis sounds. </span>
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">
<br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*)
The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961):</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span><u><a href="https://ok.ru/video/289643956899">OK Videos</a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
A tropical island is threatened by a massive volcanic destruction
and the townspeople refuse to help a priest rescue leper children
before the volcano blows. Will he get them out to safety before it's
too late? Spencer Tracy plays the priest and Frank Sinatra a
criminal who reluctantly agrees to help.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><b>*</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">)
This Mission (1986)</span><b>:</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span><u><a href="https://ok.ru/video/393333508848"><span style="font-weight: normal;">OK
Videos.</span></a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Compelling story of a Jesuit mission in South America. Due to
political infighting between the Spanish and Portuguese regarding
territorial acquisitions, the missionaries are forced with the
decision to obey the order given them to abandon their missions for
the sake of keeping the peace between the two European nations, which
means abandoning their native converts to the threat of suffering
slavery, or, be disobedient to the Church and their superiors in the
effort to protect the natives as they are baptised Christians after
all, knowing full well they face death if they disobey and stay
behind. Naturally, Hollywood flubs historical events, but this is
one of those powerful 'between a rock and a hard place' storylines
that makes for a 'you-have-to-watch-at-least-once-in-your-lifetime'
movie. Also compelling subplots about repentance and forgiveness. </span></span>
</p>
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<br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">*)
Silence</span></u></span><span lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">:
(2016) (Sorry, can't find a free link to this. So here's the trailer
video from </span></span></span><a href="https://youtu.be/A0KUWzfugg4?list=PLXi5fCaHAyY29ql9y-1ce_BkQa1rTdc3z"><span lang="en-GB"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">YouTube,
click here</span></u></span></a><span lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.)
Film by Scorsese. Okay, be warned, this movie is very disturbing.
Set in the 17</span></span></span><sup><span lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></span></span></sup><span lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
century, a respected and admired Jesuit missionary disappears in the
reclusive country of Japan. The last thing heard about him back in
Europe is he has done the unthinkable – he has renounced the faith
and become a pagan Buddhist. Two young priests who cannot fathom how
such a great defender of the Faith could fall into apostasy, perhaps
he was captured and this lie was spread to weaken the courage of the
Japanese converts and strike a blow to Westerners? The two young
missionaries plan to sneak into Japan to spread the faith and also to
find him if they can to see if such stories are true and hopefully to
free him from his captors, knowing full well it means death if they
are caught. It is so dangerous they are the last two missionaries
permitted to make the attempt to enter Japan. While this particular
movie is based on a novel, the book was written around the real
historical Fr. Ferreira, a Portuguese Jesuit missionary who
apostatised when he was tortured in Japan and converted to Buddhism,
and also the Italian missionary Giuseppe di Chiara who went after
him, so yes, this is based on a true story. While we love and admire
the accounts of those who bravely spread the faith notwithstanding
the knowledge they could be martyred, rarely do we hear of the
infamous 'fallen priests' of missionary history, those whose courage
faltered in the face of pain and death. </span></span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">
As much as I don't want to give the plot away, I'd like to say why
I'm listing this, which requires some plot spoilers – it is a
poignant example of how Satan has become more cunning. This movie
gave me the distinct impression of how he has watched the
missionaries in the early centuries of Christianity and observed what
made their preaching successful. He therefore 'upped his game' so to
speak centuries later to ensure the Gospel is not spread to the last
corners of the world. The arguments against the Faith are serpentine
and insidious, just imagine Satan speaking when the young missionary
is questioned by the pagan Japanese authorities for example, all
under the cover of 'kindness'. Study the subtle mind games and false
charity used to weaken the resolve of the missionaries and the
converts, and the psychological traps employed to crush their
mission. Satan has even figured out the tactic of stopping blessed
objects and sacramentals from coming into the country. Sacramentals
aid the work of missionaries since demons are worshipped through
pagan rites and their power needs to be bound up and driven out. The
presence of blessed objects helps do that and bring graces. Turn a
missionary to the bad, and you have a corrupt expert ready and
willing to identify and destroy these blessed objects that would be
missed by the pagans. Also, the tortures have evolved too, a
reminder of what future Christians possibly face when the times of
the Antichrist comes, it will be worse than all previous centuries
combined. Chilling. View this film as a tough lesson on what to
watch out for when evil begins to play his psychological games and
attempts to mess with your mind and your faith. Prepare to be
disturbed.
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</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #660000;"><u><b>Gospel Films</b></u></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">*)<u> Jesus of Nazareth
(1977): <a href="https://youtu.be/pG6Y88iQhCE">YouTube (full series
in one link</a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;">)</span> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/80920513252">OK
Videos, (full series all in one)</a>, (sorry about the foreign
language subtitles in the OK link, but the sound is in the original
English.) Yes, this is the famous TV classic serial by Zeffirelli.
Still my favourite version of the Gospels even if details are
flubbed.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Passion of the
Christ (2004): </u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span><u><a href="https://ok.ru/video/33438632583">OK
Vide</a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;">o (Sorry about the
added Arabic subtitles under the English ones.) Mel Gibson's film.
This portrayal of Christ's crucifixion is allegedly based on the
mystical visions of the Passion of Bl. Catherine Emmerick and filmed
in the original ancient languages spoken then, Aramaic, Hebrew and
Latin. I'd say the plot is very loosely based on her visions, but
yes, Gibson captured the brutality of what she saw and at least
attempted to put in the visions of the demons that also stalked
around as the Passion was happening.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) King of Kings
(1961): </u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span><u><a href="https://ok.ru/video/37055629969">OK
Videos. </a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> The life of
Christ, however, the movie starts first with the sack of Jerusalem
and the desecration of the Temple by Pompey in 63 BC.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Greatest Story
Ever Told (1965), <a href="https://ok.ru/video/1762748271151">OK
Videos. </a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> Another old
classic Hollywood production of the life of Christ. </span>
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Life of Christ
(Mysteries of the Rosary)</u>: <a href="https://youtu.be/TETwbj4xdvU?list=PL-zd9lEqwz3SVuh5H7Yw6R0F-t-pFmlKQ">YouTube.</a>
This look like someone took the short movies produced by Fr.
Peyton's Family Theatre representing the traditional mysteries of the
rosary and put them together into one Gospel movie. 'The family that
prays together, stays together.'
</p>
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</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #660000;"><u><b>The Good Old
Feel-Goods and Assorted Classics</b></u></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Going My Way (1944)</u>
<a href="https://ok.ru/video/1548209621631">OK Video </a> Fr.
O'Malley, aka Bing Crosby, is sent to help a struggling parish where
a stubborn little old Irish priest doesn't like change. Cute as all
get-out.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Bells of St.
Marys (1945)</u>: <a href="https://ok.ru/video/271644101283">OK
Videos</a> Fr. O'Malley is sent to help out nuns who run an old
school that has seen better days. Will they be forced to close down?
Again, bittersweet, sad, but feel good film.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Come to the Stable
(1949</u>) <a href="https://ok.ru/video/269566937763">OK Videos</a>
Heart warming tale. Loretta Young stars as a nun whose goal is to
found a children's hospital. A force is let loose in New England
that cannot be stopped. Feels very much like the Fr. O'Malley
movies.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Miracle of the
Bells (1948)</u>: <a href="https://ok.ru/video/425318353410">OK
Videos.</a> An actress with her dying wish helps give hope to the
people of her old run-down coal mining home town. Frank Sinatra
plays the priest in this. Another old clean wholesome movie.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Lilies of the Field
(1963):</u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/376507468471">OK Videos.</a>
Homer Smith is just passing on through, or so he thinks until he
crosses paths with a Reverend Mother from Germany with her bunch of
nuns stuck out in a backwater in the Arizona desert with comical
results. Sidney Poitier won his first Oscar for his portrayal of
Homer.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Christmas Lilies of
the Field (1979) </u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/2068503136895">OK
Videos.</a> A television sequel to the movie classic. I had no idea
this was made until I stumbled across it in my search for new movies.
Has the same feel good factor as the original film. Sidney Poitier
isn't in this but still has the same spirit as the first.
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) It's a Wonderful
Life (1946).</u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/1205433207496">OK
Videos</a>. An angel has to earn his wings and is given the mission
to convince a despairing man played by Jimmy Stewart that he has not
wasted his life and is not the failure he believes himself to be when
financial ruin is staring him in the face. I think it is safe to say
this has become one of America's most favourite wholesome Christmas
movies. (Yeah, we Catholics know angels don't have to earn their
wings, but well, that's Hollywood.)</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Miracle of
Marcelino, (Marcelino Pan y Vino) (1955):</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span><a href="https://gloria.tv/post/BMDEpWRYoELM1Gd2fr76rZM3E"><u>Gloria,TV</u></a><span style="text-decoration: none;">:
original Spanish version with English subtitles. Sometimes you can
find the full English dubbed version, but I can't seem to find a free
link to that one. The story: a</span>n orphaned boy is raised by
Franciscan monks and the monastery is never the same. No, this was
not based on a true story as many assume, it is a fictional tale
written by a Spanish author who loved his mother's stories about
miraculous images.<span style="text-decoration: none;"> L</span>ovely,
bittersweet film. Bit of a tear-jerker, so get the hankies. They
have also made a new version of this in Mexico, and I've found an
English version on <a href="https://youtu.be/v5r1WRFTYjY">YouTube,
click here,</a> but I still like the old black and white classic from
1955.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Never Take No for an
Answer (1951):</u> <a href="https://youtu.be/vx8ufvozvwc">YouTube.</a>
A little orphaned boy named Pepino has only one family member left
after his house is bombed and his parents killed - his beloved donkey
Violetta. He refuses to go to an orphanage and lives in a stable
with his Violetta. One day his beloved friend grows sick and is in
danger of dying. Little Pepino is convinced there is nothing for it
but to bring her down to the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi to be
cured, and he will not take no for an answer. Heart warming tale
about not giving up not matter what obstacles are placed in front of
you.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Keys of the Kingdom
(1944): <a href="https://youtu.be/yMyptQ1e28w">YouTube.</a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Gr</span>egory Peck stars in this film as a priest who seems to
fail at everything, and so is finally thrown into the deep end of
things and sent off to the missions in China where he must either
sink or swim. A more 'serious' than the 'Going my Way' types
of films, yet also has some humour. It is one of those
old classics you love to watch again and again.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Angels with Dirty
Faces (1938)</u> – (Sorry, can't find a link). James Cagney plays
a hard-boiled gangster who is respected by the city urchin hoodlums,
and he has a soft spot for them too. Does he really want the kids
ending up like him? One of those old classic bittersweet films.
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Fugitive (1947)</u>
<a href="https://ok.ru/video/1937813146114">OK Videos.</a> Directed
by John Ford. Henry Fonda plays a priest on the run during
anti-Catholic persecutions in an unnamed South American country, (but
I distinctly feel this points to the times leading up to the Cristero
War after Mexico outlawed Catholicism in 1917).
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Inn of the Sixth
Happiness. (1958)</u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/346105121443">OK
Videos</a>. Similar story to 'Keys of the Kingdom' starring Ingrid
Bergman. A young English woman is determined to become a Christian
missionary to China despite all the obstacles.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u> </u></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u> *) Sergeant York (1941)</u> <a href="https://youtu.be/nOwpXeB7OKc" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. Based on a true story - Alvin York, a poor farmer from Tennessee, finds religion and believes it is against the Good Book to kill a man for any reason, but then has to come to grips with the duty to defend his country when drafted into the army during WWI. Gary Cooper plays Alvin York.<br /></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u> </u></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u> *) Hacksaw Ridge (2016)</u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/248036199147" target="_blank">OK Videos</a> Based on a true story similar to "Sergeant York". Desmond Doss refuses to carry a weapon as it is against the Good Book to kill and insists on becoming an army medic instead during WWII - a movie about standing up for what you believe against all obstacles and showing what true courage is. Warning, this film has a lot blood and guts. </p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Jeweller's Shop (1988)</u> <a href="https://youtu.be/k5FEgryZ5us" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. Film of a play written by St. John Paull II about young couples from Poland during and after WWII. A wise and somewhat mysterious jeweller gives them words of wisdom at important crossroads in their lives. Burt Lancaster plays the jeweller. <br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Scarlet and the
Black (1983):</u> <a href="https://youtu.be/1pitdqUuK2I">YouTube. </a>
TV movie about the real life story of the 'Scarlett Pimpernel of the
Vatican', an Irish Monsignor from Killarney who helped hide escaped
POW's during the Nazi occupation of Rome. Fantastic duo in this with
Gregory Peck and Christopher Plummer playing a dangerous game of 'cat
and mouse'.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Little World of
Don Camillo (1952):</u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> (Sorry,
lost the English version link I had.) :-( When Communist politics
and staunch religion clash in a zany little town in Italy. A funny,
'feel good' movie about 'frenemies' as the parish priest, Don Camillo
and the local Communist mayor loath each other's points of view.
Orson Wells plays the 'Voice of the Lord' as he tries to get Fr.
Camillo to do what is right. Another cute movie.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">There
were several movies made in this series that I haven't seen yet, and
so I'm still looking for English links: “</span><u>The Return of
Dom Camillo”, “Don Camillo's Last Round”, “Don Camillo,
Monsignor”</u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> and </span><u>“Don
Camillo in Moscow.”</u></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) In This House of
Brede (1975):</u> <a href="https://youtu.be/tJTvbTmv5Yw">YouTube</a>.
A reflective story of one woman's journey from life in the world
into the Benedictine convent of St. Brede, and the personal and
spiritual struggles she overcomes.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*)
Heaven Knows, Mr Allison (1957):</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span><u><a href="https://ok.ru/video/282543327907">OK Videos.</a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
WWII flick about a US solider who has never known religion or what
love means until he's stuck on a remote island with a nun who teaches
him the importance of remaining true to her vows. Another clean
classic with a dollop of war adventure thrown in. </span>
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">
<br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="en-GB"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">*)
The Detective (Father Brown) (1954):</span></u></span><span lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span><a href="https://ok.ru/video/2122990684835"><span lang="en-GB">OK
Videos</span></a><span lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.
Alec Guinness plays Fr. Brown, the detective priest who not only
wants to catch the thief, but save his soul. Based on G.K.
Chesterton's first story in the Fr. Brown series, 'The Blue Cross'.
Charming movie, I wish Alec Guinness made a few more of these.</span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*)
I Confess </u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> (1953) </span><u><a href="https://ok.ru/video/264620673699">OK
Videos</a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> A crime classic
set in Montreál, Canada. A murderer confesses to Fr. Logan played
by Montgomery Clift who then is faced with the temptation to break
the seal of confession or else get pinned for the murder, which
carries the death penalty. Very compelling film directed by Alfred
Hitchcock.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">
<br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*)
The Exorcist </u><span style="text-decoration: none;">(1973) (Sorry,
can't find a link). Horror flick. The story is loosely based on a
real-life exorcism that occurred. The effects in this film still
feel the most realistic of what can happen during an extreme
possession case judging from my research on the subject. (To get a
taste, just read the booklet 'Begone Satan'. ) No fancy camera
tricks for 'force shock' tactics, it feels like you're watching an
exorcism being filmed as is. This is still one 'The' best exorcism
movies in my opinion that even the sequels to this one feel like
corny spin-offs that fall flat in comparison, so I won't put them up.
Also, the other movie 'The Rite' still isn't as good as it strays
far from the original non-fiction book by Matt Baglio that I'd recommend reading the book
instead of watching the movie. </span>
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">*)
The Way (2010): </span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span><u><a href="https://ok.ru/video/2399580785332"><span style="font-weight: normal;">OK
Video.</span></a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
A father is upset his son has plans to quit his stint at the
university. Instead he wants to satisfy his 'itchy feet' and see the
world first hand rather than learn about it from books. The son
takes off to the south of France where tragedy strikes. Before he
knows it, the disgruntled father ends up doing the very thing that
upset him as he undertakes the on-foot pilgrimage of The Way to the
famous shrine of St. James at La Compestela. A bittersweet tale of
finding self-forgiveness and inner peace. Father and son are played
by real father and son duo Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez.</span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #660000;"><u><b>Classic Films about
Famous Apparitions or the Saints</b></u></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Paul: the Apostle of
Christ (2018): </u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span><u><a href="https://ok.ru/video/1592919001685">OK
Video. </a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> The title gives
this one away of course, but St. Luke is in this too. Warning, the
persecutions are grisly in this to the point it reminds me of the
movie 'Silence'. Again, a possible warning of what Christians will
face again in the future when the Antichrist comes.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Constantine and the
Cross (1961)</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">: </span><u><a href="https://ok.ru/video/1078528248443">OK
Videos.</a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> Italian made
'sword and sandal' film about the famous vision of the Emperor
Constantine.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) St. Patrick, The
Irish Legend. (2000)</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span><u><a href="https://youtu.be/ndUfgHopiPI">YouTube.</a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Yep, says it all in the title, Ireland's patron saint.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Francis of Assisi
(1961):</u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span><u><a href="https://ok.ru/video/24319036076">OK
Videos.</a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> C</span><u>l</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">assic
film about the life of one of the Church's most beloved saints.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Brother Sun, Sister
Moon (1972): <a href="https://ok.ru/video/2455471065806">OK Videos.</a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Zeffirelli production about St. Francis of Assisi. Okay, the
scenery in this with all the fluffy animals and birds is gorgeous,
and while I can appreciate the attempt to portray the saint's
spiritual simplicity, the rest is a bit bonkers with its weird
stylised 'art house' medieval costumes and other oddities. Since
this was filmed in the 70s, there is a definite 'hippy', 'love the
planet and the animals' element complete with 'la la' song ballads
that feels in keeping with the 'spirit of Vatican II'. Maybe this is
just me, but it feels like a film attempt to make the Traditional
Church look like a 'cruel', 'corrupt' relic of the past with its
'pompous' medieval decorations and rites. Also, went a little too
realistic in the scene when St. Francis divested himself of all his
clothes to where the audience is mooned for quite a considerable
stretch - this scene is not for the kiddies. Stuck watching thus in desperation
during the lock down, so I thought I'd at least give a warning about
this one. I much prefer the other film version of St. Francis
listed above, but if you're really stuck for a new movie, at least
you can say you've seen this version and gave it a shot.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><u>*)
St. Anthony of Padua (1931)</u> <a href="https://youtu.be/v1ispnB6njU">YouTube</a>.
Lovely old silent film about St. Anthony, the Wonder Worker. (PS:
he was from Lisbon Portugal, not Padua!)</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">*)</span><u>
Little Margaret of Castello (1980)</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">:
</span><u><a href="https://youtu.be/vbKbIplfJu8">YouTube.</a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
This biography is heart wrenching. Born blind and crippled, little Margaret was abandoned by her well-to-do parents and lived a
life of extreme poverty and suffering, but never once did say have a
bad word to say about anybody, including her parents. She only
returned hatred and cruelty with love and forgiveness. (P.S. I just found out she was finally canonised in April 2021 - at long last!)<br /></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Joan of Arc (1948),</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span><u><a href="https://ok.ru/video/736175262210"> OK Videos.</a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
The classic with Ingrid Bergman. Still one of my favourite
versions.</span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Beckett (1964): </u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span><u><a href="https://ok.ru/video/2135088630435">OK Video. </a></u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Based on a play about the events leading up to the martyrdom of St.
Thomas Beckett. With Peter O'Toole As King Henry II of England and
Richard Burton as St. Thomas Beckett, the performance of these two
together is epic. Some scenes will nail you to the spot, like the
old rite of excommunication not seen these days. Awesome gothic-y
stuff. Warning, there are somesemi-nude scenes in this before St. thomas is converted, so not exactly for the little kiddies either. </span>
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<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) A Man for All
Seasons (1966):</u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span><a href="https://ok.ru/video/293518707363"><u>OK
Videos</u></a><span style="text-decoration: none;">. Movie version of
Robert Bolt's play. </span> As they say history repeats itself.
Again we have a Thomas and a King Henry at loggerheads with each
other in England. This time it's St. Thomas More and Henry VIII.
St. Thomas is practically the last hold out regarding the King's
invalid marriage to Anne Boleyn, yet, refuses to say why. Henry and
his scheming minster Cromwell does everything to get him to bend.
Also, a 'must watch' is the version starring Charlton Heston as Sir
Thomas More, (1988 film, <a href="https://youtu.be/Io8pDyalMps">click
here: YouTube</a>).
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<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Seven Cities of Gold
(1955):</u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/1927221152462">OK Videos.</a>
I accidentally stumbled across this one and was pleasantly surprised
to find a saint in the storyline. Spanish conquistadors in the New
World set out on an expedition to search for the fabled seven cities
of gold in the uncharted territory of what is now California. Who
travels along with the mission to spread the Gospel? Why, St.
Junipeiro Serra of course. This movie centres on the founding of San
Diego. Although loosely based on history since the script itself is
based on a novel, this was a rather interesting find. I'd say this
golden oldie slipped under the radar for most of us.
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<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Reluctant Saint
(1962)</u> <a href="https://youtu.be/eXxOLNRBdXw">YouTube. </a> Of
course, not completely accurate to biographical details, but a
classic movie about the life of St. Joseph of Cupertino played by
Maximilian Schell with Ricardo Montalban as one of the Franciscan
friars who thinks St. Joseph is nothing but a useless bumbling
failure not fit for the monastery. But, never judge by appearances!
The music was composed by Nino Rota, who composed the score for the
Godfather. The mother of St. Joseph is unforgettable in this. This
film just gels together. You'll watch it again and again.</p>
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<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <u>*) The Song of
Bernadette (1943): </u><a href="https://ok.ru/video/582730975984">OK
Video</a>. This was based on a novelization of the story, but still
is arguably one of the most favourite Catholic movies based on true
events regarding an apparition. Jennifer Jones, who was introduced
in this film, plays Bernadette of Lourdes, the young girl who sees a
mysterious beautiful Lady that no one else can see. Vincent Price
plays the Imperial Prosecutor who does everything to stop the wave of
events that happens afterwards. Excellent film.</p>
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<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Wizard of Heaven
(1949)</u> <a href="https://youtu.be/GOFXIWRnCek">YouTube.</a>
French film about the Curé of Ars and his lifelong struggle to
convert a miserable peasant parish spiritually decimated by the
French Revolution to the most heavenly place on earth. You'll have
to read English subtitles, but personally I think this captured the
feel of an old French village and what the humble saintly priest had
to put up with, including attacks from the devil. Wonderfully
atmospheric early black and white film.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) A Time For Miracles
(1980)</u>: <a href="https://youtu.be/RQcz88alD-c">YouTube</a>. A
film about North America's first canonised saint, St. Elizabeth Ann
Bayley Seton and her conversion from Protestantism and the founding
of her teaching order. Featuring Kate Mulgrew as St. Elizabeth.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Don Bosco (1988)</u> <a href="https://youtu.be/ki99iREMIrc" target="_blank">OK Videos</a>: (RAI / Leandro Castellani version - English dubbed) - the story of the mystic priest St. John Bosco who took abandoned and abused boys off the streets.<br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Molokai: The Story
of Father Damien (1999) </u> <a href="https://ok.ru/video/2041588222591">OK
Videos</a>. The story of St. Damien of Molokai, a missionary priest
who ministered to forsaken lepers in the Kingdom of Hawaii before it
was annexed to the US.</p>
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</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Miracle of Our
Lady of Fatima (1952):</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span><u><a href="https://youtu.be/MrPOIys6SiM">YouTube</a>. </u>
<a href="https://ok.ru/video/191552031303">OK Videos. </a> (English
with foreign subtitles in the OK Videos link.) Yes, some details
were definitely flubbed, yet still one of the best film renditions of
the Fatima apparitions that occurred to three shepherd children in
Portugal in 1917.</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) The Miracle of St.
Therese (1952)</u> <a href="https://youtu.be/hfHFVy5BoCE">YouTube.</a>
Lovely old atmospheric movie about St. Theresa of Lisieux.
</p>
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<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) Brother Andre:</u>
(1987) <a href="https://youtu.be/OTM2w2STIAE">YouTube.</a> The
story of St. André Bessett of Montreal, his devotion to St. Joseph,
the tradition of St. Joseph's oil and the building of the shrine to
the great Patriarch told through flashbacks as Br. Andre's niece
pesters him to tell the story of his life.</p>
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<p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u>*) St. Padre Pio:
Miracle Man (2000) </u><a href="https://youtu.be/nKM909nHz4A">YouTube</a>,
The life and miracles of the famous stigmatist Franciscan priest,
St. Padre Pio. Full Italian epic dubbed in English. Unfortunately,
the movie adds the fantastic element St. Pio was found passed out in
a pool of blood when he received the stigmata, which one of his close
monk confidants in the monastery said was not true, he said St. Pio
just left the chapel and went about his business as usual. But
still, it's nice to have a biopic about St. Pio.</p>
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EA Bucchianerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03685067504150348329noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6094790496676897078.post-4898365220982069032021-02-08T21:30:00.012+00:002021-08-19T14:06:17.502+01:00'Little Month of Saint Joseph' <p><b> Announcing my latest publication project! </b></p><p><b> </b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieCoxaxvt1xbv4Ifzsn0zBae0VIb1CmIWDlNDpl_qlaNfsRlUsSOmswfNj4gM5oGMsaWMZvs3Vz86EGRyGHkI2r4m0Wnxz_vznXxdOlKD6ee8LgIyBfoDlK_E2MHxfwIgh_04H8_6J_HDk/s648/9789899684485.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="406" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieCoxaxvt1xbv4Ifzsn0zBae0VIb1CmIWDlNDpl_qlaNfsRlUsSOmswfNj4gM5oGMsaWMZvs3Vz86EGRyGHkI2r4m0Wnxz_vznXxdOlKD6ee8LgIyBfoDlK_E2MHxfwIgh_04H8_6J_HDk/w250-h400/9789899684485.jpg" width="250" /></a></p><b> </b><br /><p></p><p><span style="color: #990000;"><b><u>"LITTLE MONTH of SAINT JOSEPH"</u></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000;"><b> by Fr. Marin de Boylesve, S.J. (1813-1892)<u> <br /></u></b></span></p><p><b><br /> Plus other traditional devotions, prayers, illustrations, notes and annotations added by yours truly.</b></p><p>
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</b><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>For anyone devoted to the
great Patriarch and Foster Father of Jesus, the 'Little Month of
Saint Joseph' is a gem of a collection. Featuring thirty-one short
Meditations written by Fr. Marin de Boylesve, S.J. (1813-1892) on the
life of the Saint based on the Gospels, the Meditations are a
splendid way to honour St. Joseph during the month of March or any
time of the year. The reflective Meditations are accompanied by
short stories recounting the graces and interventions of St. Joseph,
and also prayers dedicated to him. This new edition contains a
selection of other popular traditional devotions, fourteen sacred
illustrations, a biography of the author and annotations. </b></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>About the author: Fr. Marin de Boylesve is best remembered in France for spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart with his writings and thereby promoting the construction of the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris. His book of meditations on St. Joseph is truly a little gem. </b><b>This new edition has received the + Nihil Obstat and Permission to Publish from the Leiria-Fatima Diocese, Portugal.</b></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>::::::::::: <br /></b></p><b>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>TABLE
OF CONTENTS</u></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">About
this Edition <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 11</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">About
the Author Fr. Marin de Boylesve <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 12</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Preface
by Fr. Marin de Boylesve <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 26</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>St.
Joseph, according to the Gospel </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>and
Historical Traits </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1<sup>st</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 29</span> </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saint
Joseph's Place in Heaven <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 30</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2<sup>nd</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 31</span> </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Devotion
to Saint Joseph </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">counselled
by the Blessed Virgin Mother <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…</span>
32</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3<sup>rd</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 33</span> </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dignity
of Saint Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 34</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 35</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saint
Joseph and the Two Professors <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 37</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 39</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Patronage
of Saint Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 40</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 42</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saint
Joseph and Saint Ignatius <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 43</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">7<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 44</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Three Great Names <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 45</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">8<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 46</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saint
Joseph and Saint Francis de Sales <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 47</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">9<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 48</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saint
Joseph and the Infant Jesus <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 49</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">10<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 50</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saint
Joseph's power revealed by Our Lady <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…
51</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">11<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 52</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Venerable de la Salle and Saint Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…
54</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">12<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 55</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Feast of Saint Joseph in Canada <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 57</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">13<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 58</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saint
Joseph and France in the 17<sup>th</sup> Century <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…
60</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">14<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 61</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saint
Joseph and Bossuet <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 62</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">15<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 63</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Growth
of Devotion to Saint Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 66</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">16<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 67</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alms
in Honour of Saint Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 69</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">17<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 70</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Little Sisters of the Poor </span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and
Saint Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 72</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">18<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 73</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Lucky Number <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 75</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">19<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 77</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Shipwreck and the </span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Seven
Paters and Aves <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 79</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">20<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 80</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Deserted Pilgrims <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 82</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">21<sup>st</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 83</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">22<sup>nd</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…</span> 85</span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Chapel of the Little Sisters of the Poor <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…
88</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">23<sup>rd</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 89</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Holy Family and the Society of Jesus <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">…
91</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">24<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 93</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Confession
made good <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 94</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">25<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 96</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Conversion
Attributed to Saint Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 97</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">26<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 98</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Conversion
Attributed to the </span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Month
of Saint Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 100</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">27<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 101</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saint
Joseph and the Gift of Prayer <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 102</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">28<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 103</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saint
Joseph and Prayer <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 104</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">29<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 105</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Success
of Missions <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 106</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">30<sup>th</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 108</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saint
Joseph and the Papal Zouave <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 110</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">31<sup>st</sup>
Meditation <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 112</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saint
Joseph's power in Heaven <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 115</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saint
Joseph and the Sacred Heart <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 116</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pius
IX and Saint Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 117</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Decree
of Pius IX <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 117</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Testimony
of Saint Theresa <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 120</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Novena
in Honour of Saint Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 120</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="CENTER" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><u><b>Prayers
to Saint Joseph</b></u></i></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Words of the Angel <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 122</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Prayer of the Church <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 122 </span></span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prayers
to Saint Joseph (for Priests) <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 123</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ante
Missam <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 123</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Post
Missam et per Diem <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 124</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Efficacious
Prayer <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 124</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Memorare
to Saint Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 125</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Litany
to Saint Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 125</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Three Invocations <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 129</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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</p>
<p align="CENTER" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>APPENDIX</u></span></span></p>
<p align="CENTER" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="CENTER" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
'Four Visits' Novena <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 130</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Devotion
of the Seven Joys </span></span>
</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and
Seven Sorrows of St. Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 134</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Traditional
Litany to St. Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 144</span></span></span></p>
<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prayer
Before Work </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to
St. Joseph the Worker <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 147 </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Unfailing or</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">'Miracle
Prayer' of St. Joseph:</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Novena Prayer … 148</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">'Ad
te béate Joseph' Prayer </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Composed
by Pope Leo XIII <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 150</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hail
Joseph, Son of David <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 152</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Glorious
St. Joseph <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 152</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hail
Holy Joseph … 153</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
'Holy Cloak' Novena of St. Joseph: </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">30
Day Novena <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 155</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prayer
to Obtain a Conversion <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 171</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prayer
to St. Joseph to Obtain Light </span></span>
</p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">upon
Choosing a State of Life <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 173</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prayer
for Purity <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 173</span></span></span></p>
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<p align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prayer
to Obtain a Special Request <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 174</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Nine First Wednesdays Devotion <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 175</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
Short Prayer for the Dying <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 176</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Quotes
from the Saints <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 177</span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Illustration
Credits <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">… 181</span></span></span></p>
<p><br /></p><p> </p>EA Bucchianerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03685067504150348329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6094790496676897078.post-52571415053460894302020-03-17T21:47:00.000+00:002020-08-07T15:15:58.049+01:00Did God Just Light the Furnace?<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<b>Since one of my last blog
posts was published 'The Lord Says: Look to the Sky for the Signs of
the Times' I've received a request wondering if I've noticed anything
in the skies recently.</b></div>
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<b>In a nutshell, yes.</b></div>
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Before I continue, let me
recap about the topic of that other blog post.
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According to Bl. Catherine
Emmerich and her remarkable visions of Biblical history, God gave
certain individuals the gift to be able to read the signs of the time
in the stars, namely, the Three Kings. </div>
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Not only could they see the
events leading up to Christ's birth, but according to Bl Catherine
Emmerich they could tell what events were happening in the world in
kingdoms far away by reading the movements of the stars.</div>
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Bl. Emmerich also said
this gift was given to Abraham and to Job of the Old Testament,
which explains why there are so many references to the
constellations in the Book of Job. In fact, she said the Three Wise
Men were descendants of Job, which is why they knew how to read the
stars. The skill was passed down through the generations and
eventually it passed to them.</div>
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Now, this is not
astrology, i.e. occult fortune telling, but this is God's astronomy
as the Bible says He created the stars, sun and moon for us so we
could discern signs as well as the seasons.</div>
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If God gave the Three
Kings the ability to read other events and not just Christ's birth,
it is logical to assume the stars continue to tell us what is
happening now with regards to God's plans for the earth – He wants
us warned, especially as many constellations are also hidden in the
Book of the Apocalypse.</div>
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Of course, we could botch
things while attempting to see the signs of the times from the skies,
none of us are the Three Kings – but sometimes things are just too
'in your face' so to speak that it begs risking an attempt.</div>
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My past post on the 'Signs
of the Times' was an explanation of how God may be showing us He
could be preparing the way for His Great Catholic Monarch to come
who has been foretold in prophecies for centuries, <a href="https://eabucchianeri.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-lord-says-look-to-sky-for-signs-of.html">(click
here)</a>.</div>
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<b>Now, another stellar
event or two seems to show us this is happening as well, that things
may be moving ahead to the next phase.</b></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">The one sky event
that caught my attention in November 2019 was the announcement of the
biggest ever gamma energy and light explosion discovered by
scientists – they declare it was one of the biggest blasts of
energy detected by humans other than what they surmise was the energy
spent at the Big Bang, and that this latest blast was recorded as far
back as January 14, 2019, (but of course didn't tell us ignorant
peasants until that November.) (<a href="https://www.ladbible.com/news/technology-scientists-detect-biggest-explosion-in-the-universe-since-the-big-bang-20191122">Click
here for source</a>.)</span></div>
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Hardly a peep from the
media about this since it went public, unlike the reports of near
earth asteroids whizzing past us, but this thing is important, or at
least I think so.</div>
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<b>Of interest, major
discoveries in the sky and where they are found are signs in
themselves</b>.
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Guess where this gigantic
blast was located? </div>
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<b>Near the Fornax
constellation – 'The Furnace' pictured here to the right.</b></div>
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It doesn't look like much, but this little wood stove contraption holds quite a symbolical punch when you get into it.</div>
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Whether or not you believe in the Big Bang theory, God
producing Everything from Nothing certainly took a lot of creative
energy, even the Bible said God worked and eventually rested.
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Of
course, God does not have the same kind of physically exhaustion as
we do, but these phrases show God, the Great I Am and Ancient of
Days, certainly spent Himself to a considerable degree if He is
described as having 'worked' and went to rest. God always puts His
best into everything and keeps nothing back. He even produced the
best wine for the wedding of Cana, so a lot of energy obviously went
into Creation itself!</div>
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I do
think there must be some form of evidence showing this massive energy
exertion in the physical realm of things, just like when you see what
goes into an artist's masterpiece simply by looking at the state of
his workshop.
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Weak
analogy, but you get the gist.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">The
Big Bang, without scientists knowing or wanting to admit it, is an
affirmation of the Bible phrase GOD WORKED, and He put some effort
into it! But of course, the theory was put forward by a Catholic
priest after all, </span>Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître
(1894-1966).</div>
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So
now we see one of the biggest mega gamma ray blasts in human history
since the time of what scientists believe was the Big Bang?<b> And in
the Furnace constellation?</b></div>
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Wow.
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God
must be at work again and setting something in motion.
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Or,
trying to get our attention.</div>
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Look
at the Bible references for a “furnace”, (Douay-Rheims edition):</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">*<u>) The Just are tried
like the potter's vessels in a furnace: </u></span>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">"</span><b>The
furnace trieth the potter's vessels,</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
and the </span><b>trial of affliction just men</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">."<br />(Ecclesiasticus
(Sirach) 27:6)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><u>*) Cleansing and trying
hearts: </u></span>
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"<b>As silver is
tried by fire</b>, <b>and gold in the furnace:</b> so the Lord trieth
the hearts."(Proverbs 17:3)</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><u>*)
A Cleansing purifying test of humility: </u></span>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">"</span><b>For
gold and silver are tried in the fire</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
</span><b>but acceptable men in the furnace of
humiliation</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">."<br />(Ecclesiasticus
(Sirach) 2:5)</span></div>
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<span style="text-decoration: none;">"</span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>As
silver is tried in the fining-pot and gold in the furnace</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">:
so a man is tried by the mouth of him that praiseth. (i.e. can the
man remain humble when tempted by the praise of others). The heart of
the wicked seeketh after evils, but the righteous heart seeketh after
knowledge." (Proverbs 27:21) </span>
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<span style="color: #660000;">*<u>) Poverty is also used
by God as a cleansing furnace of tribulation:</u></span></div>
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"Behold I have
refined thee, but not as silver, I have chosen thee <b>in the furnace
of poverty</b>."<br />
(Isaias (Isaiah) 48:10)</div>
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As we
see God prepares by trying and cleansing us through 'furnaces', and
prepares clean ground by tribulations, aka chastisements, and also
poverty, humility and humiliation.
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And,
the even destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is described the work or
in terms of a furnace:</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">“<span style="font-weight: normal;">He
looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and the whole land of that
country: and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth <u>as the smoke of
a furnace.</u>" (Genesis 19:28)</span></span></div>
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<b>God sends literal fire
from the skies when needed.</b></div>
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<i>(Image: "Lot and His Daughters Leaving Sodom", <span class="st"><i>Daniel van Heil</i>, 1604-1664)</span></i>
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<span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;">According
to several mystics, and also several passages in the Bible, God is
preparing to send Three Days of Darkness that will at last cleanse
the earth that has grown as corrupt as Sodom and Gomorrah. </span></span>
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will literally be heaven-fire falling from the sky to where the
angels will be dismayed and those who survive will envy the dead.
(<a href="https://greatmonarch-angelicpontiffprophecies.blogspot.com/p/three-days-of-darkness-scripture.html">Click
here for 'Where is that in the Bible?'</a>). </span></span>
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<span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This
fire is to cleanse the earth of all Masonic democratic republics and
make way for the reign of the Great Catholic Monarch and Angelic
Pontiff destined to restore Christianity through the absolute
monarchy of France. <a href="https://greatmonarch-angelicpontiffprophecies.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-great-catholic-monarch-and-angelic.html">(See
all the major prophecies here.)</a> </span></span>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Of
interest the prophecies of Malachais of the Old Testament refer to
the fire of a furnace falling and destroying the wicked, the day of
the Lord, upon which the Sun of Justice will come with his wings – </span>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"</span><b>For
behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">:
and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the
day that cometh s</span><b>hall set them on fire</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
saith the Lord of hosts, it shall not leave them root, nor branch.
But unto you that fear my name, the </span><b>Sun of justice</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
shall arise, and health in his wings: and you shall go forth, and
shall leap like calves of the herd . And you shall tread down the
wicked when they shall be ashes under the sole of your feet in the
day that I do this, saith the Lord of hosts. </span><b><u>Remember
the law of Moses my servant</u></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>,</b>
which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, the precepts, and
judgments. (Malachais 4:1-3)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Yes,
of course this a prophecy of the Second Coming of Christ with the
hosts of angels, but the “Sun of Justice” may also double as
another prophecy of the Great Catholic Monarch. Prophecies often
fulfil two events at once in the Bible. </span>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Recall
my last post about the apocalyptic Woman Clothed with the Sun and the
crown of 12 stars, a big event was seen in 2016 as Virgo was crowned
with 12 stars, and gave birth to a 'king' symbolised by Jupiter, but
he was seen to be a king of iron, just like the Woman gave birth to a
child that would rule the nations with a rod of iron – a symbol of
the Great Monarch being a king of cleansing war and a 'child of
exile'. <a href="https://eabucchianeri.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-lord-says-look-to-sky-for-signs-of.html">(Click
here for that blog post.)</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">In
the ancient days, the constellation Virgo <b>was also known as the
goddess Justice by the Romans and Greeks when she was holding the
scales of the constellation Libra.</b> Justice was also gifted with
prophecy, wisdom and foresight. So if we remove the Greek mythology
element the Sun of Justice, may also refer to the Woman clothed with
Sun and crowned with 12 Stars giving birth to a <b>King of Iron who will
also be a King of Justice</b>.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Another
point to note - the Furnace constellation is a rather recent addition
to the Western system of naming constellations – this previously
constellation had no name as it is in the south below the horizon and
not visible to Europe. It was added in 1756 by the </span></span><span lang="en-GB">French
deacon and astronomer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Louis_de_Lacaille">Nicolas
Louis de Lacaille</a> (1713-1762), pictured below.</span></div>
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Fornax
was originally called the 'Chemical Furnace' – basically, an
<b>ALCHEMY FURNACE</b>, a furnace used in experiments to discover how to
turn base metal into the pure gold of wisdom.
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Interesting
this constellation was named about in the “Enlightenment period”
and about 40 years before the Masonic French revolution broke out.
Freemasons have quite an amount of alchemical philosophy in their
rites and gnostic thinking. But, as we see from the Bible God has
His own refining furnaces to purify gold and iron.</div>
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The
Hebrews were tried by a long captivity of slavery in pagan Egypt, but
God describes this as a <u>furnace of iron</u> that tried them, and
at last sent them a Deliverer – Moses. We are told to 'remember
Moses' in the prophecy of Malachais above when the day of fire comes,
and here were have the symbol of a furnace of IRON again – Egypt
where the Hebrews were tried <u>as if in a furnace of iron by slavery</u>:</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"But
the Lord hath taken you </span><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">and
brought you out of the iron furnace of Egypt</span></u><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
to make you his people of inheritance, as it is this present
day." (Deuteronomy 4:20)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"For
they are thy people, and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought out
of the land of Egypt, </span><u><span style="font-weight: normal;">from
the midst of the furnace of iron</span></u><span style="font-weight: normal;">." (3
Kings (1 Kings) 8:51)</span></span></div>
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Moses,
the Great Deliverer, led the Jews out from pagan Egypt, after Egypt
was sent several plagues, which included Three Days of Darkness.</div>
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Of
interest, the Freemasons are all rapt up in pagan Egyptian philosophy
and symbolism – and we have been subject and even made slaves to it
to a certain extent with all their inroads since the French
Revolution. One mystic named Marie-Julie Jahenny (1850-1941) was told France
would pay for its 200 years of atheistic form of government from that
time, for the democracy it spewed forth was from Hell itself. (<a href="https://marie-juliejahenny.blogspot.com/2017/09/5-democracy-straight-from-hell.html">See
the prophecy here</a>.)</div>
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Even
Bl. Pope Pius IX (1792-1878) cryptically and prophetically hinted in
his speeches and sermons that God often raises up deliverers when the
Church was troubled, warned those revolutionaries who were attacking
the Church not to wait for conversion lest God raise up a new
deliverer, like the Moses of old who delivered His people from pagan
Egypt!
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>March
3, 1872 , Pius IX's Address to Romans in different parishes</b></u></span></span></span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>:
</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span></span>“<span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Make
them understand (to those who are at the head of the people) (O my
Jesus!) The danger to which they are exposed, </span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>and
that they do not wait for another Moses who could make them be
swallowed up in the passage of another Red Sea</u></span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">."
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(M.
Chabuty, pp. 35-36. His source, R. P. Pasquale de Franciscis,
“Discours de</span></span></span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Notre
Très-Saint-Pere le Pape Pie IX” , Vol., I 1873.)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>April
28, 1872 ~ Bl Pius IX's Address to Romans from several parishes</b></u></span></span></span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>:</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span>“<span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
pitiful are those who make a pact with the Revolution! They want to
play with the Revolution, and the Revolution will engulf them in its
abysses ..... They are those who govern, and who believe they can put
out the fire of the Revolution by approaching it closely, </span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>without
noticing that they are themselves </u></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>affected
by a fire which threatens to burn down the whole earth</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>,
and whose warning signs are already being felt</u></span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.”</span></span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(M.
Chabuty, p 34. His source, R. P. Pasquale de Franciscis, “Discours
de Notre Très-Saint-Pere le Pape Pie IX” , Vol., I 1873.) </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>January
1, 1873 – Bl. Pius IX's Address to the Palatine Guard: </b></u></span></span></span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
</u></span></span></span>“<span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Something
similar is happening today (in the world) (as to what happened in the
cities of the Pentapolis * before they were consumed "by the
fire of the sky"): </span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>very
great misfortunes threaten the world.</u></span></span><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Europe,
Italy, Rome and many followers rejoice and dance on a ground full of
danger. "</span></span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(M.
Chabuty, p. 35. His source, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Univers
et Monde</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
Jan. 4, 1873)</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(*)
NOTE: it appears Bl Pius IX was cryptically referencing the evils of
the world were similar to the times of Sodom and was possibly afraid
of FIRE FALLING FROM THE SKY? - “Pentapolis” is a reference to a
passage in the book of Wisdom mentioning the five cities destroyed by
fire from the sky and Sodom Gomorrah were among them. “She (wisdom)
delivered </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the
just man (i.e Lot) </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">who
fled from the wicked that were perishing, when the fire came down
upon </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pentapolis:
Wh</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ose
land for a testimony of their wickedness is desolate, and smoketh to
this day, and the trees bear fruits that ripen not, and a standing
pillar of salt is a monument of an incredulous soul.” (Wisdom 10:
6-7) </span></span></span>
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2, 1872</b></u></span></span></span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>
– Bl. Pius IX's Address to the Youth of Rome: </u></span></span></span>“<span style="font-size: small;">We
hope that, like the Hebrews who arrived safe and sound at the end, we
will be able, after having miraculously crossed these times of
persecution, to sing like Moses: </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Cantemus
Domino, gloriose enim magnificatus est: equum et ascensorem projecit
in mare.” </i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Let
us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and
the rider he hath thrown into the sea. )</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>(</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">M.
Chabuty, p. 38. His source, Univers et Monde, Oct. 7, 1872) (NOTE:
compare with the Address of March 3, 1872 above – again, it almost
sounds as if Bl. Pius IX was hoping for a 'great leader' like Moses
who would deliver the Church.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><u>THE INTERESTING PART:</u><span style="color: #660000;"> Bl. Pope Pius IX recevied the first original versions of the Secrets of the apparition of Our Lady of La Salette in 1851 from the seers Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat - these original secrets were rediscovered in the Vatican Archives in 1999 and republished: Mélanie's original secret MENTIONS A KING WILL ONE DAY RISE TO THE THRONE amidst a period of disorders in the world and the Church AND BRING A TIME OF PEACE BEFORE THE RISE OF THE ANTICHRIST. It is obvious Bl Pius IX's prophetic sermons were inspired by the Secrets. (<a href="https://greatmonarch-angelicpontiffprophecies.blogspot.com/p/maximin-giraud-and-melanie-calvat-our.html" target="_blank">For the story of La Salette and the orignal secret - click here</a>.)</span></span><br />
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So,
with this latest blast in the Furnace constellation, we detect that
the old Masonic way of looking at alchemy, aka a symbol of the French
Revolution and the diabolical democratic chain of events that
unleashed may in fact be burned away by God's furnace in preparation
to send the 'New Moses' aka, the <b>King of the White Flag</b> <b>of
France, the Great Catholic Monarch</b> as Marie-Julie Jahenny
foretold.
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St.
Michael told her he is only waiting for the order from God to clear
France of all that has to do with Freemasonry, aka the Masonic
Republic, with his fiery sword and to march with his armies with the
King and the White Flag. The King of iron, the symbol of war, will
come during the cleansing hardships, the furnace of tribulation, war,
and also poverty. The world is going to be knocked back to a simple
way of life after the Three Days of Darkness after all. (And yes,
this King is also represented by the White Rider of the Apocalypse.
We'll get to that in a minute.)</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Note,
naming the Furnace constellation may be relatively new to us, but not
in the Eastern cultures – to the Chinese in particular the Furnace
is the </span><b>White Tiger of the West</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">–</span><b>
an important symbol of wise imperial or royal rule. </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">In
Chinese culture the tiger is the King of the beasts and was
represented with a 'king' symbol on its forehead for centuries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>It
was said in their mythology that the white tiger would only appear
when t<b>he emperor ruled with absolute virtue</b>, <b>or if there
was peace throughout the world. </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Because
the colour white of Wu Xing Chinese philosophy theory also represents
the west, the White Tiger became a mythological guardian of the west.</span></div>
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<b>So, we can see symbols
of the rise of a virtuous Emperor-King from the West associated with the colour white who will
come after the purifying furnace of God's fire cleansing the earth
and will bring the promised Age of Peace.</b></div>
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I'm
not the only one who may have noticed the connection between the
Furnace constellation, the White Tiger, and God's dual Creative and
cleansing fire.
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Take
a look at William Blake's (1757-1827) famous poem 'The Tiger' first
published in 1794:</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Tyger Tyger, burning bright,<br />In the forests of the night;<br />What
immortal hand or eye,<br />Could frame thy fearful symmetry?<br /><br />In
what distant deeps or skies.<br />Burnt the fire of thine eyes?<br />On
what wings dare he aspire?<br />What the hand, dare seize the
fire?<br /><br />And what shoulder, & what art,<br />Could twist the
sinews of thy heart?<br />And when thy heart began to beat,<br />What
dread hand? & what dread feet?<br /><br />What the hammer? what the
chain,<br />In what furnace was thy brain?<br />What the anvil? what
dread grasp,<br />Dare its deadly terrors clasp!<br /><br />When the stars
threw down their spears<br />And water'd heaven with their tears:<br />Did
he smile his work to see?<br />Did he who made the Lamb make
thee?<br /><br />Tyger Tyger burning bright,<br />In the forests of the
night:<br />What immortal hand or eye,<br />Dare frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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Is
that poem more than a mere 'co-incidence'?</div>
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Hmmmm. </div>
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And
yes, this is the same William Blake who designed those famous
artworks of the Beast from the Apocalypse and the Woman Clothed with
the Sun.</div>
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He
definitely must have been on to something.</div>
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<u><b>However,
stop the presses!</b></u>
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New
sign, or development of the sign!
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<span lang="en-GB">This
past February 2020, the Fornax explosion has now been outdone by
evidence of an ENORMOUS major blast found in the Ophiuchus galaxy
cluster, which has now been described as the biggest known explosion
since the Big Bang. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiuchus_Supercluster">Source,
click here</a>)</span></div>
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Is
the Fornax sign out of date then?
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMRboM-mnSfq7idIRnP-1wPlxJpGE_WOaEbGuG_CvLTdLaDE72Q2_oorytqqDcKdvWazYk5Up4CH5I9OzXjYaAKHBuGzD6th3iipluSzFT9GpxabsFEBkavENAqACDWxU-3AkdMOVKOtTn/s1600/Ophiuchus+1+star+chart.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="570" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMRboM-mnSfq7idIRnP-1wPlxJpGE_WOaEbGuG_CvLTdLaDE72Q2_oorytqqDcKdvWazYk5Up4CH5I9OzXjYaAKHBuGzD6th3iipluSzFT9GpxabsFEBkavENAqACDWxU-3AkdMOVKOtTn/s320/Ophiuchus+1+star+chart.png" width="320" /></a>No
because I feel God was trying to get us to pay attention to recent
discoveries regarding explosions around these particular few
months of 2019-2020 as this next explosive discovery in Ophiuchus is very
telling as well.</div>
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Since
we see the 'Furnace' may be lit, Ophiuchus is the next sign, pictured right. </div>
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Although representing a snake bearer, looking at it from a Christian
viewpoint, it is in fact a 'Crucifixion' constellation representing
Christ.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">God
in the Old Testament told Moses the Deliverer to raise up a bronze
serpent on a staff to save the Israelites from the bites of the
dreaded dipsas serpent. (Numbers 21: 8-9) The fiery bite of that
serpent caused a burning sensation and a horrible thirst that could
not be satisfied before it killed its victims. (</span>Deuteronomy
8:15<span style="font-weight: normal;">) God said those who looked
upon the bronze serpent would be cured of its fatal bite. </span>
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This
was an Old Testament symbol of Christ raised up on the Cross –
noticed He thirsted greatly – He thirsted for the salvation of
souls bitten by the Old Serpent of Sin and Death. Those who looked
up Him would Live.</div>
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Ophiuchus,
the Snake Bearer therefore represents Christ on the Cross. Next to it
is the Virgo constellation representing the Virgin Mary. (Sorry, I haven't found a chart those goes beyond the scale of Libra to show this.) At the feet
of Ophiuchus is the Scorpio constellation, but in the Old Hebrew way of astronomy,
Scorpio was actually the Eagle, and the eagle is the sign of St. John
the Evangelist who was with Our Lady at the foot of the Cross.
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So,
it is a constellation representing the Crucifixion. Yes, you have to
use your imagination to 'see' it in the layout of the shapes but the
symbolism is there.
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I
tend to pay attention to what happens in this constellation group
because not only is it a Crucifixion scene, but at the right hand of
Ophiuchus (if we picture him facing us) is another relatively 'new'
constellation added to the Western sky charts – </span><b>Scutum –
the Shield</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">, pictured below.</span></div>
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Scutum was named in 1684
by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius, (Jan Heweliusz), who
originally named it <b>Scutum Sobiescianum</b> (Shield of Sobieski)
to commemorate the victory of the Christian forces led by Polish King
John III Sobieski (Jan III Sobieski) in the Battle of Vienna in 1683.
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The Ottoman Muslim
invasion was defeated at the Battle of Vienna. The battle was fought
by the Hapsburg Monarchy, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and
the Holy Roman Empire, under the command of King John III Sobieski.
This was the first time the Holy Roman Empire and the Commonwealth
and had cooperated militarily against the Ottomans, and often seen as
a turning point in history after which "the Ottoman Turks”
ceased to be a threat to the Christian world – that is until the
recent rise of radical Islamic terrorism.</div>
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Early pictures of the
Scutum constellation shows the shield with a <b>huge cross on it</b>,
and some pictures even show it to be a <b>Red Cross</b> as seen in the illustration.</div>
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Another interesting
constellation, to the left of Ophiuchus and our right, (if we picture him facing
us) is the Corona Borealis, t<span style="font-weight: normal;">he</span><b>
'Northern Crown'.</b>
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In Greek mythology this
constellation represented the gift of a crown given by the god
Dionysus to the Cretan princess Ariadne. Dionysus was the god of
wine and the grape harvest, and, since we are also concentrating on
the image of a cleansing furnace of iron as well as a royal crown
connected to a shield with a cross, we detect a symbolic connection
with the <b>Royal White Warrior Rider</b> of the Apocalypse with the
Sword of the Word of God who<b> will tread out the vintage of God's
fiery wrath and rule all the nations with the rod of iron</b>:</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">"And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white
horse; and he that sat upon him was called faithful and true, and
with justice doth he judge and fight. And his eyes were as a flame
of fire, and on his head were many diadems, and he had a name
written, which no man knoweth but himself. And he was clothed with
a garment sprinkled with blood; and his name is called, THE WORD OF
GOD. And the armies that are in heaven followed him on white horses,
clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth
proceedeth a sharp two edged sword; that with it he may strike the
nations. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; and he treadeth
the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God the Almighty.”
(Apoc. 19: 11-15)</span></div>
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Again, of interest, this
'Northern Crown' <b>is next to the shepherd constellation Bootes</b>.
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All are intriguing signs
when put together - <span style="font-weight: normal;">the Great
Catholic Monarch is destined to restore the Holy Roman Empire in
union with an “Angelic Shepherd Pope” and declare the Victory of
the Cross as foretold in the prophecies of the mystics. Together
they will unite all of Christendom under the White flag of France and
fight back the Muslim invaders of Europe with the army of the
Cruciferi, or 'Cross Bearers' who will wear a red cross. But not
until the earth is chastised with many tribulations first, the
furnace of God so to speak, especially with the Three Days of
Darkness with fire falling from the sky. (<a href="https://greatmonarch-angelicpontiffprophecies.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-great-catholic-monarch-and-angelic.html">See
the Great Catholic Monarch and Angelic Pontiff prophecies, click
here</a>.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">An
alchemical furnace, or athanor as depicted in the Fornax
constellation, was also called the '</span><b>furnace of secrets</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">'
and </span><b>noted for being a slow burning oven.</b></div>
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it burned for a long period of time as was prized for carrying out
long and slow operations – hence it earned another popular
nickname, wait for it.....</span></div>
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<b>Piger Henricus</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">
- the </span><b>'Slow Henry'</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">According
to the prophecies of Marie-Julie Jahenny, the name of the promised
Great Monarch is <b>HENRY V</b> <b>the 'Miracle Child'</b>, also, <b>HENRY of the CROSS. </b></span></div>
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What is the coincidence of having a 'alchemy furnace' constellation with the link to the name HENRY, and that is should have an explosion happen near it? And that another explosion should be discovered in a Moses the Deliver / Crucifixion scene and a holy shield with a Cross on it commemrating the Battle of Vienna? <b>Henry of the Cross</b>!<br />
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Of interest, alchemists who would use a 'slow Henry' not only attempted to unlock the secret of how to turn base metals into gold, they also tried to unlock the secrets of immortality and long life, they hoped to do this by discovering the theoretical quintessence in Creation - or FIFTH ELEMENT.<br />
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A <b>Henry V</b> connection!</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Henry V
was already on earth in the 1800s and Marie-Julie Jahenny was told <u>he
would one day be returned. </u>She is not the only mystic who said Henry V was the promised Great Monarch - Ven Josepha of Bourg also said the exiled 'child prince of the 1830s revolution, named 'Prince Dieudonné', i.e. HENRY V, was the king chosen by God and he would return and rule. Other prophecies indicate sometime in the
first third or half of the 21</span><sup><span style="font-weight: normal;">st</span></sup><span style="font-weight: normal;">
century. We have certainly waited a very long time – but the
'furnace of secrets' has at last been lit if what we see in the stars is true –
God may be preparing to send him at long last. </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">As we recall, God says like silver and gold, <u>He tries ACCEPTABLE MEN in the FURNACE of HUMILIATION</u>. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">(Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 2:5)</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Christ tried Henry first in the <b>furnace of humiliation in the annals of history for defending the White Flag of the Absolute Monarchy of Catholic France</b> for it cost him his throne and earned him the mockery of the nations, even today he is still mocked for beaing a weak or inept leader for losing the throne over a flag, but Christ told Marie-Julie <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #783f04;"><u>His shoulders will bear like Mine the mantle of abomination</u>, (...)" (July 21, 1881.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #783f04;">King Herod mocked Chrst and his royal authority by dressing him in <b>white</b> before sending Him back to Pilate, who allowed Him to be crucified.</span></span></span></span><br />
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Lady told Marie-Julie Jahenny (March 16, 1880):</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;">“<span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">My
children, so many pains, so many crosses, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">so
many tears will be highly rewarded. (...) </span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
is my Son, who in His turn will command. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><u>This
is how the secret works arrive slowly</u> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">coming
to their term, </span></span><u><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>after
having long been veiled in appearance</b></span></span></u><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
You are called to an extraordinary regeneration. (i.e. those
predestined to survive the coming tribulations). You will be called
the children of the new world."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Our
Lord also said this to Marie-Julie Jahenny in February 1941 –
apparently, the last of the known published texts of her ecstasies
before her death:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;">“<span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">To
the powers that have fought with such </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">bravery
and courage, they will receive from France the greatest reward: to
take its place within the Catholic Church, coming out of this baptism
of blood rejuvenated and renewed. I will break all the obstacles
and reverse all the projects of those that prevent the light to be,
France will be saved by means </span></span><u><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>out
of all human knowledge</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.
</span></span></u><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><u>God
has reserved the secret for them until the last moment.</u> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
make light of the projects of men, preparing My right wonders. My
Heart will be glorified throughout the earth. I appeal to confound
the pride of the wicked. <u> </u></span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><u>And
the more the world will be hostile to the supernatural, the more
marvellous will be the events that will confuse this negation of the
supernatural.</u>”</b></span></span></span></div>
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As
Our Lord foretold to Marie-Julie Jahenny before this would all happen
and King Henry V the 'Miracle Child' would be returned to renew
Christendom, He would send warning signs and tribulations during the
beginning of each year (<a href="https://greatmonarch-angelicpontiffprophecies.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_62.html">see
her prophecies here</a>).</div>
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in the first few months of 2020 after noticing these signs and discoveries in the sky regarding the
furnace, in addition to huge apocalyptic plagues of locusts through
east Africa and as far as west China, the worst ever fires, floods,
snow and hail storms within a few months in Australia, earthquakes,
floods and volcanoes everywhere in the world, and a new plague,
COVID-19 Coronavirus (CROWN virus!) that is threatening to crash the
economy and start a revolution, especially in France, which was
foretold would be a manufactured event that would usher in the wars
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<b>Ah, the thrill of seeing something you have created out there in the world for all to enjoy - until you see what the world does once it gets a hold of it.</b></div>
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For instance, never in a million years would Beethoven had known let alone thought that 'Für Elise' would be used in the 1980s to advertise the greasy glory of fries and hamburgers to the point that every kid in America who wasn't taking piano lessons came to know the piece solely as 'The McDonald's Song'.</div>
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Remember that ad? If you don't, I'm certainly getting old! </div>
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(By the way, I found it on YouTube. You're welcome.) <br />
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I'm no Mozart, but it seems writers suffer a similar fate.<br />
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We slave over our rough drafts and manuscripts, doing our best to turn out polished phrases, only to see some of our cherished darlings, aka our quotations, morphed into other colourful mutant creations beyond our imagination once they have been released out into the big wide world. <br />
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Regarding my own quotes, I've found a few repurposed by whoever found them, thankfully, they are not all mutilated. People have become pretty inventive with them! (Or not.)<br />
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This picture with this quote - utter genius. <b> </b>(Quote from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11418420-brushstrokes-of-a-gadfly" target="_blank">Brushstrokes of a Gadfly</a>)<br />
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The next image below is a case of 'go home meme bot generator, you're drunk'. <br />
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The quote is about the poetic spirit of the Eiffel Tower, and yet it has been plastered onto an image of an uninhabited wasteland, apparently by an AI program that doesn't deserve the 'I' for intelligence in its anagram. *sigh!* <br />
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(Quote from<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11418420-brushstrokes-of-a-gadfly" target="_blank"> Brushstrokes of a Gadfly</a>) </div>
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This next quote is a favourite out there with the artists - here is an example of what they do to it:<br />
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(Also from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11418420-brushstrokes-of-a-gadfly" target="_blank">Brushstrokes of a Gadfly)</a><br />
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Below, another case of "go home meme bot, you're drunk".<br />
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Thanks for sticking a quote about PARIS, FRANCE on a picture of VENICE, ITALY you dingbit! Give this meme bot some geography lessons!<br />
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(Quote from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11418420-brushstrokes-of-a-gadfly" target="_blank">Brushstrokes of a Gadfly</a>)<br />
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Next one, "Sesame Street" has turned into an urban jungle since I last saw the show. LOL!<br />
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Another case of a meme bot not having a clue - this quote of Faust, the man from the 1500s who sold his soul to devil for knowledge and power, stuck on a picture of a modern day weightlifter? <br />
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(Quote from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8874964-faust" target="_blank">Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World, Vol. 1</a>) <br />
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The real quote should read: "Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.”(<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11418420-brushstrokes-of-a-gadfly" target="_blank">Brushstrokes of a Gadfly</a>) </div>
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Next! An unexpected comparison - one of my quotes from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11418420-brushstrokes-of-a-gadfly" target="_blank">Brushstrokes</a> ... with one about people who aren't too keen on their personal hygiene.</div>
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EA Bucchianerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03685067504150348329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6094790496676897078.post-49243949130341451772019-06-25T21:12:00.003+01:002021-12-31T02:25:01.709+00:00The Summons<div style="text-align: justify;">
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… He wished he didn’t have to go out tonight. As he went up the rectory stairs, he could hear the voices in the common room, his fellow pastors enjoying some community time together before dinner. The door was left ajar, he could hear Fr. Mark relaying his mishap at the hospital that day to the others. He had been sent to the wrong room and frightened a patient into thinking he was being</div>
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prepared to meet his Maker when he was only staying overnight for medical observation having bumped his noggin on a shelf at home. What made it worse, the patient replied if his time had come, surely it was a rabbi that should have been sent to him? The poor bloke wasn’t even Christian!</div>
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Ah Mark, how you keep forgetting what I told you! Don’t rely on the nurses to keep track of the spiritual patients, always verify who’s in the bed. Peter chuckled to himself. Mark, oh Mark, so eager to serve, but forever getting into a jam. </div>
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Feeling better after a quick shower, he came down just as they were heading to the dining room.</div>
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“Ah, there you are, lad,” Fr. O’ Conner greeted. “Not going out again are you?”</div>
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“Yes, dinner with the superiors.”</div>
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“That’s right,” Fr. Mark remembered. “Don’t look so worried, it sounds like you may be promoted again.”</div>
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“If not, look at it this way, at least you won’t be subjected to Fred’s cooking tonight,” Fr. Jenkins noted with a big grin. One of the visiting seminarians from Africa insisted on helping with the dinners, unintentionally inflicting additional penance on them all long after the Lenten season had passed. They had no idea what national dish he would introduce to them next, the smells wafting from the kitchen were not very promising.</div>
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“Shh, you know the lad means well,” Fr. O’ Conner reminded him, but he too was not looking forward to their evening meal. “Just offer it up. God help us, I hope we have enough antacid to tide us over ‘til the morning.”</div>
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“Someone better put that on the shopping list,” Fr. Mark added.</div>
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Back in the car, Peter headed in the direction of the Archbishop’s residence, hoping they would not make it an extended occasion. The housekeeper greeted him at the door and took his coat.</div>
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“Good evening, Monsignor. They’re waiting for you in the front parlour. Dinner will be served shortly.”</div>
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“Thank you, Clare. So, how does it fare this evening? Is this a night of breaking bread, or is the Inquisition settling in to give me a good roast?”</div>
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“Ha ha! If they don't, I've got a nice lamb roast on, which is certainly better! But seriously, it's rather starchy tonight with another archbishop present, but they're having a laugh or two, so, I'd say, so-so. It's doesn't look like you're in any hot water.”</div>
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“Thanks. You're a dear.” Bless her heart, Clare was always on the look out for him, afraid he might receive the ire of His Eminence with some of the odd and unexpected pastoral care he gave to his parishioners and penitents on occasion.</div>
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“Forgive me, but I've got to check on the oven, or you're all getting charcoal for supper. Look lively now! You know how he is.” Clare laughed as she returned to her duties, leaving him go. He had been to the Archbishop’s residence enough times to be allowed the liberty of finding his way to the designated room whenever he was invited over. Knocking on the door, he found their Eminences partaking of a libation while they waited. They stood up as he entered.</div>
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“Good evening, Pete,” Archbishop Foley greeted, shaking his hand. “I’m glad you could make it, knowing how busy you are these days. Kenneth, I believe you’ve already met Monsignor Reinold,” he noted, turning to Archbishop Morrison.</div>
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“Yes, quite a few times in Rome, and also on this side of the pond,” he replied, shaking him by the hand. “It’s good to see you again. How is your family, and of course, your brother?”</div>
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“They’re all holding up as well as can be expected.”</div>
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“Naturally, it was a terrible thing to have happened, and to the Walsinghams too for that matter, the wedding having to be put off and all.”</div>
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“It’s a tragedy,” Peter agreed, “but hopefully next year might be better,God willing.”</div>
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“Let’s hope so.” Archbishop Foley nodded. “Would you like a drink? Scotch perhaps?”</div>
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Peter rarely drank these days, but accepted the scotch and sat down with them, engaging in casual conversation before it was time to go to the dining room. Morrison fondly recalled his time in Rome, Peter too could enjoy the reminiscing,having studied and received his ordination there. He had always loved visiting the grand ancient metropolis on his business trips, but as a seminarian, had enjoyed the luxury of completely concentrating on the spiritual life, visiting the famous shrines, churches and the catacombs between lectures. He had met Morrison one day at the chapel of the British College where he had received special permission to offer his first Mass on the famous altar dating from Elizabethan times, a butcher’s block, a gruesome memento mori reminding the newly ordained English missionaries what was facing them when they returned to their blood drenched isle. He was teased by his new friends at the North American College, about how their chapel was not good enough for him, but he needed that reminder just as the English seminarians of old. The chopping block was not confined to one era, nor one form or country. There were many types of martyrdoms, spiritual as well as physical ones; visible and invisible, the block took on many forms and could be encountered anywhere, any time.</div>
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“So, James tells me you are saying the Tridentine Rite these days.”</div>
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“Yes, I’m grateful for his permission. His Holiness wanted more priests tosay the Latin Mass.”</div>
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“Of course, of course.” Archbishop Morrison nodded edgily. Peter could tell his Eminence still preferred the vernacular rite and all the supposed reformations that were to bring the Church into the modern age. Observing the old ways was often a cause of disagreement among the clergy. There were many who viewed those who clung to tradition as obstinate recusants refusing to part with an ‘obsolete’ past eventhough the old ways continued to be lawfully permitted by the Vatican. He decided to tread carefully.</div>
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“It keeps one part of the congregation quiet. Good thing Pete’s willing to do it,” Archbishop Foley replied with a civil laugh, attempting to keep the conversation on an even keel. Clare knocked on the door. “I believe dinner is served. Shall we,” he noted, rising from his chair.</div>
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As usual, Clare outdid herself whenever his Eminence had company, but this time went to considerable trouble having set out the best linens, china, silverware and Waterford crystal. Raised to be the perfect cultured gentleman accustomed to these opulent settings Peter nevertheless reflected on life at the old rectory with its motley assortment of dented and outdated furniture donated by parishioners over the years, the mismatched place settings and chipped tableware that would occur over an epoch of breakage and odd replacements, not to mention the faded carpets and conflicting wallpaper that had seen better days, jumbled décor that would be found in a house with a bunch of bachelors living on parish stipends who had hardly time to worry about the aesthetic coordination of their surroundings. There was peace and contentment with his brother priests, no longer did he have to live with the rigid formality associated with his past life. While he did appreciate the occasional perks that came his way, he could let them go with serene detachment. All he really needed now was a roof, a bed, and something edible once in awhile. Sometimes that last part was sketchy depending</div>
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Dinner passed pleasantly, discussions of the latest developments and projects in their respective parishes, including the recent funerals that Peter had officiated, before musing on the latest news from Rome such as the Pope’s upcoming papal visit to Denver for World Youth Day and other world events which took up most of the conversation. The dessert dishes cleared, Archbishop Foley invited his guests back to the parlour for a brandy. Talk had circled around to parish work again, and the thread was resumed as they sat back in their armchairs.</div>
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“I suppose we should get to the subject of why we’re gathered here tonight,” his Eminence began.</div>
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“Yes, I think so,” Archbishop Morrison agreed. “I have come to ask James a special favour, which involves you, if you’re willing that is.”</div>
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“I see,” Peter replied calmly. He was right, he had guessed something was heading in his direction. Oh Lord, not another promotion, and please, I’d much prefer parish work. But not as I will … .</div>
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“Don’t worry Pete, this isn’t what you think,” the Archbishop noted with amusement. “I don’t think he’s forgiven me since I gave him that title,” he clarified to his peer.</div>
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“Ah, no honours, is that it, son?” Morrison turned to Peter. “Don’t let it bother you. From what I hear, you deserve it.”</div>
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As he feared: the rumours of his discernment were spreading far, singling him out.</div>
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“No false modesty now, I hear the cathedral is receiving record attendance for confessions, and I need not mention single-handedly bringing the Walsinghams’ daughter into the Church. That could not have been easy, considering how her family are strict Episcopalians. My hand to you.”</div>
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“I really didn’t have too much to do with that,” Peter replied a little discomfited, he would never force anyone. While the Church was often referred to as a ship in mystical allegory, it was not supposed to be an unscrupulous navy shanghaiing passengers and crew. It was a Kingdom with open citizenship for anyone wishing to enter. Katherine had come of her own free will, it just happened that he was the only spiritual director she knew, one to whom she could frankly ask questions about their beliefs at length without fear of offending. How he disliked the Church discussed as though it were a business with a recruitment centre, with him portrayed as top headhunter.</div>
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“I beg to differ, but of course, you will be her brother-in-law shortly, so naturally she would turn to you,” Foley noted. “It certainly would be an accomplishment though if any of her family followed her example, fine pillars of the community I hear.”</div>
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“Yes, quite so,” Morrison agreed, “you do know they frequently donate to the Catholic Relief fund.”</div>
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“So you told me.” He nodded. “But forgive us Pete, again we’ve wandered from the matter at hand. To get to the point, Kenneth has asked to enlist your services as an exorcist.”</div>
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“Actually, nothing too involved. I just require your opinion on a case,”Archbishop Morrison clarified.</div>
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“Of course. Only, I thought that Father Xavier was your diocesan exorcist,” Peter reflected., “I can’t help but be surprised you would need my opinion.”</div>
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“Father Xavier has reviewed this case and is convinced it’s a matter of mental disturbance, but the family of the patient refuses to stop pestering my office. They fully believe their relative is suffering from a diabolical attack. They’re demanding a second opinion.”</div>
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“Correct, and I will not allow it to be performed until I can be certain that there is an absolute need for it. You know how these things are looked down upon, the Church is already seen as a backward relic to begin with, while a number of its ceremonies, especially exorcism, is considered a vestige of a superstitious past. We must avoid putting out that negative image as much as possible.”</div>
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Peter pursed his lips and studied the contents of his glass. It was the classic impediment to discerning a true diabolical possession as opposed to mental illness. The devil and his minions were shrewd, crafty enemies. They could mimic diseases of all kinds, hide behind them undetected and torment the afflicted for years. It took someone with a keen eye and a highly developed sense of their own soul as well as the spiritual world to discern the real from bogus mental illnesses and call a halt to this malicious siege, usually because the demons would not blow their cover unless provoked with something very powerful. The Major Rite was one sure proof as the spirits would be forced to answer and give their names, but until it was ascertained there was a case of demonic activity to begin with, exorcists were not given permission to perform it, bound by the virtue of obedience to their ecclesial superiors. The demons knew this very well and took full advantage of the Church’s reluctance to use that ‘backward’ rite. Hell was working furiously to maintain this intolerant and condescending perception of exorcism, sometimes it sounded to Peter’s interior ears of the soul as if the Enemy was laughing sadistically at his frustration with this deadlock.<br />
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“All right, well, it might help if I knew what he did do, and of course, any details on the person who is suffering from these disturbances.”</div>
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“I wonder why,” the Archbishop wryly commented. “Tell me, Pete, may I call you Pete? Any interesting episodes in your chosen career since you were appointed?”</div>
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“If you mean a serious demonic possession case with a person, no not really. Mostly people who were suffering from depression, and two major schizophrenic cases, things of that nature, people needing deliverance prayers, nothing that would require the Major Rite.”</div>
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“I respectfully beg to differ,” Peter said guardedly. “It just happens that diagnosing a veritable possession is a rare occurrence.”</div>
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“Well, as you're the man who's doing the fieldwork, I won’t argue. James tells me you have spent some time with Father Amaranth. I suppose he’s showed you his famous jar collection.” His Eminence snickered slightly.</div>
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Yes, that famous jar collection. How eagerly Fr. Amaranth would show to anyone willing to listen to his disturbing assortment of objects disgorged by the possessed during his exorcisms over the years: innumerable nails of all shapes and sizes, shards of broken glass, handfuls of marbles and other sundry items in the hope people would wake up to the necessity of his ministry. Instead, it opened the</div>
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“I was just remarking that Peter had studied with the head exorcist of Rome,” Archbishop Morrison recapitulated.</div>
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“That he did. Peter here is very interested in doing this. I told him if he really wanted something to challenge him that badly, he could help out with the prison ministry, but no, he says this is what he’s meant to do. Here you are, it’s not a pretty picture,” Foley concluded, handing him the dossier before sitting down and sipping his brandy.</div>
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Peter set down his glass and opened the file. His eyes were first confronted with the dead, expressionless features of a brown haired girl in her mid twenties, her photograph clipped to the right hand corner of the general psychiatric evaluation that had been given to her family. Her lips pursed, face gaunt and blanched, dark brown eyes glowering and devoid of light; this girl, Melissa Yardley, had been through horrific traumas. He did not have time to read everything right then and quickly glanced through the first page written by her relatives relating her personal details; she ran away from home to escape an abusive stepfather and went to live with them, a maternal uncle and his wife. However, she grew rebellious, eventually ran away from home again. Her aunt and uncle reported her missing and did not know what had happened to her for several years until she had been brought in to a hospital. She had made her way to New York, fallen in with the wrong crowd, they could only assume the worst, drugs and a promiscuous lifestyle, but no one could know for sure, she was suffering from what the clinical reports described as severe psychotic delusions and hallucinations, proving to be a danger to herself and others. Multiple scars on her arms indicated she was self-harming, not to mention other signs telling of her suicidal tendencies.</div>
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These were only the physical signs, the outward appearances. Many people suffered from psychological traumas and were not possessed. However, his soul, recoiling from the mere touch of the dossier, told him more than mere printed words and a glossy photograph could. It was similar to the feeling he experienced when handling a cursed object. His spirit could feel an evil emanating from the file as though it harboured a malevolent entity. Thankfully, up to now it was a rare occasion when he felt something like this. He was instantly reminded of one extreme case concerning a house clearing when he had been drawn to an old antique table, not in appreciative attraction for the beautiful woodwork, but as though he were a soldier scouting out a field of battle and from the corner of his eye could see through the enemy’s camouflage. He eyed the piece warily, then calmly made the sign of the cross with holy water. The table abruptly cracked as if exposed to intense heat and a muffled thumping resounded over his head as if something invisible was trying to fly and escape, frightening the owner of the house. Peter instantly knew what was wrong, the table had been used for séances, ouija sessions, tarot card readings and quite possibly, black spells. No longer used for these purposes, it was still a portal bringing evil to the next generation that owned it. His advice: burn the thing, then, a total clearing would be needed to ensure any vestiges of its presence in the house were dispelled. He would say the Minor Rite of deliverance, bless the house, then say Mass in the room where the table had been. The owner protested at first, but eventually did as he suggested and allowed him to carry out the necessary rites, and the dark feelings that were felt on the premises left immediately once that was done.<br />
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Peter looked through the papers for Fr. Xavier’s assessment and found very little to go on. His ecclesial colleague saw nothing that warranted an exorcism. All he witnessed were supposed hallucinations and at other times delusions of persecution. What looked like personality changes and the victim fighting off unseen presences were only figments of a disordered mind he concluded. While he visited her, the girl did nothing of the preternatural, such as speak in an unfamiliar or ancient language, nor disclose knowledge unknown to her. Obviously, the more pronounced supernatural occurrences didn’t happen at the time Peter surmised, such as levitation of the victim or objects around her.<br />
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No, the demon is too smart in this case, he’s not about to show his hand that quickly. He had the distinct impression this was not one of the lesser minions at work, something knowledgeable and high up in the demonic hierarchy was calling the shots here. Peter could not help but feel disappointed with Fr. Xavier, he should have known better, but then, so many priests were not properly trained for this particular ministry in the Church, even in Rome the training for exorcism was sketchy at best. If it wasn’t for ‘the gift’ and his own careful study of the matter over the years, Peter felt he too might have been stuck out on left field. He hoped it was just a case of inexperience on Fr. Xavier’s part. At least Peter could tell instantly when something was wrong, but sometimes 'the gift' was a horrific burden, he often felt weighed down by the knowledge he received.</div>
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To make matters more complicated, Peter could not tell their Eminences right there and then what he sensed, that they had a true case of possession on their hands. His spiritual premonitions were not enough to begin the Major Rite. Documented evidence with witnesses would be needed to convince them, plus a consent form signed by the possessed once permission was granted, and in any case, he dare not mention this ability to read spiritual situations. There were those in the Church who dreaded any sign of the mystical supernatural working through one of their own. If there was not outright jealousy, there was complete disbelief to the point of ridicule and persecution. Right now, he had to keep this quiet,address the situation in a round about way if he hoped to help this girl.<br />
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“Judging from these reports, I can see why Fr. Xavier considered this was nothing more than a mental breakdown, but I would need to see her in person to make a full assessment, and it might take a few meetings, just to be absolutely certain,” Peter noted.</div>
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“Of course, James says you’re always thorough, which is good for me, but I wouldn’t mind getting this sorted as soon as possible,” Archbishop Morrison replied.</div>
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“All right, but you don’t mind if I probe a little deeper into this case? That is, that I have your full permission to do what is necessary to get some answers?”</div>
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“Er, of course, you have my full permission to probe on my pastoral turf, if that’s what you need to hear,” Morrison noted with some amusement. He had heard Monsignor Reinold was a stickler for certain details all right, but did he need his permission for that too? Peter ignored the bantering tone, he had what he needed. He didn’t mind if getting the job done right made him an annoying pain in the neck. At least he had developed a tough hide in the corporate world, it did have some advantages after all.</div>
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“Very well then. Sundays I’m basically free, after my morning parish duties of course. I could see her beginning this weekend.”</div>
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“Whenever you’re free to do this, I’d be grateful.”</div>
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“That’s settled then, we can arrange everything with the girl’s family tomorrow. More brandy,” Archbishop Foley offered, glad the necessary unpleasantries of the night were over. Peter declined the top up as he had to drive home.</div>
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Presently, the evening came to a close and the Archbishop apologized for keeping them up late considering they had an early morning ahead of them. Peter took the case file with him to study in his own time and slid it into his black curate case that he left in the trunk of the car before he drove back to the rectory. He had to make sure that no one else would read the file, not just because Miss Yardley’s general psychiatric evaluation was included, simply an act of charity. Unless permitted to be released by the victims and their families, the names of those requiring exorcisms were to be kept confidential by the Church to ensure that once they were set free from their tormentors they did not receive torturers in human form. What would be the point in helping someone only to have everyone single them out as a freak? The victim would be a source of gossip and sin to others, nor would they ever be able to get on with their life and have any peace. That is, if a priest was allowed to help them in the first place.<br />
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Prejudice against the rite of exorcism was a terrible obstacle, not to mention the distressing lack of faith with numbers of the clergy who entertained the ludicrous notion that demons and possessions were delusions of the medieval period. It pained Peter to see that even the highest authorities in the Church remained blindly indifferent to the Gospels, that Christ cast out demons as well as healed the sick, they were separate miraculous actions and pointedly recorded as such by the Evangelists. There was an alarming unspoken mandate operating within the Church in these desperate times: you may preach about love, forgiveness, prayer to heal the sick, helping the poor, the usual happy feel-good subjects, let us be motivators, but do not mention Hell, damnation or devils please, thank you very much. That will not keep the offertory baskets filled. What a dangerous principle Peter often mused, to teach the Good News without explaining the Bad News that must be conquered. It is no different than if generals lauded the honours and medals that could be won in victorious combat without preparing their cadets how to fight or refused to teach them their enemies’ tactics because war is disagreeable.<br />
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That was not good enough for him, a responsible general or captain had to know his enemy and prepare the troops. Peter had no qualms about giving rousing fire and brimstone sermons when necessary considering he would one day answer to God for the souls placed in his care.</div>
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It was good to call it a night, never before did the stairs up to the bedrooms look so inviting. By now, the rectory was quiet except for the muffled sounds of the television coming from the community room, someone was still up. Peter opened the door an inch to see Fr. O’Conner fast asleep in an armchair. Obviously, he had waited up for him. He turned off the old set and gently shook the slumbering man’s arm.</div>
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“Don’t mind me, I was just restin’ my eyes.” He stretched the stiffness away. “So, how did it go? When do you get your crosier?”<br />
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“Not ever, I hope.” Peter smiled. “I don’t think I’d make a good bishop, not according to today’s standards, or lack thereof.”</div>
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“Nonsense, lad. You’re a natural leader, we could use men with some backbone. Tell me, how did the evening go? They’re not transferring you, are they?”</div>
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“No, I’ve been given a mercy mission in fact.”</div>
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“Oh? On top of all the extra work you have? Care to share, or is it confidential?”</div>
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“All I can say is I’ve been asked to assess a mental patient in Archbishop Morrison’s area and see if there is cause to begin an exorcism.”</div>
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“You don’t say? Sounds mighty serious, judging from your expression. You feel you have a real one on your hands this time,” he noted quietly, meeting Peter’s eyes directly. He didn’t have to say anything, Fr. O’Conner understood much, one of the few who did without necessarily having the gift of infused discernment himself. “I know you wanted this ministry, but sorry lad, I can’t say I congratulate you,” he then added, “if it were me, I’d dread what I might find. Come, let’s off to bed, you’ll need all the forty winks you can get.”</div>
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EA Bucchianerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03685067504150348329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6094790496676897078.post-52266687422895973332019-03-14T16:29:00.001+00:002021-08-19T14:21:25.428+01:00St. Patrick's Well – Clonmel Ireland, Co. Tipperary<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ireland's
mystic Catholic history is steeped in the tradition of holy wells
dotted throughout the island.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It
is said that rather than negatively pointing out to the pagan Druid
Celts what they were doing wrong </span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">by declaring certain spots sacred</span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> in their nature-worship, the early missionaries like St. Patrick realised encouragement is the key and told
the people that yes, they were correct about the idea of holy wells and
thereby dedicated them to the service of Christ, converting them into
Christan baptismal fonts. </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Outside
Clonmel Co. Tipperary on the Cahir road near Marlfield you will find
such a holy well. It possibly one of the largest holy wells in Ireland, and it is said that it
once was a Druid site turned into a baptismal font by St.
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> However I've also heard of one story </span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">St. Patrick met St. Declan
of Ardmore here, the Apostle of the Deise people, ie. the Ardmore /
Waterford region.</span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Those who are not familiar with all of the ancient Catholic history of Ireland often presume St. Patrick was the first missionary, but there were others who came before him or just around the same time, St. Declan was one of those bishops. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As he was travelling from Rome to Ireland, St. Declan met St. Patrick in Italy who was not yet made a bishop. Then it appears when St. Patrick was travelling through the south of Ireland preaching and winning many converts to the faith, St. Declan met him again at St. Patrick's well, perhaps to converse on the matter of apostolic jurisdiction since Ardmore / Waterford was in St. Declan's area. </span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Apparently,
there are little to no records or traditions passed down regarding St.
Patrick evangelising in Waterford, so it appears he respected St.
Declan's authority there as agreed, and it seems St. Declan granted to St. Patrick he could
have this one well where he preached to and baptised the people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's quite possible it was also here at St. Patrick's Well where the two saints agreed to later meet at the Rock of Cashel, the seat of King Aengus of Munster, to formally finalise the matter. St. Ailbe was also there at Cashel, another missionary bishop who had also arrived </span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">before St. Patrick </span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to spread the Gospel. Tradition states the three saints came to an agreement of archdiocese boundaries at Cashel with the King as witness. St. Declan remained in the Waterford / Admore region, while St. Patrick was granted a few church in the Munster area, he agreed to return to the northern Kingdom of Ulster, his archdiocesean seat becoming Armagh where is buried. <a href="https://eabucchianeri.blogspot.com/2016/03/when-st-patrick-impaled-convert.html" target="_blank">(For St. Patrick's dramatic encounter with King Aengus of Cashel, click here.</a>)</span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Apparently, the church at St. Patrick's Well at Clonmel was granted the grace of becoming a Plenary Indulgenced site by Pope John V in </span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1619. (Source: <a href="https://pilgrimagemedievalireland.com/2014/04/12/st-patricks-holy-well-at-marlfield-clonmel/" target="_blank">Pilgrimage in Medieval Ireland</a>). The Pope declared all pilgrims
visiting the church there</span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> on the feast of Pentecost or on the
feast day of St Patrick,</span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> provided they went to confession and
communion, would receive a plenary indulgence. (If you want to know what a plenary indulgence is, read my blog post, <a href="https://eabucchianeri.blogspot.com/2015/10/remember-remember-dead-in-november.html" target="_blank">Remember Remember the Dead in November</a>).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The well is reached by descending a small limestone cliff into a dell via some
wide but steep steps, and it is a lovely, peaceful spot to visit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Some
of the early photos I have discovered </span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">thanks to 'Medieval Pilgrimage in Ireland' </span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">are truly stunning in a time-capsule sort of way, showing what
it looked like in the last turn of the century c. the 1900s. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It still looked kind of 'druidy' didn't it! Sadly, that old tree with its roots wrapped around the well is no longer there. </span></span></div>
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(1841-1917) in The Lawrence Photograph Collection National Library of
Ireland <a href="http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000339062" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000339062) </a></i></span></span></div>
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it is amazing the amount of water that still bubbles with some
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The Cistercians came to the area in
1147 AD and moved on to Inishlounaght at Marlfield where they
prospered for 400 years. The abbey there was founded by Donal
O’Brien the King of Munster and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin.
St. Patrick's Well was apparently also under their care, that is
until Cromwell's arrival when their monastery in Inishlounaght was
dissolved in the 16th century. Cromwell divided the monestary lands
up between his friends. The abbey no longer exists but its site is
located at the First Fruits Church of Ireland on the banks of the
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present remains of the church you see dates from circa the 15th
century and is from the period before when the Cistercians were
custodians. Inside you can see the "White Altar" tomb and
fragments of an earlier Cistercian Romanesque Church. To the right
of the East window the large carved coat of arms of the White family
can be viewed. Nicholas White died in August 1622. Today St.
Patrick's Well is part of the present day parish of St. Mary's of the
Assumption, Irishtown, Clonmel.</span></span></span></div>
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holy processions to the well </span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">on St. Patrick's Day after High Mass </span></span><span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and the whole town got involved, everyone marching out with bands playing and banners flying to pay respect to the national saint. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewroman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(*) <a href="https://eabucchianeri.blogspot.com/2018/03/st-patrick-and-his-blessed-crozier_10.html" target="_blank">St. Patrick and His Blessed Crozier </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Announcing the winners of the Vocation of a Gadfly book draw!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Only two people actually followed both instructions to enter. There were only two instructions <b>1)</b> shelve the book on your 'Want to Read' shelf on Goodreads and <b>2)</b> let me know on Goodreads you wanted to be entered in the draw. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So congratulations to the deserving winners <b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/310672.Dan_Gallagher" target="_blank">Dan Gallagher</a></b> and <b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/51312251-mari" target="_blank"> Mari</a></b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hope you enjoy <a href="https://ea-bucchianeri.blogspot.com/p/vocation-of-gadfly.html" target="_blank">Vocation of a Gadfly</a>!</b></span><br />
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<br />EA Bucchianerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03685067504150348329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6094790496676897078.post-28965074171556992642019-02-20T22:40:00.001+00:002021-08-19T14:25:09.262+01:00Only a Fool .... <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>As I tend to share some quotes from my work, I thought I would</b><br />
<b> share this one from my latest novel,<a href="https://ea-bucchianeri.blogspot.com/p/vocation-of-gadfly.html" target="_blank"> Vocation of a Gadfly </a></b><br />
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<b>It is a poem called 'Dixit Insipiens'.</b><br />
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<b>Only a fool says in his heart</b></div>
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<b>There is no Creator, no King of kings,</b></div>
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<b>Only mules would dare to bray</b></div>
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<b>These lethal mutterings.</b></div>
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<b>Over darkened minds as these</b></div>
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<b>The Darkness bears full sway,</b></div>
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<b>Fruitless, yet, bearing fruit,</b></div>
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<b>In their fell, destructive way.</b></div>
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<b>Sterile, though proliferate,</b></div>
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<b>A filthy progeny sees the day,</b></div>
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<b>When Evil, Thought and Action mate:</b></div>
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<b>Breeding sin, rebels and decay.</b></div>
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<b>The blackest deeds and foul ideals,</b></div>
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<b>Multiply throughout the earth,</b></div>
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<b>Through deadened, lifeless, braying
souls,</b></div>
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<b>The Darkness labours and gives birth.</b></div>
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<b>Taking the Lord’s abundant gifts</b></div>
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<b>And rotting them to the core,</b></div>
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<b>They dress their dish and serve it out</b></div>
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<b>Foul seeds to infect thousands more.</b></div>
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<b>‘The Tree of Life is dead!’ they
cry,</b></div>
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<b>‘And that of Knowledge not enough,</b></div>
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<b>Let us glut on the ashen apples</b></div>
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<b>Of Sodom and Gomorrah.’</b></div>
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<b>Have pity on Thy children, Lord,</b></div>
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<b>Left sorrowing on this earth,</b></div>
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<b>While fools and all their kindred</b></div>
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<b>Cast shadows with their murk,</b></div>
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<b>And to the dwindling wise,</b></div>
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<b>They toss their heads and wryly smirk.</b></div>
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<b>The world daily grinds to dust</b></div>
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<b>Virtue’s fair unicorns,</b></div>
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<b>Rather, it would now beget</b></div>
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<b>Vice’s mutant manticores.</b></div>
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<b>Wisdom crushed, our joy is gone,</b></div>
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<b>Buried under anxious fears</b></div>
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<b>For lost rights and freedoms,</b></div>
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<b>We shed many bitter tears.</b></div>
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<b>Death is life, Life is no more,</b></div>
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<b>Humanity buried in a tomb,</b></div>
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<b>In a fatal prenatal world</b></div>
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<b>Where tiny flowers</b></div>
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<b>Are ripped from the womb,</b></div>
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<b>Discarded, thrown away,</b></div>
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<b>Inconvenient lives</b></div>
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<b>That barely bloomed.</b></div>
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<b>Our elders fare no better,</b></div>
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<b>Their wisdom unwanted by and by,</b></div>
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<b>Boarded out to end their days,</b></div>
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<b>And forsaken are left to die.</b></div>
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<b>Only the youthful and the useful,</b></div>
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<b>In this capital age prosper and fly.</b></div>
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<b>Yet, they too are quickly strangled,</b></div>
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<b>Before their future plans are met,</b></div>
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<b>Professions legally pre-enslaved</b></div>
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<b>Held bound by mounting student debt.</b></div>
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<b>Our leaders all harangue for peace</b></div>
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<b>Yet perpetrate the horror,</b></div>
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<b>Of economic greed shored up</b></div>
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<b>Through manufactured war.</b></div>
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<b>Our armies now welter</b></div>
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<b>In foreign civilian gore.</b></div>
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<b>How many of our kin are slain</b></div>
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<b>For hollow martial honour?</b></div>
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<b>As if we could forget, ignore,
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<b>The scourge of nuclear power,</b></div>
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<b>Alas, victors are rarely tried</b></div>
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<b>For their woeful crimes of war.</b></div>
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<b>Hope and pray we never see</b></div>
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<b>A repeat of Hiroshima.</b></div>
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<b>No more!</b></div>
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<b>Crimes are legion,</b></div>
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<b>The deeds of devil-spawn!</b></div>
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<b>What has happened to the souls</b></div>
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<b>Your Divine Image was minted on?</b></div>
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<b>They are now recast:</b></div>
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<b>Crooked coins of Caesar and</b></div>
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<b>The Whore of Babylon.</b></div>
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<b>How often mankind shuts its ears</b></div>
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<b>To Your music celestial,</b></div>
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<b>Mankind would rather march</b></div>
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<b>To the anthems of Hell.</b></div>
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<b>If humanity cannot be reclaimed</b></div>
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<b>By Your Mercy and great Love</b></div>
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<b>Deservedly we should be struck</b></div>
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<b>By Vengeance from above.</b></div>
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<b>Many dread the Final Day,</b></div>
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<b>And the Crack of Doom</b></div>
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<b>For others the Apocalypse</b></div>
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<b>Will never come too soon.</b></div>
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<b>‘Lift up your heads, be glad’,
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<b>Fools shall bray no more</b></div>
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<b>For at last the Master comes</b></div>
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<b>To thresh His threshing floor.</b></div>
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<a href="https://ea-bucchianeri.blogspot.com/p/vocation-of-gadfly.html" target="_blank"><b>More about the book VOCATION of a GADFLY, click here</b></a><b>!</b><br /><br />
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EA Bucchianerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03685067504150348329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6094790496676897078.post-23174802609684786252018-10-04T23:23:00.001+01:002021-08-19T14:29:10.619+01:00The Perpetual Pilgrim - My New Video Series!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Hi everyone - most of you know I live in Fatima, Portugal </b><br />
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<b>For those who haven't heard about Fatima, it is known throughout the world as the sacred site where the Blessed Virgin appeared to three little shepherd children in 1917 for six successive months on the 13th of each month, starting in May and ending in October with the spectacular Miracle of the Sun that was witnessed by over 70,000 people.</b><br />
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Now a resident for over 15 years and having gained some insider knowledge about the area I thought <span style="color: #783f04;"><b>I would share what I've learned and give video tours and travel-documentaries of the area entitled <span style="color: black;"><u>"The Perpetual Pilgrim"</u></span> to those who would love to know more and see what it's like here.</b></span><br />
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There is so much to explore in the Fatima area and beyond, lesser known sacred apparition sites, historical monuments, world heritage landmarks, local and national Portuguese history, daily experieces living in Portugal, etc, I hope to cover as much as possible!<br />
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<b>Below are my first two videos - I'll be sharing future ones here on my blog as well. </b><br />
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(Please note, I'm new to putting videos together, so bear with me here!) <b><br /></b><br />
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Hope you enjoy! Also, if you are on YouTube, please subscribe to my channel so you never miss a new episode.<br />
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<b>Ep. 1 - Introduction to the Shrine, where it is in Portugal, a quick walkabout, plus meeting up with some feathery friends! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh2TeM4ghvM&list=PLCG9pD_NxUJ7RYWg-t7LwdR6Cvn3O_ZD2&index=1" target="_blank"> (If video is not showing, click here for the YouTube link.)</a></b><br />
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<b>Ep. 2 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ_qidLNuGE&list=PLCG9pD_NxUJ7RYWg-t7LwdR6Cvn3O_ZD2&index=2" target="_blank">The Miracle of the Doves and Portugal's Historical Sacred Oath to the Queen of Heaven, click here. </a></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">As
I was recently cleaning out some of my bookshelves and drawers to get
ready for the next writing project now that my latest novel has
finally been published, <a href="http://ea-bucchianeri.blogspot.com/p/vocation-of-gadfly.html" target="_blank">(you can learn more about that by clicking here)</a>, I came across a reference sheet handed out to us in our
Freshman year in college typed up by Dr. Michael Murphy who taught
the Romantic Era Music course in the department. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">If you are
wondering what my major was, I studied music / musicology at UCC,
Ireland. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Amazing I still had this leaflet after all this years, but
then again, right now I still have all my college notes - never throw
out a useful piece of information is my motto! </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The
sheet includes basic but some helpful advice on how to write college
essays – and I couldn't help but have a good laugh over it. The
good Professor had a sense of humour when it came to whipping the
inexperienced writers into shape with his handouts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">It's
worth sharing for its practical information, and, to show what
greenhorns we were when it came to writing on an academic level.
Hey, we were fresh out of high school after all, and in Ireland what
they called an 'essay' in English class is what I would call creative
writing and short story lessons, we hardly received a lesson on how
to produce a real hard-core essay arguing a point, not like I
remember when I was in grade school in the States. (Yeah, my Fifth and Sixth Grade teachers believed in starting early when it came to college preparation!)</span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">However, the English classes in Ireland were different. As
a result, the professors had a mess on their hands when we Freshmen
all arrived. I was certainly rusty even after the 'creative writing
classes'. They must have had a good snicker or two over the first
wonky 'scholarly' scribbles we handed in as 'essays'. Prof. Murphy
kindly gave us the following to sort us out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Of
course, the old sheet I discovered is geared to music students, but
you can still learn a lot from this if you're new to essay writing,
and, you might get a good chuckle to make your day. Here it is, an
example essay title and how to begin along with Professor Murphy's
comments.<b><span style="color: #660000;"> </span></b><span style="color: #660000;"> (My comments / explanations will be in red if and when
needed)</span><b><span style="color: #660000;">:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">STUDIES
IN REPERTORY MUS 115</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">ESSSAY
TITLE (with advice)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><u>'Outline
and discuss the main issues of Romantic programme music.'</u></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> There
are two tasks involved (i) outline or identify and (ii) discuss the
main (most important, seminal) issues (topics, themes, concepts as
you perceive them) of Romantic programme music. You should identify
the origins of programme music, the main genres which were dedicated
to prog mus, the composers who championed it, the philosophy of prog
mus (e.g. the nineteenth-century idea that instrumental music has the
power to speak and be 'poetic', that music didn't need words to be
complete, that music was more suggestive and expressive and
insightful of the imagination than words could be because words are
too specific whereas music has access to the imaginative world and
can bypass consciousness without hindrance from specific categories.)
There is also the issue of prog mus, symphonic poem and
nationalism. Throughout your essay you must refer to specific works
which were dealt with in class and with which you have become
familiar from your own study. You may photocopy extracts from works
to illustrate your points or you may refer to specific bar numbers.
If you wish to quote an author or lecturer you must acknowledge the
source in a footnote. (I have given advice on this below). It is
immediately obvious if you copy something directly out of a book
because the prose style suddenly changes (not always for the better)
even if you scrape around for synonyms and alternate words and
alternate grammar structures. There is nothing wrong with quoting
other people. In fact you are supposed to do it, but you should (i)
acknowledge your source and (ii) make an intelligent comment about
the quote (e.g. state why you are quoting this author (because you
can't think of anything of your own to write is not a good reason),
do you agree with his / her point, do you wish to modify it,
contradict it, do you think it clarifies some issues etc). Your
first point of reference should be the <i>Grove Dictionary of Music
and Musicians.</i> There are two copies of it in the library (if you
don't know where it is- I mean the dictionary of course) then ask a
librarian or another music student. You should consult the article
on Romanticism, Programme music, Symphonic poem / tone poem, and the
article on relevant composers, and genres.</span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Please
don't start your essay with a long definition from the Grove of what
prog mus means. I know what the Grove and most other books have to
say about the issue, I am more interested in what you have to say.
Also don't write biographies of the composers. You should set out
your main points in the first introductory paragraph. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Some
points about writing an essay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Refrain
from using conversational idioms and informal phrases. Such as ' Ya
know the way that Chopin begins the Ballade is a sort of like an
introductory bit.' Don't ask questions in the essay for example,
'Why does Liszt give titles for his symphonic poems?'. Don't write
long meandering sentences which never get anywhere, and which,
through the inclusion of many, and sometimes superfluous clauses,
tend to elongate the sentence to monstrous proportions which have
the effect (and an undesired one at that) of boring the reader to
distraction. Keep the sentences short and to the point. Don't use
abbreviations when writing long words. You may type your essay. Use
a dictionary (or spell checker) to clarify any spelling you are not
sure of. All of these instructions are designed to get you writing
in a professional manner. To be a good writer you have to be a good
reader which means reading with a dictionary and with a critical
attitude. Just because something is written in a book doesn't mean
it is true. It could be an opinion, and opinions can be wrong or
misinformed. You are in a university to form your own informed
opinions. There is little merit in stating something without being
able to support it with evidence and thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">CORRECT
INCORRECT (even if I do it in handouts)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">cannot
can't</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">does
not doesn't</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">separate
seperate</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">programme
music prog mus</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Please
note the difference between <i>nineteenth-century</i> and <i>nineteenth
century</i>. The first one is as follows: 'Chopin is a
nineteenth-century composer, and the Ballade is a </span></div><div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">nineteenth century
programmatic genre.' In this case nineteenth-century is descriptive
as an adjective. The other one is simply 'In the nineteenth century
blah blah blah'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">PLEASE
TAKE NOTE OF THE FOLLOWING SPELLINGS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Rythmn,
genre, dialogue, legato, dissonant, virtuoso, interrupt, domineering,
definite, equal, arabesque, metre, centre, programme (not 'program'
which is the American style. Use the Anglo version of words.)
competent. Not the difference between 'to compliment' and 'to
complement' – I'm not going to tell you. Consult a dictionary.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Note:
Since the classes were very small, about 20 to 30 Freshman students
if I recall, I think the rat-a-tat-tat about American spelling was
added for my benefit. In Ireland the Anglo spelling of words is
used. Hence, they did a good job of knocking the American spelling
out of me! So, if you wonder about the British style is in
my works with switched 'r' and 'e's, extra 'u's, not to mention 's'
instead of 'z', things like that, now you know. Also, as a music
student we have to understand musical terms and titles in other other
languages, which explains the next part. German terms and titles can
be confusing!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">'lied'
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<span style="font-size: medium;">'lieder'
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Ein
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Dichterliebe
('liebe' means love)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Liederkreis</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">THERE
ARE SOME THINGS YOU SHOULD NEVER DO IN WRITING AN ESSAY. THE
FOLLOWING EXAMPLES ARE TAKEN FROM YOUR LISTENING TEST ANSWERS. </span>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(In 'listening exams', we had to recognise a piece played over the
sound system, the composer, and if we didn't know the piece, that is
if it was a surprise sound clip or we couldn't remember the piece, we
had to explain who we thought it was and why, explain the style etc.
Our listening test answers were also just as wonky!) </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">IF
YOU SEE ONE OF YOUR MISTAKES IN THE LIST BELOW DON'T PANIC. I DIDN'T
TAKE ANY MARKS OFF FOR THEM AND I WON'T REVEAL YOUR IDENTITY TO ANYONE
UNLESS THE PRICE IS RIGHT. <span style="color: #660000;">(Yes, the Professor typed that!)</span></span></div>
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use words you don't fully understand, and don't use words in the
wrong context e.g. 'befuddling' is not an apt choice in reference to
piano technique.</span></div>
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write 'Chopin wrote a lot of piano music in his day.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Please
don't write 'Strauss takes the mickey out of his critics in Ein
Heldenleben.' Try to be more professional 'Strauss satirises his
critics' would be more appropriate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Some
of you are a bit confused as to which century you are in. Chopin was
very dead in 1935 but he was composing in 1835.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #660000;">(Chopin is not impressed. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.</span>) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Please
don't repeat the same thing over and over and over and over and over
again and again and again and again and again etc etc etc etc because
it tends to make the reader very very bored and somewhat tired indeed
when he / she realises that the writer has little to say but insists
on saying it many times just to fill out the page with ink. State
your point once and leave it at that. If you want to refer to a
point you made earlier then do it, but don't repeat the same thing ad
nausem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><u>GUIDELINES
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The
function of footnotes is to allow you to give the source of a book
from which you quoted something in your main text. You can also use
a footnote to add some opinion of your own to a statement in the text
or to give some extra information which would interrupt the flow of
your text (see example x, number 3 below).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Footnote
can be located in two place (i) at the bottom of the page (ii) at the
end of the essay. The choice is yours. Footnotes must be numbered
(i.e. not with letters). There is a format as to how you present the
information in the footnote. See example x</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">example
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<span style="font-size: medium;">1
Carl Dalhaus, <i>Esthetics of Music</i>, tr. William Austin,
Cambridge University Press, Sydney, 1982, p. 122. (Henceforth
<i>Esthetics</i>)</span></div>
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Ibid., p. 123.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">3
Schumann also wrote songs to poetry by Heine.</span></div>
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<i>Esthetics</i>. p. 124.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In
this example note the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">(I)
After the footnote number you give the Author's name <Carl
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<span style="font-size: medium;">After
the comma you give the name of the book which should be underlined
in Italics <<i>Esthetics of Music</i>,> (if a word is
underlined it means it is in italics. If you are using a word
processor you should give book titles in italics).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">(III)
if the book is translated into English you give the translator's
name (in this case <tr. William Austin,> if the book is not
translated then ignore this section</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Then
you give the place of publication <Sydney>. Sometimes there
are a few places given: give the first one mentioned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Then
give the year of the most recent edition / publication (sometimes it
give the date of earlier editions)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Then
you give the page number from which you have quoted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In
example x I have written in brackets (Henceforth <i>Esthetics</i>).
This simply means that if I refer to this book again I don't have to
write out al the details as before but I can just write the word
<i>Esthetics</i> and then the page number, e.g. <i>Esthetics</i>, p.
124 as I have shown in number 4. However, if I refer to the same
book twice in a row you can just write Ibid., followed by the page
number as I have shown in number 2. Ibid. simply means 'same as the
previous title'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">BIBLIOGRAPHY</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The
layout of the bib is a tad different from the footnote layout. The
bib comes at the very end of the essay and is arrange in alphabetical
order. The examples below start at letter S. Please read through
them very carefully. I chose these examples because they show you
how to deal with a number of situations which arise when making out a
bib.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Samson,
J., <i>The Music of Szymanowski</i>, Kahn & Avril, London and New
York, 1980.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Samson,
J., (ed.), <i>Chopin Studies</i>, CUP, 1988.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Samson,
J., (ed.) <i>The Late Romantic Era: Man & Music</i> vol. 7,
Macmillan Press, London, 1991.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Samson,
J., <i>Chopin: The Four Ballades</i>, CUP, 1992</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Schoenberg,
A., <i>Structural Functions in Music</i>, ed. Leonard Stein, London,
1969.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Schoenberg,
A., <i>Style and Idea</i>, ed. Leonard Stein, University of
California Press, 1984.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Stein,
J., <i>Richard Wagner and the Synthesis of the Arts</i>, Wayne State
University Press, 1960.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">There
are a number of things you should notice from the above examples.</span></div>
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<li><div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Although
they are arranged in alphabetical order, in the case where an author
is quoted a number of times you arrange the books in chronological
order (i.e. by year, see the Samson and Schoenberg examples)</span></div>
</li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">CUP
is an abbreviation for Cambridge University Press and OUP is an
abbreviation Oxford University Press. Only use such abbreviations
when you quote the same publisher numerous times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">There
are finicky things like getting the commas in the right place. For
example Arnold Schoenberg is given with the surname first and then
the initial of the christian name followed by a full stop and then a
comma.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Above
you see Samson as an author and as an editor, hence you have (ed.)
after his name to show he edited the book which is a collection of
essays by different authors.</span></div>
</li>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>This
is where the Professor's handout ends. </b> Of course, if you are
currently in college and your professors have a different layout they
would prefer you to use in your essays, do follow that. If you
haven't been given a guide, well, now you have!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">If
you're curious about how my own essays progressed check out my book
<a href="http://ea-bucchianeri.blogspot.com/p/a-compendium-of-essays-purcell-hogarth.html" target="_blank">“A Compendium of Essays: Purcell, Hogarth and Handel, Beethoven, Liszt, Debussy, and Andrew Lloyd Webber”, click here</a>. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">For
fun, see if you can guess which one of the essays WASN'T written
while I was still in college. </span>
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<a href="http://ea-bucchianeri.blogspot.com/2017/02/homepage.html" target="_blank"><b>You can also see the rest of my book titles, click here.</b></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Also,
if you want some more in-depth help when writing for the University,
or even creative writing / fiction, etc, this is an excellent book,
click on the title to read my review: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="K3JSBVB-c-g" href="http://eabucchianeri.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-oxford-guide-to-writing-rhetoric.html" target="_blank">The Oxford Guide to Writing: A Rhetoric and Handbook for College Students ~Book Review</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://eabucchianeri.blogspot.com/p/past-blog-posts.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">TABLE OF CONTENTS - See past blog posts of “Books, Babble and Blarney”.</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #660000;"><b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vocation of a Gadfly - the next novel in the Gadly Saga is here!</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"</b><span class="readable">The devil did not need to work at all when people were so willing to do his dirty work for him.”</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYos7-aeJY2pnuUdpOweCZYlybWvCqrs2zkuawyKwTiNFh_edj-jGTGNOMJD81cw0r_KI6EF3kWqx_6eDzfrLTQNf-tSZn1JTxI3TOT8nzusb4cFWdXpK2IIXbGFhGLZt3RNMM4iZb8QY8/s1096/Vocation+of+a+Gadfly+cover+image.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1096" data-original-width="988" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYos7-aeJY2pnuUdpOweCZYlybWvCqrs2zkuawyKwTiNFh_edj-jGTGNOMJD81cw0r_KI6EF3kWqx_6eDzfrLTQNf-tSZn1JTxI3TOT8nzusb4cFWdXpK2IIXbGFhGLZt3RNMM4iZb8QY8/w360-h400/Vocation+of+a+Gadfly+cover+image.png" width="360" /></a></div><br />
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After the night of the horrific
accident, everyone's lives have been turned upside down. With his
brother in a coma and his inexperienced little sister asked to take her
place at Reinold International Shipping Enterprises, Monsignor Peter
Reinold is granted rare permission from the archbishop to do the
unorthodox and temporarily return to his former executive life in the
world to help the family through this tragic time. For charity's sake he
agrees to keep things running until she finds her feet, ever wary of
the dangerous surroundings he is about to enter, for an old flame is
only waiting for such an opportunity and will do everything to snare him
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Faced with smouldering temptations, Peter soon finds
another battle lies in store when an unusual case is brought before him
that requires his rare spiritual expertise. A gravely ill young woman is
in dire need of assistance. Doctors are at a loss, nursing staff are
terrified. Her legal guardians turn to him as their last hope, it is now
up to him. Armed only with his faith, prayer and his exorcism weapons,
Peter dares to defy an ancient enemy only to discover an inferno
prepared to destroy him.</div>
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<b>Will he and those around him survive the ordeal? </b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Find out in <span style="color: #660000;"><b>Vocation of a Gadfly</b>, <b>Book Two of the Gadfly Saga.</b></span></span></div>
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</div>EA Bucchianerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03685067504150348329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6094790496676897078.post-55143699974385313552018-03-10T17:50:00.002+00:002021-08-19T14:42:06.229+01:00St. Patrick and His Blessed Crozier<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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where did St. Patrick come from? Scotland, England, Wales and also
Ireland have been proposed as the birthplace and homeland of the Emerald Isle's most
beloved national saint, but the most likely of all contenders for St.
Patrick's birthplace is France, and his childhood home, Brittany. </span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Ancient accounts suggest it is f</span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;">rom here he received his blessed crozier, <i>An</i></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="st"><i> Bachall Iosa</i></span>, or the Staff of Jesus.</span></b></div>
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Frenchman?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">(Well, he was of Roman lineage with possibly some Hungarian in the mix, but we'll get into that!)</span></div>
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books in our home is an old treasure entitled <b>“The Life of Saint
Patrick, Apostle of Ireland” published by John Murphy in 1863</b>.
Although an old source, Murphy lays out his argument in favour of
France, and I for one find it very convincing, although trying to
figure out what he was trying to say in his old academic way was a
challenge! However, here is a concise account of Murphy's study. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Starting with
St. Patrick's own account, we find the saint gave very few details
about his life, but revealed he came from a respectable family. His
father was called Calphurnius, and his grandfather was Potitus, (or
Otide), and they both took holy orders. After the birth of his
children, Potitus became a priest. I may have missed this detail, but </span><span style="font-size: medium;">apparently </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Murphy's history of St.
Patrick does not say how this came about. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Either Potitus was a widower, or he
and his wife may have separated upon his decision to enter the
priesthood: </span><span style="font-size: medium;">in the ancient days it was possible for a man to become a priest if he decided to separate from his wife with her consent. Calphurnius became a deacon. Both their
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apparently came from respectable Roman stock as well: she was the
niece of St. Martin of Tours who was born in what is now Hungary, the son of a Roman solider who was
destined to become a bishop. Yes, the same St. Martin that cut his
cloak in half and gave the other half to a beggar only to
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">As we can
see, St. Patrick hailed from a very pious family, one with a famous
saintly member associated with Tours, France, and from hence we start
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Murphy highlights the importance of Tours
in St. Patrick's family history, together with an analysis of the
ancient Irish hymn written by one of the the saint's disciples, St.
Fiech, first bishop of Sletty and afterwards the archbishop of
Leinster. St. Fiech was a young poet under the tutelage of Dubtach,
the poet-bard of the High King of Ireland. After the famous night
when St. Patrick defied the royal decree and lit his holy fire across from the royal seat of
Tara, St. Fiech was converted along with the rest of the King's court
by the holy missionary's preaching. In his ancient hymn, <b>St.
Fiech declares St. Patrick was actually born at 'nemThur', the Old
Irish meaning 'Holy Tours'.</b> Being his disciple, St. Fiech
obviously heard this information from the man himself, and therefore
Murphy declares in his book that Fiech's hymn is very convincing
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<span style="font-size: medium;">As to St.
Patrick's family home existing in Brittany, Murphy directs our
attention to an early writer named Probus, who apparently lived in
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“<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>St.
Patrick was a Briton, of the village of Banava, in the district of
Tyburnia, adjacent to the the Western Ocean</b>, which village we
undoubtedly find to have been in the province of Neutria (Nuestria),
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<span style="font-size: medium;">It is easy
to see why many historians think St. Patrick came from British Isles
since 'Briton' means a native or inhabitant of Great Britain, and was
also the name of the people in Southern Britain during Roman times,
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>'Briton'
is also the ancient spelling of 'Breton', or a native of Brittany.</u> </b>
That region of France received its name from the tribe of Britons who
escaped the marauding hoards of Saxons ravaging Britain during the
5<sup>th</sup> and 6<sup>th</sup> centuries. Murphy notes that
Brittany was one referred to as 'Little Britain' among the early
writers because of its ancient British ancestors, hence it is easy to
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Considering
St. Patrick's Roman roots and the family connection to Tours,
Brittany seems the more likely of the two. </b> Murphy continues the
connection to Brittany through the original Old Irish wording of St.
St. Fiech's hymn relating St. Patrick's escape from slavery and his
subsequent period of theological study: </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Patrick
stayed in the “Andeas an deiscort<u> leatha</u> / An-innsigh mara
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“<span style="font-size: medium;">Southward
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out that ancient scholars mistranslated the Old Irish words 'leatha'
(also 'lethu' in verse IX), mistaking it for Italy, <b>when Letavia
is the correct translation, which in the Middle Ages was known as
'Amoric Gaul', aka the northwest of France. </b> Another mistake was made
regarding the islands of the sea: <b>“toirrian” into “Touronian”</b>
does sound more accurate than the Latin translation of the hymn “In
insulis maris Tyrrheni”, the “In the islands of the <span style="text-decoration: none;">Tyrrhenian”
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Murphy shows that Probus had used the incorrect Latin translation of 'Tyrrhenian' and
not the Irish wording in his chronicle of the saint, which makes quite a
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“<span style="font-size: medium;">The
Western Ocean (…) is in another part (of Probus' work) called the
<span style="text-decoration: none;">Tyrrhenian</span>, which
designates, beyond all doubt, <b>the <u>Turonian Sea</u>, <u>at the mouth
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and opposite the country inhabited by the Turones, or, as now
denominated, the people of Turaine</b>, <b>whose capital, Tours, was a great
city, even in the times of the Romans,</b> but more celebrated afterwards
for being the residence of St. Martin, St. Gregory, and a
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Therefore,
if Murphy's analysis of a misunderstanding regarding Tyrrhenian for
'Turonian' in the ancient text is correct, St. Patrick lived in the
district that lay next to the Turonian Sea, which would be Brittany.
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trace of his childhood home left? St. Patrick himself said in his
<i>Confession</i> that his family owned an estate called</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> "Bannavem Tiburniae".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Looking at the second word, Murphy notes that 'Tiburniae' refers to the ancient Roman usages of 'Tabernae' referring to Roman encampments dating from the time of Caesar's invasion of Gaul, the word also referring to 'taberna', or the temporary shelter formed of wooden matierals. So, this would point an ancient Roman settlement, and of course, St. Patrick's family had Roman roots. In recent times Rev. Marcus Losack has presented an intriguing theory as reported by <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/st-patrick-may-have-been-from-brittany-not-britain-1.1575923" target="_blank">Sarah McDonald in the "Irish Times" (Oct 28, 2013)</a>:</span></div>
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Losack argues that <b>Château de Bonaban in Brittany is Bannavem
Tiburniae</b>. The site on which Château de Bonaban was built reportedly
contains remains that date from the Roman era. These remains were
discovered in the basement of the château in the 1870s but
unfortunately they have since been lost through renovations. Rev
Losack hopes an archaeological dig can take place that may reveal
other evidence of a Roman settlement and possibly provide
confirmation for his theory of St Patrick’s origins.</span></div>
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a bit, in clarifying of the meaning of the 'Tyrrhenian Ocean' to be a
misspelling of the 'Turonian Sea' and its location, plus finding a
quote from a French source regarding St. Martin of Tours and his
famous monastery, Murphy discovered and corrected a grievous error
regarding the location where St. Patrick's received a portion of his
theological training, by explaining how the word 'inch' was used
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“<span style="font-size: medium;">To the
natives of Ireland and Scotland it is well known that an isle in the
sea, an islet in the loughs, lakes and rivers, a dry hillock in a
morass, nay, <u>sometimes a place nearly though not altogether
surrounded by water,</u> is, in Irish and Erse, an <b>'inch'</b>.
Islands of this sort were, in the primitive ages of Christianity
highly sought for after for a contemplative retreat, by pious monk
and ascetics. (…) In the isles of the Amoric Sea (i.e. the ocean
next to Brittany), too, there are many such edifices. Nay, along the
meandering banks of and torturous mazes of the fertilizing Loire,
from Orleans, through Touraine, a district emphatically styled by
geographers the garden of France, till it empties itself into the
Turonian or Amoric Sea, many of the primitive saints of Gaul (France)
built their cells and monasteries for religious contemplation. <b>
</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Among those (…) was out
saint's uncle, Martin of Tours.</span> This great Apostle, whose
pious labours achieved the conversion of the western parts of Gaul
from Gentilism to Christianity, and was originally '<i>the son of
Roman Tribune, born in the year 316, (…) in the west of Hungary,
was first compelled to embrace the profession of a soldier, though he
always always showed a particular predilection for a retired life:
from this , however, he was necessitated to withdraw in 374 AD, on
being elected Bishop of Tours (…) . In order, however, to have
less converse with the world, he built near the city of Tours,
</i><i><u>between the Loire and a sharp rock</u></i><i>, the
celebrated monastery of Marmoutier, which still exits, and is
considered the most ancient abbey of France.</i>' <b>In this 'inch'
(island) it was, and in some other 'inches' in the Turonian, and not
in the Tyrrhenninan or Mediterranean islands, that St. Patrick fixed
his residence for studying divinity (…) under St. Martin, and other
holy masters after that saint's death.” ~ </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">(Murphy,
pp. 47-48. Murphy's French source in italics about Marmoutier,</span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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course, this makes sense: St. Patrick with his respectable family
connections with the Church would most likely have stayed near
Tours, not to mention Tours was also blessed with the leadership of
St. Germanus, who was also bishop of Tours, who according to accounts
was also St. Patrick's tutor. In the middle of the 9</span><sup><span style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></sup><span style="font-weight: normal;">
century, Eric of Auxerre wrote about the life of St. Germanus and declared that he “considers it the highest honour of that
prelate to have been the instructor of St. Patrick”, adding that he
remained under St. Germanus' tutelage for eighteen years, who then
recommended him to Pope Celestine who gave him the mission to
evangelise Ireland. St. Fiech's ancient hymn also mentions St.
Patrick studied under St. Germanus before heavenly visions alerted
Patrick of God's plan to send him to Ireland. (<i>Image: St. Germanus teaching St. Patrick, stained glass window in </i></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>in the Lady Chapel of Gloucester Cathedral.</i>)</span></span></div>
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if Murphy's book is correct, then Patrick did not receive his famous
crozier called </span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Jesus's
Staff </span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> in the
Tyrrhenninan or a Mediterranean island as some historians continue to
suggest to this day, but on the secluded 'inches' of the Turonian
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his stay in Rome, St. Patrick returned to the 'island', or rather, an
'inch' in the Turonian Sea and stayed among the barefooted hermits
there according to Murphy's study of the sources. Sacred legend and
history blend at this point. Some writers say Christ appeared and
gave the staff to St. Patrick, other accounts relate a hermit on the
island names Justus received the visitation from Christ and was
ordered to bring the staff to St. Patrick. Other ancient chroniclers
write its origin is uncertain, but St. Bernard declares it was
covered in gold and precious gems. From sacred history and Tradition
we learn St. Patrick carried out his duties as missionary bishop with
it, and also not a few wonders, such as casting all the demons out of
Ireland via the snakes, also, impaling a convert! (<a href="http://eabucchianeri.blogspot.com/2016/03/when-st-patrick-impaled-convert.html" target="_blank">Read about that story here</a>. Ouch!) According to tradition, the staff along with
the Gospel text used by St. Patrick were transferred from Armagh to
Christ-Church, Dublin. History says </span> <span style="font-size: medium;">oaths and treaties were signed on it. During legal disputes and like contentions, to solve the issue the people would utter an oath on the Staff. Apprently, no one would dare utter a false testimony while swearing by the power of the Staff, for it was believed if someone committed perjury in making their oath, great plagues would occur. Sadly, the staff alleged to be St. Patrick's
was burnt outside Christ-Church as a 'superstitious relic' a short time after the
Reformation in 1538, its gold and gems confiscated. </span>
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">In
addition to all of Murphy's scholarship, there is another spiritual,
mystical reason why I favour Brittany, France as St. Patrick's
homeland and the site where he received the famous </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span class="st">Bachall Iosa</span></i>.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>After
Calvary, Brittany is the most blessed land chosen by God according to
the approved mystic Marie-Julie Jahenny (1850-1941).</b> Due to the
Bretons' great devotion to the Faith, the Mother of God, and the
Monarchy of France, Brittany will be spared most of the chastisements
about to befall the earth before the Three Days of Darkness and it
will become a place of sanctuary. Our Lady revealed to Marie-Julie
Jahenny that since the time of Calvary she has not seen so many
graces reserved for one place as for La Fraudais, Brittany.
Therefore, Brittany shall in effect become a new Holy Land of grace
as it will become home of the new Sanctuary of the Cross and the
centre of Renewal regarding the One Holy Catholic Faith. France is
destined to bring about the promised Age of Peace and the restoration
of Christendom via the Reign of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts and
this reign will continue until the End of Time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">No, I'm not
surprised such a holy man as St. Patrick destined to become the
Apostle of Ireland, blessed with many graces and the gift of
miracles, and, who received the promise that Ireland would be spared
the destruction by fire that would ravage the world but would fall
into the sea instead, should come from the protected land of
Brittany, the 'New Holy Land' chosen by the Sacred and Immaculate
Hearts of Jesus and Mary. <a href="http://marie-juliejahenny.blogspot.com/2018/02/110-future-glory-of-la-fraudais-most.html" target="_blank"> (Learn more about Marie-Julie Jahenny and her prophecy of La Fraudais here.) </a></span></div>
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<a href="http://eabucchianeri.blogspot.com/2016/03/when-st-patrick-impaled-convert.html" target="_blank">When St. Patrick Impaled a Convert </a></div>
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<a href="http://eabucchianeri.blogspot.com/2015/09/st-patricks-purgatory.html" target="_blank">St. Patrick's Purgatory</a></div>
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