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It’s 2nd of March 2025 and it is Quinquagesima Sunday.
Some time ago, I saw a movie called News of the World in which years after the Civil War a former confederate officer ekes out a living travelling from town to town and reading aloud news and stories in newspapers from different parts of the country to people who paid a dime a ahead to listen (that’s about $2.50 today). People in those days were news and novelty starved and often illiterate, so there was interest in what he read. This was a real boon for them if they wanted news. The idea of a wandering gazetteer caught my imagination and here I am.
BTW a “gazette” – a news report once often the name of newspapers – came from the name of the 16th c. venetian coin that bought early paper news sheets.
An audio “gazette” of Catholic things.
00:13 – Init
01:26 – Beginning of St. Joseph’s Month.
05:18 – News of the Moon, Jesuits and insects
11:47 – Another “red shift” Jesuit scientist (but not a Communist for a change).
18:06 – The Wanderer: “We Must Renew Our Trust In God”
26:29 – Wherein Fr. Z rants
30:29 – Litany of St. Joseph
36:00 – Exit
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Thank you Fr. Zuhlsdorf???
Please disregard the above ??? Stone fingers
Well, you asked for it. When I was an engineering student back during 1969-73, during the spring of ‘71 redshift was covered in what was the 4th quarter of the engineering/science physics sequence. The following year when a friend from my hometown was taking it, the professor put the following question on a test: A man is pulled over by the police for running a red light. He claims the light appeared to be green to him because of redshift. How fast was he going? I think I had forgotten the formula by then, and since I switched to economics a year after I graduated, I certainly don’t remember how to do the calculation now. But it seems to me the answer was .5c, where c is the speed of light.
Excellent, Fr. Z. Thank You.
Delighted about the exhortation to Pray more to Saint Joseph. Great power given to him due to his familial connection with Our Lord and The Blessed Virgin Mother.
Also, a powerful scourge of demons.
In Domino.