I am surprised that I, a bibliophile, don’t know much about these just too cool books. I knew of their existence, and the memory lingered in the back of my mind, but go now and have a look at the blog of the great artist Daniel Mitsui (his art makes great gifts), The Lion and the Cardinal. He has several entries about “Cordiform Books” from earlier in October. One entry is HERE.
In another post today I mentioned Shakespeare. Here is another Shakespearean connection with something that is just too cool.
At The Shakespeare Blog I saw an entry about an October fair held in Stratford-upon-Avon. The post concerns itinerant players and peddlers who would have come to town fairs. But the post also includes this:
Itinerant people, among them acting companies, were still treated with suspicion. During the 1590s legislation was brought in to control these rogues and vagabonds. Itinerants were not only possibly thieves, or people who might be a drain on the resources of the places to which they traveled, they could be political or religious activists. The British Museum’s current exhibition Shakespeare: staging the world, [I saw this during my recent wonderful visit to London.] contains a fascinating and extremely rare object. It’s a trunk which on the outside looks just the sort of thing Autolycus, the peddler, would have carried, but in this case it contains not ribbons and songs, but Catholic vestments, rosary beads, a chalice, and even an altar stone. A Catholic priest, carrying this trunk, had everything he needed to carry out religious services.
The trunk had been walled up in a country house in Lancashire, where it was discovered in the mid-nineteenth century after at least two hundred years. Lancashire was a hotbed for recusancy, and following the banning of Catholic priests in the late 1500s they had to disguise themselves in order to carry on. A travelling peddler would have been a good disguise, as many of the objects he was carrying could be easily taken for legitimate goods for sale.
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Will we return to those days?
I have a small kit that fits into lunch box.
At Investors.com we find this interesting article.
I must say that, if this is accurate – and it seems to be – then the mainsteam media and entertainment industry saturation of homosexual stories and characters in TV shows is even more obviously revealed as blatant social engineering which must be resisted and stopped.
Massive study finds only 3.4% of American adults identify as LGBT
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By ANDREW MALCOLMA massive new survey published this morning reveals that only 3.4% of American adults publicly identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, with the highest percentage coming among the younger, less-educated non-whites.
The new Gallup Poll of more than 121,000 adults, the largest of its kind on record, wass conducted during the past four months. It finds the percentage of self-reported LGBT Americans to be much smaller than a general impression derived from their presence in popular culture and their perceived influence in liberal American politics.
The special report found 3.4% of adult Americans publicly reporting themselves as personally identifying with those categories, 92.2% saying they do not and 4.4% refusing to say or claiming not to know.
Given the stigma often attached by some to those categories, some unknown portion of the Didn’t Say’s and No’s presumably are choosing to remain in the closet, holding down the LGBT number somewhat.
“This initial analysis,” Gallup reports, “reveals new insights into the composition of the LGBT community in the U.S. In particular, the findings challenge both media and cultural stereotypes to reveal that the LGBT population is in a number of ways not that different from the broader U.S. population.” [EXACTLY.]
Gallup also found the social characteristics of those self-reporting themselves as LGBT is dramatically different from their portrayal in the media as largely white, well-educated and well-to-do.
The largest percentage (4.6%) came among blacks, followed by Asians (4.3%), Hispanics (4%) and non-Hispanic whites (3.2%).
Results showed that a larger percentage of women, especially younger women, reported themselves as LGBT (3.6%) compared to men (3.3%).
And Gallup reports those publicly asserting to be LGBT tend to be younger, less-educated and less wealthy than the rest of the population.
Among those making less than $24,000, 5.1% reported being LGBT, compared with 3.5% earning between $24,000 and $60,000 and only 2.8% who earned more.
The more education respondents had the less likely they were to report being LGBT. Those with some college education (4%) or some high school (3.5%) came in under those with college diplomas (2.8%) or a post-graduate degree (3.2%).
East and West coast residents tended to report being LGBT more (3.7% and 3.6%, respectively) than those living in the Midwest (3.4%) or the South (3.2%).
Gallup also noted:“As courts, legislatures, and voters continue to debate issues like marriage for same-sex couples, child-rearing rights for LGBT people, and bans on workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, these data provide new and detailed information about the lives of LGBT Americans and their families. They offer an unprecedented resource for informing those debates with facts rather than stereotype or anecdote.“
Some years ago I was hanging around outside the Paul VI audience hall (Vatican) during a plenary session of the Italian Bishops Conference. I was waiting for my bishop to emerge. As I waited I chatted with fellow journalists, the bishops’ drivers and secretaries, a couple bishops who had fled the hall in the despair of boredom. The day before, I had been to a Eucharistic procession held by the Teutonic College, next to the Paul VI Hall, that went up through the Vatican gardens. Swiss Guards carried the canopy. Deep in his chest one old bishop rumbled “Meno chiacchiere – più processioni. … Less jabbering – more processions.”
Perfect.
This isn’t rocket science.
I was delighted to read these comments by the Archbishop of Los Angeles at CNA.
LA archbishop thinks best ways to reach youth are often old ones
By Matthew A. Rarey
“It is our mission to ask God for the grace to discover new means to reach out to young people,” Archbishop Gomez said. “We need to use all the new means of communication so that they can understand what we are talking about.” [Like.. the internet too? But let us not forget that Christ Himself is the perfect Communicator. Liturgy is our most perfect form of communication. We need to work on a theology of communication.]The New Evangelization must present timeless truths in new ways, he told CNA on Oct. 18 during a break of the synod on the New Evangelization.
“Beautiful traditions, like the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, and the time of contemplation and meditation, are very popular among young people,” he noted. “So we have to go back to that, so that they can feel, too, how important … the Catholic faith is for them.” [Do I hear an “Amen!”?]
Young people are a major focus of the New Evangelization – which is aimed at reintroducing the faith to formerly Christian countries.
Archbishop Gomez believes the Church can accomplish this by taking action rooted in prayer.
“The first thing we need to do is to pray for them,” he said. “And then we have to come up with new, better ways to reach out to them.”
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Happily, we have old, better ways which can be new again.
Public devotions, recitation of the Rosary, novenas, exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, processions, Holy Mass in the older form.
I am reminded of what Benedict wrote to the Irish people in the wake of the terrible scandals. He urged a return to the basics: fasting, prayer, confession, devotions.
Is this so hard?
It is interesting that more and more prelates are beginning to talk about pious devotions again.
At NLM I saw a nice photo of Benedictines at Randol in France in their usual mode of concelebration.
I approve.
Included is a link to a film, Noir et Blanc, about the monastic life of the Benedictines at the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Randol.
If you watch the video of Card. Dolan’s final words and blessing at the end of the Al Smith Dinner (HERE), you will hear him quip in a self-deprecating way that he had hoped that Gov. Christie of New Jersey might have been the candidate, because Dolan would have looked better sitting next to him than next to the much thinner candidate.
This morning one of the readers sent me a couple lines from my beloved Shakespeare, riffing on Act 1 of Julius Caesar:
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Obama has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE – MINNESOTANS – GET OUT THE VOTE!
The campaign in favor of the Minnesota Marriage Amendment is heating up.
Today there was a TV ad released:
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There will consequences of this amendment does not pass and the homosexual marriage things gets even more traction.
I receive a list of bullet points from someone in Minnesota:
See the three Minnesota for the Protection of Marriage short TV ads on YouTube HERE.
The outcome of this amendment is up to you. There are few undecided voters on this issue. Therefore much depends on getting out the vote. Start making plans to help people get to the polls. Remember that when speaking to friends and family members about this issue that it is an emotional issue. Reason sometimes doesn’t cut it and can actually turn off people who emote rather than reason.
Gov. Romney’s speech at the Al Smith Dinner:
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POLLS!
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UPDATE:
And for the sake of being complete:
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If communities of women religious have habits, then the women ought to wear them. Keep in mind that the habits of some groups were/are rooted in the era of their founding. Keep in mind that some communities don’t have habits at all and never did. Keep in mind that some have officially modified (read: simplified, modernized) their habits.
Although we might be able to admit that, perhaps, the Daughters of Charity, perhaps, were on the right track when they reduced their characteristic and unmistakable headgear, we have all seen at the other end of the spectrum those dreadful “lapel pin” substitutes for the whole.
Lapel pins: not usually a good sign.
I checked up on the religious community Sr. Simone Campbell, SSS, belongs to. Honestly, I had never heard of the Sisters of Social Service, founded in 1908 in Hungary (USA in the 1920’s I think). Had you?
My curiosity peaked, I wondered about the SSS habit that Sr. Simone is obviously not wearing.
Friends, once I found photos, I am forced to give Sr. Simone a pass on this one.
A few pics:
That, ladies and gentlemen, was a habit that needed reforming. Or something.
There.
I have shown that I can give Sr. Simone a pass on something truly important.
Perhaps Sr. Simone will now give everyone a direct answer to something she obviously thinks is far less important … questions about abortion. HERE.
UPDATE:
I think they wear something gray now, with a white blouse and large collar:
Someone sent me the following:
Having endorsed Planned Parenthood 5 times in the recent debate, Obama might as well have just declared:
“I pledge allegiance to Planned Parenthood, headquartered in the USA, and to the republic of the Culture of Death, one sprawling government-sponsored conglomerate–under Moloch–with abortion and contraception for all.”
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Vatican City, Oct 19, 2012 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The New Evangelization needs to reach out to young people using every means available, new and old, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles says.