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tony

Pax Domini sit semper vobiscum.

About Me



"Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy; deliver me from the unjust and the deceitful man. For thou art, God, my strength; why has Thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me? Send forth Thy light and Thy truth: they have conducted me and brought me unto Thy holy hill, and into Thy tabernacles. And I will go in to the altar of God, to God Who giveth joy to my youth. To Thee, O God, my God, I will give praise upon the harp: why art thou sad, O my soul, and why dost thou disquiet me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to Him, the salvation of my countenance and my God."
-Judica Me, beginning of the Mass of the Catechumens, Latin Rite

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My Interests

Freckles, people, music, instruments, books, tea, coffee, red wine, dark stout, pipes, iconography, liturgy, theology, religion, philosophy, history, the outdoors; Beard-growing, sarcasm; fomenting counter-revolution, building the culture of life, and being the salt of the earth.

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"The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven."
-G.K. Chesterton

Music:

Isis, Cave In, Refused, Botch, Circa Survive, Frodus, Radiohead, Hot Water Music, Sunny Day Real Estate, mewithoutYou, Sufjan Stevens, Talk Talk, Antonio Vivaldi, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, Gregory the Great, Romano the Melodious, and much else.

Movies:

recently viewed:
apocalypse now.

Television:

EWTN mostly, with the exceptions of: fawlty towers, seinfeld, frasier, the colbert report, the daily show, ...

Books:

currently nerding:
hostage to the devil, by malachi martin;
the world's first love, by fulton j. sheen;
the great heresies, by hilaire belloc.

Heroes:

At the moment, Bl. Pius IX.

My Blog

Personally Opposed

I am personally opposed to killing abortionists. However, inasmuch as my personal opposition to this practice is rooted in sectarian (Catholic) religious belief in the sanctity of human life, I am un...
Posted by tony on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:54:00 PST

Islam and Paganism

Islam and PaganismDr. Jeff Mirus, September 28, 2007A few weeks ago I removed from our library a misplaced document which purported to prove that Islam was really a polytheistic faith based on an anci...
Posted by tony on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:53:00 PST

The New Mass: Inalienable Right or Inferior Rite?

The New Mass: Inalienable Right or Inferior Rite? Link to this article by referencing this address: http://www.lumengentleman.com/content.asp?id=15 In this examination, I would like to guide you t...
Posted by tony on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:52:00 PST

A Basic Theology of Marriage

The twentieth century witnessed significant developments in the Church's theology of marriage, beginning with Pope Pius XI's 1930 encyclical Casti Connubii, passing through the Second Vatican Council ...
Posted by tony on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:38:00 PST

Faith of the Fathers: A Sketch of Early Christianity

The former Anglican John Newman, later to be known as Cardinal Newman, after his conversion to Catholicism, once remarked that "To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant." (An Essay on the...
Posted by tony on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:50:00 PST

Happy Birthday Uncle Gilbert (May 29, 1874)

Biographical Brief Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of the leading literary and apologetic figures in England during the first third of this century. George Bernard Shaw, an atheist, but ...
Posted by tony on Wed, 30 May 2007 09:28:00 PST

Letting Him Kill the Lizard

I saw coming towards us a ghost who carried something on his shoulder. Like all the Ghosts, he was unsubstantial, but they differed from one another as smokes differ. Some had been whitish; this one w...
Posted by tony on Wed, 30 May 2007 10:34:00 PST

Left ALIVE?

One baby in 30 left alive after medical termination 20.04.07 Gianna Jessen: Born after a failed abortion************One in 30 babies aborted for medical reasons is born alive, a study has found.They ...
Posted by tony on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:11:00 PST

Divine Mercy Sunday

Since 2000, the second Sunday of Easter has also been known as Divine Mercy Sunday.Here are some extracts from a sermon given by Pope John Paul II on the occasion of the canonisation of Sister Fa...
Posted by tony on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:20:00 PST

Love Is Life's Purpose, Pope Says

Palm Sunday Homily Directed to Youth VATICAN CITY, APRIL 1, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The purpose of life does not consist in making money but in love and in truth, Benedict XVI explained during his Palm Sun...
Posted by tony on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:03:00 PST