Caoimhghin Chrysorrhoas - ProfilesArchive

About Me

By the grace of God I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner, and by calling one who seeks after Truth, Beauty and Goodness wherever they may be found.

My Interests

Classical and European Languages, Film, Literature, Art, Divinity Studies, Philosophy, Tea and Herbal Remedies, Patristic Theology, Animal-friendly cooking, Cycling, Running, Hiking, Nature, SYSTEMA (Russian Martial Art), History ...

I'd like to meet:

Music:

Damien Jurado, Pedro the Lion, John Michael Talbot, The Cambridge Singers, John Coltrane, Sufjan Stevens, Denison Witmer, Starflyer 59, Radiohead, Beethoven, Brahms, John Rutter, Beck, Havalina, Danielson, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jeremy Enigk, The Fire Theft, Louis Armstrong, Eric Clapton, BB King, The Chieftains, Rosie Thomas, Iron & Wine, Counting Crows, Overcome, One-21, ...

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, A Very Long Engagement, The Shadowlands, Goodbye Lenin, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Lord of the Rings, The Dead Poets Society, Waking Life, American Splendor, American Beauty, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes (original), Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, Everything Is Illuminated, OCTPOB, M. Night films like the Village, Sixth Sense and Signs, Braveheart, Fight Club ...

Television:

The Wonder Years, That 70s show, Jeopardy, The Office, Dawson's Creek (i admit)

Books:

Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Euripedes, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitzen, anything by Jane Austin or the Brontes, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, John Henry Newman, Symeon the New Theologian, ...

Heroes:

Edward Bouverie Pusey, John Henry Cardinal Newman, Henri J. Nouwen, John Keble, Thomas Merton, M Basil Pennington, St. Thomas Aquinas, John Paul II, Paul VI, Michael Ramsey, Benedict XVI ...

My Blog

New Pantagruel Calls It Quits

fter a three year run, The New Pantagruel is closing shop. Our incursion was never intended to be a long one. We are not careerists and had no intention or ambition to become part of the media establi...
Posted by Caoimhghin Chrysorrhoas on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:12:00 PST

Philosophy and Soccer

This is a must-see, especially for philosophy nerds. Amazing - simply amazing. Thank God for Monty Python. ...
Posted by Caoimhghin Chrysorrhoas on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 04:51:00 PST

Newman Concerning the Nature of Theology

First, I will tell you what it is not. And here, in the first place (though of course I speak on the subject as a Catholic), observe that, strictly speaking, I am not assuming that Catholicism is true...
Posted by Caoimhghin Chrysorrhoas on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:23:00 PST

Dancing with God, dancing with men

The liturgy is a school where through sign and symbol, word and music, our minds and hearts are formed to be in union with the movement of God, with God Himself.-Fr. M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O. To s...
Posted by Caoimhghin Chrysorrhoas on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:48:00 PST

Lenten Devotions pt. 1

[The following consists of a brief talk I will be delivering this coming Sunday (I had hoped to give it last Sunday, but fell ill) on Lenten devotions as part of a short series on the history, li...
Posted by Caoimhghin Chrysorrhoas on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:28:00 PST

and then it will happen...

and then it will happen... my body shall break beneath the buffeting blows the terrors of the mind shall conquer the corpse and the ghost will come forth to take flight to explore the realms above...
Posted by Caoimhghin Chrysorrhoas on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

a poem in german

Das Bier hat seinen Geschmack verloren Und ich alle meine Zigaretten geraucht habe... Was ist Lebens? Wer bin ich? Windhauch, Windhauch... Warum ist alle Windhauch? Wo is Liebe gegangen? Ist u...
Posted by Caoimhghin Chrysorrhoas on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

resurrection

resurrection the time has come for life to rise again from the ashes of my charred and dismembered carcassi once gave flight to eagles with my words and played melodies to which they danced upon the w...
Posted by Caoimhghin Chrysorrhoas on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The futility of work

Young man: I hate my job. It just seems so pointless. I just wish I could sit at this bar a drink or enjoy life, not have to toil the day away while some guy above me gets rich and I just get by. O...
Posted by Caoimhghin Chrysorrhoas on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST