Sunday Snippets

Well, I found out about this thing called Sunday Snippets by hearing about it on another blog. Now, I've joineed the bandwagon and have decided to make this.  It is a bunch of links to posts of the previous week that might be of interest to Catholics.  Well, here goes, my interestingest posts


Catholic Cruises
Viva Cristo Rey!
Anniversery of C.S Lewis's Death.
About St. Blog's Parish

Celsius Youth Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream. and other stuff

Well, at 2:00 today, here in Edmonton, a group of homeschooling actors performed Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.  It was amazing!  Everything, from the scenery to the music, from the acting to the directing, was done by them!  They started work on it around July-ish.  I would have been in it as well except ,in my typical fashion, I missed the deadline for auditions.  *Sigh*  Oh well, the next one they put on I am for sure signing up for it.  In other news.....

My family has decided that we will be going on a ten-day cruise starting on Dec. 12 and ending on....well...I'll let you figure it out.  The cruise line we are going on his Holland America, and they have daily mass on the ship!  Isn't that amazing!   Also, tomorrow I will be doing some of the music for this play:

And last of all, Edmonton Musical Theatre has a float in the 23rd annual Jingle On Parade on December 5th 10:00 A.M - 12:00 P.M.  It takes place on the downtown pedways from Commerce Place, to Manulife Place, through City Centre Mall.

Catholic Cruises

Well, my family has been looking into vacation ideas for January and my dad found this:  Costa Cruises.  It's amazing because in this day and age of secularism in their FAQ page they have the question"

"Is there a Holy Mass service on board?

All Costa ships have a Chapel where Catholic religious services are held. Holy Mass times are published in Today, the on-board newsletter delivered to your cabin every day."

Isn't that amazing!

Viva Cristo Rey!

Although I missed the anniversery of C.S Lewis's death, I refuse to miss the feast day of Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez, also known as Blessed Miguel Pro.  Here's the link for information about him: http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/pro/index.html

Anniversery of C.S Lewis's Death Yesterday

I can't believe it!  I missed posting about how yesterday was the anniversery of C.S Lewis's death!  I'm such a horrible person. :(    Oh well, it's no use crying over spilled hydrofluoric acid (although if you spill it on you then it might be alright.)  Anyway, yesterday (November 22) was the anniversery of the death of C.S Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, The Space Trilogy, The Pilgrim's Regress (not progress, regress) The Great Divorce, and many many many many..... many others.   He was born on the twenty-ninth of November 1898, in Belfast, Ireland, and died on the twenty-second of November 1963, in Oxford, England.  He died on the same day as J.F.K and fellow author, Aldous Huxley.

About St. Blog's Parish Directory

This post, as you can hopefully tell from the title, is going to be about a website called St. Blog's Parish Directory.


St. Blog's Parish Directory is a website directory that lists many different Catholic blogs - including this one.  I was going to attempt to describe it myself, but here is the official description:

"ABOUT SAINT BLOG’S PARISH

What is St. Blog’s Parish?

St. Blog’s is not an actual Roman Catholic Parish and there is no Saint Blog – most of you will know this instinctively but the question is asked so we’ll take care of that right up front.

So if it isn’t a real Parish then what is it? Well, we’re a loosely knit group of Catholics who maintain personal “blogs” (short for “web logs”)(Thus we are called “bloggers”). Most of us chronicle our daily lives mixing in commentary on the world around us as it affects us and is affected by our Catholic Faith. Some are professional Catholics – Clergy, religious, apologists, writers, journalists, teachers etc., but mostly we’re just ordinary Catholics in the ordinary world.

St. Blog’s Parish Directory was created and is maintained by a volunteer from among the Catholic community of bloggers. We pay for the web hosting, equipment, software, and time involved in keeping it going. You may find a “Donate” button on some pages — please feel free to contribute & help defray the costs if you are able.

Where is St. Blog’s Parish?

If you’re following along you already know! We’re not anywhere physically in the usual sense that a Parish has a location but we’re everywhere the Internet reaches!

How was St. Blog’s Parish established?

5/14/02: Added a new page listing some of the Catholic “Blogs”. Enjoy! I keep updating Scandal and Hope Page and will do the same with the Blog Page (and won’t always mention this in “What’s New…”)

With this entry Gerard Serafin (“A Catholic Blog for Lovers“) began his “Catholic Blogs Page” in mid-May 2002. Around the same time Kathy Shaidle ( relapsed catholic) penned the name “St. Blog’s Parish” and in June Kathryn Lively started a web ring and named it “St. Blog’s Parish” (the webring has been closed for some time now).

And so it began.

Saint Blog’s Parish has grown to include hundreds of Catholic bloggers. The parish includes apologists, speakers, writers, priests, nuns, monks, brothers, poets, jesters, theologians, military (active & veterans), seminarians, novices, deacons, artists, mothers, fathers, high school students, college undergrads, families, friends, and so much more!

The Parish has received some press attention and a large number of parishioners participate in the annual awards event – the Catholic New Media Awards [formerly theCatholic Blog Awards] (thanks to Joshua Le Blanc (cyberCatholics.com). While the parishioners are largely from the USA there are a few who are not and we hope to gather in more bloggers from around the globe to make St. Blog’s Parish an even larger Catholic presence on the internet.

With Gerard’s death in November, 2004 several “parishioners” expressed interest in maintaining the list and keeping Gerard’s effort going.

Gen X Revert (Gen X Revert) started the “Catholic Blog Directory” and Mary Herboth went a step further – putting up a discussion forum that she dubbed “St. Blog’s Parish Hall”.

Gen X’s list is still active and the directory that Mary continued has since passed to John Bowden (Adjutorium Nostrum + In Nomine Domini) and is called ” Saint Blog’s Parish”.

Along with these lists another interested parishioner, Eric Williams (Ales Rarus ), started what he called the “St. Blog’s Parish Aggregator” – a collection of parishioner’s RSS/Atom feeds – a means of reading the posts of many blogs in a single location. The aggregator is no longer maintained.

Our first task was to consolidate the web ring application form and the directory/aggregator form – one form in one place to join all three parts of the parish.

The next effort consisted in moving blogs listed on the web ring onto the directory – and once this was accomplished the web ring was closed. (about 2007)

Our goal is to provide an umbrella under which St. Blog’s Parish and its members can be found easily, and to provide a vehicle to present the Catholic blogging community worldwide.

What is the St. Blog’s Parish Directory?

The St. Blog’s Parish Directory of Catholic Blogs and Resources (a.k.a. “The Catholic Blogs and Resources Page”) is a website that provides a public listing of links to Catholic blogs. The Directory gives no information about a blog other than the link to it. The Directory’s blog list is separated into categories – Clergy, Men, Women, Women Religious (Sisters/Nuns), Groups, News, and Resources. The blog links are listed at the request of the blog’s author and the author specifies the category they want their blog to be listed in. No links are listed unless the blog author has requested it be listed.

Can anyone’s blog be listed on the Directory?

For the most part, yes, however, St. Blog’s Parish is a community of CATHOLIC bloggersthus we ask that you be Catholic and have a blog! We try not to be secretive about this by plastering the word Catholic all over the place but some folks either just don’t see it or really like us so much they want to be a part of the Parish no matter what!"

Christ the King

On this day, November 21 2010 (Probably.  I kinda lose track of the days after a while.)  I am dedicating this post and any other posts or changes I make on/to this blog to Christ the King.  "Why?" you ask.  Because it's the feast of Christ the King today, that's why.  Also I am inviting everyone to check out two websites. No wait, three, actually four... never mind I'll start over. I am inviting you to check out many different websites.  Fr. Mike "Catfish" Mireau's website, Saint Blog's Parish Directory, Our Lady Seat of Wisdom's Website, and Living Water College of the Arts' website.  Eventually, I may even get around to describe them for you.

Search Weekend

No, the title doesn't mean that I searched through my weekend for stuff.  It actually means that I attended a weekend retreat in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, called Search.  It runs in a bunch of places.  The next one will be in Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan, although I don't know when or where exactly.  (More information coming whenever I actually find out)

At the retreat we did...Well, I'm not actually allowed to say.  You have to find that out for yourself.  At the one in Lloyd, I might possibly be a helper there.  So, if you go, just mention sometime near the end - you'll know if you go - that you heard about it from yours truly, Prince Rillian, and I'll talk to you a bit, and you'll know my real name.  However it's for teens only so too bad for all the adults reading this blog, this entire post will forever haunt you with how old you are.  Mua-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!! (Six exclamation marks, a sure sign of insanity if I ever saw one.) Anyway, if you are a Christian teenager (preferably Catholic, but you don't have to be.) then you should come or else...or else....um..um....I know or else I'll magically make your computer blow up. (A pretty good threat if I do say so my self)

Lest we forget

For the Fallen

For The Fallen
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, 
England mourns for her dead across the sea. 
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, 
Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal 
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres, 
There is music in the midst of desolation 
And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young, 
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. 
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted; 
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: 
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn. 
At the going down of the sun and in the morning 
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again; 
They sit no more at familiar tables of home; 
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; 
They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound, 
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight, 
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known 
As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, 
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain; 
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, 
To the end, to the end, they remain.

 This song has a sad but true story behind it.



The story:
                 "On November 11, 1999 Terry Kelly was in a drug store in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. At 10:55 AM an announcement came over the stores PA asking customers who would still be on the premises at 11:00 AM to give two minutes of silence in respect to the veterans who have sacrificed so much for us.

Terry was impressed with the stores leadership role in adopting the Legions two minutes of silence initiative. He felt that the stores contribution of educating the public to the importance of remembering was commendable.

When eleven oclock arrived on that day, an announcement was again made asking for the two minutes of silence to commence. All customers, with the exception of a man who was accompanied by his young child, showed their respect.

Terrys anger towards the father for trying to engage the stores clerk in conversation and for setting a bad example for his child was channeled into a beautiful piece of work called, A Pittance of Time. Terry later recorded A Pittance of Time and included it on his full-length music CD, The Power of the Dream."

Interesting rap songs

Here are two different rap songs using the words from 1. a computer game and 2. THE LORD OF THE RINGS!!!!
First #1 the computer game.  It is a bunch of different quotes of GLaDOS from the computer game Portal.

And Now- drumroll please-     -_-_-_- _-O  Hey, I didn't mean literally.  Anyway, And Now..... They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard

The end of my three day trek away from a computer

Well It's been THREE WHOLE DAYS since I touched a computer.  Amazing isn't it.  The reason why is because I've had three different All Saint's Day Parties.  One here in the city, one in St. Paul, and one in Derwent.  More about them later - maybe.