Weekend 457.1
Posted on January 25th, 2020 by Winston Smith
(1) The Quality of Objects (The Russell Kirk Center)
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Test
Posted on January 20th, 2020 by Winston Smith
Do not delete.
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Weekend 455.0
Posted on January 5th, 2020 by Winston Smith
(1) A quote from Paul by N.T. Wright: “When our words run out, we need images: the look of delight when a dear friend pays an unexpected visit, the glance of understanding between musicians as together they say something utterly beautiful, the long squeeze of a hand by a hospital bed, the contentment and gratitude […]
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Spitfire
Posted on December 17th, 2019 by Winston Smith
“I didn’t know what to do. And I flew round in circles with ten people following me around in circles, them looking at me as a leader, and me not knowing what to do. And I can tell you, I prayed, I prayed. I didn’t know what to do, what to do. And God answered. […]
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Weekend 455.0
Posted on December 8th, 2019 by Winston Smith
Lead, Kindly Light“This world is a scene of conflict between good and evil. The evil not only avoids but persecutes the good; the good cannot conquer except by suffering. Good men seem to fail; their cause triumphs, but their own overthrow is the price paid for this success. — Endurance of Censure
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Advent 2019
Posted on December 1st, 2019 by Winston Smith
“You know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed; the night is advanced, the day is at hand. Let us then throw off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.” — Rom 13:11-14 Lead, […]
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La Marche de Saint Joseph
Posted on March 17th, 2019 by Winston Smith
I promised a ton in the hopper! Today marks my first week as an expatriate. Yesterday I went to mass at Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. I met up with 14 pilgrims from Our Lady of Assumption and we walked 12 miles and visited 7 churches! It was amazing (even though all the lectures were in […]
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2018 Advent Retreat at St. Joseph’s Abbey (Part 2)
Posted on January 1st, 2019 by Winston Smith
So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it stillWill lead me on,O’er moor and fen, o’er crag and torrent, tillThe night is gone;And with the morn those angel faces smileWhich I have loved long since, and lost awhile. — The Pillar of the Cloud by Cardinal John Henry Newman A couple more notes from […]
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Weekend 436.0
Posted on October 13th, 2018 by Winston Smith
(1) Haruki Murakami: ‘You have to go through the darkness before you get to the light’ (The Guardian)
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Weekend 435.0
Posted on September 30th, 2018 by Winston Smith
A quote from the National Being by Æ: “For all the talk about democracy our social order is truly little more democratic than Rome was under the Caesars, and our new rulers have not, will all their wealth, created a beauty which we could imagine after generations brooding over with uplifted heart…our democracies too often take […]
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Weekend 431.0 (tires and tubes)
Posted on August 18th, 2018 by Winston Smith
Still getting used to this WP Gutenberg update.
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Weekend 429.0
Posted on July 13th, 2018 by Winston Smith
“Are you even going to give out your calendars? Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society.” – Peter Strzok “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful…to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind.” – George Orwell
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Weekend 422.0
Posted on May 20th, 2018 by Winston Smith
Three quotes from Ware: Conversations… “More than anything I was just trying to get a real sense of what it felt like to be alive, and there’s a lot of those moments in life. I didn’t want to ignore them. I wanted to try to put them on the page, to try to get a […]
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Christmas Eve 2017
Posted on December 24th, 2017 by Winston Smith
“The monastic tradition has seen and done almost everything in its long history. Its most lasting achievement, however, has been to chart the royal way of holiness for the entire Church.” – Francis Kline, Lovers of the Place: Monasticism Loose in the Church The men saving history from ISIS: In the face of danger, a […]
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That great fiction…
Posted on October 24th, 2017 by Winston Smith
(1) We Live In The Dystopia Young Adult Fiction Warns Us About: Young adult fiction is awash in projections of a dystopian future, yet we’re still sliding into that future, and young adults are going along with it. (The Federalist) “Complain about any of this, and where will it get you? Anyone who expresses dissent […]
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