Sunday, December 28, 2008

Merry Christmas....

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Im not saying anything new here today, just pointing my finger towards some magnificent others... Here is Kevin O'Brien's Theater o...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Christmas poetry - from Frances Chesterton

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G. K. Chesterton is highly regarded as a poet, and is well-known as a lover of Christmas. His better half (okay, given their relative sizes,...
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Sunday, December 21, 2008

When you sing you pray twice

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It is still true that when the Christmas season begins I get “as giddy as a school boy”. My wife and I unpack and set up the decorations wit...
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Media related thoughts.........

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Chesterton spoke a great deal about media and publishing.....even though he was decades removed from "Big Media." Belloc's tho...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

New Chesterton books/New Gilbert arrive

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I received two new Chesterton volumes - more of his newspaper pieces, and the second volume of his poems. The prophet certainly was not aver...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The prophet Chesterton – again

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Looking for a Christmas lesson for my youth group, about the reality of the Incarnation vs. the make believe holiday of commercialism, I ca...
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Sunday, December 14, 2008

St Glibert, Blessed Belloc

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Some good things coming out on here as of late. In regards to St. Gilbert.........Hey, heroic virtue is the standard. Chesterton was a good ...
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Saturday, December 06, 2008

St. Gilbert, Patron Saint ...

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Saint Gilbert Chesterton. It has a certain ring. St. Gilbert. There are already people agitating for the canonization of GKC. While I suppor...
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Saturday, November 22, 2008

The Prophet Chesterton

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In wandering around the blogosphere I have frequently encountered mention of Chesterton. Sometimes it’s a quote. Sometimes it’s an entire po...
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Friday, November 21, 2008

More Books

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As a young lad I was intrigued by the collages of Max Ernst, especially in his surrealist poem The Hundred-Headless Woman . Not only on an a...
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Saturday, November 15, 2008

A Work of A Master

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After having read alot ABOUT C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy online, I finally found the set in a used bookstore and absolutely devoured it. O...
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Monday, November 10, 2008

an impression of Belloc

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I have a friend who has supposedly been working through Orthodoxy for years now. Not sure what his projected completion date for the first ...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Yes it is a big deal.

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No. No. Not the election. It was on this day 30 years ago that my bride and I made some promises to each other. On the surface they sound si...
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Saturday, November 01, 2008

Foolishness

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This past week I picked our last ripe red tomato and ate it with great joy and a little mayonnaise. Mowed the lawn for the final time, clean...
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Friday, October 31, 2008

Seasons Greetings........

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........for Halloween If I did this right, you will be hearing Basil Rathbone's interpretation of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven . I t...
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Friday, October 24, 2008

The story of Debbie

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“Twenty million young women rose to their feet with the cry, “We will not be dictated to,” and proceeded to become stenographers.” GKC As s...
Thursday, October 23, 2008

when courage speaks

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from Archbishop Charles J. Chaput "The truth is that for some Catholics, the abortion issue has never been a comfortable cause. It'...
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Sunday, October 19, 2008

Chesterton Theatre Company - response

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After my previous post and inquiries about the G. K. Chesterton Theatre Company, I received the following e-mail: Lee, I'm Cathal Gallag...
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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Camping With Hilaire

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Just before school started I took my daughter on an end of summer camping trip. Whenever we go camping I use that time to learn a basically ...
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Friday, October 17, 2008

G. K. Chesterton Theatre Company

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While wandering through the blogosphere searching for signs that perhaps voters were finally catching on to Obama, I stumbled across a blog ...
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