Thursday, November 27, 2025

Happy Thanksgiving 2025

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We can be thankful for Chesterton's appreciation for thankfulness and gratitude!  “The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

A Few Clerihews (Waiting?)

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  I just got the most recent issue of Gilbert . I had submitted some clerihews back in October, but they may have gotten there too late for ...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

o god of earth and altar

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Chesterton's Prayer Life?

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  I was involved with a discussion with a Eastern Rite Catholic about some suggested Rosary mysteries. He said he was uneasy about taking su...
Thursday, November 06, 2025

About Politics and Government

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  I just finished reading  John Adams by David McCullough. I see why he won the Pulitzer for this book. In addition to being a good read an...

A Limerick With a Lewis Twist

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  There once was a blogging progressive who judged conservatives too aggressive. He went on the attack and they fired back - isn't Screw...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Saints

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With All Saints and All Souls days this weekend, a look at what Chesterton and Lewis has to say about saints. Chesterton It is better to spe...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Wonder and Pope St. John Paul II

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On September 17, 1978, just before he was elected Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla preached a homily at the shrine of Our Lady of C...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Irish Eyes Were Crying

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"The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad." - G. K. Che...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

Lepanto

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October 7 was the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto, which halted expansion by the Ottoman Empire. Yes, It's been posted before, but ...
Thursday, October 02, 2025

St. Francis of Assisi (poem)

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  October 3 is the Feast of the Transitus of St. Francis - the day he actually made the transition from earthly to heavenly life. But as he ...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Good Parenting Advice From O'Connor (and Lewis)

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  I  came across an interesting article by Theresa Civantos Barber over on Aleteia, "Flannery O’Connor’s perfect parenting advice....
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Rochester Chesterton Society Season Begins

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  Tonight the Rochester Chesterton Society will meet to begin its 2025/26 season. The Society meets from September to May on the second Thur...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Final Notes on LOTR Books vs Movies

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  I finished reading The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien. What a great pleasure to read - or in my case, reread. In a previous post I...
Thursday, September 04, 2025

The Lord of the Rings Book vs. Movies

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 I am currently rereading The Lord of the Rings . I'm up to the third volume: The Return of the King. This is my third rereading of the ...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Maybe Somebody Should Have Put Baby In A Corner

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A Grace by G. K. Chesterton You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the play and the opera, And grace before the conce...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

On Vacation, So Quotations!

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I'm on vacation this week, with wife and dog at a cottage as a base from which to venture forth to see the sights. So just a few quotati...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

What Tolkien Can Teach Us About the Creative Life

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  "Beyond his much-beloved books,  The Hobbit,   The Lord of the Rings,  and  The Silmarillion,  J. R. R. Tolkien was a poet, philologi...
Friday, August 08, 2025

Saint Tolkien

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  August 8, 2025 Perhaps I may say also now (as I have meant to do for some time) that though I only briefly thanked Austin [one of the corr...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

In the News (Two Clerihews)

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  Two people in the news lately inspired clerihews, Ozzy Osbourne and Syndey Sweeney.. Ozzy Osbourne was by water borne to the Alamo where h...