Blogger problem

Still dealing with the phenomenon of the double permalink number (e.g., http://darkoctober618.blogspot.com/2007_05_27_
archive.html#7204484625214645014#7204484625214645014).

How to get rid of that extra #7204484625214645014? Someone out there must know the secret. Clue me in, if you can. Many thanks.

And this

via Credo ut intelligam:

You Belong in 1953

You're fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in!

What Year Do You Belong In?

Well, one thing's for sure

There's no way I'd pick Starbucks over Dunkin' Donuts.

You Are 80% Massachusetts

You're pretty Massachusetts, but you're starting to slip. Go eat a bulky roll and flip off a New Yorker.

How Massachusetts Are You?

Persecuted Christians

Details.

Via Mere Comments.

Tuna

A poem by Pablo Neruda, commie bastard but better-than-able poet.

(The note by the translator fascinates.)

Woo-hoo!

Jordin won!

Things I won't be blogging about
(at great length)

The war. I'll say only that my views have changed somewhat from the hawkish enthusiasms of 2003.

Presidential politics, 2008. At this point, I look at the available candidates, and have absolutely no clue whom to vote for, or indeed whether to vote.

Benedicite

26: But the angel of the Lord came down into the furnace to be with Azariah and his companions, and drove the fiery flame out of the furnace,

27: and made the midst of the furnace like a moist whistling wind, so that the fire did not touch them at all or hurt or trouble them.

28: Then the three, as with one mouth, praised and glorified and blessed God in the furnace, saying:

29: "Blessed art thou, O Lord, God of our fathers, and to be praised and highly exalted for ever;

30: And blessed is thy glorious, holy name and to be highly praised and highly exalted for ever;

31: Blessed art thou in the temple of thy holy glory and to be extolled and highly glorified for ever.

32: Blessed art thou, who sittest upon cherubim and lookest upon the deeps, and to be praised and highly exalted for ever.

33: Blessed art thou upon the throne of thy kingdom and to be extolled and highly exalted for ever.

34: Blessed art thou in the firmament of heaven and to be sung and glorified for ever.

35: "Bless the Lord, all works of the Lord, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

36: Bless the Lord, you heavens, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

37: Bless the Lord, you angels of the Lord, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

38: Bless the Lord, all waters above the heaven, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

39: Bless the Lord, all powers, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

40: Bless the Lord, sun and moon, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

41: Bless the Lord, stars of heaven, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

42: Bless the Lord, all rain and dew, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

43: Bless the Lord, all winds, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

44: Bless the Lord, fire and heat, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

45: Bless the Lord, winter cold and summer heat, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

46: Bless the Lord, dews and snows, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

47: Bless the Lord, nights and days, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

48: Bless the Lord, light and darkness, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

49: Bless the Lord, ice and cold, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

50: Bless the Lord, frosts and snows, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

51: Bless the Lord, lightnings and clouds, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

52: Let the earth bless the Lord; let it sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

53: Bless the Lord, mountains and hills, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

54: Bless the Lord, all things that grow on the earth, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

55: Bless the Lord, you springs, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

56: Bless the Lord, seas and rivers, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

57: Bless the Lord, you whales and all creatures that move in the waters, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

58: Bless the Lord, all birds of the air, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

59: Bless the Lord, all beasts and cattle, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

60: Bless the Lord, you sons of men, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

61: Bless the Lord, O Israel, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

62: Bless the Lord, you priests of the Lord, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

63: Bless the Lord, you servants of the Lord, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

64: Bless the Lord, spirits and souls of the righteous, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

65: Bless the Lord, you who are holy and humble in heart, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever.

66: Bless the Lord, Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever; for he has rescued us from Hades and saved us from the hand of death, and delivered us from the midst of the burning fiery furnace; from the midst of the fire he has delivered us.

67: Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endures for ever.

68: Bless him, all who worship the Lord, the God of gods, sing praise to him and give thanks to him, for his mercy endures for ever."

Many interesting things

can be found here.

Interracial violent crime

Some of it goes underreported. For whatever reason.

Article spotted at A conservative blog for peace.

Giuliani

He hates giving to Planned Parenthood. As seen at the Dawn Patrol.

My new parish
and the things that trouble me

As mentioned before, I recently moved, and there is a Catholic church a block away from where I live. I've attended Mass twice there, and have noted some odd things about the liturgy, and about the church itself.

1. There is no corpus on the cross above the altar.

2. There don't appear to be any confessionals in the church.

(There are kneelers! There is holy water. And lovely old stained glass, esp. the window depicting the four Evangelists.)

As for the Mass itself:

3. There is no penitential rite: no Confiteor, no Kyrie. Instead, what the priest would have us do is come forward and bless ourselves with the baptismal water.

4. We do not say the Nicene Creed. Instead, we are to turn to the person nearest us, introduce ourself, and ask the person to pray for one of our intentions. (No harm in having someone pray for one of your intentions, but ... what's wrong with the Creed?)

5. A small thing, this, but perhaps most bothersome to me. At the epiclesis (that part of the Eucharistic Prayer where the priest says words such as, "Let your Spirit come upon these gifts to make them holy, so that they may become for us the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ"), the priest does not make the sign of the Cross over the gifts as he says these words.

6. The chalice used at Mass is made of glass.

Now, none of these things, as far as I know, invalidate the Mass, but they do represent significant departures from the norm. No penitential rite? Do none of us have sins?

I like having a church a block away from where I live. But I think I may begin walking the mile-plus back to my old parish, where none of these problems arise.

Adam of Perseigne
a Cistercian

Turn Your Eyes to the Virgin. Via Vultus Christi.

Haloscan isn't publishing

my comments (yet), so here's a post to respond to recent visitors.

alias clio: you're welcome!

Jeff, thanks for dropping by! Depressing or not, I might have to blog about my new parish, if only to get the opinion of other bloggers as to whether I should keep going there. I've been there twice, and have noted some discouraging phenomena. Nothing that invalidates the Mass, as far as I know, but still, things that make one wonder why.

Another Magnificat meditation
blogged here previously

From the March 2002 issue: Blessed Charles de Foucauld, against discouragement.

To blog or not to blog?

I'm wondering whether I should post about my new parish. I recently moved from one part of Chelsea to another, about a half-mile down the road, and so I have a new geographical parish (one block away) -- that is, if I don't decide to start going back to the old parish (one mile away), where the Mass is said with fewer liturgical irregularities and eccentricities.

It's a depressing topic -- so I don't know if I should blog about it.

Poetry

at The Other World, alias clio gives us a poem by Emily Brontë, and Roy Campbell's splendid translation of Saint John of the Cross's En una noche oscura.