Canadian Tenors

Living right across from the high school certainly has its drawbacks. The street right outside our front yard is always littered with fast food garbage and cigarette packages. I would like to go outside at lunch hour one day when the derelicts are gathered in my driveway and hand them all garbage bags. (Then I suppose I would be just be known as the crazy lady who lives too close to the school!) Or worse, they would vandalize our vehicles. Oh, wait, that already happened. This morning, I noticed my passenger mirror was missing, so I checked my husband's truck, and sure enough, his driver side mirror was missing too. I found mine on the ground and re-installed it, but his was nowhere to be seen. It's probably in the bedroom of some teenage derelict who is using it to straighten her hair, apply her makeup or check her cleavage.

On another note, I hurt my back at work yesterday - not lifting a heavy patient, but cleaning the bathroom as per our regular duties for down time in between calls. I look like an old lady, walking with a hunch back, as I can't stand up straight yet. My teenage daughter actually laughed out loud when she saw my walking posture. Lots of ice, visits to my chiropractor, and some anti-inflammatories should have me upright in a few days.

The good thing about being home from work is I get to listen to my new Canadian Tenors CD, The Perfect Gift. For just $20, you can purchase yourself this amazing CD in time for Christmas. (Don`t I sound like an advertisement?) They do a beautiful rendition of Instrument of Peace, and their version of O Holy Night will knock your Santa socks right off your feet; there are many more. I highly recommend it to round out your Christmas music repertoire.



To listen to more from this album, here is the You Tube link. Now I really must go put ice on my back.

The Priests

Have you heard of The Priests? They can sing! Have a listen to a wonderful harmonic version of Panis Angelicus, above, and below, Irish Blessing. You can order their CD's from Amazon. It certainly is unusual for priests to be touring concerts and recording CD's. They all have voices that glorify God. I like that they perform in their clerical clothing.

Pie Jesu

One of the most beautiful voices, that of Charlotte Church - turn up your volume!

Dialogue of the Carmelites

A friend just lent me the book, Song at the Scaffold, which tells the story of the sixteen Carmelite nuns from Compiègne, who were martyred for their faith at the guillotine in the French Revolution, July 17, 1794. These humble nuns faced their death bravely, singing hyms of praise to God as they went, one by one, to their eternal glory. Their prioress, Teresa of Augustine, had prepared them well for martyrdom. The novice was the first to be executed, and the prioress, the last. In this You Tube of the finale for Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, you can hear the blades of the guillotine as each nun, one by one, marches, singing, to her death. They were beatified by St. Pius X on May 13, 1906.

Horizontal Worship Explained

While this video is actually about the Latin Mass, it does a good job of explaining why so many Bishops still prefer the horizontal worship of the Novus Ordo.



With a club for the Catholic Caveman. This video is well worth watching!

Blue Wing

Does anyone remember this old song? It is one of my father's faves, but I don't remember hearing it growing up. The words are so sad.

Not just another Bambi

Uh, this is the town we are moving to - and I was worried about gang violence! Apparently the dog survived and is recovering. That is one curious cat!

Chaplet of Divine Mercy in Song

Because, according to Saint Augustine, when you sing, you pray twice.

Worth listening to

A beautiful version of Vision of Hildegard von Bingen. Just minimize the window and listen. The beautiful voice is that of Hana Blochova-Kvinterna.

This is a must see

...or just another one of those conspiracy theories.

From the mail...

Facts about the Development & Peace Scandal

Rosary Crusade

You Tube Reposts Desecration Videos

What's with You Tube? They pulled the Eucharistic desecration videos after over 18,000 peope worldwide petitioned them in a complaint, and now the videos are back up. You can go to their site and flag every video as offensive by clicking on them individually, and citing them as hate material. I did just that – (I paused the videos so I wouldn’t have to be exposed to their vile content). It is a bit time consuming, but I copied the text of the letter below into the space provided for comments.

Please read the new petition letter written by America Needs Fatima below, and go to their link to sign it.

To YouTube:

18,201 people have respectfully petitioned you to remove the offensive videos showing the Holy Eucharist being desecrated posted on YouTube by user fsmdude, (even flushing one down a toilet).

These videos not only seem to violate YouTube hate policies, but should not be posted as they are offensive to God and demeaning to Catholics and the Roman Catholic faith.
Moreover, your pulling the videos on October 1, then reposting them seems to signal that you agree with these videos’ deep anti-Catholic bias. After all, it seems you have pulled videos with content offensive to Jews and Muslims.

It seems you removed a video showing the desecration of a Holocaust memorial and a trailer to a Dutch documentary that claims Islam inspires murder and terror.
But Catholic bashing seems to be acceptable.

I therefore vehemently protest your decision to give a platform for anti-Catholic bigotry. I will urge my friends and family to protest YouTube for as long as it takes, until you change this decision, and no longer facilitate blasphemous postings.

Well done, everyone!

From LifeSite News

After Receiving 18,201 Petitions, YouTube Pulls Host Desecration Videos

SPRING GROVE, Penn., October 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Yesterday, responding to a worldwide protest from Catholics, the internet video sharing site YouTube removed 40 videos showing desecrations of the Holy Eucharist from its site. The account of the author was also suspended.

A video removal petition was circulated by the Catholic group America Needs Fatima and 18,201 people signed it in only seven days.

For over a month, an individual from Canada had posted 40 videos showing the Holy Eucharist being stepped on, burned, stapled, smoked and nailed to a stick - even flushed down the toilet.

The videos shocked Catholics and caused America Needs Fatima to launch a petition on September 23 asking YouTube to remove the videos.

"I was never so offended in my life," said Michael Jordan, who joined the petition from Marysville, California. "The videos were pure hate."

The petition spread quickly. America Needs Fatima webmaster Joseph Ritchie said: "I never saw so many people sign a petition so fast. They came in from all over the world, even Russia."

"We're now sending YouTube a 'thank you' note." Mr. Ritchie said. "The 'thank you' message lets Catholics tell YouTube how happy they are with the videos being removed."

"It's important the staff at YouTube see that Catholics not only have courage to defend the faith, but courtesy to say 'thank you' as well," he said.

Eucharistic Desecration Videos

If you haven't already seen and signed the petition to have You Tube remove forty videos of a guy desecrating Hosts, you can find the link here. I guess there is no way to tell if the Hosts are actually consecrated, but the videos are horrible to watch. I saw one today and couldn't even get through it, and definitely could not watch a second one. Here is the link to the videos. I just read the creep's profile, and I see he is from Canada. Figures. So much for Communion in the hand.

Immigration, Canadian style

From my favourite Canadian satire team, The Royal Canadian Air Farce. Americans can think of them as the Canadian equivalent to Saturday Night Live.

O Ecclesia

Take a listen to this; here is another incredible voice. (embedding has been disabled). Amazing!

Calling on Tom!

Lisa Gerrard/Sacrifice

I have never heard of Lisa before; she has an incredibly powerful voice. I just came across this while searching for a video of O Rubor Sanguinis: Antiphon to St. Ursula (which I was unable to find). Perhaps TominVegas can tell us a little about Lisa. I read she makes up "words" as she sings, and that she she sings sounds rather than words.

Planned Parenhood - what they don't want you to know

Just for fun

Here's something that should make all the moms (and kids) laugh! It's all that moms say in a day wrapped up into one fast little song.

Thanks, Manfred for passing it along.