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Joe's Blog: May 2009
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Just a bunch of random stuff I come across and other stuff that comes to my mind. Monday, May 4, 2009. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Karasek Park - (The family site). View my complete profile.
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Alive and Young: Victor Hugo Saved Notre Dame of Paris
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Friday, January 03, 2014. Victor Hugo Saved Notre Dame of Paris. In July of 1801 the Notre Dame of Paris Cathedral was returned to the Catholic Church in a state of disarray. Seven months later, the savior of this now glorious building would be born: Victor Hugo. Hugo was able to save the Cathedral by means of his popular book Notre Dame de Paris. Or as known to most English speakers The Hunchback of Notre Dame. However, the church about which Hugo wrote, the church that attracted. Century was removed, s...
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Alive and Young: Batman v. Superman: Helping High Schoolers Understand the Summa
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Monday, January 06, 2014. Batman v. Superman: Helping High Schoolers Understand the Summa. In the Church History Class I teach, we have finally arrived at the Scholastic period. I simply did not want to gloss over the scholastics without having my students at least try and read St. Thomas Aquinas (we were going to look at the existence of God questions, primarily Book 1, Question 2, Article 3. Book 1 Question 1. On Victories in Battle. Article 1: Whether Superman would win a fight over the Batman. It is ...
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Alive and Young: Mary - The Unburnt Bush
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Thursday, April 16, 2009. Mary - The Unburnt Bush. There are a number of 8 pointed stars on the Jesuit buildings and in chapel in the school at which I teach. This got be thinking, "What does the 8 pointed star represent? No one seemed to be able to answer my question. Eventually I came across some information saying that the 8 pointed star can be one of two things. First, it can be a stylized symbol of the burning bush. Second, it can be a stylized symbol of Mary the unburnt bush. I found a site. Most i...
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Alive and Young: A Light in the Darkness
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Monday, May 20, 2013. A Light in the Darkness. I am doing brief Summaries of " How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. By Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D. There isn't much to the first chapter, so I am starting with Chapter two.]. How the Catholic Church built Western Civilization. Chapter 2 Summary “A light in the Darkness”. During the Carolingian education there was a resurgence in classical education with an emphasis on the quadrivium. Astronomy, music, arithmetic and geometry) and the Trivium.
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Alive and Young: Eucharistic Flash Mob: Canonically Appropriate?
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Thursday, June 30, 2011. Eucharistic Flash Mob: Canonically Appropriate? Not long ago, the video of a Eucharistic "flash mob". Can 935 It is not lawful for anyone to keep the blessed Eucharist in personal custody or to carry it around, unless there is an urgent pastoral need and the prescriptions of the diocesan Bishop are observed. The question is, was there an urgent pastoral need to transport the Eucharist to this location in order to do the Flash Mob? Especially in our streets. Can 944 ß1 Wherever in...
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Alive and Young: Tolkien and the Feast of the Annunciation
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Monday, March 25, 2013. Tolkien and the Feast of the Annunciation. Happy Tolkien Reading Day. As well as happy Feast of the Annunciation. Some years back the Tolkien Society was asked if there was a day in which Tolkien fans could gather, read, and celebrate Tolkien. The day the Tolkien Society chose for this is March 25 and is known as Tolkien Reading Day (TRD). It is the day that the Ring of Power in The Lord of the Rings. Is cast into the fiery inferno from which it was made, Mount Doom. I wish he'd b...
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Alive and Young: The Hobbit Cover Translated
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013. The Hobbit Cover Translated. Taking a 15 min break from work to post this. Sorry for the typos. I did not have time to proof it properly. I also wish I had more time to go into more depth with this.}. The original cover of "The Hobbit" was illustrated by Tolkien, and it had on the cover runes as part of the border. Original Cover with Notes. I'm not going into the history of the runes Tolkien uses, but did you know the runes actually say something? Cover with translated runes.
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Alive and Young: How the Monks Saved Civilization
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Friday, May 24, 2013. How the Monks Saved Civilization. Continuing prepping for next school year by doing a chapter by chapter summary of Thomas E. Woods's How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. Summary of Chapter 3 “How Monks Saved Civilization”. The most notable of monks were the Benedictines founded by St. Benedict of Nursia in the 5. Though the main purpose of the monks was to find a way of salvation by retiring from the world, they also had a habit of bringing with them knowledge of the...
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