The Five Pennies (1959)

Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz. He forms the "Five Pennies" which features his wife, Bobbie, as vocalist. At the peak of his fame, Red and Bobbie's daughter, Dorothy, develops polio. Red quits the music business to move to Los Angeles where the climate is better for Dorothy. … [More]

Thank you for this. It is wonderful to listen to.

Excellent

pulchrum maximus, hoc est optimus! Deo gratias.

Looking forward to this. Please God, it is done "right"!

The Lord Descends Into Hell (from an ancient homily on Holy Saturday)
Something strange is happening—there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.

He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. … [More]

DEO Gratias

'The child is father to the man.' How can he be? The words are wild. Suck any sense from that who can: 'The child is father to the man.' No; what the poet did write ran, 'The man is father to the child.' 'The child is father to the man!' How can he be? The words are wild.

Good Review. Great movie!

Dear Holy Rope. Geo Gratias for the post. I still love the song, and even the times it reflected. I found the full 33 RPM LP pictured in the clip at a yardsale 10 years ago. It was in perfect condition. The Album has a number of water color drawings included. Quite simple and beautiful. She really was The Smiling Sister (while she was in habit).

Please pray for the soul of Sister Luc Gabriel (Jeanine Deckers) . She unfortunately apostatized and lived a sad life, ending poorly at age 51.

It is in my written instructions for my Funeral Mass that the Dies Ires shall be sung in Latin and English.

It is a good thing to choose your hymns now before "The Gospel According to Oprah" is proclaimed at your Funeral Mass.

A good introduction to Bl. JHN. Deo Gratias for the post!

Neat Pic . But the Maid of Orleans cropped her hair,

Here is his site along with a wide breathe of media referrals

http://www.trendsresearch.com/index.htm

Much Thanx for this silly video and all you do for us!

God Bless us, everyone!

Irapuato,

Where did you find this sister? It is a great find. I believe his children are active in the Faith to this day.

After 22 years of marriage I am still plumbing the depths of the feminine word "Fine".

DG for the posting. I have never seen this version. A classic seen. Actually there are several similar stories in the Desert Fathers.

Beautiful!

Doina is correct. This is very intelligent. A great reflection of the Modern Educator: Insular, self absorbed and de humanizingly program oriented.

Deo Gratias

Just arrived back from a visit to Ireland last Friday (18 days). We stayed in Co Leitrim up north and were able to receive the BBC that is broadcast into the Six Counties. The bitter, vitrioloc, hateful and slanderous coverage was repulsive. There was no news of the beatification of JHN, just lots of face/screen time for anti-Catholic diatribe against the Holy Father.

JHN was right in the Apologia: it is always the Catholic Church that is being opposed.

Prayed for all at Knock. EJG Catholic … [More]

His pronounciation is better than mine!

Deo Gratias

Thank you. Love to see more!

Bene, optima est!.

Awesome. As always. Our Lord bless you both for ALL you do!!

Sounds silly, but the misplaced coffee cup and the resentment and root of bitterness caused by the following faults soon become a great millstone about ones neck.

Love that last story!!!!

It was one of the greatest priviledges on my life to sit at then Prof. John Saward's feet (quite literally at times) and be truly discilpled to Christ.


P.S. I am deeply grateful for these postings

An excellent movie I caught by mistake on TCM (Turner Classic Movies) on lazy Sunday afernoon. It takes place in the very family oriented city of... San Francisco. Pre WWII of course. After WWII SF totaly changed. Alovely film and a true story of the power of a mother's love.

thanx FOR THE POST.
Even late in his life he still had it!
His warning of a realease of discipline and the move to a social/political anti-gospel unfolds before our eyes.

A pleasent homage to the Animaniacs

Dom Prosper Gueranger of Solesmes actually penned a small work entitled The Medal or Cross of Saint Benedict. This work remains little known, compared to his magnaum opu, The Liturgical Year. This small book is still in print by Loreto Publications. see. www. loretopubs.org , http://loretopubs.org/index.php?target=products&product_id=3

I can personally attest to the positive, proper use of this sacramental. I have worn, distributed and used the St. Benedict Medal to good effect for the last 15 … [More]

St. Teresa de Avila's Devotion to St. Joseph

[The following quotes from St. Teresa de Avila about her devotion to St. Joseph are taken from her autobiography, and were quoted on St. Teresa of Avila's devotion to St. Joseph.]

"I took for my advocate and lord the glorious Saint Joseph and commended myself earnestly to him; and I found that this my father and lord delivered me both from this trouble [a temporary paralysis] and also from other and greater troubles concerning my honor and the … [More]

Highly Recomned THE SECRET OF NEW YORK REVEALED by Thomas Howard. The Forward by Fr. Benedict Groeschel alone is worth the consideration.

Howard's book is based around finding the Holiness in everday life. A very large theme in the writings of Charles Williams (an major "Inkling"). Howard, while doing his Ph.D on Williams in NYC, discovers the "Secret of NY City".

“More is a man of an angel’s wit and singular learning. He is a man of many excellent virtues; I know not his fellow. For where is the man (in whom is so many goodly virtues) of that gentleness, lowliness, and affability, and as time requires, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes and sometime of steadfast gravity — a man for all seasons.”
--Robert Whittington, Vulgaria, 1520

“…it would be hard to find anyone who was more truly a man for all seasons and all men…”
(…omnibus omnium horarum … [More]

Very good. But...The Rubrics of the New Mass do mandate silences at several parts, unfortunately ignored, not read or rushed over by bad practice.

St. Thomas Becket. The new patron for resistence governments agrressive tot religion.

http://en.gloria.tv/?media=12000

St. Teresa de Avila's Devotion to St. Joseph

St. Teresa de Avila (courtesy of Treasures of Grace)

[The following quotes from St. Teresa de Avila about her devotion to St. Joseph are taken from her autobiography, and were quoted on St. Teresa of Avila's devotion to St. Joseph.]

"I took for my advocate and lord the glorious Saint Joseph and commended myself earnestly to him; and I found that this my father and lord delivered me both from this trouble [a temporary paralysis] and also from other … [More]

Thank you Father. My parish did a Puppet Show in place of the Homily for Christmas Eve Mass. Groan.

All those Christmas/Easter* Catholics would have received so much more from a rushed licit Mass with a mediocre sermon. What they received was Trivialism of the Trancendant. Very Sad. Very Bad.

My Wife and I were in Lancaster County, PA. After the clip-clop of Amish horses pulling their buggys woke us on Sunday Morning we attended a Tridentine mass at the Parish of St. Anthony of Padua in down … [More]

Blessed Christmas to all, especially the crew of Gloria.tv and its frequent contributors.

I worry about the Holy Father's security constantly.

I was at the Vatican for 2 weeks in June and 2008. Security is very lax. I have reaised the point to a number of persons, many know it, not really sure why this persists. Of course, the Holy Father can not be surrounded by a group of large security guards all the time but it is very easy to access him if you are willing. I was blessed to be very close to the Holy Father several times and was uncomfortable at the seeming ease to access him. [More]

Brilliant!

Deo Gratias Sister!

You and your intentions are in my pitiful prayers

Great post. Here is a wonderful version by a young female Catholic. Great shots of the Vatican.

http://en.gloria.tv/?media=18921

Well said.

I did the evening Program at St. Charles and probably tangled with the same person and others of that ilk. They never did not enjoy the pun on the JEPD codes and doing Textual Criticsm on them. Got cold stares when I asked to see their copies. Sounds like Gnosticism to me. Almost Psuedo Mormonism. Secret Codes no one can see. I was mostly left alone as I was known Revert that had a few articles published. They did not know me and I was a bit of a mystery to them. I was there in 96-97 under John … [More]

I believe "Shadow Feet" is a reference to C.S. Lewis' theme of Living in "Shadow Lands" until we reach our true home land with HIM. Brooke Fraser is a Lewis fan. See the last chapters of THE LAST BATTLE and the name of the play and movie named after Lewis. As old Professor Digory would say to those who did not understand the Shadow Lands, once he left and stood in Aslan's Country "Oh, dear, It's in Plato, its all in Plato. Whatever are they teaching in the schools theses days." LOL . PAX


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Does anyone know where the Lewis quote is from??


Mere Christianity, Doh!

I love to tell my Modernist Friends that I did my Ph.D on Textual Criticism of the "J" Code. When they ask to see my work (some actually do!) I ask them to let me see the "J" code itself (or the P, D or E Code).

Some never get the pun and actually still beleive there are such fallacies that the "learned" consult to unravel scripture and come to an De-constructed non-conclusion.

I was trained by very sharp Protestants who were well versed in combatting this fololishness. Upon my return to the … [More]

Bang on Padre! Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi. The Law of Prayer is the Law of Faith...

Change the Liturgy and you change the Faith. Every Joe and Mary Catholic knew this not so long ago.

Whenever there is an innovation [sic] in the Mass there is a lessening or perhapds a complete interpration of the Faith.

The beauty of holiness, and the holiness of beauty!

DG for this great post!

I am a good "Revert" to the Catholic Faith but do owe much of my reversion to the "Dominion Theology Crowd". I studied and served under Ray Sutton, now a Bishop in the Reformed Episcopal Church. I am currnetly doing a Bible Study for my parish group, ( a number of Prot converts and Reverts mixed in). I am using Geoffrey of Auxere, Nicholas of Lyra and David Chilton.

So I am no longer a Calvinist, but I do believe in the 5 points of a Suzerain Covenant. I does lead one to Sacramental Theology … [More]

CathPresbyter,
One of the best works on this is, beleive it or not, a Prot work by James Jordan, "THROUGH NEW EYES: Developing a Biblical World View".

See it here for free.
http://www.biblicalhorizons.com/pdf/jjne.pdf

I was trained by one of these men in the Basilian/Dominion Movement, many of whom adopted a more Catholic view of the world, many of whom became Catholic, Orthodox or very Traditional High Church "Spikey" Anglican. Thtraining lef me to REVERT to the Faith!

The Creation is a … [More]

Indeed. Furthermore the Garden of Eden is a microcsm of the Universe and the Tabernacle & Temple in the OT and a TRADITIONALLY designed Church are models of the Garden and teh Created universe.

Holyrope, It is indeed the "Reconciliation of Opposites" at work. Both tiltles are true. See amazon and IMDB link. It is marketed under both tiltes It was originally part of

"ITV Saturday Night Theatre" Catholics (1973) AKA. The Conflict

http://www.amazon.com/Catholics-Martin-Sheen/dp/B000R9AKR2/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1259432470&sr=8-13

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0069857/

(The link for here on Gloria.tv calls it "Catholics")

The Great music is

The Blood of Cuchulainn

http://www … [More]

The Movie is actually entitled "CATHOLICS". You can see it here, on Gloria.tv.
http://en.gloria.tv/?media=4874

Looking forward to the movie "The 13th Day".

D.G. for this post. Many forget that there is an old Roman Chant. Gregorian Chant is actually a blend of old Romand and Gallican Chant. This too is the Faith of our Fathers. NB>.The eastern Tone/influence is unmistakable.

For Your Consideration: Father John Saward (the celebrant and "PIC" at Ss. G & A) is the translator of the Holy Father's Seminal work THE SPIRIT OF THE LITURGY.

For Your Consideration: Father John Saward (the celebrant and "PIC" at Ss. G & A) is the translator of the Holy Father's Seminal work THE SPIRIT OF THE LITURGY.

Sublime! Deo Gratias.

Oh to be in Oxford now that Autumn is here!

switches back and forth for me. What does that mean, can't be good

Miss Maria, Excellent Apologetics!

In many ways our Lady of Fatima brought me back to the Church. When I was chased from the Church by confused or malicious Modoernists I became the best Protestant I could. Fatima became a large sticking point for my return. Here goes the reasoning that brought me back. Took several years to work through it. (If I had seen this excellent video back then it would have been much quicker)

1. The Miracle of the Sun was a widely documented "phenomenon"
2. It … [More]

Dear KFarley,

This video also lies outside my tastes and affection. But please consider:
The Desert Fathers often warned that in criticizing you often become the thing you are criticizing.

Yes it is rather Beatnik. Probably on purpose. Probably trying to reach out. St. Patrick often used Celtic/Druidic language to adress the pagans of his day. Please be careful with provacative statements such as "If you knew Scripture, etc." St. Paul and Our Lord in the Gospels probably have words for your … [More]

There now appeared upon the ravaged scene an Angel of Deliverance, the noblest patriot of France, the most splendid of her heroes, the most beloved of her saints, the most inspiring of all her memories, the peasant Maid, the ever-shining, ever-glorious Joan of Arc.

Amid an immense concourse she was dragged to the stake in the market-place of Rouen. High upon the pyramid of faggots the flames rose towards her, and the smoke of doom wreathed and curled. She raised a cross made of firewood, and … [More]

Elvis began each and every recording session with "Gospel Music", "Tarditional" American Protestsant Hymns. There are several collections of these hymns in various formats.

Several songs are on this site. A simple search will yield a few.

I do not know where this comes from. He was not known for Catholic Hymns.

BTW. Elvis received his first on screen movie kiss from one Delores Hart. She was the "It Girl" of the day. She soon after converted and entered a Convent. For some time Delores Hart … [More]

Looking forward to this.

A good "teaser" piece on this subject

SUBLIME!

Willyfr, Yes I believe they are sedevacantists, as far as I know.