Daily Archives: July 5, 2011

Faith On Fire and Star Gazers

The Faith on Fire Family Apologetics Conference in Anacortes, Washington is happening at the end of the month, July 29th-31st. We attended this conference last summer and it was fantastic! So that should also impress you.

The link: Faith on Fire Speaker to note: Apologist extraordinaire, Tim Staples

Also, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada is hosting a Star Party, details are on the link. The dates are also July 29-31, and this one is a lot closer, being held in Metchosin. But, the big news is, our own dear Dr. John Blakeslee will be speaking at this even. And that, my friends, should impress you.

An Epistemology of Planets, and Diverse Other Cosmic Verses
The grandeur of the night sky has inspired both astronomers and poets since time immemorial. (Lovers, too, as Shakespeare notes, but that type of inspiration won’t be covered here.) Today, the two occupations are usually categorized within very different spheres of human activity, but astronomy references abound throughout poetry. Further, recent dramatic advances in astronomical imaging capability, thanks especially to the Hubble Space Telescope, have inspired attempts by many to capture their visual impressions in poems.



Please check out the link for the Star Party…sounds like good times.

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Rathtrevor Beach

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So, Saturday July 16th a bunch of us are going up to Rathtrevor in Parksville, about 20 minutes north of Nanaimo. For those of you who haven’t been there, its my favourite place in the world so that should impress you.

Here is one reason why.

And here is another.

We are going to head up around 10 am, and meet for lunch. There are five parking lots at Rathtrevor to access the beach, I am going to arbitrarily choose parking lot three, so we will try to park there, and then head to the beach and picnic area that is opposite the walking entrance to parking lot three.

Its a great sandy beach for digging and sand toys, and there are a lot of tidepools when the tide is out. Because the water is very shallow, its warm and a great place for skim board type implements, and there is lots of space for frisbee-ish games and the like.

Some of our group will be going to Mass that evening (maybe in Parksville, maybe in Nanaimo, maybe in Duncan depending on Mass times and when we get moving), so we’ll pack up between three and four o’clock. But you can be in charge of your own lives and stay as long as you want.

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Rathtrevor Beach

Semper Virginis Mariae

O Chaste Curtain of Christ, your fiat led the Almighty to reveal Himself through your torn yet seamless virginity, which produces an awesome fragrance of purity to herald the Holy of Holies as He manifests Himself in the revered fabric formed within the inner sanctuary of your womb. O Chaste Curtain of Christ through which, the light of splendor shines lead us to the full radiance of His Divinity cloaked as it is in your fair flesh now stretched upon the Cross as the seamless Cloud of Heaven from which pour the rains of redemption.

; ; ; ; ; ; ;O Chaste Curtain of Christ, seamless were you in the pangs of birth yet torn at the foot of the Cross. Teach us the joy of Virginity’s abiding Truth by calling forth upon us from the Vault of Heaven the Divine Spirit whom your exalted womb calls Spouse.

; ; ; ; ; ; ;When the Holy Spirit got to the bottom of your Christ-Hungry heart He found your womb where He was exceptionally pleased to incarnate the Son within the walls of your Temple like womb precisely on account of the welcome He received in your ‘Holy of Holies’ like heart.

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Precious

Precious in the Eyes of the Lord is the Death of His Faithful: How precious for the redeemed is that moment when at last the veil of faith is lifted and they behold their true worth in the arms of satisfying Love. The arrows of doubt that sought to bring them down in this life will be replace by the certitude of faith’s eternal reward – the Bridegroom of the soul.

​It must excite You so much my dear Jesus at the moment of death to be able to thrust Yourself so completely upon the children of grace. To know, Lord Jesus that You are the ecstasy of the human soul must make You impatient for the death of Your faithful ones. How must it make You feel knowing that You are everything and that in death Your faithful ones will come to experience in true undefiled purity the joy of the union which the soul was made to hunger for. You are that joy. You desire to give that joy to the world for You are Love Absolute.

​I long to be lost in that embrace My Beloved Jesus never more to emerge from the ;inner chamber to my most worthy and exalted King. My pen seeks to scream Your praises with love beyond defect. You have no equal. You alone my dearest Jesus were found worthy to open the scroll which had been sealed with 7 seals, the same scroll ;of which the book of Revelation speaks. This scroll contains my every need and desire and You have made Yourself worthy to open it by paying the demands of justice, which I could never pay by shedding Your delicious love-enhancing Blood. Your desire alone Lord to open the scroll with the seven seals is itself my crown of glory for to know that the God of all glory has desired Me and turned His glance toward me is enough to elate me for eternity.

​To hold Your hand and feel the grip of victory, sharing the joys and surprizes of Your resurrected wounds. Ah! This will be contentment. I know not if my eyes will be capable of beholding what You desire to share with Me.

​To be counted among the King’s men: what honor, what joy, what supreme nobility, all at the price of Love, not mine but His. He will hold me and love me and at last I will know without interruption the ecstasy of being created, redeemed and sanctified by the Triune God. Amen

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