Daily Archives: January 11, 2012

Register for the Medieval Colloquium

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Registration is now open for CMS’s 33rd Medieval Colloquium, “Imitation, Emulation, and Forgery: Pretending and Becoming in the Medieval World”:

Imitation implies both a faithfulness to its sources and also an inherent differentiation, and medieval culture used this space that embodied both sameness and difference as a particularly fertile zone; the religious found an imperfect mirror within the world and humanity, reflecting the transcendent world beyond matter; saints imitated Christ and one another, authors and poets looked to the models of both Christian and pagan antiquity, texts were copied and diffused, artists looked to the work of their forbears and the world around them, and knights fashioned themselves in the guise of the heroes of romance.

Be there.

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WORSHIP NIGHT

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Join us for a night of Praise, Worship and Adoration.  The night will include live praise and worship music, a talk, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, the sacrament of reconciliation, and social time.  The Worship Night will be taking place on January 21st, 2012 at the Founders Assembly Hall.  This is a young adult and alumni event (18-35). Feel free to bring along a friend or two!

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Feeding an Army

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

So I was standing in line at the grocery store the other day , and the guy in front of me jokingly remarked about how much food his two boys ate in a week. So I casually mentioned that I knew all about the consumption of food….with seven kids and all. I love the look of stunned disbelief mixed with slight admiration and slight “what are you crazy???” that comes over their faces when I say that.

But, with food prices the way they are these days, I guess it is no wonder that people wonder how we manage to feed everybody without getting eaten out of house and home.

Part of living within your means involves understanding the difference between shopping for ingredients versus shopping for prepared foods…the grocery store version of fast food.

With a little creativity and some planning, it is possible to eat nutritiously with out breaking the bank! For example, instead of chips we make popcorn top of the stove which saves us quite a bit, both in money and in calories.

But buckets of popcorn do not a health diet make, so how do you eat well without breaking the bank?

Anyone who has read anything about investing has probably heard about a technique called dollar cost averaging. Basically the principle of DCA works like this, if you constantly spend x amount of dollars on any given investment, sometimes you will get more, sometimes you will get less.

If you know what to look for, you can find some great deals on food that goes on sale. For example, turkey goes on sale at our local grocery store for $1.00lb….which means that we can get two 20lb turkeys for about $40….which is a lot of turkey.

Each one of those turkeys translates into a week of meals for our family of 9! So that works out to $10 a week! Throw in some salad ingredients (3 romaine lettuce heads @$5…) so that is 1.42 on turkey, 0.71 for salad, throw in a few cents for rice and frozen veggies and that works out to less than $3 a meal for the family….that is 0.37 per person!

Now someone out there has probably said, I don’t want to eat turkey for a weeks on end and truth be told neither do we. However, that is what freezers are for. There are a bunch of turkey recipies that freeze really well. We make a batch of cream turkey, freeze it and then use it as a base for turkey pot pie, turkey a la king, pasta and turkey cream sauce…and the list goes on.

Using the principle of dollar cost averaging you can get some really great food deals AND it give you an opportunity to expand your pallet.

By the way, for those of you who are taking part in the TiPSI Dad Push Up challenge, welcome to week two!

If you have been doing your pushups you will have done 55 push ups at the time of this post. Keep up the good work! If you are just hearing about the challenge for the first time, feel free to join! No need to try to catch up, just join now and follow the directions for the rest of the year. The more the merrier!

TiPSI Dad

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Archbishop Metropolitan at Your Service

Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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False mystic Vassula Ryden sues critical web site

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

What do false mystics do, besides peddle spiritual messages and collect money from naive followers? They sue people who try to expose them.

Last March the Patriarchate of Constantinople warned against Vassula Ryden’s claims of presenting messages from Jesus. It was an impressive statement from her own church (English translation here), which should help to diminish the bad influence of this long-exposed phony, especially when it is added to the warnings from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1995, 1996, and 2007.

In March 2011 the critical web site infovassula.ch, based in Switzerland, wrote, apparently incorrectly, that the document was a formal excommunication of Ryden, and in November 2011 Vassula’s organization sued the site author, Maria Laura Pio. A hearing about some issues was held on January 6.

The impression of an excommunication is understandable, since the Patriarchate’s document stated:

we call upon the proponents of these unacceptable innovations and the supporters who maintain them, who henceforth are not admitted to ecclesiastical communion, not only to not be involved in the pastoral work of the local Holy Metropolis, but also to not preach their novel teachings, to prevent the appropriate sanctions under the Holy Canons.

Of course we are dealing with translations, so ambiguities are possible. It sounds at least as if the followers of Vassula are to be denied Holy Communion until they desist.

I wish Ms. Pio all the best in dealing with this legal harassment from the Vassula camp.

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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    How Gingrich Could Still Win…

    Wednesday, January 11, 2012

    Mitt Romney’s achievement in winning the first two primary season contests is historic. But, as noted previouosly in this space, the rules this year have changed: few states are now winner-take-all. That means a strong early showing is not prohibitive to others any longer.

    As others drop out, the anybody-but-Mitt faction–which seems to be about 75% of the Republican Party electorate–will inevitably coalesce around one candidate, and there may well still be enough delegates in play at that point to keep it interesting. In addition, oddly, Romney has not yet really faced the scrutiny and attacks others have. Now that he is beginning to, he may see the same drop in the polls as they. Takes about two weeks for this to have an effect. That two week lag takes us to about the time of the South Carolina primary.

    Now, who is best placed to last long enough to benefit from this possibility? Santorum has the benefit of his strong showing in Iowa, but he did not do nearly as well in NH; so the momentum may be lost. One of today’s headlines has him “crashing to earth in New Hampshire.” And his campaign has always looked short of money. Perry reputedly has money, but his showing in both Iowa and NH has been dismal. Texas must be beckoning. Paul has a natural ceiling on his support; he cannot be an ABRomney champion. The same could be said of Huntsman–he can do rather well in an open primary like NH, where Democrats can vote for their favourite Republican, but he has been running to Romney’s left, and that has turned out–to my own surprise–to be a very shallow pool in the Republican party this time around. In SC polls, he currently runs somewhere behind Steve Colbert. That leaves Gingrich. He at least seems to be picking up steam now instead of losing it–beat everyone else on the solid right in the NH vote, edging out Santorum. He will have the same advantage in South Carolina, of coming from the next state, that Romney had in NH.And he has just had a major new infusion of cash from a wealthy backer, apparently.

    Imagine a win for Newt in South Carolina that surprises the pundits enough to become a big news item, like Hilary’s win in NH last time, or McCain’s. Things could then change. And the latest polling shows him only four points behind.

    Imagine further that a relatively poor showing there forces Perry and Huntsman out of the race.

    As they say, a week is a long time in politics.

    Full disclosure: I personally want Newt Gingrich to win. Why? Because he is such an interesting character. I would love to hear what he has to say over the next four years.

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    Valladolid, A Mayan Colonial Town

    Wednesday, January 11, 2012

    The Main Church in Valladolid

    I spent this New Years in the town of Valladolid, about 2.5 hours inland from here, not far from the ruins of Chichen Itza. The town is a classic old colonial Mexican town, with beautiful sites to see like old churches and convents. The town square is also very picturesque.

    While central Mexico has a much larger number of charming towns to visit, Valladolid is unique in the fact that it’s not only colonial but also Mayan – not Mayan as in having dancers wearing large bird and animal masks and pretending to carry out long dead rituals for American tourists, but Mayan as in Mayan people actually live there. While Yucatec Spanish (distinct from “normal” Mexican Spanish from the central area) is the most common language, you can also hear Mayan spoken in the streets and homes if you walk around a little. It’s rather un-romantic and quite contrary to the image of “Mayans” given for tourists as some sort of ancient mystics, since these are just common people living in run down colonial homes (small, one-story buildings with ornate facades that haven’t been kept up in years – at least out side of the central tourist area), half-built concrete homes or even huts built out of wooden poles. I like both sides of Valladolid.

    A older home, in the residential part of town

    There’s a restaurant in town that serves traditional food for the area, and is located right next to a “cenote” which is a large, natural pool of water at the entrance to the underground cave and water network. It’s beautiful because you can have a view of the cave and water while you eat, and then go for a dip in the water – it’s very refreshing.

    I also like going to Valladolid because there I can get hand-made sandals with car-tire soles for about $12. People sell them right out of their workshops, which look similar to the old home pictured in this post. They last me about 2 years – a good bit longer than most footwear.

    This was my second trip to Valladolid, and I plan to go back. It’s a nice, relaxing place to visit.

    A picturesque colonial street in the town centre
    My 2 sons and I walking down into the cenote (baby in my arms)
    A view over the water of the cenote
    Baby and wife



    Our son playing in the pool at the hotel

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