Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!

"A [preacher] who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they are necessarily reflected in his [preaching]." — BXVI

03 October 2009

Translating Italian into American

Headline: Big protest in Rome to protest blah-blah-blah, or something. . . Translation: four day weekend for Rome's unionized "w...

Childlike Wisdom

26th Week OT (S): Readings Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Holy Rosary Priory, Houston What's so difficult about believing and teaching that...

02 October 2009

@#$% posteitaliane! (UPDATE)

I just discovered that two large boxes of books I shipped to Rome back in June have been sitting in the local posteitaliane office, waiting...

No Olympics for Chicago. . .

If you care about the Olympics--I don't--you will have likely heard that despite B.O.'s promotional tour, Chicago was eliminated in ...

Do women make better judges? (UPDATED)

Research recently summarized in an article on Slate.com finds that though female judges tend to be less qualified than their male counterpa...

Three Questions

Questions. . . 1). My 13 year old daughter has started wearing black clothes and other things that she says are "goth." Should I...

The courage to be (the least)

[N.B. I made the coffee a little strong this morning. . .] 26th Week OT (F): Readings Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Holy Rosary Priory, Houst...

01 October 2009

Are we contagious?

26th Week OT (Th): Readings Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Holy Rosary Priory, Houston As a tip sheet on how to survive as a disciple-lamb amo...

30 September 2009

Dominican Vestition

Here's video of the recent Vestition of the Novices that took place at St Albert the Great Priory in Irving, TX. The official start o...

One goal, one direction, no distractions

26th Week OT (W): Readings Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Holy Rosary Priory, Houston Those who study leadership will tell you that a great le...

198 and counting. . .

198 Followers of HancAquam ! Just 3 more and we'll break 200. . . Come on, you can do it!

29 September 2009

How do you know me?

Feast of the Archangels: Readings Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Holy Rosary Priory, Houston Back in the Bad Old Days before I came into the C...

Coffee Cup Browsing (Political Edition)

Health Care: "Ordinary Americans are rightly suspicious of this exercise in collective ego gratification , which has gripped Obama and...

Doodle software?

It's 4.30am and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet. . . Here's my question: can someone tell me where to find online (and for fre...

28 September 2009

Are Wiccans Satanists?

One of my Dominican lay sisters asked me recently: "Are Wiccans Satanists?" Here's my answer: Wiccans will say that the charg...

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