Friday, September 19, 2003
[ so is this good or bad? ]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37566-2003Sep19.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37566-2003Sep19.html
Monday, September 01, 2003
[ bluh ]
Heading back up to seminary in a couple of hours...Crystal offered a live journal code to me so I can continue my blogging trek, I haven't talked to her lately other than that and I haven't tried LJ on the sem computers yet, so I don't know how that's going to work out.
JP II's poetry is going to hit the shelves on Sep 5...you can read some (all?) of the book, entitled The Roman Triptych: Meditations, here.
Heading back up to seminary in a couple of hours...Crystal offered a live journal code to me so I can continue my blogging trek, I haven't talked to her lately other than that and I haven't tried LJ on the sem computers yet, so I don't know how that's going to work out.
JP II's poetry is going to hit the shelves on Sep 5...you can read some (all?) of the book, entitled The Roman Triptych: Meditations, here.
Friday, August 29, 2003
[ weep ]
Well I been at sem for a week now, and....haven't updated....cuz Blogger is blocked by the Archdiocese. Ridiculous. So now I can't update this thing. Don't know what I'm going to do yet, but...we'll see.
Well I been at sem for a week now, and....haven't updated....cuz Blogger is blocked by the Archdiocese. Ridiculous. So now I can't update this thing. Don't know what I'm going to do yet, but...we'll see.
Saturday, August 23, 2003
Tuesday, August 19, 2003
[ death ]
Grandfather died early this morning. Resquiat in pace.
Grandfather died early this morning. Resquiat in pace.
Monday, August 18, 2003
[ hell! ]
General asshats
Circle I Limbo
Militant Vegans
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind
Christina Aguilera
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow
Protestants
Circle IV Rolling Weights
Democrats
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled
River Styx
Objectivists
Circle VI Buried for Eternity
River Phlegyas
Bill Clinton
Circle VII Burning Sands
Scientologists
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement
Hillary Clinton
Circle IX Frozen in Ice
[ laughing mah heinie off ]
Jesus Stuff
I've seen articles by The Onion that are really tasteless and not funny, but this one is so amusing because...nowadays it's hardly even a spoof.... :-D
Jesus Stuff
I've seen articles by The Onion that are really tasteless and not funny, but this one is so amusing because...nowadays it's hardly even a spoof.... :-D
Sunday, August 17, 2003
[ well, I lack a good Bible ]
Still lacking a good Bible. Went to both Borders AND Barnes and Noble. Checked out The Jerusalem Bible: Reader's Edition. No inclusive language, but it is quite liberal with the translation of the text. I understand it's a dynamic translation, but I want something a bit more faithful. So, move onto The New Jerusalem Bible: Saints Devotional Edition. Uses some inclusive language ("humankind" [which, by the way, still includes "mankind" but not "womankind"). Better than the original JB at fidelity to the text. Yet translates Matthew 16:18 as "...you are Peter and on this rock I will build my community, and the underworld will not withstand it" (or something like that). Now, community?! COMMUNITY!? Yeah, the Church is a community, but the word is ECCLESIA, which means, quite specifically,CHURCH. So fiercely scratch out THAT worthless translation.
50th Anniversary RSV w/ Apocrypha (and without imprimatur). Now that I haven't read the RSV in a while, it appears almost as pedestrian as the NAB, with odd wordings. Of course, nothing's as bad as the NAB's translation of a line in a psalm (think it's 28) as "Rise up O ancient portals," which definitely evokes images of Geordi LaForge blowing holes in a Romulan with a phaser.
So, let's do a summary of the major Catholic translations of the Bible:
Jerusalem: wacky words
New Jerusalem: wacky feminist words
RSV: pedestrian
NAB: romulan (too bad it ain't Catholic/Rome-ulan, hee hee hee)
Looks like I'm gonna be sticking with Italian till I get my hands on a Vulgate or a Douay. None of this dynamic pedestrian feminist alien crap for me. What do you think I am, an Episcopal? :-p :-D
(and sorry about the Rome-ulan joke, I'll be doing time in purgatory for that one, I'm sure, lol)
Still lacking a good Bible. Went to both Borders AND Barnes and Noble. Checked out The Jerusalem Bible: Reader's Edition. No inclusive language, but it is quite liberal with the translation of the text. I understand it's a dynamic translation, but I want something a bit more faithful. So, move onto The New Jerusalem Bible: Saints Devotional Edition. Uses some inclusive language ("humankind" [which, by the way, still includes "mankind" but not "womankind"). Better than the original JB at fidelity to the text. Yet translates Matthew 16:18 as "...you are Peter and on this rock I will build my community, and the underworld will not withstand it" (or something like that). Now, community?! COMMUNITY!? Yeah, the Church is a community, but the word is ECCLESIA, which means, quite specifically,CHURCH. So fiercely scratch out THAT worthless translation.
50th Anniversary RSV w/ Apocrypha (and without imprimatur). Now that I haven't read the RSV in a while, it appears almost as pedestrian as the NAB, with odd wordings. Of course, nothing's as bad as the NAB's translation of a line in a psalm (think it's 28) as "Rise up O ancient portals," which definitely evokes images of Geordi LaForge blowing holes in a Romulan with a phaser.
So, let's do a summary of the major Catholic translations of the Bible:
Jerusalem: wacky words
New Jerusalem: wacky feminist words
RSV: pedestrian
NAB: romulan (too bad it ain't Catholic/Rome-ulan, hee hee hee)
Looks like I'm gonna be sticking with Italian till I get my hands on a Vulgate or a Douay. None of this dynamic pedestrian feminist alien crap for me. What do you think I am, an Episcopal? :-p :-D
(and sorry about the Rome-ulan joke, I'll be doing time in purgatory for that one, I'm sure, lol)
[ Anglicans ]
I was reading the Pope's last encyclical on the Eucharist (which I love!) and wanted to see various people's commentaries on it. I happened to stumble across an Anglican's blog on which he expressed his distate for Ecclesia de Eucharistia and complained that the Pope is trying to widen the same gulf that the ecumenical movement is trying to bridge. Now, I'm sorry, but I just find this ridiculous. He, a member of a church that was founded by the libidinous whims of a murderous king less than five paltry centuries ago, is complaining that the pope is reiterating what the Church has ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS taught--- that non-Catholics and Catholics cannot receive communion together?
You have to be IN COMMUNION to receive COMMUNION--in communion with Christ AND with the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. Which the Anglican Churches are definitely NOT; soon they won't even be in "communion" with EACH OTHER! To what purpose would it serve if we DID receive communion together, when we even lack agreement on what the Eucharist is in the first place (since they don't believe in transubstantiation)?! And with the horrific state of the Anglican Churches today, why would Catholics even WANT to PRETEND there IS unity?
And what a farce it would be to even try!
Anyway, I'm going to head to Barnes and Noble later today. I need to buy another Bible, since I gave my Ignatius away to the Israeli, lol. It was worth it, it was worth it, but that doesn't change the fact that I now lack a worthy Bible translation. All I have now is my NAB, which I hate with a passion. A boring, flat, ultra inclusive waste of paper that includes the worst rendition of the psalms known to man. And I've got an Italian Bible, too, but I would really like an English one for daily use--Italian's a beautiful language to pray in, but for meditation and research, I am still kinda stuck with English.
I'm not quite sure whether to buy a New Jerusalem (Saints Devotional Edition) or a hard cover Ignatius Bible. I really prefer the NJB, but it's not as good for apologetics purposes as the RSV is, and plus the NJB sometimes uses inclusive language, though it's not in-your-face like the NAB ("and the Light was the Life of the HUMAN RACE" *puke*) or the NRSV. But then again the NJB is probably the most beautiful English translation...so, as you can see, I'm stuck. What I'll probably do is buy a NJB today and in a month or so score an Ignatius. You see, Mom, I CAN have my cake and eat it, too. :-p :-D
I was reading the Pope's last encyclical on the Eucharist (which I love!) and wanted to see various people's commentaries on it. I happened to stumble across an Anglican's blog on which he expressed his distate for Ecclesia de Eucharistia and complained that the Pope is trying to widen the same gulf that the ecumenical movement is trying to bridge. Now, I'm sorry, but I just find this ridiculous. He, a member of a church that was founded by the libidinous whims of a murderous king less than five paltry centuries ago, is complaining that the pope is reiterating what the Church has ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS taught--- that non-Catholics and Catholics cannot receive communion together?
You have to be IN COMMUNION to receive COMMUNION--in communion with Christ AND with the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. Which the Anglican Churches are definitely NOT; soon they won't even be in "communion" with EACH OTHER! To what purpose would it serve if we DID receive communion together, when we even lack agreement on what the Eucharist is in the first place (since they don't believe in transubstantiation)?! And with the horrific state of the Anglican Churches today, why would Catholics even WANT to PRETEND there IS unity?
And what a farce it would be to even try!
Anyway, I'm going to head to Barnes and Noble later today. I need to buy another Bible, since I gave my Ignatius away to the Israeli, lol. It was worth it, it was worth it, but that doesn't change the fact that I now lack a worthy Bible translation. All I have now is my NAB, which I hate with a passion. A boring, flat, ultra inclusive waste of paper that includes the worst rendition of the psalms known to man. And I've got an Italian Bible, too, but I would really like an English one for daily use--Italian's a beautiful language to pray in, but for meditation and research, I am still kinda stuck with English.
I'm not quite sure whether to buy a New Jerusalem (Saints Devotional Edition) or a hard cover Ignatius Bible. I really prefer the NJB, but it's not as good for apologetics purposes as the RSV is, and plus the NJB sometimes uses inclusive language, though it's not in-your-face like the NAB ("and the Light was the Life of the HUMAN RACE" *puke*) or the NRSV. But then again the NJB is probably the most beautiful English translation...so, as you can see, I'm stuck. What I'll probably do is buy a NJB today and in a month or so score an Ignatius. You see, Mom, I CAN have my cake and eat it, too. :-p :-D
