Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Historic Community of Anglican Nuns to Join Ordinariate
A group of Anglican nuns from the Community of St Mary the Virgin (CSMV) in Wantage, Oxfordshire, are to be received into the full communion of the Catholic Church in January 2013.
Eleven sisters from the historic Anglican community will join the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, the structure established by Pope Benedict XVI to enable groups of Anglicans to enter into the full communion of the Catholic Church whilst retaining elements of their liturgical, spiritual, and pastoral heritage. The group includes the Superior of the community, Mother Winsome CSMV.
Eleven sisters from the historic Anglican community will join the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, the structure established by Pope Benedict XVI to enable groups of Anglicans to enter into the full communion of the Catholic Church whilst retaining elements of their liturgical, spiritual, and pastoral heritage. The group includes the Superior of the community, Mother Winsome CSMV.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Supporting Sunlit Uplands Doesn't Cost a Penny!
Dear Friends and Visitors,
During the Christmas season you will no doubt receive many requests for contributions to many worthy causes. Here at Sunlit Uplands we have a request, but this one will not cost you a penny. Many of you have discovered the substantial savings that can be found through the Amazon shopping network. Do you know that if you access Amazon through the Amazon widget in our left sidebar, any purchase you make can substantially benefit this apostolate at no additional cost to you?
In addition to the extraordinary "Deal of the Day" and "Lightning Deals," shown on the widget, all the sellers, products and services offered through Amazon can be accessed via our "gateway" widget. You simply click on the Amazon widget to the left, use Amazon the way you normally do, and Amazon will provide us a percentage of every purchase. A great and painless way to help us and save money while doing your Christmas shopping or making other purchases through the year!
Thanks and very best wishes for a joyous and blessed Christmas!
Alfred Hitchcock's Surprise Ending
A biographer said that the director, at the end of his life, shunned religion. Not true. I was there.
I remember as a young boy watching the black-and-white "Alfred
Hitchcock Presents" on TV and being enthralled from the start by the
simple nine-stroke line-drawing caricature of the famed movie director's
rotund profile. The mischievous theme music set the mood as Hitchcock
appeared in silhouette from the right edge of the screen, and then
walked into the center replacing the caricature. "Good evening." There
followed his droll introductions, so unlike anything else on television.
By Mark Henninger
I remember as a young boy watching the black-and-white "Alfred
Hitchcock Presents" on TV and being enthralled from the start by the
simple nine-stroke line-drawing caricature of the famed movie director's
rotund profile. The mischievous theme music set the mood as Hitchcock
appeared in silhouette from the right edge of the screen, and then
walked into the center replacing the caricature. "Good evening." There
followed his droll introductions, so unlike anything else on television.
Such childhood emotions came over me again when in early 1980 I
entered his home in Bel Air to see him dozing in a chair in a corner of
his living room, dressed in jet-black pajamas.
The Winter of Conservative Discontent
By Patrick J. Buchanan
As the white flag rises above Republican redoubts, offering a
surrender on taxes, the mind goes back to what seemed a worse time for
conservatives: December 1964.
Barry Goldwater had suffered a defeat not seen since Alf Landon. Republicans held less than one-third of the House and Senate and only 17 governorships. The Warren Court was remaking America.
In the arts, academic and entertainment communities, and national press corps, conservatives were rarely seen or heard. It was Liberalism's Hour, with America awash in misty memories of Camelot and great expectations of the Great Society to come in 1965.
As the white flag rises above Republican redoubts, offering a
surrender on taxes, the mind goes back to what seemed a worse time for
conservatives: December 1964.Barry Goldwater had suffered a defeat not seen since Alf Landon. Republicans held less than one-third of the House and Senate and only 17 governorships. The Warren Court was remaking America.
In the arts, academic and entertainment communities, and national press corps, conservatives were rarely seen or heard. It was Liberalism's Hour, with America awash in misty memories of Camelot and great expectations of the Great Society to come in 1965.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Senator Marco Rubio Delivers Weekly GOP Address on Jobs and the Middle Class
"We must reform our complicated, uncertain, job-killing tax code, by getting rid of unjustified loopholes. But our goal should be to generate new revenue by creating new taxpayers, not new taxes."
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
