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HARK! THE HERALD Kneel obstat The on-line edition of the July 24, 2003 issue of our archdiocesan weekly is up, including this article. New norms for the celebration of Mass, issued by the Vatican three years ago, will be implemented in the Milwaukee Archdiocese on Nov. 30, the first Sunday of Advent. ...At my parish, the practice is to not kneel even at the consecration, so I don't expect any change.
READING NOTEBOOK Lift Up Your Hearts: Daily meditations by Pope John Paul II, translated by Carlos Alonso Vargas (1995) ... we need to remember that Jesus also instructed us to pray to God the Father "to give us this day our daily bread." Even though it is true that man does not live by bread alone, we see that it is also true that he lives on bread. Man's physical and material needs must be met, too.
READING NOTEBOOK The Excursion (1814) by William Wordsworth So passed the time; yet to the nearest town
ICH BIN EIN FRANKLINER What's wrong with this sentence? The Mission Statement of the Franklin Public Schools: The mission of the Franklin Public Schools, in active partnership with families and the community, is to educate our students to their highest level of academic and personal excellence and to become responsible and respectful citizens through an effective curriculum and learning experiences which focus on student needs.
Friday, July 25, 2003, Shawano, Wisconsin Family vacation: tubing, sailing, barbecuing, beer, supper clubs; through Monday. At the flea market at the Shawano County fairgrounds, one of the food vendors also served espresso.
HARK! THE HERALD Pilgrimage and pallium The on-line edition of the July 10, 2003 issue of our archdiocesan weekly is up, including this article on the Archbishop's pilgrimage to Rome for the occasion of his receiving the pallium of his office. The Herald also has this collection of articles on same.
INBOX Twelve great thinkers of our time The current issue of the New Statesman has an article on what it calls the 12 Great thinkers of our time. You'd have to pay to read the article, but here are the twelve: James Lovelock, E. O. Wilson, Martha Nussbaum, Li Hongzhi, Peter Singer, Noam Chomsky, Maulana Sayyid Abul-Ala Maududi, Jacques Derrida, Kate Millet, Jean Baudrillard, Antonio Negri and John Maynard Smith. Thanks to a reader for pointing this out.
INBOX A reader points out that you can't please everyone. From Monday's Washington Post:
Finished my Introduction to the 470 course at the Sailing Center and received my medium air centerboard boat rating.
An address by Fr. Paul Mankowski to the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, which I have posted to this, the date it was presented. The housewife who complained that Father skipped the Creed at mass and the housewife who complained that Father groped her son had remarkably similar experiences of:
Sunday, July 13, 2003, Manchester, New Hampshire to Milwaukee, Wisconsin Didn't an issue of The New Yorker once contain more than one could read on a thousand mile airplane trip?
Saturday, July 12, 2003, Manchester, New Hampshire, and Amesbury, Massachusetts READING NOTEBOOK Savage Inequalities (1991), by Jonathan Kozol Nothing, in short, that the East St. Louis school board does within the context of its penury can benefit one interest in the city without damaging another.
Friday, July 11, 2003, Manchester, New Hampshire If you're in Manchester, I recommend a visit to the Currier Museum of Art. No, it's not a museum of Currier and Ives prints. Items in the collection ranged from the tapesty A Visit from the Gypsies (1510) to Picasso's Woman Seated in a Chair (1941).
HARK! THE HERALD Do process The on-line edition of the June 26, 2003 issue of our archdiocesan weekly is up, including this article. The strategic planning process for the archdiocese is underway. Specifically Archbishop Dolan wrote the following in his mandate for their work:Vague by secular standards, but clear for the Archdiocese. Have the plan completed by Feb. 1, 2004.Now that's clear by any standard. This strategic planning was first mentioned toward the end of this May 8, 2003 article.
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ICH BIN EIN FRANKLINER A pinch of Basil This week's issue of our suburban weekly reports that, District 4 Alderman Basil Ryan was charged with two counts of misdemeanor property damage Tuesday, stemming from claims that he destroyed trees on neighboring property with a bulldozer. ...To no avail. "There are some very unusual things that took place in what would otherwise have been a dispute between neighbors," Ryan's attorney Emmanuel] Mamalakis said. "People functioning on the public payroll acted quite out of line in what would normally happened."That last sentence would also serve to summarize complaints about Alderman Ryan.
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SAILING LOG Finished my Intermediate course at the Sailing Center and received my medium air keelboat rating.
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