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Not always happy but always happy to be Catholic.
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Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
The best known All Souls’ Day observances in the United States come from Mexican immigrants. Mexico has a vibrant celebration, cleaning graves and building altars on them, bringing favorite foods or trinkets for the deceased, sugar skulls, and marigolds, toys for children,…
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Commemoration of All Souls
The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, or more popularly, All Souls Day, is entirely unique in the Church's liturgical calendar. ... It is neither a solemnity nor even a feast, and the spirit of the day has a unique mix of penitence, consolatoin, and intercession. ...…
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All Saints' Day: We Should All Desire to Be Saints
Today is All Saints' Day when the Church commemorates all saints, whether known or unknown. It is a Holy Day of Obligation, except this year when it falls on a Saturday. Go figure! I repost this for today's feast of All Saints' Day because I simply love this excerpt from The…
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C.S. Lewis's Ghost Story
We've had Padre Pio and a ghost, St. John Bosco and a ghost. For Halloween itself, let's get one where the famous person is himself the ghost! At the time, J. B. Phillips was in a deep depression that threatened his life. He refused to leave his chambers, refused proper food or…
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Happy Halloween!
Kirsten's Jack O'Lanterns I can't believe I know people who actually carved these. Talk about a labor of love! And of creativity! And some poetry to go along with it! "Hallowe'en in a Suburb" by H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) The steeples are white in the wild moonlight, And the…
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St. John Bosco's Ghost Story
This is a little reminder that All Saints' Day is on Tuesday (formerly known as All Hallow's Day), without which we would not have Hallowe'en (formerly known as All Hallow's Eve). Nothing like a saint telling a ghost story to both celebrate spookiness and also ... saintliness!…
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Isle of the Dead
Arnold Böcklin, Isle of the Dead: "Basel" version, 1880 This was so popular that the artist did several different versions of it. Read all about it at Wikipedia . Here's a bit. All versions of Isle of the Dead depict a desolate and rocky islet seen across an expanse of dark…
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A Lane
John Atkinson Grimshaw, A Lane John Atkinson Grimshaw's work all seems wonderfully gloomy, which is perfect for this time of year. Who is that figure in the moonlight, dwarfed by the trees and sky? An innocent traveler out late? Someone sinister? Someone in need? We are left to…
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Padre Pio's Ghost Story
Speaking of ghosts, since Halloween is close upon us ... Padre Pio told the story of being in the choir alone one evening to pray. He heard rustling and looked up to see a young monk dusting and straightening up the altar. When he asked who the monk was, he was told: “I am a…
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O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?
... we can give the supernatural world of evil too much power. I guess it's a case of either the devil isn't real or the devil is on every street corner hiding inside a pumpkin. Surely there is a middle ground where we acknowledge supernatural evil but we recognize its limited…
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St. James Church Cemetery
St. James Church Or Goose Creek Church And Cemetery, 1872 Engraving Deliciously spooky!
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Herbsttraum (Autumn)
Daniel Stark, Herbsttraum (Autumn), some rights reserved
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Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added To Curriculum
"Our schools are orderly, sanitary places where students dwell in blissful ignorance of the chaos that awaits," West said. "Should our facilities be repaired? No, they must be razed to the ground and rebuilt in the image of the Cyclopean dwellings of the Elder Gods, the very…
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Inhuman, Gelatinous, and Disembodied
Shall I say that the voice was deep, hollow, gelatinous, remote, unearthly, inhuman, disembodied? H.P. Lovecraft, the Statement of Randolph Carter Wow. And somehow I feel I know just how it sounded.
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Pirates
Illustration from page 141 of Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Terrifying, am I right?
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My Highway to Heaven by Blaise D'Souza
He was fifteen when he died. He had already catalogued the miracles of the world. Now a girl in Mumbai has three weeks to make them make sense. Naomi Fernandes is sixteen, in Std. X, and not at all sure what she believes. So naturally, Sister Philomena picks her to run the…
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Halloween Lagniappe: The Ghost House
This melancholy and evocative poem by Robert Frost is perfect for October. I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago, And left no trace but the cellar walls, And a cellar in which the daylight falls, And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow. O’er…
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Remembering John Paul II on his feast day
I wrote this when John Paul II was beatified. Rereading it, I was taken back to my feelings about this wonderful saint. I am truly privileged to have become Catholic during his pontificate. Not all the links work because it was so long ago, but I left them in so the sources are…
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Fleeing Skeleton
Fleeing Skeleton by Władysław Podkowiński, 1892. You could think of this as a bit of memento mori (an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death)! Or just as a nice scary piece of art for October!
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Notes on Mark: On the Mountaintop
The Franciscan Church of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor MARK 9:2-8 I am going to take several posts to quote William Barclay* on the transformation as I like how he explains both some of the details of this important event. Here we will look at when it happened and just…