Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Tissot
I try to vary at least one element to Recta Ratio's Lenten regimen each year. This year, each day with the prayers and Station Church information, I will feature, more or less in chronological order, the art of French impressionist James J. Tissot, who left a fairly extensive portfolio of work on the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of the Lord. So extensive, in fact, that not only can I use one each day, but may have to double or triple images once we get to Passiontide.
Labels: Lent, Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Saturday, June 04, 2011
Ninth Blog-O-Versary
Nine years and some 11,000 posts later, I'm still here.
Testimony to either my Guinea-Mick mulishness or just plain disciplined doggedness.
Here are the Cheiftains, the Corrs, and others celebrating:
From Rogues' Gallery, I'll Fathom the Bowl
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem get down with Portlairge
Session in an Irish pub
To Anacreon In Heaven
The City of Boston celebrates on July 4th (a month late)
The Liberty Boys with one of my favorites, Nottingham Ale
The LSO gets into the act with a little Handel
Finally, HMS Victory fires a rolling broadside for the occasion
This, folks, is why there was no Mid-Week Mix on Wednesday.
Miles to go before I sleep. God bless.
Testimony to either my Guinea-Mick mulishness or just plain disciplined doggedness.
Here are the Cheiftains, the Corrs, and others celebrating:
From Rogues' Gallery, I'll Fathom the Bowl
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem get down with Portlairge
Session in an Irish pub
To Anacreon In Heaven
The City of Boston celebrates on July 4th (a month late)
The Liberty Boys with one of my favorites, Nottingham Ale
The LSO gets into the act with a little Handel
Finally, HMS Victory fires a rolling broadside for the occasion
This, folks, is why there was no Mid-Week Mix on Wednesday.
Miles to go before I sleep. God bless.
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Housekeeping
Finally got around to doing a little tidying up here. Sort of needed to. The Board of Health was making unpleasant clucking noises about conditions here at the blog. The links had become positively pre-historic, with tons of blogs still in the "Daily Reads" category that I hadn't so much as looked at since George W. Bush was still in office. Even blogs that had gone out of business were still there.
I was so lazy about the links that good blogging friend Mark Sullivan's year-old new site The Jury Box was still only accesible through the link at his old Irish Elk blog.
And then there was the League of Catholic Restorationists. Just about everyone involved dropped their blogs more than a year ago. Only Mark Ablen, Hilary White, Dale Price, and I (and sometimes Jeff Culbreath) were still in harness. So it was time to chuck the League. Should have stayed the League of Evil Traditionalists anyway. Putting the survivors in the Daily Reads means I might actually check them out on a regular basis, as things in the League category had been pretty much neglected for the last age.
So the links are tidied up. Next: that mildew people tell me is above the shower but I'm too blind to see.
I was so lazy about the links that good blogging friend Mark Sullivan's year-old new site The Jury Box was still only accesible through the link at his old Irish Elk blog.
And then there was the League of Catholic Restorationists. Just about everyone involved dropped their blogs more than a year ago. Only Mark Ablen, Hilary White, Dale Price, and I (and sometimes Jeff Culbreath) were still in harness. So it was time to chuck the League. Should have stayed the League of Evil Traditionalists anyway. Putting the survivors in the Daily Reads means I might actually check them out on a regular basis, as things in the League category had been pretty much neglected for the last age.
So the links are tidied up. Next: that mildew people tell me is above the shower but I'm too blind to see.
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
I Write Like Charles Dickens
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Post-Easter Letdown
I know that people often speak of post-Christmas depression, a feeling of let-down after Christmas. I suffer much the same thing after Easter. Maybe more specifically, after Lent is over.
Of course, I am elated when Lent is finally over. Forty-six days without meat, a cigar, alcohol, music, cake-like things and 46 days of the Sorrowul Mysteries, Friday Stations, intense daily spiritual reading, almsgiving, Friday and Wednesday fasts is a tough regimen for me. That bacon on Easter Sunday morning goes down very well, let me tell you.
But there is also a sense of let-down. All that sacrifice is over. I've completed the spiritual reading program. The extra prayers that made the daily Holy Hour and A Half turn closer to a Holy Two Hours are put aside for another year. I am just now getting out of the habit of starting every mystery of my morning rosary as a sorrowful one (I say only the Sorrowful during Lent, I say only the Glorious until after Whitsunday). For three weeks I have been unfailingly saying, "The First Sorrowful, I mean Glorious, Mystery."
But what replaces it?
Well, this year Easter was early in April, so my May devotions to Our Blessed Lady don't start for a few days yet. I mark the important saints' days, Saint George, and Saint Mark, Saint Paul of the Cross and Saint Louis de Montfort. But April's Ordo is fairly devoid of other major patrons.
The joy of the resurrection is joined to the joy of being able to eat meat again, to smoke a cigar, to listen to music. But the spiritual life is a little dry at this time of the year. Ahead there are May devotions, and the pre-Whitsuntide novena to the Holy Ghost. But since Easter, things have been less intense than they were during Lent. And that dryness has been reflected in the blog over these last 3 weeks. It may be that things had to ramp down after Lent ended. The regimen I follow for Lent could not be sustained for the whole year.
With May coming, things will pick up again, I hope. Dear Blessed Lady, for the greater glory of thy Immaculate Heart and thy Son's Sacred Heart, pray that it is so.
Of course, I am elated when Lent is finally over. Forty-six days without meat, a cigar, alcohol, music, cake-like things and 46 days of the Sorrowul Mysteries, Friday Stations, intense daily spiritual reading, almsgiving, Friday and Wednesday fasts is a tough regimen for me. That bacon on Easter Sunday morning goes down very well, let me tell you.
But there is also a sense of let-down. All that sacrifice is over. I've completed the spiritual reading program. The extra prayers that made the daily Holy Hour and A Half turn closer to a Holy Two Hours are put aside for another year. I am just now getting out of the habit of starting every mystery of my morning rosary as a sorrowful one (I say only the Sorrowful during Lent, I say only the Glorious until after Whitsunday). For three weeks I have been unfailingly saying, "The First Sorrowful, I mean Glorious, Mystery."
But what replaces it?
Well, this year Easter was early in April, so my May devotions to Our Blessed Lady don't start for a few days yet. I mark the important saints' days, Saint George, and Saint Mark, Saint Paul of the Cross and Saint Louis de Montfort. But April's Ordo is fairly devoid of other major patrons.
The joy of the resurrection is joined to the joy of being able to eat meat again, to smoke a cigar, to listen to music. But the spiritual life is a little dry at this time of the year. Ahead there are May devotions, and the pre-Whitsuntide novena to the Holy Ghost. But since Easter, things have been less intense than they were during Lent. And that dryness has been reflected in the blog over these last 3 weeks. It may be that things had to ramp down after Lent ended. The regimen I follow for Lent could not be sustained for the whole year.
With May coming, things will pick up again, I hope. Dear Blessed Lady, for the greater glory of thy Immaculate Heart and thy Son's Sacred Heart, pray that it is so.
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Two Days Without A Blog Post!!!
OK, call off the bloodhounds. I have a cold and have been busy with a project.
I have wanted to encourage readers to pray with especial diligence and love for our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI. The forces of so-called progressive ideas in the Church and out of it are making a concerted effort to damage his image and perhaps bring down his papacy.
I don't think it is a coincidence that all this nonsense surfaced after the Holy Father administered a well-deserved wigging to his former pupil, the Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna, for his unwise semi-endorsement of the goings on at Medugjorge. For the record, I don't think that Our Blessed Lady is genuinely appearing to anybody there, and that this whole circus there is the work of the Enemy. I gather that is what the Holy Father, and the last two bishops of Mostar think, as well.
More on that later.
What else have we missed? The Red Sox have begun playing baseball, but the much-touted pitching staff didn't seem up to the occasion, as we lost 2 of the first 3 to the hated Yankees, though all the games were very close. Big deep catcalls to ESPN and Major League Baseball for forcing Opening Day to become Opening Night, and keeping me up until midnight watching that first game. And having the first game scheduled for Easter Sunday! Scandalous and not good.
And, also during Lent, ObamaCare passed Congress. Pray for a Republican sweep in November, and a thorough roll-back of this powergrab by government.
Meanwhile, bask in the joy of the Resurrection. Enjoy the spring-like weather, which finally arrived in time for Easter, so that forsythia and daffodils were in bloom just in time for the great feast. Yesterday, it was practically summerish, hitting 90 degrees.
Daffodils blooming in Brewster, down on the Cape.
I have wanted to encourage readers to pray with especial diligence and love for our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI. The forces of so-called progressive ideas in the Church and out of it are making a concerted effort to damage his image and perhaps bring down his papacy.
I don't think it is a coincidence that all this nonsense surfaced after the Holy Father administered a well-deserved wigging to his former pupil, the Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna, for his unwise semi-endorsement of the goings on at Medugjorge. For the record, I don't think that Our Blessed Lady is genuinely appearing to anybody there, and that this whole circus there is the work of the Enemy. I gather that is what the Holy Father, and the last two bishops of Mostar think, as well.
More on that later.
What else have we missed? The Red Sox have begun playing baseball, but the much-touted pitching staff didn't seem up to the occasion, as we lost 2 of the first 3 to the hated Yankees, though all the games were very close. Big deep catcalls to ESPN and Major League Baseball for forcing Opening Day to become Opening Night, and keeping me up until midnight watching that first game. And having the first game scheduled for Easter Sunday! Scandalous and not good.
And, also during Lent, ObamaCare passed Congress. Pray for a Republican sweep in November, and a thorough roll-back of this powergrab by government.
Meanwhile, bask in the joy of the Resurrection. Enjoy the spring-like weather, which finally arrived in time for Easter, so that forsythia and daffodils were in bloom just in time for the great feast. Yesterday, it was practically summerish, hitting 90 degrees.
Daffodils blooming in Brewster, down on the Cape.
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Friday, February 12, 2010
Computer Tribulations
I have been silenced by computer trouble most of the last week. But for now, things seem to be working. Deo Gratias!
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Saturday, September 12, 2009
My Ten Thousandth Blog Entry
No, really. This is number 10,000. At one point, this blog was to me like Twitter is to some people now: a living record of life, thought. Now I don't blog nearly as much as I used to, and I pretty much keep on topic.
Oh well. Ten thousand. I suppose that is a milestone of sorts. Ten thousand posts in more than 7 years.
Oh well. Ten thousand. I suppose that is a milestone of sorts. Ten thousand posts in more than 7 years.
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Monday, November 24, 2008
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Resources Available At Recta Ratio: The Yahoo Group
As most of my readers know, I branched out the Recta Ratio project a few years ago from its beginnings here at this blog, and created first one Recta Ratio Yahoo Group, then last year, 4 more. These Yahoo groups mostly hold images of interest to me. There is a limit on how many images you can store in a Yahoo group, and I wanted to expand further than that limit allowed. So Recta Ratio Yahoo Group holds many images of sacred art topics. You can find there many examples of the works of Carravaggio, Reni, Fra Angelico, the della Robbias, Giotto, as well as a few assorted topics like the Nativity and Our Lord's Dolorous Passion.
Recta Ratio 2 Yahoo Group is also somewhat eclectic, with images of sacred relics, church interiors and exteriors, Celtic Crosses, monstrances, crucifixes, and other topics of interest to me.
Recta Ratio 3 Yahoo Group is entirely devoted to Our Blessed Lady. You will find numerous images of her there. There are 16 albums, arranged by topic or artist.
Recta Ratio 4 Yahoo Group is devoted to the Saints, the Church Triumphant.
Recta Ratio 5 Yahoo Group is made up of images from various illuminated manuscripts, though Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry and the Hours of Henry VIII predominate. There is also a nice collection of images from the Office of the Dead from various Books of Hours.
Recta Ratio 6 Yahoo Group, will have memento mori and vanitas images. It is kind of empty in there now, but that will change with time.
But Yahoo has a less restrictive limit on the storage of text items in its groups. And the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group has the links and text items. The other Recta Ratio Groups do not have the text dimension that the original group has.
Those text items include a growing treaury of traditional Catholic prayers, including the complete text of the traditional Office of the Dead, a good selection of Advent Prayers, lyrics to dozens of traditional Catholic hymns, Christmas carols and Irish songs, selections of seasonal prose and poetry, lectures of the late Dr. Russell Kirk, quotations from various persons, and selections from Abbot Gueranger's The Liturgical Year. Recently, I added what I hope is the complete text of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson's book on Medieval English Devotions, A Book Of the Love Of Jesus.
But the most popular text items stored in the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group, I have to admit, is the Recipes and Menus section. I have been dabbling in the kitchen now for over 20 years, since my early college days, and I have a lot of enthusiasm for food, particularly at this time of the year. The recipes section has grown along with my waistline. No, thank heavens, I can say it has grown a lot faster than I have. Not that I'm not too far behind, mind you. The recipes section now has over 500 recipes. So if you are still struggling to come up with a menu for your Thanksgiving feast, or want to plan ahead for Christmas Dinner and Christmas baking, you might want to take a stroll through the Files of the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group.
That means you have to join. But the good news is that membership is always 100% free. Afraid that by joining you will be spammed? That isn't a big concern, because I am a very active group owner, and monitor new member applications very closely. Just this morning, I had a request to join from someone, and turned it down, as it looked fishy to me. In fact, I was quite justified, because elsewhere in my email, there was something this same person had posted at another Catholic Yahoo group, and it was spam, promoting some Catholic dating service. But if a clever spammer does get through, the instant I see the spam, they get banished forever to the hinterlands outside the membership of Recta Ratio, where there is only wailing and gnashing of teeth.
So join up and take a stroll around the text files of the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group. Or join any of the groups and meander through their photo albums. My Yahoo Groups are always a work-in-progress, since as I see more things that interest me, I post them.
But I don't think it is too much self-promotion if I say that joining the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group is like getting a free cookbook, one fairly well-organized, and one which contains about 500 recipes. And especially at this time of year, if you are looking to try something different, or want to establish a new food tradition for your family, you might find something there that fits the bill.
Oh, I forgot to mention, there is one thing I ask. Just remember me in your prayers if anything in my files, links, or photo albums interests or appeals.
Recta Ratio 2 Yahoo Group is also somewhat eclectic, with images of sacred relics, church interiors and exteriors, Celtic Crosses, monstrances, crucifixes, and other topics of interest to me.
Recta Ratio 3 Yahoo Group is entirely devoted to Our Blessed Lady. You will find numerous images of her there. There are 16 albums, arranged by topic or artist.
Recta Ratio 4 Yahoo Group is devoted to the Saints, the Church Triumphant.
Recta Ratio 5 Yahoo Group is made up of images from various illuminated manuscripts, though Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry and the Hours of Henry VIII predominate. There is also a nice collection of images from the Office of the Dead from various Books of Hours.
Recta Ratio 6 Yahoo Group, will have memento mori and vanitas images. It is kind of empty in there now, but that will change with time.
But Yahoo has a less restrictive limit on the storage of text items in its groups. And the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group has the links and text items. The other Recta Ratio Groups do not have the text dimension that the original group has.
Those text items include a growing treaury of traditional Catholic prayers, including the complete text of the traditional Office of the Dead, a good selection of Advent Prayers, lyrics to dozens of traditional Catholic hymns, Christmas carols and Irish songs, selections of seasonal prose and poetry, lectures of the late Dr. Russell Kirk, quotations from various persons, and selections from Abbot Gueranger's The Liturgical Year. Recently, I added what I hope is the complete text of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson's book on Medieval English Devotions, A Book Of the Love Of Jesus.
But the most popular text items stored in the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group, I have to admit, is the Recipes and Menus section. I have been dabbling in the kitchen now for over 20 years, since my early college days, and I have a lot of enthusiasm for food, particularly at this time of the year. The recipes section has grown along with my waistline. No, thank heavens, I can say it has grown a lot faster than I have. Not that I'm not too far behind, mind you. The recipes section now has over 500 recipes. So if you are still struggling to come up with a menu for your Thanksgiving feast, or want to plan ahead for Christmas Dinner and Christmas baking, you might want to take a stroll through the Files of the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group.
That means you have to join. But the good news is that membership is always 100% free. Afraid that by joining you will be spammed? That isn't a big concern, because I am a very active group owner, and monitor new member applications very closely. Just this morning, I had a request to join from someone, and turned it down, as it looked fishy to me. In fact, I was quite justified, because elsewhere in my email, there was something this same person had posted at another Catholic Yahoo group, and it was spam, promoting some Catholic dating service. But if a clever spammer does get through, the instant I see the spam, they get banished forever to the hinterlands outside the membership of Recta Ratio, where there is only wailing and gnashing of teeth.
So join up and take a stroll around the text files of the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group. Or join any of the groups and meander through their photo albums. My Yahoo Groups are always a work-in-progress, since as I see more things that interest me, I post them.
But I don't think it is too much self-promotion if I say that joining the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group is like getting a free cookbook, one fairly well-organized, and one which contains about 500 recipes. And especially at this time of year, if you are looking to try something different, or want to establish a new food tradition for your family, you might find something there that fits the bill.
Oh, I forgot to mention, there is one thing I ask. Just remember me in your prayers if anything in my files, links, or photo albums interests or appeals.
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Preparing For Thanksgiving?
Well, if you are looking for a convenient source for recipes and menu ideas, I humbly recommend my original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group, with over 500 recipes, many geared towards Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's needs.
Here is a small sample of what I have stored there:
Appetizers
Blue Cheese and Walnut Terrine
Cranberry Rum Brie
Mustard Mead Dip
Swedish Meatballs
Beverages
Artery-Clogging Hot Chocolate
Eggnog
Dark & Stormy Punch
Hogmanay
Breads
Amaretto Fruit Bread
Fitzpatrick Soda Bread
Gadsby's Tavern Sally Lunn Bread
Santa Lucia's Saffron Bread
Breakfast
Breakfast Pizza
Dublin Coddle
Grand Marnier French Toast With Orange Rum Sauce
St. Stephen's Scrambled Eggs
Cakes
Double Gingerbread
Galliano Cake
Simnel Cake
Twelfth Cake
Candy
Almond Rum Truffles
Chocolate Orange Fudge
Sugar Plums
The Nipples of Venus
Cookies
Chambord or Cointreau Brownies
Christmas Hermits
Lebkuchen
Rum Balls
Desserts
Black Forest Trifle
Cherry Slump
Christmas Trifle
Port Jelly With Custard Sauce
Entrees
Boston Chick and Oyster Pie
Irish Spiced Beef
Pork Roast With Apples and Cream
Roast Turkey With Chestnut Dressing
Ice Cream
Cardamom Ice Cream
Chocolate Grand Marnier Ice Cream
Clove Wine Sorbet
Lavendar Honey Ice Cream
Pies
Boiled Cider Pie
Christmas Peppermint Pie
Mincemeat Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Salads
Chicken Salad With Sherry Dressing
Provencal Salad
Salmagundi
Tomato, Onion, Pepperoni and Provolone Salad
Soups
Almond Soup
Chicken Chowder
Legal Seafoods' Clam Chowder
Sherried Lobster Bisque
Vegetables and Sides
Brandied Peaches
Carrot Pudding
Nottingham Yam Pudding
Tomato Aspic
And remember, that is just a tiny sample. So join the group and enjoy the recipes.
Here is a small sample of what I have stored there:
Appetizers
Blue Cheese and Walnut Terrine
Cranberry Rum Brie
Mustard Mead Dip
Swedish Meatballs
Beverages
Artery-Clogging Hot Chocolate
Eggnog
Dark & Stormy Punch
Hogmanay
Breads
Amaretto Fruit Bread
Fitzpatrick Soda Bread
Gadsby's Tavern Sally Lunn Bread
Santa Lucia's Saffron Bread
Breakfast
Breakfast Pizza
Dublin Coddle
Grand Marnier French Toast With Orange Rum Sauce
St. Stephen's Scrambled Eggs
Cakes
Double Gingerbread
Galliano Cake
Simnel Cake
Twelfth Cake
Candy
Almond Rum Truffles
Chocolate Orange Fudge
Sugar Plums
The Nipples of Venus
Cookies
Chambord or Cointreau Brownies
Christmas Hermits
Lebkuchen
Rum Balls
Desserts
Black Forest Trifle
Cherry Slump
Christmas Trifle
Port Jelly With Custard Sauce
Entrees
Boston Chick and Oyster Pie
Irish Spiced Beef
Pork Roast With Apples and Cream
Roast Turkey With Chestnut Dressing
Ice Cream
Cardamom Ice Cream
Chocolate Grand Marnier Ice Cream
Clove Wine Sorbet
Lavendar Honey Ice Cream
Pies
Boiled Cider Pie
Christmas Peppermint Pie
Mincemeat Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Salads
Chicken Salad With Sherry Dressing
Provencal Salad
Salmagundi
Tomato, Onion, Pepperoni and Provolone Salad
Soups
Almond Soup
Chicken Chowder
Legal Seafoods' Clam Chowder
Sherried Lobster Bisque
Vegetables and Sides
Brandied Peaches
Carrot Pudding
Nottingham Yam Pudding
Tomato Aspic
And remember, that is just a tiny sample. So join the group and enjoy the recipes.
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Saturday, August 30, 2008
One More Thing I Like About Sarah Palin
She is a few months older than I am (she was born in February, 1964, and I was born in July, 1964) and she is considered YOUNG!!!!!
Yipeee!!!
Yipeee!!!
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Saturday, July 05, 2008
My Team Of Patrons: An All-Star Line-Up
I have not mentioned my heavenly patrons in some time, and as new readers are always stopping in, I thought it would be good to list them.
Foremost:
The Two Hearts of Our Lord and Our Blessed Lady
and Our Blessed Lady again, in her role as Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Special Patron For 2008:
St. Venantius Fortunatus
My name patrons:
St. George
St. Thomas
St. John the Evangelist
My spiritual guides:
St. Louis de Montfort
St. Paul of the Cross
St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
St. Alphonsus Liguori
St. Francis de Sales
Patrons who have also aided greatly in a particular matter:
St. Boniface
St. Katherine Drexel
St. Anthony the Abbot
St. Nicholas of Myra
St. Philomena
Bl. Frederick Jansonne
Sacred Heart patrons:
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
St. Jean Eudes
St. Claude de Colombiere
Special Patrons:
St. Patrick
St. Joseph
St. Peter
St. Paul
St. Michael the Archangel
My own good Guardian Angel
Two new patrons:
St. Anthony of Padua
St. Dymphna
Dear saints, blesseds, and angels, thank you for your help, and please continue to pray unceasingly for me.
Foremost:
The Two Hearts of Our Lord and Our Blessed Lady
and Our Blessed Lady again, in her role as Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Special Patron For 2008:
St. Venantius Fortunatus
My name patrons:
St. George
St. Thomas
St. John the Evangelist
My spiritual guides:
St. Louis de Montfort
St. Paul of the Cross
St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
St. Alphonsus Liguori
St. Francis de Sales
Patrons who have also aided greatly in a particular matter:
St. Boniface
St. Katherine Drexel
St. Anthony the Abbot
St. Nicholas of Myra
St. Philomena
Bl. Frederick Jansonne
Sacred Heart patrons:
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
St. Jean Eudes
St. Claude de Colombiere
Special Patrons:
St. Patrick
St. Joseph
St. Peter
St. Paul
St. Michael the Archangel
My own good Guardian Angel
Two new patrons:
St. Anthony of Padua
St. Dymphna
Dear saints, blesseds, and angels, thank you for your help, and please continue to pray unceasingly for me.
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
The Awful Day Has Come
My free Photobucket account has run out of album capacity at some 12,000 images. Bandwidth has never been a problem, due to extremely low readership, so that I use about 1-2% of my monthly allotment of bandwidth at Photobucket per month. But roughly 12,000 images (depending on size) is the limit of album capacity, and I have reached it. I can't add another image to the account without deleting some. And that would be unthinkable.
So, I can't add any more images to the account I have been using, with its intricate albums, sub albums, and in some cases sub-sub albums (and if you think the Recta Ratio Yahoo Group files are organized a little obsessively, that's nothing compared to my Photobucket album).
So what to do?
Stop collecting good Catholic images from across the internet? Perish the thought.
I just created a whole new Photobucket account! Problem is, it isn't organized yet. It's just a few dozen images without any albums, sub-albums, and so on. Time and a little dose of OCD will take care of that.
So, I can't add any more images to the account I have been using, with its intricate albums, sub albums, and in some cases sub-sub albums (and if you think the Recta Ratio Yahoo Group files are organized a little obsessively, that's nothing compared to my Photobucket album).
So what to do?
Stop collecting good Catholic images from across the internet? Perish the thought.
I just created a whole new Photobucket account! Problem is, it isn't organized yet. It's just a few dozen images without any albums, sub-albums, and so on. Time and a little dose of OCD will take care of that.
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Sixth Blog-O-Versary
Six years, 9,300 and some-odd posts, and still typing away.
I've seen so many blogs come and go. I frankly don't get the people who delete their blogs. I put too much work into mine to ever delete it. Even if posting ever becomes an occasional thing, I hope it will always be here.
Thanks to all those who have taken the time to read my ramblings and look at the images I post here. God bless both you and me as we continue down the road together.
I've seen so many blogs come and go. I frankly don't get the people who delete their blogs. I put too much work into mine to ever delete it. Even if posting ever becomes an occasional thing, I hope it will always be here.
Thanks to all those who have taken the time to read my ramblings and look at the images I post here. God bless both you and me as we continue down the road together.
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Photobucket Problems
While there isn't currently a dearth of images on my site, I might start running into a problem soon. I noticed that my capacity on Photobucket, where I have some 9800 images stored, is at 90%. That means I can add just about 900 more, before I have no more room at the inn. Then what?
Bandwith isn't a problem, since nobody reads me anymore, anyway. I am only using 8% of the allowed bandwith.
I have other Photobucket accounts floating around back from the days before they increased the monthly bandwith allowance and I needed to spread things out more, and might have to start using them again. The problem is that I wanted all my images, except the very large ones that appear at the bottom of the page, to be in one account. Makes it easy to find things.
Bandwith isn't a problem, since nobody reads me anymore, anyway. I am only using 8% of the allowed bandwith.
I have other Photobucket accounts floating around back from the days before they increased the monthly bandwith allowance and I needed to spread things out more, and might have to start using them again. The problem is that I wanted all my images, except the very large ones that appear at the bottom of the page, to be in one account. Makes it easy to find things.
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Please Remember In Your Prayers
Fellow bloggers Lane Core, Ken from Hallowed Ground, and Steve Skojec, who are all facing serious adversity, medical or occupational.
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
According To My Dashboard, This Is My 9,000th Posting Here
Lots of changes and ups and downs since I started this blog back in June, 2002. But it is a story of evolving and deepening conversion, from conservative Novus Ordo to moderate traditionalist.
I think I'll keep at it.
I think I'll keep at it.
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Monday, November 19, 2007
Recta Ratio: The Yahoo Group--Your Resource For Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's
As most of my readers know, I branched out the Recta Ratio project a few years ago from its beginnings here at this blog, and created first one Recta Ratio Yahoo Group, then last year, 4 more. These Yahoo groups mostly hold images of interest to me. There is a limit on how many images you can store in a Yahoo group, and I wanted to expand further than that limit allowed. So Recta Ratio Yahoo Group holds many images of sacred art topics. You can find there many examples of the works of Carravaggio, Reni, Fra Angelico, the della Robbias, Giotto, as well as a few assorted topics like the Nativity and Our Lord's Dolorous Passion.
Recta Ratio 2 Yahoo Group is also somewhat eclectic, with images of sacred relics, church interiors and exteriors, Celtic Crosses, monstrances, crucifixes, and other topics of interest to me.
Recta Ratio 3 Yahoo Group is entirely devoted to Our Blessed Lady. You will find numerous images of her there. There are 16 albums, arranged by topic or artist.
Recta Ratio 4 Yahoo Group is devoted to the Saints, the Church Triumphant.
Recta Ratio 5 Yahoo Group is made up of images from various illuminated manuscripts, though Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry and the Hours of Henry VIII predominate. There is also a nice collection of images from the Office of the Dead from various Books of Hours.
Recta Ratio 6 Yahoo Group, will have memento mori and vanitas images. It is kind of empty in there now, but that will change with time.
But Yahoo has a less restrictive limit on the storage of text items in its groups. And the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group has the links and text items. The other Recta Ratio Groups do not have the text dimension that the original group has.
Those text items include a growing treaury of traditional Catholic prayers, including the complete text of the traditional Office of the Dead, a good selection of Advent Prayers, lyrics to dozens of traditional Catholic hymns, Christmas carols and Irish songs, selections of seasonal prose and poetry, lectures of the late Dr. Russell Kirk, quotations from various persons, and selections from Abbot Gueranger's The Liturgical Year. Recently, I added what I hope is the complete text of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson's book on Medieval English Devotions, A Book Of the Love Of Jesus.
But the most popular text items stored in the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group, I have to admit, is the Recipes and Menus section. I have been dabbling in the kitchen now for over 20 years, since my early college days, and I have a lot of enthusiasm for food, particularly at this time of the year. The recipes section has grown along with my waistline. No, thank heavens, I can say it has grown a lot faster than I have. Not that I'm not too far behind, mind you. The recipes section now has over 500 recipes. So if you are still struggling to come up with a menu for your Thanksgiving feast, or want to plan ahead for Christmas Dinner and Christmas baking, you might want to take a stroll through the Files of the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group.
That means you have to join. But the good news is that membership is always 100% free. Afraid that by joining you will be spammed? That isn't a big concern, because I am a very active group owner, and monitor new member applications very closely. Just this morning, I had a request to join from someone, and turned it down, as it looked fishy to me. In fact, I was quite justified, because elsewhere in my email, there was something this same person had posted at another Catholic Yahoo group, and it was spam, promoting some Catholic dating service. But if a clever spammer does get through, the instant I see the spam, they get banished forever to the hinterlands outside the membership of Recta Ratio, where there is only wailing and gnashing of teeth.
So join up and take a stroll around the text files of the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group. Or join any of the groups and meander through their photo albums. My Yahoo Groups are always a work-in-progress, since as I see more things that interest me, I post them.
But I don't think it is too much self-promotion if I say that joining the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group is like getting a free cookbook, one fairly well-organized, and one which contains about 500 recipes. And especially at this time of year, if you are looking to try something different, or want to establish a new food tradition for your family, you might find something there that fits the bill.
Oh, I forgot to mention, there is one thing I ask. Just remember me in your prayers if anything in my files, links, or photo albums interests or appeals.
Recta Ratio 2 Yahoo Group is also somewhat eclectic, with images of sacred relics, church interiors and exteriors, Celtic Crosses, monstrances, crucifixes, and other topics of interest to me.
Recta Ratio 3 Yahoo Group is entirely devoted to Our Blessed Lady. You will find numerous images of her there. There are 16 albums, arranged by topic or artist.
Recta Ratio 4 Yahoo Group is devoted to the Saints, the Church Triumphant.
Recta Ratio 5 Yahoo Group is made up of images from various illuminated manuscripts, though Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry and the Hours of Henry VIII predominate. There is also a nice collection of images from the Office of the Dead from various Books of Hours.
Recta Ratio 6 Yahoo Group, will have memento mori and vanitas images. It is kind of empty in there now, but that will change with time.
But Yahoo has a less restrictive limit on the storage of text items in its groups. And the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group has the links and text items. The other Recta Ratio Groups do not have the text dimension that the original group has.
Those text items include a growing treaury of traditional Catholic prayers, including the complete text of the traditional Office of the Dead, a good selection of Advent Prayers, lyrics to dozens of traditional Catholic hymns, Christmas carols and Irish songs, selections of seasonal prose and poetry, lectures of the late Dr. Russell Kirk, quotations from various persons, and selections from Abbot Gueranger's The Liturgical Year. Recently, I added what I hope is the complete text of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson's book on Medieval English Devotions, A Book Of the Love Of Jesus.
But the most popular text items stored in the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group, I have to admit, is the Recipes and Menus section. I have been dabbling in the kitchen now for over 20 years, since my early college days, and I have a lot of enthusiasm for food, particularly at this time of the year. The recipes section has grown along with my waistline. No, thank heavens, I can say it has grown a lot faster than I have. Not that I'm not too far behind, mind you. The recipes section now has over 500 recipes. So if you are still struggling to come up with a menu for your Thanksgiving feast, or want to plan ahead for Christmas Dinner and Christmas baking, you might want to take a stroll through the Files of the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group.
That means you have to join. But the good news is that membership is always 100% free. Afraid that by joining you will be spammed? That isn't a big concern, because I am a very active group owner, and monitor new member applications very closely. Just this morning, I had a request to join from someone, and turned it down, as it looked fishy to me. In fact, I was quite justified, because elsewhere in my email, there was something this same person had posted at another Catholic Yahoo group, and it was spam, promoting some Catholic dating service. But if a clever spammer does get through, the instant I see the spam, they get banished forever to the hinterlands outside the membership of Recta Ratio, where there is only wailing and gnashing of teeth.
So join up and take a stroll around the text files of the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group. Or join any of the groups and meander through their photo albums. My Yahoo Groups are always a work-in-progress, since as I see more things that interest me, I post them.
But I don't think it is too much self-promotion if I say that joining the original Recta Ratio Yahoo Group is like getting a free cookbook, one fairly well-organized, and one which contains about 500 recipes. And especially at this time of year, if you are looking to try something different, or want to establish a new food tradition for your family, you might find something there that fits the bill.
Oh, I forgot to mention, there is one thing I ask. Just remember me in your prayers if anything in my files, links, or photo albums interests or appeals.
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Monday, November 12, 2007
My Inner European: No Big Surprise
| Your Inner European is Irish! |
 Sprited and boisterous! You drink everyone under the table. |
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Don't Forget!
Turn your clock back and hour tonight, or you will be late for Mass in the morning!
Labels: Recta Ratio Housekeeping
