And I expect the left to ignore this.

Yes. Because no matter what,their current tactic is insult,ignore, and marginalise. Besides,it's only a few million people.
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"This is all, obviously, a partial and unscientific take, and not an attempt to encapsulate a huge event, but rather a faithful rendering of what I saw. With that caveat, I had a very hard time reconciling the human beings I talked to and observed with the caricatures described in pre-writes by the New York Times' Gail Collins ("The tea party movement activists range from geeky Ron Paulists who obsess about the money supply to conspiracy theorists who believe that Barack Obama is a noncitizen brought here by people who hate this country"), the L.A. Times' Tim Rutten ("the talk-show/tea-party right...if it has its way–will convert the GOP into an almost exclusively white, zealously religious, mostly Southern party"), and Gawker's Alex Pareene ("Glenn Beck is an actual terrorist, and the people attending his rally in DC tomorrow are al-Qaeda in America"). "

But hey, why let facts get in your way.We've all learned by now that sweeping generalisations aren't really logical fallacies.
Oh, and I love this one.

I was serious.

Yes. Totally serious with everything I said before mass today. Albs look better than cottas, gothic vestments (Or better,a conical chasuble) work better than Roman Chasubles, and if you're doing it right, your Sunday mass should look like this.
Like I said, if liturgy would've stopped in the 15th-Early 16th century, everything would be fine. We'd have troped kyries, good music, responses with organum, organum with our chant,and our churches would look fine.

This song is insanely easy.

Carillon de Longpont, Louis Vierne.
Yes. I used to know it,but it's been like seven months since I played it. If it doesn't sound easy,look at this. It's basically a simple pedal mordant with some chords in the right hand.The left hands comes in later, but that part is pretty simple. The ending is kind of tricky though.
But I love it. Mostly because I was able to learn it by memory without sheet music.

For someone who asked.

The music/lyric for the hymns I chose:

Entrance: All ye who seek a comfort sure.

All ye who seek a comfort sure
in trouble and distress,
whatever sorrow vex the mind,
or guilt the soul oppress:

Jesus, who gave himself for you
upon the cross to die,
opens to you his sacred heart;
oh, to that heart draw nigh.

Ye hear how kindly he invites;
ye hear his words so blest:
'all ye that labor come to me,
and I will give you rest.'

Jesus, thou joy of saints on high,
thou hope of sinners here,
attracted by those loving words
to thee I lift my prayer.

Wash thou my wounds in that dear blood,
which forth from thee doth flow;
new grace, new hope inspire, a new
and better heart bestow.

Sung to the hymn tune Dominus Regit Me.

Offertory: O Heart of Jesus, holy ark;

O Heart of Jesus, holy ark
That holds the later law divine,
Not as of old, a service dark,
But mercy, grace, and love benign.

Thou art indeed the dwelling-place,
Of God’s mild law and tender might,
The temple of outpouring grace
That radiates all the world with light.

Eternal mercy willed the blow
That gave the wounds, O Heart, to thee;
That man should ever feel and know
The love that suffered on the Tree.

For Christ, eternal Priest and Lord,
Offers his love by holy sign
Upon the Cross and at the Board,
The two-fold Sacrifice divine.

We love thee, Jesus, Lord most high,
We lift our hearts to thee above,
And to thy sacred bosom fly,
The everlasting home of love.

All praise and power and glory be
To God the Father and the Son,
And, Holy Spirit, unto thee;
For ever reigning Three and One. Amen.

Sung to whatever tune is used for "Jesu, thou Joy of Loving hearts"*
*EDIT* It's Wareham.

Communion: God's mercies I will ever sing.

God's mercies I will ever sing;
and with my mouth I shall
Thy faithfulness make to be known
to generations all.

For mercy shall be built, said I,
for ever to endure;
Thy faithfulness, ev'n in the heav'ns,
thou wilt establish sure.

Great fear in meeting of the saints
is due unto the Lord;
And he of all about him should
with rev'rence be ador'd.

Justice and judgment of thy throne
are made the dwelling-place;
Mercy, accompany'd with truth,
shall go before thy face.

Sung to the tune St.Columba

Recessional:Sweet Sacrament Divine:

Sweet Sacrament divine,
hid in thine earthly home;
lo! round thy lowly shrine,
with suppliant hearts we come;
Jesus, to thee our voice we raise
In songs of love and heartfelt praise
sweet Sacrament divine.

Sweet Sacrament of peace,
dear home of every heart,
where restless yearnings cease,
and sorrows all depart.
there in thine ear, all trustfully,
we tell our tale of misery,
sweet Sacrament of peace.

Sweet Sacrament of rest,
ark from the ocean's roar,
within thy shelter blest
soon may we reach the shore;
save us, for still the tempest raves,
save, lest we sink beneath the waves:
sweet Sacrament of rest.

Sweet Sacrament divine,
earth's light and jubilee,
in thy far depths doth shine
the Godhead's majesty;
sweet light, so shine on us, we pray
that earthly joys may fade away:
sweet Sacrament divine.

Sung to Divine Mysteries.**

I'm sad, because we were supposed to go over the music tonight,but the meeting was canceled.
Which is okay,because I need to print the lyrics and music, andrelevant quotes from Vatican II on gregorian chant.(What, d'ja I was going to to NOT do that? ) We are'nt going to sing much chant besides the ordinary,but I still want to spread the news.

*Or I might just play that hymn.
** Divine Mysteries is a really, really complicated harmony.

Streamlined.

I deleted/added links in my sidelinks, to get rid of dead weight/people I can't identify myself with anymore.

I wonder if it would be terrible......

...If I auditioned for American Idol singing this song in it's entirety?

On that note,I love Marvel VS.Capcom 2.

hmmmm.....

I think I ought to get an image of Our Lady of Mercy some day, but they're kinda hard to come by.Two days of internet search got me ONE result. I migh have to make do with an image of Our Lady of Mt.Carmel painted white. (If I can afford it.Money's kinda tight right now.

It's official:

Real black people are Democrats.

Oh well. While I'm not a republican, looks like I'm still a racist, boot licking, uncle tom, sellout, B****D.

In other vital news, READ THIS. (Language warning, for prudes.)

I'm still in love.

With this mass setting which we used at high mass on Christmas eve and Epiphany last year.

I also just fell in love with Missa Brevis et Festivalis. And it's not a lie: It's an extremely short mass setting,short enough for the novus ordo. Unfortunately, you need a sextet and organ to sing it, and the agnus dei is longer than the sanctus/benedictus.

Tomorrow is...That day.

Yes, it's come again. I'll try to sing the office of the dead and be at mass to pray for the holy souls.
You-know-who has set it up as a day of public good works and service. I'll be doing my part by praying for our fallen men and women who lost their lives.

Patron Saint!

Tomorrow is the feast of my patron saint, whose name I took at confirmation: S.Nicholas of Tolentino. Sung lauds and vespers tomorrow for me.

Ministeria Quaedam....

Was probably in the long run something with good intentions that was carried out badly. Now,unlike almost all the other Apostolic churches,the Roman church has no porters, exorcists,or subdeacons.The subdiaconate was even a major order,so I can't fathom why that was done. I think that perhaps a more logical, historical, and less devastating thing to do could've been to:
1) Preserve the subdiaconate.
2) Make the clerical obligations begin at the subdiaconate
3)Open the remaining orders to the laity, since they no longer carry clerical obligations.

If not,another could've been:
1) Preserve the subdiaconate as a major order
2) Make the clerical obligations begin at the subdiaconate, with possible dispensations for laymen
3) Title the remaining orders 'ministries' as in Ministeria Quaedam, with institution instead of ordination,but with the roles unchanged.

And whatever happenned to this?

"In addition to the offices universal in the Latin Church, the conferences of bishops may request others of the Apostolic See, if they judge the establishment of such offices in their region to be necessary or very useful because of special reasons. To these belong, for example, the ministries of porter, exorcist, catechist, as well as others to be conferred on those who are dedicated to works of charity, where this ministry had not been assigned to deacons."

Even that would've been better than now, as the acolyte now assumes the role of the acolyte andsubdeacon,the lector still exists,and we'd have porters and catechists.

I think I'm a raaaaacist.

Yup. It's become abundantly clear to me now.
It's all thanks to the handling of the Van Jones fiasco that I've realized this. It's blatantly obvious that despite all the ample evidence of Mr.Jone's craziness, the only reason he's gone is because he was falsely smeared by his own words that angry rightwingers lied about by showing his own words.It's obvious that the only reason he was fired was because there are so many black people who are so scared of black people,and so angry that a black man won that they'd do anything to get rid of him.


[/lolselfracism.]

I love this.

WONDERFUL.


With wonderful and fair actions like this, I can't see why ever anyone would'nt want the State to run their insurance. It's people like this rancid, despotic, evil doctor that give us reason to reform healthcare. I can't beleive he actually tried disobey government regulations!

They don't know what they've done.

Someone actually asked me to help with the music for the First Friday masses. That's a really, really terrible idea. Do you know why? People who know me know why. They Know it's a bad idea. They Know it. For proof of that, this is what I'd pick:

Entrance: All ye who seek comfort sure

Mass setting: Mass for ferial days

Offertory: O Heart of Jesus, ark divine

Communion: God's mercies I will ever sing. (To the tune, St.Columba)

Recessional: Sweet Sacrament Divine.

Now I'll tell why I chose what I chose. I try to be somewhat consistent with my own thought on liturgical music and keep it just that, liturgical. For that reason, I chose the first and second hymn, which are used in breviary. The first hymn is from the new breviary, and the second from the old breviary. (These are Fr.Caswall's translations)
The communion hymn is something I really, really love, and I think it should be required of all Catholic churches. It's a metrical psalm. Namely, it's psalm 88, which the Graduale Simplex gives as the communion psalm. The whole hymn is too long, so I only picked the parts I felt were relevant. (Verses 1,2,7,14, and a doxology.)
The recessional hymn, however, is just because I liked that hymn.

The only possible problem is finding good hymns for the Sacred Heart. (I'll kill myself before I use "To Jesus' Heart all Burning" or any of the other rather saccharine devotional hymns from the St.Gregory hymnal. If your a fan of it, sorry, it's just not me.
Yes, this makes me a bad person. I've learned to live with it.