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| Riverboats Are Still Very Much A Part of Dixie Culture They Can Be Regularly Seen From Waterfronts Across The American Southeast |
This vacation promises to be an extended one, with multiple hops all over the region. In my absence you might enjoy some of these blogs. I know all of these bloggers in some way or another, and it's usually because we share some common views on at least a few subjects. Pay them a visit if you please. Enjoy.
God bless the South! Deo Vindice.
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Good for you! Enjoy your Summer.
Make a stop in the Empire State of the South, good ole' Georgia. The FSSP chapel and SSPX chapels are always glad to have visitors :)
Have a great and safe time Sir Knight! God Bless
Stephen
Sydney Australia
Most likely you have your trip planned out, but if you can hop over to Texas come and see my state where over 180 men withstood an army of over 5,000 allowing Sam Houston to reinforce his army for the 18 minute victorious battle at San Jacinto.
Enjoy the well earned rest you deserve with your family.
Looking forward to your blogging when you return and are rested and refreshed.
St. Christopher guide the Knight and his family safely along the way.
Hank
Thanks for all your great articles and insights CK. I hope your vacation is a pleasant and peaceful one!
And one quote for you and your family from somewhere in the Bible:
..have leisure and know I am God.
Hopefully this break from blogging isn't interrupted like last time. Enjoy your vacation.
Enjoy your time....and thanks for the plug!!
Going to Florida?
South Carolina actually.
Sir Knight,
have a wonderful trip away, stay safe and let the cares of the blogosphere and the 'new evangelism' trickle away. May this holiday refresh and revitalize you all.
Blessings,
Sarah,
Australia.
SC? Say "hello" to Michael for me if you're going to see him!
I have seen a riverboat in my travels long ago they are very interesting.
Sir Knight,
If you're still posting comments (though on vacation), i have one that I simply must share.
This morning, I participated in my first Cathedral solemn sung mass at St. Mary's Cathedral, sydney.
all I can say is...
WOW!!
breathtaking!!
hauntingly beautiful!!
profoundly and deeply moving!!
and especially,
SUPERNATURAL!! It was truly a Supernatural experience - the chant, both plain and polyphonic (e.g. palestrina, Bird, taverner, (the elder) etc, with a bit of taverner the younger for part of the mass (or something that sounded like something that TTY would compose) - and in latin, latin, LATIN!!!!! AND THE CHOIR PROCESSED, OR SOME OF THEM DID, WITH INCENSE, INCENSE, INCENSE!! so much of it that the incense bearers will be trippin' for days!! :-) Oh me!! it was glorious!! the OT and NT passages were in English, as was the psalm for the day (though better annunciation by the choir for the bit we're supposed to respond with in the congregation, please) but this notwithstanding, it was beautiful!! Liquid gold in sound, the heavenly music seemed to enfold, rise and suffuce the entire worship space and I felt truly that the walls between heaven and earth had melted away for an hour or so...and the Kingdom of God was realized in full!! We sung the creed, the Lord's prayer (very interesting and tricky, but the sort of thing that constrained one to 'give it a go' and follow the choir)... There was reverence, even the 'sign of peace' was done in an orderly fashion without chitchat and overdoing it, and the Gloria etc and 'Holy Holy Holy are you Lord God of Hosts' was in latin, latin!! Wow!! it was in language scattering much like an English Marounite mass wherein the 'language bits' are in their proper liturgical language and the 'venacular bits' (readings, prayers and sermon) were in English. the priest was a youngish Asian fellow; very good too... gave a sermon on the new Evangelism conference he'd been to in Brisbane this week and looked at what it means to missioneer with the full gospel in our day and age based on the NT verses where the disciples were sent out in pairs, for us to set aside materialism as our dependancy and depend wholely on god - spoke of where this missioneering he'd been learning of was light on 'stuff' and heavy on gospel truths...very good.
My husband counted a good scattering of mantillas, shawls, scarves and hats, with four habited nuns (grey (abbreviated habit - long skirt/pinafore, blouse and jacket with prayer veil in the 'team colours' of their order - not sure who they were). It was amazing!! They've a strong and thriving 18-35's group who meet sunday nights and are similar in seriousness about the faith as are our St. Charbels 'Guardians'. I could receive on the tongue no problems, efficient, professional, quick and reverent (with no contact). My husband came and sat for a bit while I was there (he's not practicing, but five minutes to listen to the choir is something!!) he's happy for me to go there every month or so for mass.
For others, they've confession weekdays 12:30-1pm, then 5-5:25 Saturdays (I trusted in the general absolution to cleanse me for this service - went to confession last week).
In short, Amazing!!
Sir Knight, the Godly 'Wakeup' is happening.
Blessings,
Sarah,
Australia.
Let's all say a prayer for CK and his family that they have a peaceful time away from the cares of the world while contemplating the joys of heaven that we all hope for!
Hey CK,
Enjoy your vacation. If you aren't already past there, don't miss the NC mountains, where I was born and raised (less commercialized, and purtier ;), than the Tennessee side).
And while you're at it, read Christopner Ferrara's new book, "Liberalism: the God that Failed." Well worth the couple of days it will take to get through it (and an easy, because fascinating, read).
Actually it's "LIBERTY: The God That Failed", and yes, I'm reading it right now.
Aggh! Yes, I got the title wrong :( That's the second time I've done that. The first time I caught myself... this time it sneaked by me.
CK, have you seen the film "Winter's Bone"? I watched it last month b/c i knew it was a local effort of the Ozarks near Branson/Springfield.
Anyway it is a movie about a young woman who works in and through the dark circumstances of the life God allowed her to be born into.
I won't say more in case you haven't seen it but will say (as a former movie critic in my college days) that it is an exquisit piece of art realism that is FAR above the caliber of movie usually turned out on the local level.
A dark movie indeed, it has aspects of Flannery O'Connor although lighter on the humor -which wouldn't have been appropriate given the subject matter.
I found no bias against nor scorn for the South in it at all but rather a testament to the grit and deep decency of the people of the region, regardless of where God placed them: (and this is a subject with which i have been fascinated for about 25 years).
Was just wondering your opinion in case you'd seen it.
By the way, never give up on this great ideal of Southern independence -I saw this morning on "Fox and Friends" Lynard Skynard performing "Sweet Home Alabama" in New York employing obvious artistic disdain for the more crude aspects of Northern hegemony. And Juan Williams of FoxNews recently wrote an article saying we will live in the political age of Ron Paul for years to come. For all of Mr. Paul's weaknesses, he is dead on on subsidiarity. And Fox has even begun to take some shots at big Pharma lately in spite of the fact that the Pharma industry advertises on their networks regularly!
We are winning the intellectual war hands down, and it is even beginning to seep into the MSM! Who'd of thunk?
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