Invitation to FR Catholics and Interested Friends

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[Askel5]

Traditional Catholic Action
Salon & Soiree
New Orleans, Louisiana
March 15th-17th (St. Patrick's Day Weekend)

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CATHOLIC ACTION

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Catholic Action is an apostolate. Its end is to win men to Christ as men were won to Christ by Peter and Paul.

Is is a social apostolate. It seeks to restore right order in society, to re-create society. But its action is not political. The breaking societies of the West cannot be renewed by economic or political panaceas.

Is is a moral sickness from which the body of society suffers, and it will not be cured by local plasters upon local symptoms. Politics, economics are phases of human behavior, but human behavior is inevitably determined by the right values which men hold, by their sense of right and wrong ...

Catholic Action restores society by converting it to Christ.

Restoring All Things: A Guide to Catholic Action,
John Fitzsimons and Paul McGuire (Sheed & Ward, 1938)

[Askel5]

Trust Goetz is enjoying the care package and everyone else has made it home safe and sound ... particularly the patents whose welcoming committee is probably a little anxious for their return.

I finally got my nap and shall take Mr. B for a long overdue stroll to return the punch bowl and such. =)

Truly ... thanks again for a most memorable, fruitful and fun weekend. A privilege and a pleasure to have you all down here for the weekend and I'm looking forward to our next gathering already. I know that Fr. Klores, the staff at St. Patrick's and those who attended our gathering feel likewise.

With love and gratitude,
Askel

(P.S. Extra special thanks to you, Neocon, for the ability to drop a timely cyber thank-you note.)

[Dumb_Ox]

And I never did finish my brief little webpage for the portfolio. *sigh*

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

"Trust Goetz is enjoying the care package . . . "

Yes, thank you. I have just returned to my permanent garrison with victuals left over, which I will eat for dinner tonight.

I spent most of my time during the trip back working on the prose expansion of my little presentation (as well as a term paper that is due soon.) Please inform when you want the full footnoted version.

After one's first thirty+ hour train ride, the next one is much easier to bear. I trust the next one will seem like a commuter-rail junket.

[patented]

Our daughter has grown half a foot in our absence and my sons are suddenly allies. Who’d have predicted? I hope everyone arrived home safely—sleep deprivation notwithstanding—and that you join us in honoring good Saint Joseph on what is surely a day of dispensation from Lenten penance. (We’ll take any excuse we can, n’est-ce pas, Askel?)

Truly enjoyed meeting you all and look forward to the next get-together.

God bless.

[Askel5]

(We’ll take any excuse we can, n’est-ce pas, Askel?)

Busted.

It was such a pleasure to meet you. I enjoyed very much our visit on the porch and shall keep you and your family in my thoughts as promised.

[patented]

Moi, aussi.

[Askel5]

Not to worry ... technical difficulties precluded my own contributions as well.

I'll be happy to take anything you've got for use here.

[Askel5]

I trust the next one will seem like a commuter-rail junket.

The "next", eh? That bodes well!

(It's thanks to your and ELS's committing "right out da box" that this thing happened, you know. Take care, Goetz, and I'll get your CD's back to you ASAP. I trust you weren't without music entirely for the whole ride back.)

[ELS]

Brava!

Do you want my outline, bibliography, and suggested reading in HTML format?

[Askel5]

That would be great -- I won't insist, however.

Working out the details of how best to set this up for indexing and such down the road ... =)

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

I always travel with tunes. It helps, especially, when a noisy and ill-behaved infant (with female attendants) shares the same car, for the entire ride.

I left you with my demi-monde CDs but retained the more conservatve ones for the return trip.

[neocon]

Will you be handing out pugil sticks for this session?

Oh heaven, no! My chief weapons are irony, sarcasm, and obscure literary references. When all else fails, though, it's patronizing, condecending erudition at forty paces.

[neocon]

thanks to you, Neocon, for the ability to drop a timely cyber thank-you note

Pas de sweat, ma chère.

[neocon]

Just wanted to express my gratitude to our hosts, Askel5 and Romulus. It was a great pleasure to meet all of you members of Conspiratio, to share liturgy, discussion, and fellowship together. I hope we can make it a growing concern.

Good to know that you all made it back home safely. Looking forward to meeting you again.

I'm probably going to be very busy with Holy Week coming up - lots of choir duties - so I won't be around much until after Easter. Please email me privately if you'd like, though I may be somewhat slow to respond.

Finally, there was a notice in my church vestibule last night. It may be something of an "Internet legend," but it still seems like an excellent idea, so I put it forward for your consideration:

This prayer initiative is from a 16 year old boy in Nebraska:
"Imagine what might happen if every Catholic in America would pray a Rosary on the same day! We have an example from October of 1573, when Europe was saved from the invasion of the mighty Turkish fleet. Europe was saved by the praying of the Rosary by all Christians. So on Good Friday, let's all pray a Rosary for the intention of ending abortion. If possible, please pray your Rosary between noon and 3:00 p.m. If you have e-mail, please e-mail this message to every Catholic on your address list, and ask then to pass it along to every Catholic on their lists. If you don't have e-mail, please ask every Catholic you know to join in this effort. Let's unite in praying one of the most powerful prayers - on one of the holiest days - for this increasingly urgent intention. Thank you! May God bless you!
P.S.: After you have e-mailed or shared this message, please write it on your calendar so that you won't forget."

Best wishes to you all for Holy Week and a joyous Easter!

[neocon]

Speaking of burning bushes...

From "Little Gidding", Four Quartets, by T. S. Eliot:

The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre --
To be redeemed from fire by fire.

Who then devised the torment? Love.
Love is the unfamiliar Name
Behind the hands that wove
The intolerable shirt of flame
Which human hands cannot remove.
We only live, only suspire
Consumed by either fire or fire.

[patent]

>>>Oh heaven, no! My chief weapons are irony, sarcasm, and obscure literary references. When all else fails, though, it's patronizing, condecending erudition at forty paces.

My cheif weapon is irony. Irony and sarcasm. No, wait . . .

[Askel5]

Your computer weighs in, even? Interesting.

[Askel5]

If you guys will drop your home addresses at my email address, I can snail mail you thank-you notes as well. Got the rest of the list sealed and stamped.

Thanks.

[ventana]

May I be added to the ping list as I am an interested friend and Catholic, though far from New Orleans. V's wife.

[Askel5]

You got it. They came from far and wide this year ... perhaps you can attend our next gathering!