Blogspot - mariasmusic.blogspot.com - Maria's Music
General Information:
Latest News:
Ave Maria! Draft 6 Jan 2011 | 04:26 pm
Ave Maria! The Council of Ephesus (431) officially bestowed upon the Blessed Virgin Mary the glorious title of theotokos, Mother of God, which was already well used, in an effort to combat the heresy...
The Purpose and Nature of Divine Revelation 29 Dec 2010 | 02:52 pm
Normal 0 After a good long period of not having time to formally expound upon the thoughts of my day, at least for the next month or so, I thought I would begin doing so again. Recently I encountere...
An Essay Prompt 30 Jun 2010 | 01:47 am
This is the first sentence to the essay prompt I was given for English 250, The Novel: All the novels we have read consider the opposition between logical, scientific liberalism (industrialization/te...
An Essay 29 May 2010 | 06:02 am
St. Paul the Apostle, upon arriving in Athens as part of his missionary journeys after the Death of Christ remarks, “you Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious”. Paul continues,...
Happiness and Sacrifice 30 Apr 2010 | 01:50 pm
Recently I heard two very different nuns criticize a mentality that masquerades itself as Christian. The first was a habit-less Dominican who wondered quite explicitly where we ever got the idea that ...
A Thesis 10 Apr 2010 | 05:46 am
St. Augustine of Hippo, the early Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church wrote in his City of God that, “some have such command of their bowels, that they can break wind continuously at pleasure, so as t...
Holy Water 22 Feb 2010 | 11:38 am
Fr. Z over at What Does The Prayer Really Say? has talked extensively about the fallacy of a holy water drought during Lent. The erroneous practice feigns piety: when you walk into a church you are ri...
Waste of a night 14 Feb 2010 | 07:32 am
While I was over here a young man came in on the phone: "I wasn't even drinking... so it was a waste of a night" --Orate fratres.
An Essay on Morality 10 Feb 2010 | 04:54 pm
My professor recently asked me if I was "trained by Jesuits". I told him that I was not (unfortunately, I now add). At any rate, without further adu, this is my attempt to contort Nietzsche into Chris...
Week End Observations 7 Feb 2010 | 04:30 pm
Don't you hate it when you take the time (10 hours) to delicately show how Aristotle, Nietzsche and The Catholic Church share common ground in their understanding of virtue (you no doubt understand th...
