Random Musings by Kraft

  • a few days off

    I’ve taken the past few days off for various things. Friday, Tracie had a pool party to celebrate her graduation. Saturday started with her graduation and then her family graduation party that lasted most of the day. After that and all day yesterday, I had my sister with her clan (including my great-niece and great-nephew)…

  • return to the real

    “Each event in life demands of interpretation, some discernment as being of God or not of God. Without a mature faith life, we interpret our lives in a secular fashion, failing to see the work of Providence. Wisdom is the gift needed whereby we trace the happenings of our days to their proper source.” –…

  • mass draft of 2004: introduction

    The International Commission on the English Language (ICEL) is working on a new translation of the Roman Missal, also known in the English-speaking world as the Sacramentary. This is the book used at the altar by the priest and contains all the prayers for the Mass. By the wonders of the internet, a “green book”…

  • cardinal law update

    Back in August, I posted about the current status of Cardinal Law as Ecclesiastical Delegate for the Pastoral Provision. He’s been assigned to a new position. While retaining, from as much as I can tell, his Pastoral Provision post, Cardinal Law has been appointed as archpriest of the Patriarchal Basilica of St. Mary Major. In…

  • alas, where is austin?

    I am beyond ready to be back in Austin. I haven’t finished all of my rounds here yet and I am beyond ready. Wichita Falls will always have a fond place in my memories and perhaps a fond place in my future; however, it is not my present. My life is not here and what…

  • home sweet home

    I’m in Wichita Falls for a few days to celebrate my mother’s 60th birthday and Tracie’s graduation. There has really been nothing of note to write about at all.