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  • I love the scary message from the State.

    “In the guidance released Tuesday evening, the education agency said students, teachers or school districts participating in ‘inappropriate political activism’ could face the following consequences: […] Students being marked absent and districts losing state funding.” (source)

    My brothers and sisters, big scary liberal Austin ISD done already marked kids as an unexcused absence if they walked out.

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  • 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.