tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post9120969735112412079..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: Feast of St. Catherine of AlexandriaTheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-58773392686834836142014-12-02T13:24:11.692-05:002014-12-02T13:24:11.692-05:00St. Catherine is also very important in Gene Wolfe...St. Catherine is also very important in Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, as well.Josh Wilson (fforfilms.net)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13405747163517539197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-20370641225064770942014-11-26T22:47:48.695-05:002014-11-26T22:47:48.695-05:00Oh dear. I do hope you can give them back when you...Oh dear. I do hope you can give them back when you're done with them.TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-45036225768081014142014-11-26T19:49:34.857-05:002014-11-26T19:49:34.857-05:00What excellent timing--I just started reading Eife...What excellent timing--I just started reading Eifelheim. Or, to be precise, I'm studying it, in an effort to pull off the Carmen Sandiego-like heist of stealing your prose skills.Edward Isaacshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15178867205047028725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-40111903812298874572014-11-26T14:08:20.955-05:002014-11-26T14:08:20.955-05:00Apropos of naming people after saints.
Last summe...Apropos of naming people after saints.<br /><br />Last summer I was wandering our (recently moved-into) neighborhood during the annual neighborhood garage/yard sale. Met a fellow who it turns out is a youth minister at a nearby Church of the Nazarene. During our conversation, I learned from him that his particular brand of Protestantism takes its name from the passage in the gospel of John, where the question is asked, "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" They were originally formed as an offshoot of the Methodists who insisted on preaching the gospel on the other side of the tracks, the parts of town where no good is expected. So I naturally asked if there was a tendency among their co-religionists to name their sons "Nathaniel". Seemed perplexed that one would even think of that. It seems to me that if that were really part of my faith's history, I would certainly impose that self-understanding on one of children. But I guess if my thoughts run in those channels, I should be a Catholic. Which I am.thefederalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17514099991587503764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-7985319401087068392014-11-26T09:53:54.914-05:002014-11-26T09:53:54.914-05:00She's a patron of my younger daughter (who got...She's a patron of my younger daughter (who got the triple whammy of being born on St. Lawrence's day, having a mom named Anne and having a dad who greatly admired both great St Catherines - of Sienna and Alexandria. Thus she was christened Laura Anna Kate); older daughter had to settle for Teresa of Avila, another wilting violet of a women who put the fear of God into a few bishops. They made a saint out of her, too. (Oldest daughter got the triple whammy of being the granddaughter of a Mary Magdalene, a dad who loved St. Teresa of Avila, and being born on the feast of the obscure but lovely St. Lena of Bologna. Thus Elena Teresa Magdalena, which should serve her well if she ever takes up the Flamenco guitar) <br /><br />This pattern of oppression is just keeps going! The sainting of educated, strong women, I mean, not the overly florid daughters' names. Joseph Moorehttp://yardsaleofthemind.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-85331434669270401282014-11-26T09:28:06.789-05:002014-11-26T09:28:06.789-05:00"Learned" is written twice in the summa ..."Learned" is written twice in the summa at midpoint. <br /><br />What a saint. One sees how feeble he is when hearing St. Catherine's story. Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06877019716219367152noreply@blogger.com