{"id":4756,"date":"2012-07-03T13:59:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T20:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=4756"},"modified":"2017-06-28T22:55:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T05:55:01","slug":"tuesday-link-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=4756","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Link Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uh oh, I&#8217;ve started a pattern, and you know what that means.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure to break it soon.\u00a0 Lol!\u00a0 Oh well, on with my linky list!<\/p>\n<p>\u2665\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last night the SSJ choir was blessed to enjoy a brief hour with a prospective music director, who had just flown down from Salt Lake City, UT, where he had been attending the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/musicasacra.com\/colloquium\/\">Sacred Music Colloquium XXII<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0 Jeff, who as you know is also a church musician (or, as we used to call him in the old days, a &#8220;liturgy freak&#8221; :-D) had sent me the link to this video a while back, but I had not gathered what I thought would be the fortitude required to watch the whole thing.\u00a0 However, after our time with Dr. Weber, which included just a precious few minutes of chant instruction that for me (as one who has had only a smattering of exposure to reading and singing Gregorian chant) were very helpful, I was eager to get a glimpse into this fantastic week of musical and liturgical enrichment.\u00a0 So here&#8217;s the video, which I warn you is a) about an hour long, and b) only interesting to you if you are as much of a liturgy freak as I confess I am probably becoming.\u00a0 But even if you just click the play button and go about other business, you will enjoy some beautiful strains of sacred music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sacred, Beautiful, &amp; Universal<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iu5N_EOC0Qc\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2665\u00a0\u00a0 Paul Williams, Catholic Herald (UK) writes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Chiara Petrillo was a 28-year-old Italian mother who apparently refused life-saving cancer treatment that would have damaged or destroyed her baby. Her baby, Francesco, was born perfectly well. Chiara died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Chiara\u2019s funeral took place a few days ago in Rome. But Francesco was not her first baby.<em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/features\/2012\/06\/29\/the-mother-who-gave-up-her-life-for-her-unborn-child\/\"> &#8230;read more..<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\u2665\u00a0\u00a0 Jen Fulwiler says, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/jennifer-fulwiler\/somebody-that-i-used-to-know\/\">&#8220;If you have ears, you&#8217;re well aware of the song <strong><em>Somebody That I Used to Know<\/em><\/strong> by the artist Gotye. (On the off chance you haven&#8217;t yet heard it, just turn on the nearest radio; it&#8217;s probably playing.&#8221;<\/a> I of course had to google it up as I apparently am earless.\u00a0 I listened long enough to get the gist of it, and to understand exactly what Jen is talking about.<\/p>\n<p>\u2665\u00a0\u00a0 In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2007\/01\/out-of-the-ruins-3\"><em><strong>Out of the Ruins<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, (a First Things article from 2005 I discovered via another article entirely), R.R. Reno discusses his conversion, and includes thoughtful commentary on Augustine and Newman as he defends leaving the Episcopal Church for Rome after having published a book entitled<em> In the Ruins of the Church: Sustaining Faith in an Age of Diminished Christianity.<\/em>\u00a0 I&#8217;m still digesting it (as would be the case any time either Augustine or Newman is quoted, let alone both in one piece) so I merely pass it on without further ado, other than to note that it is a very different story from <a href=\"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/?p=4744\"><strong>the one Paul tells<\/strong><\/a>, which reminds me of this paragraph from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.catholicworldreport.com\/Item\/1438\/Submerged_in_the_Ocean.aspx\">Submerged in the Ocean<\/a><\/em>, which I could almost have written:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">By the time I was received into the Catholic Church 15 years ago I had already read a number of stories of conversions to the faith\u2014Newman\u2019s <em>Apologia, <\/em>Avery Dulles\u2019<em> A Testimonial to Grace<\/em>, Scott Hahn\u2019s <em>Rome Sweet Home<\/em>, and many others in essay or book form. I still love reading conversion stories, not just from people whose background is like mine (Evangelical and Calvinist), but from a wide variety of religious, philosophical, and cultural backgrounds.\u00a0 Each one reminds me yet again that, in Chesterton\u2019s words, \u201cThe Church is a house with a hundred gates; and no two men enter at exactly the same angle.\u201d\u00a0 Yet entering from a hundred gates they all find a welcome since, as Hilaire Belloc put it, the Church is \u201cthe natural home of the Human Spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2665\u00a0\u00a0 Would you believe, I can&#8217;t remember where I saw this book recommendation, but I&#8217;m glad I saved the link to <a href=\"http:\/\/angelicopress.wordpress.com\/beauty-in-the-word\/?csspreview=true\"><strong>Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s now on my list.<\/p>\n<p>\u2665\u00a0\u00a0 In<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/simcha-fisher\/memento-mori\"><strong> Memento Mori<\/strong><\/a> Simcha Fisher offers up a dose of perspective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/sdg-reviews-the-amazing-spider-man\/\"><strong>\u2665\u00a0\u00a0 SDG Reviews &#8216;The Amazing Spider-Man&#8217;<\/strong><\/a>, plus his not-to-be-missed take on Snow White in the two part <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/steven-greydanus\/the-fairest-one-of-all-1\"><strong>The Fairest One of All (1)<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/steven-greydanus\/the-fairest-one-of-all-2\"><strong>(2)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2665\u00a0\u00a0 And finally, since I opened today&#8217;s links with something musical, I&#8217;ll leave you with this\u00a0 absolutely heart-breakingly exquisite rendition of<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;<strong>Depuis le jour<\/strong>&#8221; from Louise,<br \/>\nby the equally exquisite<br \/>\nRenee Fleming.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_d_8ovQHbF4\" height=\"420\" width=\"560\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uh oh, I&#8217;ve started a pattern, and you know what that means.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure to break it soon.\u00a0 Lol!\u00a0 Oh well, on with my linky list! \u2665\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last night the SSJ choir was blessed to enjoy a brief hour with a prospective music director, who had just flown down from Salt Lake City, UT, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,598],"tags":[360,365,153,386],"class_list":["post-4756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic","category-netties-world","tag-catholic","tag-conversion-stories","tag-pro-life-2","tag-reading","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4756"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15139,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions\/15139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}