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Courtesy of Churpchurp, i get to catch Beauty and The Beast 3D Premier Screening with the love one. Watching this movie really feel classic. The classic Disney character, the classic Disney song and the classic childhood cartoon. What else? It is a perfect movie to be watch with your love one in this Valentine's Day.
Belle, whose father is imprisoned by the Beast, offers herself instead and discovers her captor to be an enchanted prince.
Guess I don't need to comment the movie. You and me who born on same age range should have watch this when you was young! Now, this movie is back in 3D. Guess what? It was totally amazing. Disney done a great job in remaking most of the scene. One of the most significant changes was the background where I believe they replaced it with actual 3D model.
More depth, more perspective view can be seen in this movie. Besides, Disney also change the color mode of the show to more balance and neutral. Thumb up to Disney great work! The 3D definitely worth to watch! I am sure this movie will bring back magical feeling that you and I used to have when we was young ;)
Happy Valentine's Day! Now, bring your loved one and watch together. You wouldn't wanna miss it ;)


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Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:21:48 +0000 – By Steve MilloyPublisher, JunkScience.com/Author, "Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them"
Move over red, white, and blue -- America is going green. Green energy. Green technology. Green homes. Green cars. Green jobs. Green commerce. Green living. Green government. We've just elected our first green president, Barack Obama, as well as numerous senators and local representatives who campaigned on promises of leading America to greener pastures. You can color our your future green.
The green vision goes something like this: we are going to live in a "sustainable" manner and be kind to the planet. We will shrink our carbon footprints, eventually becoming carbon neutral.
Greens aim to bring about their brave new world through federal law or local ordinance. But where that's not practical, they'll settle for inducing artificial shortages, pricing you out of your "bad" habits by hiking taxes and surcharges, or simply trying to condition you, and those around you, to believe you are engaging in an act of severe personal transgression.reinvent
But perhaps, unlike others in a mad rush to start bicycling, recycling, and carbon de-cycling, you've been distracted from the greening of America by the many other crises and controversies our nation is facing: the global financial meltdown, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Islamic terrorism, volatile gasoline prices, spiraling health care costs, illegal immigration, and so on. They are, indeed, a formidable lot. That said, it's time you recognize that a great green tsunami is heading your way, threatening to wash away your standard of living and many of your liberties.
Like many Americans, your sense of the green movement may be that it simply advocates small lifestyle changes to benefit the environment. But the green agenda, in fact, is much more ambitious; it promotes countless new restrictions and regulations designed to reorder society from top to bottom.
And so the greens bombard us with an endless list of "dos" and "don'ts": Take colder showers. Turn the heat down. Use less air conditioning. Dry your clothes on a clothesline. Drive small, fuel efficient vehicles or stop driving altogether. Avoid imported or non-locally grown food. Bring your own bags to the supermarket. Buy energy efficient lightbulbs. Lose weight. (Fat people allegedly use more gasoline.) Buy expensive "green" electricity. Shun bottled water and drive-thru restaurants. Use cloth diapers. Clean your house with "natural" products. Use a non-motorized push lawnmower. Pay more for "fair trade" coffee. Don't use disposable cameras. Vacation closer to home.
All these admonitions have something in common -- youliving on a smaller, more inconvenient, more uncomfortable, more expensive, less enjoyable, and less hopeful scale. And the greens' moral hectoring is just the beginning. Green ideologues are bursting with an impatient zeal to begin dictating, through force of law, your mobility, diet, home energy usage, the size of your house, how far you can travel, and even how many children you can have.
You may be tempted to dismiss all this as a gross exaggeration. Make no mistake: living green is really about someone else microregulating you --downsizing your dreams and plugging each one of us into a brand new social order for which we never bargained. It's about you living under the green thumb and having the boundaries of your life drawn by others.
The central concept of this book is that there is hardly any area of your life that the greens consider off-limits to intrusion. There is almost no personal behavior of yours that they consider too trivial or too sacrosanct to regulate.
Greens aim to bring about their brave new world through federal law or local ordinance. But where that's not practical, they'll settle for inducing artificial shortages, pricing you out of your "bad" habits by hiking taxes and surcharges, or simply trying to condition you, and those around you, to believe you are engaging in an act of severe personal transgression.
The greens justify all this as necessary to solve our alleged "planetary emergency." But they don't intend for you to live this downsized and penitent lifestyle for some finite period of time until the supposed crisis is over. It is to be a permanent restructuring of life as you know it.
Steve Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and is the author of "Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them" You can get a free chapter of Green Hell at GreenHellBook.com.

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Brady, Brees, Rivers, Ryan, Rodgers, Stafford all these QB's referred to as elite, fringe-elite... their Air Yards % are in the low 50s. They're clearly dumping the ball off and the real play makers takeover. The majority of the passes for Jared Goff and Drew Brees this season are short passes. These QB's aren't even throwing the ball 5 yards downfield, if not behind the line of scrimmage.
What was Drew Brees before Sean Payton's system -- which began by utilizing Reggie Bush in creative play calls to enhance the short passing game. It changed Brees career. He went from decent to elite in most peoples eyes overnight.
According to my QB value metric.
In 2005 Brees was the 9th best passer
In 2004 Brees was the 9th best passer
In 2003 Brees was the 36th best passer
In 2002 Brees was the 18th best passer
So his average ranking was 18th in this span. And this is without applying my Air Yards Adjustment. Sean Payton brings in a system built around the scatback and suddenly Brees is a top 3 QB. Coincidence? We know what Brees was before Sean Payton, he was an average starting QB. We saw how bad Goff was before McVay. We know Belichick brings in Cassel, Garoppolo, and they all look like Tom Brady statistically. So? These QB's are more a product of genius play calling and personnel utilization than they are pure talent. My challenge, is trying to quantify that.


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Rima, you wanted to be an actor. How did you end up as a director?
I started as an actor and have been acting since my childhood. I was born and brought up in a very different kind of environment but grew up watching Bollywood films. Till the time I came to Mumbai (in 2007) I knew nothing about world cinema. It was in Mumbai where I got exposed to the larger film universe. Watching the international films, I somehow thought I could make a movie and tell my own story. I started with a short film, Pratha (2009). The film went to a couple of festivals and that gave me a lot of confidence to continue what I am doing presently.
"Antardrishti" (Man with the Binoculars) was your first feature film. What inspired you to make it?
When I decided on making movies, I tried a couple of short films, but the dream was always to make a feature film. I am someone who loves to express and I thought a feature was the best option for me to do so. It began somewhat like this...I was in my friend's place and noticed a pair of binoculars. I was in the middle of finishing my short film and this friend was doing the background score. So as we spoke, he said that he had bought this binoculars for his retired father, who lives in a village. That was it...That was the starting point. Later on I worked on the story and developed the plot, which eventually took two years to finish.
You grew up in the same village in Assam where your film Village Rockstars was shot. Did you use the movie as a time machine to travel back to your past and relive your childhood?
After staying in Mumbai for nearly eight years, when I went back to my village to shoot my first feature film, Antardrishti (Man with the Binoculars), I realised what I was missing in life. In the city, we lead a materialistic life. Everything that we need is available there. Back in the village, after spending time there I realised what living in deprivation is. But these people were actually enjoying life. Yes, they endure hostility; they endure the natural calamities, but always move on. That inspired me.
Without naming anyone...I have seen many Indian films showing village life and mostly it's about poverty. I don't want that. I want to tell a positive story. I am from the same village and look I've made it to Mumbai and my films have been to various international festivals, so why just uplift the poverty. We need hope, we need positivity. Films that showcase urban lifestyle shows children playing video games...I wanted to offer something new and that is how Village Rockstars came by.
You shot for a period of three years to complete this movie. Keeping that in mind, the girl (actor) in the film must have gone through physical changes. Was it some sort of a challenge for you to keep the two, her growth physically and the story-line, intact?
Yes. It was very difficult to manage. For the first 18 months, everything went well, but later on I had to use some techniques (laughs)...I had to restrict myself from using too many long shots. Fortunately, her face didn't change much!
So why did you drag it for three years?
Firstly, I was still in the post-production stage of my first film when I started shooting for the second one. Secondly, I had to travel to attend film festivals. Also because of the way I worked with the children...I worked with them in the morning before they departed for regular school and sometimes in the afternoon. With the shortage of a crew, I had to shoot the film in natural light, so that took a lot of time. Lastly, it was a learning process for me...Sometimes to get the perfect shot, I had to wait for ten-fifteen days. Another reason for the delay was that I wanted to show the whole season. A lot of sequence, the rains and floods are real. I wanted to make it perfect...At least to me. What the world thinks of my film is different, but I wanted to get the creative satisfaction.
When did you decide that film-making was your true calling?
As I said, I grew up watching Bollywood movies and after a period of time I realised that it was going to be hard for me to do a film...It needed a lot of funding and didn't have much. Bollywood also uses a lot of songs and dance, which I couldn't relate to. It was only after getting exposed to world cinema and watching certain international films, did I realise that I too could make a film...Like it could be done without dancing and singing. So I returned to my village, the place where I was born and shot my first film feature film there.


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Lois Helen Fahey, 84, of Independence, KY, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on Tuesday, January 9, 2018, at Carmel Manor in Ft. Thomas, KY.
Lois was an active member of St. Cecilia Church in Independence, KY, and a member of the Independence Senior Center. She was devoted to her religion and was an RCIA sponsor for years for adults joining the Catholic faith. Lois enjoyed ceramics and was known as the social butterfly at Carmel Manor for all the various activities in which she participated.
Lois is preceded in death by her loving husband, Thomas Fahey, and her brother, Robert Schuett.
She is survived by her eight daughters: Deborah (Daniel) Weik, Carolyn (Greg) Mitchell, Joni (Marc) Roden, Joyce (Mike) Blaze, Janice (Brian) Baker, Connie Deck, Gerri (Ted) Schuh, Amy Fahey; sisters, Joan Boland, Caryl Hinkle; brother, Don Schuett; 19 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren; and many other family and friends.
A visitation will take place on Sunday, January 14, 2018, from 4:00 PM until 7:00 PM, and Monday, January 15, 2018, from 10:00 AM until the time of Mass of Christian burial at 12:00 PM at St. Cecilia Catholic Church in Independence, KY. Burial will immediately follow at St. Cecilia Church Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Lois' name may be made to Carmel Manor Building Fund Attn. Sr. Diane Mack: 100 Carmel Manor Dr., Ft. Thomas, KY 41075 or St. Cecilia Parish Building Fund: 5313 Madison Pike, Independence, KY 41051.


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Advertising and marketing may play vital role in any organizations' competitiveness. Most advertizing campaigns are more or less similar in achieving meaningful results. However the approach one company follows may differ in several ways. Of all the advertizing techniques, if any would say the most cost-effective method is the online marketing which includes direct and indirect methods.
As we see the information revolution these days the anything classified as information is omnipresent. However to find the right site at right time is time consuming, so a better way of communicating relevant messages adding creativity is the norm of new approach in advertising. The marketing scenario is now exploiting the web to reach every possible end of finding a potential customer.
Video marketing is seen as strategic approach a company can adopt for its public relations. The power of ad via social media and video media over wide area of interest has seen the impact to be enormous but whatever the end result left to open discernment.
Until now we know only a picture is worth thousand words, now the time has already come to change the way we perceive the world around us. It is correct to say a video is worth million words. To facilitate such thing to happen the You Tube has been highly successful in overwhelming the web with unprecedented traffic.
We definitely need to acknowledge the advancement was due to high speed broadband technology since video transmission requires much speed and high bandwidth. Imagine the power and capacity reached by You Tube socialization. It is not surprising to notice the staggering amount of page views reaching about 2.4 billion views when it was first started.
For instance videos can benefit many customer who are interested demonstration of products and services before they purchase. People can be informed about any product which gives good appreciation and comments so that there is less control on the ownership of the product.
To create specific information about the companies' interests to targeted audience who are more likely to become stakeholders of the company might use such free web marketing. The general rule is that we could never reach potential audience with conventional advertising techniques whereas the web gives ample scope for the company to be seen from anywhere.
Some important things need be taken into consideration to review how far marketing using non-conventional methods are useful.
- A good theme in the video produced can convey a message while entertaining.
- Professional videos are more appealing to majority of audience since the quality and technique will influence the viewers' appreciation
- focused to lead something meaningful which will cast more interest in the viewing group.
Creative persons can direct the web traffic and reconcile with strategic audience. Marketing on the web may require some tools, for example the YouTube gives the platform to better explain and entertain audience.
Business take advantage of Video marketing as an effective method of reaching people but in the end they want to make money.


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Helping Children Enter into the Traditional Latin Mass – Part 1
Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series on the topic of introducing children to the traditional Latin Mass and making it fruitful for them. The second part is available here.
Parents today are sometimes worried that if they attend the traditional Latin Mass exclusively, their children will not know what to do with themselves during Mass and get so bored that they'll hate going, or at least not come away from it with the spiritual goods they need. And yet, every child-saint we know of grew up in the ambiance of the traditional Latin Mass — there was no other for nearly the whole history of the Western Church. We wonder: How did the little Thérèses or Padre Pios of the world feel so drawn to the Mass? Was something different back then? Were children better catechized? Were parents more on the ball?
Lest we be too hard on ourselves, it's only fair to recall a few advantages that people enjoyed in the past.
Often, families would not even take children to Mass until they had grown to an age where they could sit still, read a book, and appreciate the pageantry or pray a Rosary peacefully. When older kids went to church, the youngest ones stayed at home, watched over by a relative or housemaid.
The further back one goes, moreover, society at large tended to be much more formal, polite, and respectful. Everyone knew how to sit still and keep quiet for long periods of time without seeking to be entertained or pleased. This attitude of self-control carried over into churchgoers and children. One could realistically count on the majority of people getting into uncomfortable, fancy clothes, riding in a bumpy carriage to church, and sitting there in the freezing cold for a two-hour service — the sort of thing that happened every winter throughout Europe and America. The comforts, conveniences, and distractions of our age have made it much harder for us and for our children.
It helped, too, that the Church before the Council seemed – more or less – to have her head screwed on straight. She had one liturgy celebrated across the world, one doctrine taught everywhere, and one moral code inculcated rigorously, if not always heeded (such is fallen human nature). Whenever the unity and certainty of the Catholic Church is loud and clear, the faithful — including children and young adults —can respond with an intuitive assent and trust. Where there is ambiguity, doubt, or pluralism, the response called forth becomes progressively weaker, and this, unconsciously. The saints of the past grew up in a Church that was certain of herself, her faith, and her worship. We are living in rougher times, when parents need to become, in a sense, the guarantors of a faith of which the shepherds are sometimes ashamed. This is no easy task, since children are strikingly able to detect the most subtle discrepancies and hypocrisies.
Last but not least, Catholic churches used to be built in a grand and magnificent manner, with beautiful images and symbols everywhere you looked — so much for children to wonder at and learn from. Fortunately, there are a sizable number of such beautiful – let us call them European-style – churches in our country. If you happen to be able to attend Mass regularly at one of them, thank the Lord for it. The church building and its noble furnishings are already doing some of the work of catechesis for you, as they are meant to. You might be surprised, if not horrified, to know how many Catholics out there have to attend Mass at aesthetically God-forsaken structures that make prayer and contact with the loveliness of God so much more difficult, especially for children.
But the traditional Mass, in itself, is stronger than all our difficulties and dilemmas. It has the incredible strength of something ancient, deeply rooted, full of inextinguishable life, and perennially fresh, ready to form our minds and hearts if only we can get near enough to it.
Preparation in the Home
Even if cultural, societal, or artistic factors made — and, in fortunate situations, sometimes still make — a parent's work easier, as I mentioned above, I think it's fair to say that it will always be a challenge to initiate children into the richness and intricacy of traditional Catholic worship. It can never be taken for granted in any age that the next generation will be liturgically initiated, as if it were an automatic process.
It is a worthwhile challenge to embrace, because the Extraordinary Form of the Mass is your children's point of contact with the greatest, longest, and deepest religious tradition in the entire world. As the fulfillment of the Old Covenant, the Sacrifice of the New Covenant supersedes Jewish worship and therefore most fully embodies all that God gave to Israel. The Mass is an act of sacrifice that, as the Roman Canon reminds us, circles all the way back to the prefiguring sacrifices of Abel, Abraham, and Melchisedech. Within the Christian tradition itself, the Rite of the Church of Rome is among the most ancient. Its single historic anaphora, the Roman Canon, is older than that of the Byzantine Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. Within the Western tradition, there is no loftier expression of the divine mysteries, no more nourishing access to them. The hard work it takes to enter into this liturgy is repaid a thousandfold in the never-depleted insights and consolations it affords. For this reason, the work of teaching another how to enter into it is a genuine spiritual work of mercy.
All of this presupposes the importance of entering into the liturgy. As Dom Gueranger and the original liturgical movement emphasized, we need to get to know and love the prayer of Holy Mother Church, and doing so requires an effort to become well acquainted with it. I have some recommendations along these lines, but many readers will have excellent ideas, too — and I hope they will share them in the comments below.
There are, in my view, two distinct aspects of improving a child's hold on the Mass and the Mass's hold on the child: remote preparation (i.e., what we do at home), and proximate aids (what we do at church). Today I will take up the former, and next time, the latter.
Remote preparation includes anything the parents do at home to fill the imagination of their children with Catholic symbols, saints, stories, and associations, anything they do to form the mind with doctrine and to form the heart with prayer. I am an adamant proponent of John Senior's ideal of reading aloud, singing, sewing, drawing, building ships or planes, and, in general, anything deeply human, hands-on, and low-tech. These sorts of things till and fertilize the soil of the soul, so that the seed of the liturgy can be planted and bear fruit. Children who are immersed in good books and develop a habit of enjoying the world of the imagination will not only be better prepared for their school studies but, more importantly, will find the liturgy easier to enter into. Good resources include Marigold Hunt's outstanding books ([easyazon_link asin="1928832644″ locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="onep073-20″]A Life of Our Lord for Children[/easyazon_link], [easyazon_link asin="1928832326″ locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="onep073-20″]The First Christians[/easyazon_link], [easyazon_link asin="192883292X" locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="onep073-20″]St. Patrick's Summer[/easyazon_link], [easyazon_link asin="1933184000″ locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="onep073-20″]A Book Of Angels[/easyazon_link]), Fr. Inos Biffi's [easyazon_link asin="1568546122″ locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="onep073-20″]An Illustrated Catechism[/easyazon_link] (which contains simple but profound reflections on the Creed, the sacraments, the commandments, and prayer, accompanied by neat illustrations), Fr. Demetrius Manousos's [easyazon_link asin="1892331446″ locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="onep073-20″]Know Your Mass[/easyazon_link], and Fr. William Kelly's [easyazon_link asin="0988510685″ locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="onep073-20″]The Mass for Children[/easyazon_link].
The "domestic church" at home has to be strong. The family culture should be deliberately related in some way to the liturgy. For this purpose I especially recommend the books of Mary Reed Newland, such as [easyazon_link asin="1887593330″ locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="onep073-20″]We and Our Children: How to Make a Catholic Home[/easyazon_link] (in the original version published by Angelico Press) and [easyazon_link asin="1933184272″ locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="onep073-20″]The Year & Our Children: Catholic Family Celebrations for Every Season[/easyazon_link], and a newly released book that is set to become a classic of its own, [easyazon_link asin="1622821769″ locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="onep073-20″]The Little Oratory[/easyazon_link] by David Clayton and Leila Marie Lawler. (To learn more, see my review at NLM.) These books have lots of great, practical ideas about how to bring the riches of the liturgy and the observance of the liturgical calendar into the home so that one is more "in sync" with the liturgy when one attends it. For the benefit of older children, I would also recommend occasionally listening with the whole family to a talk by Archbishop Fulton Sheen. There are so many available. "The Meaning of the Mass" is a particular favorite of mine.
For families that homeschool, it is crucial that there be some study of Latin, even if it be as simple as studying the prayers of the Ordinary of the Mass, so that an opportunity is created to think and talk about what they are saying. I have found it to be the case that the traditional Mass prays perfectly for (or about) everything we could ever need to pray for (or about), and does so in the most beautiful, humble, and fitting manner. It is the supreme school of prayer. I'm not saying that people need to become Latin experts to appreciate the TLM, but rather that some exposure to and comfort with this language will pay big dividends when it comes to praying at Mass without a missal, following along in a missal, serving at the altar, or someday singing in a choir or schola.
To capitalize on the natural love children have for singing and to foster an instinct for sacredness and Romanitas, it is so important to sing Catholic songs at home, especially simpler Gregorian chants. The familiar Salve Regina works especially well, but one could include the "Ave Maria," "Salve Mater," "Adoro Te," "Ave Verum Corpus," and "Veni Creator Spiritus." Don't worry if only one person in the family can sing well; that's enough to start a tradition of daily singing, and people do get better over time. Highly recommended is Veronica Brandt's A New Book of Old Hymns (and, in general, I recommend Veronica's posts at Views from the Choir Loft, such as her review of Know Your Mass and her suggestions for teaching children Latin prayers).
In addition to singing, or in lieu of it if you are afraid to sing yourself, make sure you have some good sacred music recordings of chant, polyphony, and traditional hymnody. Of the superabundance of fine recordings out there, let me just mention a few. My favorite disc of hymns is [easyazon_link asin="B006PTFGOK" locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="onep073-20″]A Vaughan Williams Hymnal[/easyazon_link]. My favorite set of chant recordings, by a long shot, is [easyazon_link asin="B004FWZ5KE" locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="onep073-20″]Gregorian Chant for The Church Year[/easyazon_link], a set of six CDs for only $30.13 (at the time of this writing). The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles are wonderful, too, and when you buy their CDs ([easyazon_link asin="B00C6705WI" locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="onep073-20″]Angels and Saints at Ephesus[/easyazon_link], [easyazon_link asin="B009UECNXO" locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="onep073-20″]Advent at Ephesus[/easyazon_link], [easyazon_link asin="B00HAH7HG6″ locale="US" new_window="default" nofollow="default" tag="onep073-20″]Lent at Ephesus[/easyazon_link]) you are supporting their traditional monastic way of life. For polyphony, I can recommend just about anything recorded by the Tallis Scholars, the Cambridge Singers, the King's College Choir, the Oxford Camerata, or The Sixteen. (I am beginning to sense here the need for a separate article, or series of articles, on "How to Build Up Your Very Own Classical Music Library.")
In any case, playing such recordings on Sundays helps accentuate the specialness of the Lord's Day and, once again, bolsters and expands the imaginative associations that Catholics ought to have as part of their inheritance, effortlessly inoculates the young against later abuses they are bound to encounter, and, best of all, provides a stream of beautiful music and lyrics that children uncannily memorize and spontaneously reproduce if they hear it often enough.
I welcome suggestions from readers in the comments about things they have done at home to prepare the family for a more fruitful encounter with our Lord in the Mass.
Helping Children Enter into the Traditional Latin Mass – Part 2
By Peter Kwasniewski on August 21, 2014 Catholic Life, Family, Featured, In The Parish, Liturgy
Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series on the topic of introducing children to the traditional Latin Mass and making it fruitful for them. The first part is available here.
In my last post, I spoke of things we can do at home to dig furrows in the soul for planting the seed of the Mass. Today I will highlight things we can do to make attending and assisting at Mass more fruitful for everyone, especially the children.
The thing I recommend most strongly is that you bring your family to a High Mass (Missa Cantata) or even a Solemn High Mass (Missa Solemnis), if this is available in your area. It may seem counterintuitive — such a liturgy is longer and more complicated, and it is probably at a later time of day, when children are more likely to be tired and cranky. Still, if you can manage to work it out practically, the High Mass is a fuller celebration of the rite, with more going on to pay attention to and be shaped by. There is more activity happening in the sanctuary — processions, incensations, bows and genuflections, the carrying of this and that, vessels being handed around, the sacred choreography of the ministers — with the chanting of prayers and readings, and plenty of music along the way. When it's done well, it is a feast for the senses that helps sustain interest and foster curiosity. A Low Mass, as beautiful as it is for adults who have learned the art of prayer or simply find comfort in the peace and quiet, is much harder going for little ones who, not surprisingly, find anywhere from 35 to 55 minutes of almost total silence a rather large bucket to fill. So, while a Low Mass almost cries out for following along in a book, at a High Mass (particularly a Solemn High Mass) one can let oneself go and just watch.
Also, if a home is singing-friendly, and the chapel or parish you attend is singing-friendly (sadly, this is not always the case), children will quickly pick up simpler Gregorian chants such as the commonly-used settings of the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei, and ad libitum chants like the Salve Regina and Adoro Te. At our college chapel, the singing of the Ordinary of the Mass always includes the congregation, and it delights me to hear how many little voices down below are joining in the singing (one can tell because of how those high-pitched voices poke out a bit). Over time, one catches such children singing a snatch of chant while playing with Lego bricks or making mud pies. Again, we are in the realm of imaginative associations that grow, over time, into strong cords of allegiance.
Beyond this, whether you are attending a Low Mass or a High Mass, it is well worth your effort to get hold of a user-friendly children's missal and teach your child how to use it. There are a number of decent missals for tiny children (of the "See Father go to the altar—he is praying to God for us" type), and, of course, there are excellent missals for adults (to include young adults), but an age group that has been terribly neglected, in my opinion, are the children who are too old for the kiddie board books and too young for a full-scale Angelus or Baronius missal with thin pages and tiny print.
This is why I decided to create my own print-on-demand intermediate missal for the traditional Latin Mass that has all the unchanging prayers, with clear indications of when the child should turn to a parent or older sibling for the propers of the day, and accompanied throughout by gorgeous full-color illustrations. This missal is available in two versions: A Traditional Missal for Young Catholics (available at Lulu for $18.87) and Missal for Young Catholics (available at CreateSpace for $12.49). The content of both is identical. The reason for the difference in price is simply that the Lulu edition is printed on thicker and glossier paper with a thicker cover.
I've seen this missal keep my children and the children of other families occupied for many hours in church, whether they are reading the prayers (and surely, at times, praying them intently) or looking at the pictures, which are real art, with all its rich detail and fascination. What I like best about this resource is that it focuses the child's mind on the liturgy itself — on its prayers, gestures, symbols, and mysteries — rather than on some other more or less pertinent subject ranging from superheros to saints' lives. I'm not saying that one should never bring other kinds of books to church — far from it — but when a child is ready to enter into the letter and spirit of the Mass and linger there, we should smooth a path for this transition to happen. (For more information and photos, see this post.)
Another missal I cannot recommend highly enough, although now we are moving into the adolescent or young adult category, is the St. Edmund Campion Missal & Hymnal. Talk about a work of art! This is, hands down, my favorite missal to use for Sundays and Holy Days, and I can imagine older children responding well to the exquisite beauty of its illustrations and photos, the elegance and clarity of its layout. It is a book that utters a silent message about the unchanging and sublime worth of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. (If you are interested in reading more, check out my review at NLM.)
If you have boys, get them into an altar boys' guild as soon as they are old enough. One of the best ways to become familiar with the traditional Mass and to see the great reverence with which its every gesture is imbued is to watch it close up and be involved in the ceremonial. Often, too, boys find in such a guild a healthy combination of discipline, camaraderie, and fun.
For very small children, how about adding "Soft Catholic Mass Quiet Toys" to your arsenal?
Parents reading this blog: please share freely whatever you have found successful in helping your children appreciate the treasure of the Mass and receive more benefit from assisting at it.
Preparing for Communion
The traditional Roman Rite itself contains powerful prayers to help us prepare for communion, namely, the ones prayed by the priest between the Agnus Dei and the "Ecce, Agnus Dei." But these prayers may not always speak directly to children, and, in any case, different people find different things advantageous to prepare their minds and hearts for receiving the Lord.
A prayer that has worked wonderfully in our family over the years is the Byzantine prayer before communion. Years ago, we attended Byzantine liturgy fairly regularly, so we memorized it at that time. But then we found that praying it in the quiet space before communion at the Tridentine Mass, or even doing so while walking up for communion at an Ordinary Form Mass, had a unique ability to focus our attention on the Lord. When the children were much smaller, my wife or I would lean over and say the prayer very quietly together with our children at the appropriate time. Later, all that was necessary was a reminder, and they could pray it themselves. But another way to learn it is to print it on a card and keep it in a missal or prayerbook.
O Lord, I firmly believe and profess
that you are truly the Christ,
the Son of the living God,
who came into the world to save sinners,
of whom I am the first.
Accept me as a partaker of your mystical supper,
O Son of God,
for I will not reveal the mysteries to your enemies,
nor will I give you a kiss as did Judas,
but like the thief, I confess to you:
Remember me, O Lord, when you shall come into Your kingdom.
Remember me, O Master, when you shall come into Your kingdom.
Remember me, O Holy One, when you shall come into your kingdom.
May the partaking of your Holy Mysteries, O Lord,
be not for my judgment or condemnation,
but for the healing of soul and body.
O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.
God, cleanse me of my sins and have mercy on me.
O Lord, forgive me, for I have sinned without number.
This prayer works well after communion, too.
My wife and I have found that the time right after Mass, particularly if we do not (or are not able) to stay for very long at the church in thanksgiving, can be an important moment of family prayer — a way of reminding ourselves that our Lord is still sacramentally present among us and that we should carry the spirit of the Mass out of the church into our lives. A car ride home that is full of chit chat and banter may not be the best way to use those few minutes of transition. (Of course, if your drive is a lot longer, take my suggestion as pertinent only for the first few minutes.) We will often pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy or just keep silence for a time.
If the Mass you attend is followed by a lot of socializing, spend some minutes giving thanks in the church, and afterwards enjoy the socializing. This, too, is extremely healthy and welcome — children who are happily playing or talking with their friends after Mass are, in an oblique way, strengthening their long-term attachment to the Mass and the Church.


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We receive you into the household of God. Confess the faith of Christ crucified, proclaim his resurrection, and share with us in his eternal priesthood. (BCP p. 308)
The sacrament of Baptism celebrates the inward movement of God in a person's life by outwardly welcoming that person into God's family the Church. Or, to use a musical metaphor, the music of God plays in each one of our hearts. Sometimes the music is soft, a half-whispered lullaby, barely discernible over the din of the world. Sometimes the notes crescendo to a deafening fortissimo that knocks us, weeping, to our knees. Most often, the music sounds as the percussive TUB-thp of our hearts — a rhythm that, if you listen closely, beats in time with the rest of the performing forces of creation.
Each one of us has the music of God resounding within, but the symphony is incomplete until we have found each other, until we have joined together in harmony as the orchestra of God. Musical harmony is the collection of notes that adds structure, color, tone, depth, and meaning to the main tune. This tune, called the "melody" is the music of God within us. The combination of our own unique passions, trials, joys, griefs, and loves creates the harmony of the music of God.
In the sacrament of Holy Baptism, we welcome another violin or French horn or bassoon into the orchestra. We await eagerly the subtle changes in timbre that the new life will bring. Together, we play the harmony of the music of God to a world so accustomed only to noise and clatter. The movements of our symphony resonate with the movement of God in this world. This is the sacrament of Holy Baptism: new sound, new harmony, new resonance in the symphony of the music of God.
At St. Stephen's, we baptize people for membership in God's entire Church throughout the world; therefore, one does not necessarily need to be a member of St. Stephen's to be baptized here, though it is always a great joy to baptize one of our own. We baptize both children and adults. We do all baptisms in the context of our Sunday morning worships services. We invite those being baptized (or their parents in the case of infant baptism) to meet with the clergy ahead of time to learn more about what baptism means. Please download the FAQ below for more information about Baptism. To schedule a Baptism, download the "Application for Baptism" below, send it in, and call the church office at (781) 383-1083 to confirm.
Click here to download our "Frequently Asked Questions about Baptism"
Click here to download our "Application for Baptism"


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Ultra-clean high-temperature heating
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Fast start-up time, such as (1-2 seconds or so).
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Air cooling unit is larger compared to water-cooled goods, you can use simply because it does not require cooling water.
There is no difference in the basic performance in air-cooled, maximum heating temperature is about 1250 ℃ to HLH-65W same type of water-cooled.
Change in focal length and concentrating width of the Halogen Line Heater HLH-65/f75
*Heating performance of HLH-65A is the same as the HLH-65W water-cooled type.


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Balancing the books: financial wellbeing in later life
Thursday 6th March 2014; 13:30 (for 14:00) - 17:30; 20 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0RN
An ILC-UK/PFRC joint conference.
From mortgages to credit cards, savings to debt, balancing the books as you get older remains a challenge. As the fastest growing part of the population, older people are increasingly important to the UK economy. It has been estimated, for example, that people over the age of 65 spend more than £100 billion per year, which accounts for around 15 per cent of all household expenditure.
At the same time, older people are experiencing more pressures on their often limited financial resources (such as the need to pay for care and the rising cost of living) which can reduce their quality of life. It is crucially important, therefore, that policy-makers and practitioners have a good understanding of the different aspects of well-being among older people, in order to inform the design of policies and services that affect their lives.
At this event we heared research findings from the joint programme 'Financial dimensions of well-being in older age' from the Personal Finance Research Centre (PFRC) and the International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC-UK), funded by the ESRC as part of the Secondary Data Analysis Initiative. Findings from this research programme thus far have focused on three themes: understanding the 'older consumer'; understanding older households' balance sheets; and understanding the financial dimensions of wellbeing in later life.
In the second half of the event, key thought leaders provided their responses to the research findings, and engage in an open debate on what kind of policy and business responses are needed to support older people with their finances.
The event was followed by a drinks reception.
For more information on this joint project, please visit the PFRC website.
We had a small number of funded places in the form of a contribution towards travel costs (receipts required) available for postgraduate students at this event. We offered these places on a first-come, first-served basis.
View the presentation slides below:


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Rose & Crown Pub & Dining Room: Guinness Stew
*serves 8
2 pounds sirloin cubes
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
salt & pepper
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 dried bay leaves
2 onions, diced
8 carrots, peeled and diced
4 tablespoons garlic, finely chopped
1 tablespoon thyme
1 tablespoon rosemary
1 teaspoon red chili flakes
1 (11.2 ounce) bottle Guinness stout
2 quarts beef broth
To thicken (optional):
1/4 cup water
1 tablespoon cornstarch
Heat olive oil in a deep stock pot. Dust sirloin cubes with flour, tossing to coat then season with salt and pepper. Place the meat into the pot. Brown on all sides. Add in the onions, carrots and bay leaf. Cook until carrots are tender and onions are translucent. Now add the garlic, thyme, rosemary and chili pepper flakes. Cook for 1-2 minutes. Pour in the Guinness and simmer for 5 minutes.
Add the beef broth to the pot and reduce heat to medium. To thicken broth, mix 1/4 cup water with 1 tablespoon cornstarch. Stir well and add to stew. Simmer for 1 hour until liquid reduces by a third. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Ladle into bowls and serve hot with crusty bread or rolls. Enjoy!
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