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		<title>Steve Martin&#8217;s Latest CD, and playing the Banjo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a bit remiss in posting this, but I want to make up for lost time. A couple of months ago, I purchased a copy of Steve Martin&#8217;s bluegrass CD which he did with The Steep Canyon Rangers, entitled &#8220;Rare Bird Alert.&#8221; What prompted me to finally post here was seeing a PBS special on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=byzcath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4293984&amp;post=179&amp;subd=byzcath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gearing back up</title>
		<link>http://byzcath.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/gearing-back-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a long time since I posted anything here. Some people have asked me to keep going, but hasn&#8217;t been easy. I lost my mother on April 1, 2010, and I am still recovering from that. I have been thinking about using this space as a poor imitation of C. S. Lewis&#8217; &#8220;A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=byzcath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4293984&amp;post=177&amp;subd=byzcath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whither the Catholic Church?</title>
		<link>http://byzcath.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/whither-the-catholic-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our local newspaper had an article today on the furor within the Catholic Church over the invitation of President Barack Obama to speak at Notre Dame University and to receive an honorary degree. Because of the president’s pro-abortion stance, his being in favor of embryonic stem-cell research, and his support for the Freedom of Choice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=byzcath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4293984&amp;post=170&amp;subd=byzcath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homily for the Resurrection Feast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, a large group of us came together to celebrate the ultimate miracle: the rising of Jesus Christ from the dead. Two times, I celebrated our Liturgy, called Resurrection Matins, in which we try to re-create the events, from the disciples’ point of view, of the discovery that our Lord, Whom we saw arrested, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=byzcath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4293984&amp;post=165&amp;subd=byzcath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holy And Great Friday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[O how could the lawless council condemn to death the King of Creation, without being ashamed at the thought of His good works which He recounted to them, saying: &#8220;O My people, what have I done to you? Have I not filled Judea with miracles? Have I not raised the dead with a word? Have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=byzcath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4293984&amp;post=162&amp;subd=byzcath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Crow: Steve Martin</title>
		<link>http://byzcath.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-crow-steve-martin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[     Last week, on one of the late-nights, Steve Martin was one of the guests and besides plugging his new movie, he and a group of talented artists played a song from his new CD, &#8220;The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo.&#8221; As my long-time readers will remember, I chastized Steve Martin and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=byzcath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4293984&amp;post=155&amp;subd=byzcath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.</title>
		<link>http://byzcath.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/o-god-be-merciful-to-me-a-sinner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fallen humanity seems to recoil from the idea of being humble or, worse yet, from being humiliated. Nothing causes more resentment in a person than to be humiliated. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=byzcath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4293984&amp;post=147&amp;subd=byzcath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Closer to home</title>
		<link>http://byzcath.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/closer-to-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Ron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, my surgeon took off the gigantic dressing and pronounced all was good. I wasn&#8217;t exactly mesmerized by seeing the staples, but the pronouncement was good to hear. I actually had sliced turkey breast, mashed potatoes and sliced carrots for dinner, and if I tolerate this, I can probably go home on Wednesday. I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=byzcath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4293984&amp;post=145&amp;subd=byzcath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Always someone worse&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://byzcath.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/always-someone-worse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of 6:00pm Sunday, I have had the NG tube removed and they put me on a full clear diet. At 7, I had some Ensure, cranberry juice, and vanilla ice cream! Ah, the staples of life! I am writing this a lttle after midnight, and our nearby Alzheimer&#8217;s patient is going into what is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=byzcath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4293984&amp;post=142&amp;subd=byzcath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surgery log</title>
		<link>http://byzcath.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/surgery-log/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday was my surgery. I went to the hospital at 11 a.m., but didn&#8217;t get prepped until 1 p.m., but that would be par for the course. Also par for the course is that things didn&#8217;t go according to plan. Apparently, there is scar tissue in my urethra from old kidney stones, so they couldn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=byzcath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4293984&amp;post=141&amp;subd=byzcath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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