Brigid’s Feast day today – note resemblance!
St. Brigid of Ireland, sometimes referred to as St. Brigit of Kildare. See the resemblance?
How to fall 1,000 feet … and survive
YIKES! Pro skier Angel Collinson was shooting a documentary in Alaska’s Neacola range in April 2015 when she tumbled and fell 1,000 feet down the snow-covered mountain, amazingly surviving the fall.
Chili the Chinchilla
Oh dear. The patriarch of our chinchilla family is gone. Brigid found him around 5 pm yesterday at the bottom of his cage. She called me quite upset, and I came back from my office and had to tell Joe, who was taking a nap. We don’t know what happened. We got him about 6 … Read more
March for Life students stranded in the snow – built a snow altar and have Mass
Stuck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, students from Nebraska and Iowa who’d traveled to DC for the March for life – whole story at the the link. At about 9:30 p.m. Friday, the buses lurched to a stop at mile marker 133, and the group had to become comfortable for awhile — because there they stayed … Read more
3 minute Jesuit “America Media” video at the March for Life
Nice little job by the Jesuit publication, with mostly interviews with young students.
At Friday’s March for Life
The bus was cancelled, so a few of us drove down. The weather was really not a problem; started snowing after one o’clock & didn’t affect the drive back. The numbers were MUCH lower – probably 20-25,000, a quarter of the #’s for the last few years. The weather. Media coverage -. Nothing on … Read more
“Pope strongly upholds Christian marriage”
In a talk he gave yesterday. Pope strongly upholds Christian marriage The Roman Rota judges individual cases against the laws of Christian marriage, and thereby fulfills a dual role, showing the Church’s compassion and at the same time its fidelity to Christ’s teaching, the Pontiff said. Through the tribunal, he explained, the Church “can show … Read more
Joe Costanzo, K of C Man of the Year
Which of course makes Gina Woman of the Year! This is from last Thursday’s dinner honoring Joe for his last four years as the Knights of Columbus local Council’s Grand Knight. And Joe and Gina are a big presence in our community and our Parish. Or as Mike Reynolds, our new Grand Knight says, our … Read more
Autologous stem cell transplants – part of therapy being used more and more for other diseases
January 16th was the tenth anniversary of my autologous (given my own previously harvested stem cells back) transplant. (If you hit that link you'll see what is probably not the greatest picture of me.) The stem cells then rebuilt my immune system which was compromised by my prior six days of high dose chemotherapy. That … Read more