(1) Scribblings of Graveyard Humorist - Collected Writings on Genealogy, Family, Folk and Traditional Religion, Debates on Nationalism-Patriotism, and the Devotions to the Holy Dead

• Genealogy Research to Family and Parish History, the Ethnography of Filial Piety, An Ecumenical History of the United States, Its Peoples, and Its Christianities, History of Funerary Rites, and Theology of the Holy Souls of Purgatory
• INTENSE REFLECTION ON PRACTICE THROUGH THE COURSE OF NOVEMBER FROM ALL HALLOWS EVE UP THROUGH THE FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN & AMERICAN THANKSGIVING (!)
• On the Immaculate Conception as the Patroness of the United States of America
• Americana and Material Culture of the Dead
• STYLE: research notes, logs/journals, historical essays, etymological explorations in arcane topics, etc.

 

(2) The Advent Cycle of the Four Last Things:

1. Death (TBD) --- Separation of Soul and Body, On Hylomorphism, Death Bed Experiences, and NDEs, etc.
2. Judgement - On Private v. Public Judgement in the History of Dogmatic Theology (The Glorified/Resurrected Body) and what that means for a Liberal Society that has placed a high premium on privacy, freedom of conscience, and moral relativism.
3. Heaven - On Eternity, Aeviternity, and Epektasis [The New Creation is Quite Literally a Place]:: ON THE DIMENSIONALITY OF HEAVEN, ON THE SUB-LUNARY EXPANSION INTO WHAT ANCIENTS CONSIDERED (QUITE LITERALLY) "THE HEAVENS", etc. AND THE TRUE COSMOLOGICAL CRISIS OF THE GALILEO AFFAIR.
4. Hell - On the Physicality of Hellfire [An Historical Theology of Sacred Tradition and Christian Culture]:: AN EXPOSITION ON THE MEANINGS AND MISIDENTIFICATIONS OF "TRADITION", etc.

* STYLE --- BETWEEN SERMON-LIKE & "TABLE TALK", AS IF SPOKEN IN PUBLIC ON THE RADIO...

 

(3) Epiphany Poems -- On Revelation & Poesy [Theophanies in the Bible: Where God is *PRESENT* to Mankind] & the Literary History of the Catholic Religion [including Holy Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and Sacred Chant], but also the major Catholic poets and how their religion shaped their verse [DEEP REFLECTIONS ON VICO & JOYCE]

*INTENSE REFLECTION FROM THE END OF TWELVENIGHT UP THROUGH CANDLEMAS (!)

WHAT ARE THE GREAT FEASTS OF THEOPANY:

Historically, during the first few centuries of Christianity, Theophany (also called Ta Phota, the Feast of Lights) was a single, massive season that encompassed multiple divine manifestations before it was split into separate calendar days:

• The Nativity of Christ (Christmas)

• The Adoration of the Magi (the revelation to the Gentiles)

• The Baptism of Christ in the Jordan

• Christ’s first miracle at the Wedding at Cana

Over time, the Church separated Christmas (December 25) to celebrate the Incarnation, leaving January 6 primarily focused on Christ's baptism and the revelation of the Trinity.

**HERE, I TURN TO THE BREVIARY/DIVINE OFFICE, THE HOLY MASS AND THE LITURGY PROPER FOR INSPIRATION ON THE QUESTION OF "GOD'S TIME" & REVELATION...

 

(4) Literary Investigations in Marian Miracles for Asumptiontide up through the Feast of Christ the King and the Allhallowtide

• "Miracle of the Sun" and Its Source Documents
• The History of Kibeho, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Sorrowful Mother
• Our Lady of Zeitoun (1968–1971): The Document Trail
• The Tilma of Our Lady of Guadalupe
• The Incorruptibility of St. Bernadette
• The Healing Waters of Lourdes
• The Testimony of the Miraculous Medal

HERE, I COMPILE DOCUMENTS AND PLACE COMMENTARIES/SCHOLIA ON THEM (!)

 

(5) Lenten Reflections on Ascetic Theology [Theogony and the Man of Sorrows]:: CHRIST'S SUFFERING DID NOT BEGIN AT THE PASSION; RATHER, IT REACHED ITS CLIMAX ON CALVARY.  IT IS SAID BY CATHOLIC TRADITION THAT HE SUFFERED HIS WHOLE LIFE EVEN BEFORE HIS MINISTRIES. I WANT TO REFLECT ON CHRIST IN THE DESERT BY EXAMINING MONASTIC REFLECTIONS HISTORICALLY ON LENT AND THE SPIRIT OF THE MODERN WORLD OF CONSUMERISM.  I WANT TO FAST & ASSESS THE SPIRITUAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF FASTING/PRAYER/ALMSGIVING, etc. WHY IS THERE SUFFERING?  B/C OF THE FALL.  WHAT THEN IS "THE FALL"?  WHAT IS "SIN"?  AND WHAT IS THE SPIRIT OF PENANCE?  HOW DO WE RECONCILE THIS DEEP SPIRITUAL REALITY OF SIN W/ THE PELAGIANIST AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT?  HOW HAVE CATHOLIC THEOLOGIANS RELATED THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ASCETIC AND MYSTICAL THEOLOGY AS TWIN PILLARS OF SPIRITUAL THEOLOGY?  WHY WILL SUFFERING ALWAYS BE?  AND WHAT IS THE DIGNIFIED RESPONSE TO ITS INESCAPABILITY?

*IMPROVISED SPOKEN WORD ON SOUNDCLOUD, YOUTUBE, etc.

*INTENSE REFLECTION FROM THE FIRST SUNDAY OF SEPTUAGESIMA UP THROUGH SHROVETIDE AND PASSIONTIDE (!)

 

(6) Eastertide Letters* [Private Letters to Friends and Family, Redacted & Reflected Upon, and then studies of the Stoics against those of the Christians in the Epistolary Form].

*GENRE --- Epistles & the Epistolary Novel

 

(7) Newspaper Writings* (Here are the miscellanies of various periodicals on a variety of topics that interest me)

(8) Children of the Dawn Star --- Fairy Stories of the Apocalypse

 

Militia Immaculata (VILLAGE MINUTES) - To the Assisted Living Communities, to the Jails of the County, to the Hospice Homes, to the Public Square and the Streets, to the Universities and Colleges & Vocational Schools, to the Air Waves, to the Internet & Social Media...   HERE, WE WILL DOCUMENT OUR EFFORTS SIMILAR TO HOW KOLBE WROTE OF HIS MINISTRIES (!)

BUILDING UP COMMUNITY:

(1) RUMMAGE SALES (COMBINED) DURING EARLY ADVENT (ORGANIZED IN THE CATHEDRAL) WHERE MONEY IS DONATED TO A CAUSE [Encourage Detachment from Material Things and the Spirit of Poverty]; (2) CHRISTMAS CAROLS (FROM DEC. 17 THROUGH JAN. 6) TO VARIOUS LOCATIONS [PRACTICE BEGINS LEADING UP TO GAUDETE SUNDAY]; (3) INFANT OF PRAGUE NOVENA IN THE CHAPEL FROM JAN. 5 through 14 [w/ REFLECTIONS ON THE TWO THERESA'S ON CHRIST'S HUMILITY IN CHILDLIKE FORM]; (4) LENTEN FRIDAY SUPPERS TOGETHER (W/ SECTIONS OF CONFERENCES THAT ARE READ ALOUD WHILE EATING); (5) TRIDUUM DIVINE MERCY NOVENA in Silence (from GOOD FRIDAY @ 9PM, through HOLY SATURDAY @ DAY BREAK; TO EASTER SUNDAY @ DUSK; THEN FROM EASTER MONDAY THROUGH THE OCTAVE @ 7 PM; THEN THE DMC AFTER HOLY MASS ON "LOW SUNDAY"); (6) LENTEN FRIDAY STATIONS OF THE CROSS & HOLY MASS (!); (7) HOLY FACE NOVENA -  CHAPLET & DEVOTIONAL PRAYERS FROM THE MONDAY BEFORE SHROVETIDE UP THROUGH SHROVE TUESDAY (!) IS A PRAYER FOR PREPARATION FOR LENT & AN ACT OF REPARATION FOR ATHEISM & SECULARISM (ESPECIALLY IN ITS MORE PUBLIC AND SCANDALOUS FORMS) as well as encouragement of enrollment in the Archconfraternity for daily reparations (!); (8) SORROWFUL MOTHER NOVENAS [Sept. 7 - 15; & 9 Days Before Passion Friday]; (9) NOVENA FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY (9 DAYS w/ DIFFERENT MEDITATIONS & GROUPS OF PEOPLE); (10) Public Rosaries on Memorial Day, 4th of July (Morning), Labor Day (for Workers & Common Good) also combined with May 1 of St. Joseph the Worker (!), Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day (to celebrate Christianity in the Americas and a Land without Serfdom), Veterans' Day, Presidents' Day (EVE AT MOUNT RUSHMORE to pray for the moral guidance of the Executive Branch), Inauguration Day, MLK DAY FOR Racial Healing and End of Inherited Hatreds, etc.; also, on the historic rulings on social issues of abortion, sanctity of marriage, and the sexual person, etc.

AT THESE PUBLIC ROSARIES, WE PASS OUT MIRACULOUS MEDALS...