Another reader submitted entry!

I can't help it that I'm so popular.  My beauty is a curse.

Here is what dear reader Jessica said about this blog's motto which I hastily translated in google.

I thought I'd take it upon myself to let you know that Google Translate and similar tools are awful at translating English into Latin. They tend to give up on certain words, like "can" in "Si vos can loco niteo in is , loco niteo in is". Didn't even try to translate the darn thing. As a lover of Latin, mottoes, and snark, allow me to humbly submit a revised translation: Si ponere flavitem potes, pone flavitem. "Loco" means "place", as in Rome. Ponere is the verb that means "to place" or "to put". And "niteo" literally means "I glitter" which isn't at all what I think you meant, so I replaced it with a noun form, "flavitas" which means "shiny goldenness". The "on it" bit can be left out entirely, because mottoes as a rule are succinct and Latin has a lovely way of intimating things. Literally translated, what I've written would say "If you can put glitter [on it], put glitter [on it]." I hope this doesn't come off as pedantic or nitpicky, but when one takes four years of Latin in Catholic high school, then goes out into the world, one jumps at chances to actually use this random and seldomly useful knowledge. 


I am not drunk enough to understand a word of what I just read.
But thanks for the help!  It's appreciated! I'll be copyin' and pastin'!

This happened to me the other day

8:00 Daily Mass at the church near my house

"Good morning."
"Good morning, Father."
"Our opening hymn is number XYZ, "Morning has broken."

This was the opening "hymn"...for the holy sacrifice of the Mass....4 Masses in a row.

My reaction:

I need a new parish.

Sunday Best

In keeping with the expose-zay on Detroit's kitsch factory  that this week has been, lets look at some of the stuff they had there that was actually super beautiful....ladies and gentlemen....i give you......

And yes, that's me in the reflections.

That's my mother beside me, p.s.

....no words...only SONG can express the feeling!

Propaganda!

Can be fun.

Semi Sedevacantist bitter, reactionary anti-vatican 2 documentaries need to be loved too. Also: Greatest line in history "Believer and Heretic Alike"

Mega Mantilla

For when being humble simply will not do!