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	<title>Reditus: A Chronicle of Aesthetic Christianity</title>
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	<description>There is a continuous attraction, beginning with God, going to the world, and ending at last with God, an attraction which returns to the same place where it began as though in a kind of circle. -Marsilio Ficino</description>
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		<title>Night Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
		
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(I posted this here on my old blog over a year ago now, but I thought I would re-post it as a re-run.)
Brother John of the Cross laughed raucously at my anecdote about the United States, as he always tended to do when I told stories of my homeland.
“You Americans,” he said, “Hollywood. The movies…”
He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At a Glance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Even in this world, we know a great deal about people even when they are silent, through their eyes. There [i.e. in the intelligible world], however, the whole body is pure, and each person is like an eye; there is nothing hidden or fabricated, but before one person speaks to another, the latter has already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Anecdotes on Method</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/three-anecdotes-on-method/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
		
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Above: Maria Tallchief and Royes Fernandez dance in Les Sylphides
1. The great ballerina Maria Tallchief recalls a story of her dancing for the great choreographer and her sometime husband George Balanchine. In this story, the dancer in her early twenties, a star ballerina who had already danced in Europe with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary - Sea - Flame</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/mary-sea-flame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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Soneto del Dulce Nombre de María
Si el mar que por el mundo se derrama
tuviera tanto amor como agua fría,
se llamaría, por amor, María
y no tan sólo mar, como se llama.
Si la llama que el viento desparrama,
por amor se quemara noche y dia,
esta llama de amor se llamaría
María, simplemente en vez de llama.
Pero ni el mar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Convert Sickness</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/on-convert-sickness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
		
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I re-post here an interesting quote I found on this website. I thought it worth reproducing in full:
There&#8217;s a great essay (not available online, sadly) in the current issue of the New Yorker by Adam Gopnik on G.K. Chesterton entitled &#8220;The Back of the World: The troubling genius of G.K. Chesterton.&#8221; It has a fabulous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Italians became Irish</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/how-the-italians-became-irish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
		
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On Immigration, Folk Beliefs, and the Rationalization of American Catholicism
&#8220;Pagan! Heathen! Idolator!&#8221; These were among the epithets hurled at the Italian immigrants around the turn of the century. In addition to being viewed as potential mafiosi or anarchists, the sons of Italy had the further onus of being regarded as the bearers of anti-Christian beliefs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Martyrdom of José Luis Sánchez del Rio (a teenage Cristero)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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[The following events took place during the Cristiada: the war of the Catholic faithful against the Calles government in Mexico (1926-1929) The video above was found on this site]
Woman singing: I am going to tell all of you a unique story that involves a young man who had to fight with the strength of grace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Quiet and Other Ramblings</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/on-quiet-and-other-ramblings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
		
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It&#8217;s really quiet here. I don&#8217;t mind it at all. It reminds me a bit of my old cell back in the monastery. I have said before that one of the complaints that I don&#8217;t have since leaving the monastic life is having enough time to pray. After you go through all of the hand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dos Meditaciones</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/dos-meditaciones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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I.
Considera, alma mía, esta textura
Áspera al tacto, a la que llaman vida.
Repara en tantos hilos tan sabiamente unidos
Y en el color, sombrío pero noble,
Firme, y donde ha esparcido su resplandor el rojo.
Piensa en la tejedora; en su paciencia
Para recomenzar
Una tarea siempre inacabada.
Y odia después, si puedes.
II
Hombrecito, ¿qué quieres hacer con tu cabeza?
¿Atar al mundo, al [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Ethnic Observations</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/more-ethnic-observations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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And: Can you pass my test?
Recently, AG and I saw the film, Ladrón que roba a ladrón  (To Rob a Thief), which is a delightful comedy with some interesting plot twists. I was all the more pleased to see it since it had a number of Spanish soap opera stars that I recognized though the [...]]]></description>
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