About four hours of video is time lapsed into roughly two and a half minutes of pure joy!

Hope everyone has a great weekend. For the YouTube link click here. (Hat Tip: Catholic Report)

Thanks for the tag A Catholic Mom in Hawaii. 1. What is your favorite Sorrowful Mystery? The carrying of the Cross. Reminds me to not complain to much of my own problems, to be thankful, and especially to be joyful in carrying my own cross. 2. What is your favorite Station of the Cross? He meets His mother. Makes me think of how much my own mother worries for me. 3. Do you fast during Lent? Only on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and all the other Fridays. 4. What is your Lenten Resolution(s)? To eliminate my remaining vices such as chocolate, coca-cola, and sarcasm. 5. Do you use Holy Water during Lent? No, not really. How do you use Holy Water for Lent anyways? (Just curious) 6. How many times do you go to Mass during Lent? Every day. I tag Bill, Alan, Christina, Dad29, and Karen.

St. Dorothy Day preached absolute pacifism and complete adherence to voluntary poverty in pursuit of the ultimate goal of helping the unfortunate in society at all costs. Let it be said, so let it be done. For the Holy Magisterium of Evangelical Catholicism has deemed it so. His Most Holy Superior Archpatriarch Michael Joseph the all knowing has proclaimed it to be. Let us ignorant and uninformed Catholics who are not worthy of this hidden knowledge publicly and blindly accept it since His Most Holy Superior to us all Archpatriarch Michael Joseph says its so. This hidden knowledge is only known to his Superior Holiness Archpatriarch Michael Joseph and the Holy BrotherSisterhood of the most Holy Catholic Worker Movement and Evangelical Catholicism Readers.

Let all Catholics publicly venerate the most saintly and holy St. Dorothy Day of New York.

Let it be said that the most saintly and holy St. Dorothy Day of New York is in Heaven.

Let those that disagree with us be outlandish, bluffing, baseless, totally lacking in knowledge, ridiculous, petty, lamentably ignorant, have no idea, uninformed, emotional, irrational, unreasonable, with grave error, uncharitable, hypocrite, and anathema.

Evangelical Catholicism insists on Dorothy Day being publicly venerated as a saint, that she is a Saint to begin with, and that she is in Heaven. The last paragraph in blue are the comments that Michael Joseph and his readers have thrown at me when I asked the simple question, "Is Dorothy Day a Saint?"

Last I knew that the Catholic Church does not allow for public veneration of non-Saints, that Dorothy Day is not a Saint (yet), and only God knows who is in heaven and who is not.

To read Evangelical Catholicism's diatribes towards me click here.

I've got a few words to say. Who cares. Unfortunately some do. For last years posting click here.

Just a quick posting to give everyone of some changes arriving to my blog for Lent. These changes will be implemented on or before Easter Sunday. To tell you the truth, I'm still figuring out this HTML thing and redesigning the entire blog. The only hint I'll offer is that it'll be the same 'theme' and one or two new 'additions' to the blog itself.

It's not anything to get excited about nor anything world changing, just evolving my blog to something different, and hopefully better.

What I will say that the focus will move towards a historical interpretation of current affairs. Yeah, it's pretty vague, but we're not really sure how to describe it just yet.

God bless, remember your obligations as Catholics during Lent, and pray well.

Tito the Norman, defender of the Faith

And the devil whispered in his ear, "You have a problem with that?!" Johnny said, "No sensei." Some weekend fun for all my avid readers! Be patient with the pedestrian begining portion of this video. Is that Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame in the crowd? Look for many cameo's in this video. Warning: Dancing sirens in skimpy clothing comes up towards the end of the video. For a better video feed click here.

For the record, these are French soldiers from France, not our friendly French-Canadian cousins from up north. To learn more about French military prowess, click here. To read funny French jokes click here.

The Catholic Blog Awards are upon us once again and for the second straight year I failed to make any categories. I didn't submit my blog for any category, but this pretty much tells me that we have a rich and diverse Catholic blogosphere that I enjoy surfing from time to time. Here are my votes for the Catholic Blog Awards: Best Apologetic Blog - RORATE CÆLI, good stuff, if only they would do less traditionalist postings, they would be almost perfect. Best Blog by Clergy/Religious/Seminarian - Domine, da mihi, hanc aquam!, He would sometimes lead our Eucharistic Adoration while he was down here in Houston. Great guy, but even better priest! Best Designed Catholic blog - Built on a Rock *, moving to WordPress has done wonders to his look. Should I move there as well? Best Group Blog - The Lair of the Catholic Cavemen *, hide the kids and peruse at your leisure. Best Individual Catholic Blog - The Curt Jester *, hands down the most creative blogger on the internet with wit to spare. Best Insider News Catholic Blog - Whisper in the Loggia, the best insider information in the Catholic blogosphere. Best New Catholic Blog - A Catholic Mom in Hawaii, sweet, Catholic, and well done. My favorite of the new blogs out there. Best Overall Catholic Blog - The Curt Jester, hard to touch this guy with his humor and orthodoxy combination. Best Political/Social Commentary Catholic Blog - Relapsed Catholic, if only she would stop posting vile videos and blogging noir 60s flicks she would be one of my most favorite. Best Written Catholic Blog - Evangelical Catholicism, say what you want, at least they cite their stuff. Funniest Catholic Blog - Relapsed Catholic, dry humor, I swear she must be of English descent. Most Spiritual Blog - A Catholic Life, good stuff for the growing young adult Catholic. Smartest Catholic Blog - The Curt Jester, I couldn't agree more. Great minds think alike.

* tough call in these categories, could have gone to others, most notably the The Cafeteria is Closed (arguably the best of the rest if not in the top-ten of all blog categories).

Click here to submit your own votes.

Father John Corapi told a funny story at the Fullness of Truth Conference two weekends ago. For fairness sake, I believe he may have borrowed this story from Bishop Fulton Sheen, but that’s what I heard. Anyways, here’s the story. There was a sweet little old lady attending a Catholic conference on Bible stories. She was seated in the front row listening to a speech being given by an ‘enlightened’ priest was explaining how angels in the Bible were actually ‘literary devices’ used to flesh out a theme. Well, this didn’t sit to well with the sweet little old lady. So much so that people seated around her during the speech could hear her mutter:

“I wish one of those literary devices would come down from heaven and whack you upside the head.”

After the ‘enlightened’ priest was done with his lecture, he sat next to this sweet little old lady waiting for the next speaker. The sweet little old lady at this point in her life was not too concerned anymore of what people thought about her. So she leaned over to whisper to this ‘enlightened’ priest a question:

“Do you believe in Hell?”

To which the 'enlightened' priest smiled and chuckled, said:

“Why no, of course not, there is no such thing.”

The sweet little old lady then said quite satisfactorily:

“You will when you get there!”