tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50231150612434067522024-02-20T19:54:09.374-08:00For the Good of the OrderA resource for Lectors of the South Carolina Knights of Columbuskkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-58234794451438693282016-06-22T14:45:00.002-07:002016-06-22T14:50:53.616-07:00FGO June 2016: Visibly Anonymous<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: normal;"><a href="http://platytera.blogspot.com/2016/06/visibly-anonymous.html">Link </a>to <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px;">to an article I wrote based on my </span>June FGO.</span></div>
kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-66903377689879543372016-05-12T11:24:00.002-07:002016-05-12T11:24:32.990-07:00FGO April 2016: Fiat Mihi Too<div style="text-align: center;">
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Link to an article I wrote based on my April FGO: <a href="http://newevangelizers.com/blog/2016/05/12/fiat-mihi/">Fiat Mihi Too.</a></div>
kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-1145004629604363042016-03-21T17:41:00.002-07:002016-03-21T17:46:09.355-07:00FGO March 2016: I AM I AM<div style="text-align: center;">
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The March FGO was based on <a href="http://platytera.blogspot.com/2016/03/i-am-i-am.html">this article</a> about a recent Catechism class. The moral of the story is if you teach Catechism class, you won't run out of material For the Good of the Order.kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-4525377809986060742016-01-12T18:57:00.004-08:002016-01-12T18:57:35.483-08:00Rosary Riffs<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://app.box.com/s/r1nhmfiu8qux3r3g6mmhazjcqqip09p8">January 2016 FGO</a>, on customizing the Rosary to fit how you pray.</div>
kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-57228519069030492442015-10-13T18:36:00.005-07:002016-01-12T19:07:39.928-08:00FGO October 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://app.box.com/s/rqx874o8hh1lbkbzbgh63h8mpfkdmztm">Audio </a>of the October 13 2015 FGO from Council 13112.<br />
(Magazine I refer to is the October issue of <a href="http://www.firstthings.com/">First Things</a>)<br />
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<i>Correction to the audio: Mr. Moore does mention marriage, noting that </i><i>unlike the Catholic Church,</i><i> Evangelicals believe the Bible allows for divorce and remarriage.</i></div>
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kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-38263437497139769202015-09-10T12:10:00.001-07:002015-10-13T18:37:57.600-07:00FGO September 2015: Assumption<div style="text-align: center;">
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The Feast of the Assumption was last month, and I found <a href="https://www.osv.com/OSVNewsweekly/Story/TabId/2672/ArtMID/13567/ArticleID/17567/Better-Theological-Living.aspx">this related article</a> interesting. I had never even heard of "microchimerism" before, much less seen it in a post about Mary's Assumption. I thought it'd make an interesting FGO. This post is about how quickly I was able to put something together.<br />
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I first went to Wiki & Google and browsed a bit, cutting & pasting from a <a href="https://www.themedicalbag.com/raredisease/chimera">wide</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchimerism">assortment</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)">articles</a>, enough to familiarize myself with some main points, such as:<br />
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"Microchimerism is the presence of a small number of cells that are genetically distinct from those of the host individual. Most people are born with a few cells genetically identical to their mothers' and the proportion of these cells goes down in healthy individuals as they get older.....Women often also have a few cells genetically identical to that of their children, and some people also have some cells genetically identical to that of their siblings (maternal siblings only, since these cells are passed to them because their mother retained them)."<br />
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"Studies have shown that women may harbor cells from their mothers, albeit small amounts, for decades. Couple that with cells from their children, and a remote possibility can be imagined where a fetus may receive cells from their mothers, grandmothers, and older siblings. A person may be walking around with 4 or more distinct genetic lineages within them."<br />
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Then I wrote down a half-dozen or so ideas that would take me from Mommas and Babies to Microchimerism and the Assumption. Not having anything I could read out loud kept my delivery fresh and conversational, and I was done in less than 5 minutes. Part of the fun was talking about pregnancy and microchimerism without giving any clue as to what it might have to do with Catholicism.kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-64036254214194291622015-08-13T18:08:00.002-07:002015-08-29T19:24:56.385-07:00FGO August 2015: Dewfall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A short one, less than 5 minutes.</span><br />
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Here’s a favorite bit from Isaiah 45:</div>
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“I am the LORD, there is no other.</div>
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I form the light, and create the darkness,<br />I make weal and create woe;<br />I, the LORD, do all these things.</div>
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Let justice descend, you heavens, like dew from above,<br />like gentle rain let the clouds drop it down.<br />Let the earth open and salvation bud forth;<br />let righteousness spring up with them!<br />I, the LORD, have created this.”</div>
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I like occasions when Scripture refers to rain or dew: I imagine both precipitations would figure prominently in the imagination of anyone living in an arid land. And I’m guessing, but I bet anytime a prophet figuratively referred to rain or dew, his hearers would reflect on this bit of Exodus:</div>
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“Then the LORD said to Moses: I am going to rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather their daily portion…”</div>
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And I love the way the bread came down: not in a torrent, but lightly, softly-</div>
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“In the morning a layer of dew lay all about the camp,</div>
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and when the layer of dew had gone up, fine flakes were on the surface of the wilderness, fine flakes like hoarfrost on the ground.</div>
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On seeing it, the Israelites asked one another, “What is this?” for they did not know what it was. But Moses told them, “It is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.”</div>
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It’s especially relevant for Catholics, because Eucharistic Prayer #2 riffs elegantly on that bit of Exodus:</div>
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“You are indeed Holy, O Lord, the fount of all holiness.<br />Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray, by sending down your Spirit upon them<br />like the dewfall, so that they may become for us<br />the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.”</div>
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In Exodus, first came the dew. When the dew went up, the miracle bread was present. And at Mass we pray for a similar miracle: that the Holy Spirit will, dew-like, cover our offerings, and shortly after, there will be miracle bread to eat.</div>
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Stay fired-up about Jesus and his Church.</div>
kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-7272917709583967252015-07-25T08:52:00.003-07:002015-07-25T08:54:04.241-07:00Summa Summa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PJShBcWXV9UY2XQUCexp8VGqkNLXnRG">Here</a> are all 12 summer lectures and their titles, all kinds of FGO-usable bits:<br />
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1: Spirit & Stuff<br />
2: The Umbrella of the LORD<br />
3: The Seven Arks of Salvation History<br />
4: The Food Miracle Pyramid<br />
5: Blood & Water<br />
6: Hierarchy<br />
7. Forgiveness<br />
8. nthngbtcnsnnts (about Jesus' use of Scripture)<br />
9. Images<br />
10. Media<br />
11. The Mass part 1<br />
12. The Mass part 2kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-72551347738581094712015-06-11T14:39:00.003-07:002015-06-13T08:39:08.585-07:00Summa 6: Hierarchy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Scroll down at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PJShBcWXV9UY2XQUCexp8VGqkNLXnRG">link.</a></div>
kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-6629987408714731242015-06-09T20:55:00.004-07:002015-06-09T20:56:39.453-07:00FGO June 9 2015, 8 Threads<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-59289676717567535422015-06-04T11:53:00.001-07:002015-06-04T11:56:10.263-07:00Plus de Summapalooza<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Two more Summapalooza lectures are up, #4 (The Food Miracle Pyramid) and #5 (Blood & Water). Scroll down at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PJShBcWXV9UY2XQUCexp8VGqkNLXnRG">link.</a></div>
kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-30210911511104460682015-05-21T09:52:00.000-07:002015-06-04T11:56:27.667-07:00Summapalooza 3<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PJShBcWXV9UY2XQUCexp8VGqkNLXnRG">The 7 Arks of Salvation History</a></div>
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kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-85172088760934900062015-05-14T11:05:00.002-07:002015-06-04T11:56:40.398-07:00Summapalooza 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This one treats the Bible theme of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6PJShBcWXV9UY2XQUCexp8VGqkNLXnRG">overshadowing</a>. Scroll down at the link.<br />
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The Prior FGO is related.kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-70586811037964415412015-05-12T19:00:00.002-07:002015-06-04T11:57:59.301-07:00FGO May 2015: Semitic Triliteral Roots9 minutes or so about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUL-LPdRwTA">Hebrew and Arabic</a>.kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-86584811222313969962015-05-07T16:21:00.000-07:002015-06-04T11:58:27.137-07:00Summapalooza 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Way longer than a monthy FGO, but a lotta content ya might use for an FGO: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMsvpg9Fpnqes0ImUaQ_0qDG202VOyRfi">Spirit & Stuff.</a> Scroll down to Class 1. The plan is for me to give 12 lectures this summer- I'll post links to them here.<br />
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BTW I bought a camcorder for this summer series. So from now on I expect to be uploading FGO videos as well.kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-56645677590826890892015-04-14T19:32:00.001-07:002015-06-10T12:29:10.465-07:00Fiat Lux<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">April 14 2015 FGO. <a href="https://app.box.com/s/ocehich9gidbuz53psltvigis1vmrz4o">This</a> is an oral rough draft of the opening of my May 6 Summapalooza lecture series. I'm using Einstein's equation to show the continuity of Mass and Energy; and then based on that, propose that all the Mass and Energy of the universe are simply manifestations of God's Love.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">Area of a circle </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">= </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">π</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; white-space: nowrap;">r</span><sup style="color: #222222; line-height: 0.9; white-space: nowrap;">2</sup><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">Area of a sphere </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">= 4</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: nowrap;">π</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; white-space: nowrap;">r</span><sup style="color: #222222; line-height: 0.9; white-space: nowrap;">2</sup><br />
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<br />kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-13157607528012768432015-03-16T12:59:00.002-07:002015-03-16T12:59:27.221-07:00Love & Marriage from Genesis to RevelationsNot an FGO, but a <a href="http://youtu.be/FptPFonO3o8">video</a> for the online Catholic Conference 4 Moms earlier this month. All the content had been FGO'd at some point during the last 10 years or so, but nice to have a half-hour to connect it all at one time.kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-52901635842173505372015-03-10T17:50:00.001-07:002015-03-10T20:07:29.942-07:00Blood & Water<div style="text-align: center;">
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FGO on <a href="https://app.box.com/s/qoetgetk0rvxugw7x21q1ngbmen9t7nj">Baptism</a> from Council 13112's March 2015 business meeting. Based on<a href="http://platytera.blogspot.com/2009/06/one-page-baptism.html"> this text.</a>kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-59713686349197115412015-01-15T17:48:00.007-08:002015-01-15T17:48:59.849-08:00Dove and Glory Cloud<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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January 2015 FGO, <a href="https://app.box.com/s/nervrtyhg872c83ykhv3t2aivf056cyk">audio</a> based on this Annunciation by Matthias Grünewald and this <a href="http://platytera.blogspot.com/2014/12/hide-in-plain-sight-2.html">text</a>. </div>
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<br />kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-79925072720205429062014-12-22T12:39:00.005-08:002014-12-22T12:41:09.597-08:00Longer ArkeologyMore in-depth version of my September FGO<a href="http://www.sourceandsummit.cc/?p=286"> here.</a>kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-72804901298076627502014-12-10T11:08:00.000-08:002014-12-10T11:08:06.758-08:00Immaculate ConceptionAudio of Council 13112's <a href="https://app.box.com/s/wyhcj3y8vuqq4w99m348">December FGO</a>. I have a whiteboard now, so I can draw while I talk.<br />
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kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-77986420638675401842014-11-18T19:52:00.001-08:002014-11-18T19:56:39.102-08:00Food Pyramid PodcastA <a href="https://app.box.com/s/o239gmaxg19g6wxqj4nh">Food <i>Miracle</i> Pyramid.</a>kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-542947227023890692014-11-18T19:44:00.001-08:002014-11-18T19:56:16.053-08:00Eating God PodcastAbout 4 minutes: <a href="https://app.box.com/s/ek0haa4kxgt93pm4143p">Whole Lotta Eatin' Goin' On</a>, a version of <a href="http://palmettokofc.blogspot.com/2014/04/eat-x-10-x-2.html">Eat x 10 x 2 = ?</a>kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5023115061243406752.post-46015875241210444612014-11-12T14:07:00.001-08:002014-11-18T19:36:14.392-08:00Hierarchy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last night at our business meeting I had access to a whiteboard like I use in Catechism class, so I drew 6 mountains and added notes and drawings over them to make these points:<br />
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1. A mountain is naturally hierarchical: it's wide at the bottom, and comes to a point at the top where everyone wants to be. Cultures throughout history have gone to mountaintops to get closer to God. In fact if a culture isn't near a mountain, such as Babylonians or Mayans, they will build an artificial mountain.<br />
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2. At Mount Sinai the Israelites met with God hierarchically. The people around the base, the elders midway up, Aaron and Moses at the top with God in the Shekhinah cloud.<br />
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4. The miracle of the Loaves and Fishes is hierarchical. Many people are hungry; the apostles mediate between the people and Jesus; Jesus works the miracle, but does not directly engage the people.<br />
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5. The Church is hierarchical. Christ is the invisible head, the pope is his prime minister, the bishops, priests and deacons minister more directly to the people.<br />
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6. The Mass is hierarchical. The people occupy the main part of the church, but may not go past the altar; the priests and deacons occupy the sanctuary proper, Jesus, the High Priest offers the sacrifice directly to the Father in the heavenly Holy of Holies.kkollwitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.com0