Chad Is Not Enough

Another Mantoloking Review

2009-08-19T09:28:00.001-05:00

From Kansas City's Ink

CD release show this Friday at Czar Bar, downtown KC.

I Just Need My Car

2009-08-09T15:57:00.000-05:00

See me in rockstar mode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB0JArXOBes

PresentMagazine.com Review - Mantoloking

2009-07-30T08:46:00.001-05:00

First review of our new album, Mantoloking.

I Tried Again

2009-07-10T15:51:00.003-05:00

For those who didn't know, I play in a band called The Sexy Accident. We just recorded a new album with producer Steve Fisk (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees) and we just released the first mp3 from it.

Hope you like it!
And old albums that I didn't play on can be downloaded for free at sexyaccident.com

Jesse Describes Our Upcoming Album

2009-07-02T08:29:00.000-05:00

http://www.jessekates.com/2009/07/mmmmmmastering.html

Reformation Meets Rome

2009-02-25T08:38:00.001-06:00

Check it out.

25 Random Things

2009-01-29T22:30:00.000-06:00

Alicia tagged me. And others have on facebook.

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.

(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)

I really enjoy splatstick gore comedy horror movies. Like Evil Dead 2 and Peter Jackson's Dead Alive.
I didn't start eating salad until about a year ago.
I'm a big Pixar fan and watch all their documentaries and director commentaries. The Incredibles is probably my favorite Pixar film thus far.
I have horrible thoughts. I'm thankful for the Church's teaching on sin and consent of the will.
I like my fruit very tarty and chilled.
When I sneeze, I often hold my nose with my hand and just sneeze out of my mouth. My wife thinks this is horribly disgusting.
My hands are very dry and cracked right now.
But I hate lotion.
My ideal vacation is either sitting around reading or downhill skiing.
I'm a big fan of both Michael Card and Nine Inch Nails.
I think I enjoy reading about classics more than reading the classics themselves.
I picked up The Davinci Code book-on-CD at the library the other day. I got about halfway through and don't see myself finishing it. The writing is just terrible.
I probably enjoy too much not being bothered by some things that really bother others.
I haven't worn my wedding ring in 8 months.
Leave-in conditioner is my secret formula.
I have fingernail clippers everywhere. Helps me not bite them.
I recently lost about 45 lbs.
I still have slight moobs, love handles, and a flabby gut. This is extremely depressing.
Doing HVAC work in an old house's crawl space is a true nightmare (which includes small animal skeletons).
I recently read two short books in preparation for their upcoming movie versions: the graphic novel Watchmen and Neil Gaiman's Coraline. I enjoyed both!
I love being a dad. I also miss hanging out with my best friends nearly every night.
I really like it when Brendan (3) gets up in the morning and eats breakfast with me before I leave. He says really cute things like "have a good day at wuk!" and tells me he loves me. Ditto, buddy. Ditto.
I say "niiiice" way too much. Both in sarcasm and not.
I've been serving (as a clerk/subdeacon or acolyte) for the Anglican Use of the Roman Rite for the past several months. I'm starting to get the hang of it, I hope. Maintaining that posture (hands together in front) really hurts my upper back by the end though.
I saved Latin. What did you ever do?

Video: Anglican Use in KC

2009-01-26T18:55:00.003-06:00

Chris over at LL has posted the video. I'm on the far left, with winter beard still intact:

Video: Anglican Use in KC

via Lost Lambs by Christopher on 1/26/09

Here is a short video clip of the Anglican Use liturgy at St. Therese in Kansas City Missouri.
The clip is part of the Roman Canon it appears the translation is in line with the wording / language of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer but of course made to conform to be in union with the Bishop of Rome.

Take a look /listen and as always comments are appreciated.

Here is the text of the canon that is being prayed in the video:

MOST MERCIFUL FATHER, we humbly pray thee, through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, and we ask, that thou accept and + bless these gifts, these presents, these holy and unspoiled sacrifices.

We offer them unto thee, first, for thy holy Catholic Church: that thou vouchsafe to keep it in peace, to guard, unite, and govern it throughout the whole world; together with thy servant N. our Pope, and N. our Bishop, and all the faithful guardians of the Catholic and Apostolic faith.

Remember, O Lord, thy servants and handmaids (N. and N.) and all who here around us stand, whose faith is known unto thee and their steadfastness manifest, on whose behalf we offer unto thee: or who themselves offer unto thee this sacrifice of praise, for themselves, and for all who are theirs: for the redemption of their souls, for the hope of their salvation and safety: and who offer their prayers unto thee, the eternal God, the living and true.

United in one communion, we venerate the memory, first, of the glorious ever-Virgin Mary, Mother of our God and Lord Jesus Christ, of Joseph her spouse; as also of thy blessed Apostles and Martyrs…

I Heart My Library

2009-01-21T09:53:00.001-06:00

I just go online, tell the thing what I want, then they email me when it arrives at my local branch. Too bad they don't ship to my house for free as well!!

1 Fire of mercy, heart of the Word : meditations on the Gospel according
to Saint Matthew / Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis ; foreword by Louis Bouyer.
Leiva-Merikakis, Erasmo, 1946-
call number:BS2575.4 .L34 1996 V.01 copy:1

2 The hidden manna : a theology of the Eucharist / James T. O'Connor.
O'Connor, James T. (James Thomas)
call number:BX2215.2 .027 2005 copy:1

3 Another sort of learning : selected contrary essays on the completion of
our knowing, or, how to finally acquire an education while still in
college, or anywhere else ... / James V. Schall.
Schall, James V.
call number:LB41 .S288 1988 copy:1

Happy Birthday Lillian!

2009-01-15T14:32:00.003-06:00

My daughter Lillian Audrey turned 1 on Dec 29th, 2008. I've been a terrible blogger lately, but thought I'd post a belated Happy Birthday post for her with before after pics!

Band Name Meme

2008-11-21T18:53:00.001-06:00

From the Whapsters:

Band Name: Random Wikipeda Link
Album Title: Random quote generator (take the last four words from the first quote on the page)
Album Art: Flickr Interesting Photo (pick one)

Mine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scout_Hall
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1055.html
http://www.flickr.com/nephotos/disymike/3034409026/sizes/o/

Crickets

2008-11-20T12:17:00.002-06:00

Long time, no updatey.

Lately I've been doing more short updates on my facebook page than using this blog. I haven't had anything substantial to write here, I guess. You're welcome to connect with me there.

Anywho, some brief updates:

FAM:

Lillian started walking.

Brendan is taking forever to potty train. We're talking months here.

Alicia's staying busy with the kids, her awesome craft projects, and delicious baking and meals.

Updates on these things on her blog.

FITNESSE:

I've lost only 1.5 lbs of fat in the last 11 weeks. I went from 13.6% body fat to 12.9%. Discouraging. I was focusing more on weightlifting strength with Stronglifts 5x5 program.

I really enjoy the basic, compound movements I've learned with Stronglifts. I think I'm going to cut a couple exercises, and focus on doing 5x10, with the first two sets being warm-up. I'm also going to do them in circuit to keep the heart rate up and get it done faster.

I was doing a little cardio the last 11 weeks. I'm going to try to go back to more running, which was pretty successful for my weight loss before.

I will also try to make the group "Boot Camp" workouts once or twice a week at my YMCA. These are pretty intense circuit training routines that nearly always make me want to puke and make me feel real skinny afterwards.

RELIGIOSO:

Nothing much new. Really enjoying Vicaire's biography of St. Dominic and Anne Rice's conversion memoirs.

My prayers are undisciplined and scattered. Help me believe another day is common. I still love the Mass. I thank God for the Our Father, Hail Mary and other pre-written prayers. When people put down set prayers it makes me really angry. How can they mock what is so helpful to me spiritually?

In only a few weeks we'll be doing a full Anglican Use Mass. I've been serving every third week for its Liturgy of the Word, carrying the processional cross, reading the epistle, etc. I consider it a great privilege. Unfortunately, my upper back starts hurting almost immediately as I begin. Maybe I need some better dress shoes? Are the hands in front throwing off my posture? Ah well, opportunity for redemptive suffering I suppose...

Happy Reformation Day Again

2008-10-31T11:40:00.001-05:00

With Luther another kind of division that had its roots in Augustine appeared in the Church. The split between Donatists and Catholics that rent the Church of his African homeland caused the great doctor of the Church to distinguish with a sharpness until then unknown between the theological greatness of the Church as a salvific reality and her empirical existence: many who seem to be in the Church are outside her; many who seem to be outside her are in her. The true Church is the number of the predestined who, on the one hand, transcend the visible Church while, on the other hand, the reprobate are present at her very center. For Augustine, it must be admitted, this concept had no adverse repercussions with regard to the value of the sacramental and apostolic structure of the Church and her tradition. But the great Western schism of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had imbued it with a degree of realism that would have been inconceivable up to that time. For nearly half a century, the Church was split into two or three obediences that excommunicated one another, so that every Catholic lived under excommunication by one pope or another, and, in the last analysis, no one could saw with certainty which of the contenders had right on his side. The Church no longer offered certainty of salvation; she had become questionable in her whole objective form—the true Church, the true pledge of salvation, had to be sought outside the institution. It is against this background of a profoundly shaken ecclesial consciousness that we are to understand that Luther, in the conflict between his search for salvation and the tradition of the Church, ultimately came to experience the Church, not as the guarantor, but as the adversary of salvation.

- Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Principles of Catholic Theology: Building Stones for a Fundamental Theology, p. 196. (Emphasis mine.)

HT: Wei Hsien

Happy Reformation Day

2008-10-31T10:59:00.001-05:00

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

See the Show

2008-10-15T14:08:00.001-05:00

If you're in Kansas City, or you don't mind driving long distances for incredible rock shows, I hereby invite you to see me play guitar this Friday night at 10 pm at The Brick in Kansas City. I play 2nd guitar in the band I recently joined, The Sexy Accident. Bring yer earplugs.

And if you can't make it, could you spread the word by "becoming a fan" on Facebook!?

Thanks y'all.

Why aren't you catholic?

2008-10-13T18:00:00.002-05:00

Why Andrew ain't Catholic:

Why aren't you catholic?

. . .

In addition, I find in Catholicism, an unadulterated beauty that is sorely lacking among most protestants (with the possible exception of Anglicans and some of the strange high-church Methodists and Baptists with whom I've shared fellowship). Aquinas' vision of the soul's journey toward friendship with God (and, subsequently Bonaventure's vision of the soul's ascent) provide, for me, the most aesthetically pleasing understanding of the purpose of human toil within the bounds of the Church catholic.

. . .

audiobleg

2008-10-08T08:44:00.001-05:00

We'll be doing a decent amount of driving this coming holiday season. If anyone has audiobook CD or digital download they recommend that I can get here, could you let me know? I'm somewhat tired of podcasts (and already have a couple lifetimes-worth downloaded and waiting for me to listen to them), so I'd like to focus on audiobooks.

Richard has already recommended Three Cups of Tea and that's been put on hold.

zoo2

2008-10-05T23:58:00.001-05:00

At the Zoo with the Fam This Weekend

2008-10-05T23:58:00.000-05:00

Reading

2008-09-30T17:03:00.001-05:00

I've been getting a good deal of reading done on the bus lately, but unfortunately I've had a couple setbacks as well: 2 books I've had to put down for while because they are simply too over my head. Gilson's Spirit of Medieval Philosophy and Pieper's The Four Cardinal Virtues. They are both ones I hope to come back to.

Other books I have finished are Kenneth Miller's Only A Theory (3/4 stars), Heather King's Redeemed (4/4 stars), James Akin's The Salvation Controversy (3/4 stars, since most of this is available online), Pieper's Guide to Thomas Aquinas (4/4 stars), and Msgr. Ronald Knox's The Belief of Catholics (3/4 stars).

More Good Catholic Preachin'

2008-09-23T08:46:00.001-05:00

These aren't homilies, but extended, exegetical scripture studies:

http://www.atonementonline.com/podcasts/index.php

MS

2008-09-22T15:23:00.001-05:00

Where has Matthew Sweet been my whole power-pop-loving life!?! I've probably listened to "Sick of Myself" about 20 times this past weekend.

I Squat

2008-09-12T10:48:00.002-05:00

Therefore I hurt.

Language Warn!

Catholic Pacifism

2008-09-12T07:03:00.000-05:00

A friend asks: Where does the Catholic Church stand on non-violence and pacifism?

I answer,

It's an acceptable view and one that many in the Catholic Church
definitely lean toward, but the Church has always maintained both
the individual's and the state's right to use lethal force in
self-defense.

I then look for something to back this up:

From Mark Shea, with quote from the Catechism [emphasis mine]:

http://markshea.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html#930507617314591674

. . .

[We] discover in my comboxes somebody making the
astonishing assertion that pacifism is not consonant with Catholicism.

Sorry, but this astonishing assertion is just false. The Church does
not function according to the notion "that which is not forbidden is
compulsory." The fact that the majority of Catholics (including me)
hold to some form of Just War teaching does not mean that the minority
who embrace pacifism of "bad Catholics". On the contrary, it is
notable that before it even begins the discussion of Just War
doctrine, the Catechism prefaces the whole discussion with this:

2306 Those who renounce violence and bloodshed and, in order to
safeguard human rights, make use of those means of defense available
to the weakest, bear witness to evangelical charity, provided they do
so without harming the rights and obligations of other men and
societies. They bear legitimate witness to the gravity of the physical
and moral risks of recourse to violence, with all its destruction and
death.

Just war doctrine is, at its very best, a concession to human weakness
and sin. It is not a Catholic ideal, but simply a prudent attempt to
deal with the fact that we live in a fallen world. In other words, the
purpose of Just War teaching is to restrain and make it as difficult
as possible to go to war. It is not to provide us with some arbitrary
rules which, if lawyered correctly, allow us to pull out the stops and
start kicking ass with the enthusiastic support of the Blessed Trinity
on our side and anybody who fails to thrill to creative destruction as
a contemptible wimp. It is all too easy for us to forget that and to
speak of war as a positive good and to condemn pacifists as enemies of
that good. In fact, the tradition sees them as legitimate witnesses to
the higher good while not condemning the advocate of a truly just war.

. . .

Translated Freestyle Rap Battle

2008-09-12T07:02:00.001-05:00

HT: Johnny