Ratio

Berkeley, Sunday, January 25, 2026 0:29 am I am not sure about this concept. But I have seen the word ratio at the end of paragraphs of monastic instructions or documents. In a site, called Wisdom Library, I read that proper ration, within the Catholic Church… [Wee I think I would transcribe it]… It is […]

Novena to St. Francis de Sales

Berkeley, Wednesday, January 21, 2026 0:53 am Compacted novena for the memorial feast of Saint Francis of Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church. Memorial day: January 24. Day 1: January 21, 2026. “Saint Francis de Sales was born at Savoy in 1567.” As a priest he diligently labored to restore Catholicism in his country. […]

Saint Felix of Nola

Berkeley, Monday, January 5, 2026 2:38 AM Feast day: January 14 Saints whose feast is on that day: Saint Gregory Nazianzen St. Felix of Nola, Priest This is according to Franciscan Media and Vatican News. From the sources above, only a biography from Saint Gregory Nazianzen is available at Franciscan media. I will do the […]

Assessment of right and wrong

Berkeley, Friday, December 19, 2025 4:53 PM (Wurster Hall 4th floor studio). Confidence is what thing. Only the heart knows what is right and wrong. The next question would be if is it a matter of confidence, conscience, uncomfort, pressure for having to do something, but although not necessarily distracted engaging in additional conversations, while […]

Seriousness

Berkeley, Tuesday, December 16, 2025 8:04 PM Ok. I am going against intuition to write here, instead to finish chapter 4, which then is against me. So then, why to just discharge something here. Sometimes, that have been the purpose of my blog. I know the first sentence I could delete, but I do not […]

Udienza Generale 12/10/25 Pope Leo XIV

Berkeley, Thursday, December 11, 2025 00:52 AM It is great that the transcript from the ongoing Pope’s Catechesis from every Wednesday is published online. However, why the gospel reading passage is not provided there? One would need to extract that from the video, also linked below. https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/it/audiences/2025/documents/20251210-udienza-generale.html OK. Update. Extracted from the audio in the […]

Time!

Berkeley, Saturday, December 13, 2025 1 pm The need of being serious about next day, upcoming tasks, and events. Sometimes, we might be on a mission. A book, even if it is a fictional book, it has a degree of autobiography. There were several days that days Frodo, and Sam, slept very little. Frodo had […]