UPDATE: Siege in India ends.
Friday, November 28, 2008
The University of Phoenix revisited
Update on Monday, June 1, 2009:
A gentleman from UoP called me last week to see if I was still interested in classes. I made him aware of my concerns about the school, especially COM 140, and he explained to me that the purpose of COM 140 is to introduce one to how online classes work at UoP. He also apologized that no one had explained this to me before. While I still am not interested in taking online classes with UoP (too expensive, and they don't have a philosophy major), I feel much better about the school, and am grateful to this gentleman for listening to my concerns and responding to them with grace and intelligence. He's a real asset to UoP.
A person choosing to remain anonymous, but who I think is the Admissions Counselor I was working with at the University of Phoenix (I'll be responding under that assumption) left this comment on the first post about UoP:
The first class is more than the projects. It teaches you to navigate and use the university services. The total curriculum gets you to your goal. You must realize that general education is a requirement of accreditation bodies throughout the US.
It is too bad your path to a degree ended after one day. It would seem you lack enough evidence to make a worthwhile judgment about the value of the school.
Good luck.
A gentleman from UoP called me last week to see if I was still interested in classes. I made him aware of my concerns about the school, especially COM 140, and he explained to me that the purpose of COM 140 is to introduce one to how online classes work at UoP. He also apologized that no one had explained this to me before. While I still am not interested in taking online classes with UoP (too expensive, and they don't have a philosophy major), I feel much better about the school, and am grateful to this gentleman for listening to my concerns and responding to them with grace and intelligence. He's a real asset to UoP.
A person choosing to remain anonymous, but who I think is the Admissions Counselor I was working with at the University of Phoenix (I'll be responding under that assumption) left this comment on the first post about UoP:
The first class is more than the projects. It teaches you to navigate and use the university services. The total curriculum gets you to your goal. You must realize that general education is a requirement of accreditation bodies throughout the US.
It is too bad your path to a degree ended after one day. It would seem you lack enough evidence to make a worthwhile judgment about the value of the school.
Good luck.
First, I appreciate the good luck wish, especially after the e-mail I sent which showed a great deal of irritation on my part regarding UoP.
Second, I need to point out to my reading public, that I was complaining about one of the two classes that are required as prerequisites. The other class, the one I wasn't complaining about, is "Skills for Learning in an Information Age" (GEN 105). As you can tell from the course description, it is a brilliant idea to have this class as a prerequisite:
GEN 105
Skills for Learning in an Information Age
This course introduces students to learning in an information-rich society. Students will develop strategies for successful distance learning, time management, and for managing the abundance of information available in today's society. Students will also explore the appropriate use of information in an academic environment. Specific topics for the course include computing skills for distance learning, online library use, academic honesty, and the development of effective study skills.
Third, the first paragraph of the first post didn't make it clear that there are actually two prerequisites, and that you do not need to take COM 140 before you can take GEN 105. I have emended the first post accordingly.
Fourth, responding to the comment "You must realize that general education is a requirement of accreditation bodies throughout the US." Yeah, actually I do realize that. I also realize that at the vast majority of colleges and universities out there (and perhaps only at UoP), would I be required to take a writing class as a prerequisite to a math class.
Fifth, as I said on several occasions: I'm not necessarily on a path to a degree. A degree is secondary to my interest in pursuing formal education. My primary goals are to gain more knowledge, become a more critical thinker, learn how to research, interact with other people and their ideas, etc.
Sixth, my goal in taking a writing class is to learn how to write a paper, not how to think of, as part of the final project for that same (apparently misnamed) writing class, "how the business will work, cost, number of employees, etc." Maybe I'm missing something, but I fail to see how those considerations have any part in a writing class.
Seventh, while I appreciate the help and encouragement I got from the people at UoP, I think I've garnered "enough evidence to make a worthwhile judgment about the (silliness) of the" school's prerequisite COM 140 class.
Thanks, and...
...my second UoP rant is now over.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving!
The Collect for the day:
"Father all-powerful, Your gifts of love are countless and Your goodness infinite. On Thanksgiving Day, we come before You with gratitude for Your kindness: open our hearts to concern for our fellow men and women, so that we may share Your gifts in loving service. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."
The readings for the day (taken from the New Authorized Version/Third Millennium Bible).
Click here for the readings at the USCCB.
Sirach 50:22-24
Now therefore bless ye the God of all, who alone doeth wondrous things every where, who exalteth our days from the womb, and dealeth with us according to His mercy. May He grant us joyfulness of heart, and that peace may be in our days in Israel for ever, that He would confirm His mercy with us, and deliver us at His time!
Psalm 138 (responsorial format given at above USCCB link)
A Psalm of David
I will praise Thee with my whole heart;
before the gods will I sing praise unto Thee.
I will worship toward Thy holy temple,
and praise Thy name for Thy lovingkindness and for Thy truth,
for Thou hast magnified Thy word
above all Thy name.
In the day when I cried, Thou answered me,
and strengthened me with strength in my soul.
All the kings of the earth shall praise Thee, O LORD,
when they hear the words of Thy mouth.
Yea, they shall sing of the ways of the LORD,
for great is the glory of the LORD.
Though the LORD be high, yet hath He respect unto the lowly,
but the proud He knoweth afar off.
Though I walk in the midst of trouble,
Thou wilt revive me;
Thou shalt stretch forth Thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies,
and Thy right hand shall save me.
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me;
Thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever;
forsake not the works of Thine own hands.
I Corinthians 1:3-9
Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; that in every thing ye are enriched by Him, in all utterance and in all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that ye fall behind in no gift, waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Luke 1:11-19
And it came to pass as [Jesus] went to Jerusalem that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as He entered into a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. And they lifted up their voices and said, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" And when He saw them, He said unto them, "Go, show yourselves unto the priests." And it came to pass that as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them when he saw that he was healed, turned back and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, "Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? There are none found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger." And He said unto him, "Arise; go thy way. Thy faith hath made thee whole."
"Father all-powerful, Your gifts of love are countless and Your goodness infinite. On Thanksgiving Day, we come before You with gratitude for Your kindness: open our hearts to concern for our fellow men and women, so that we may share Your gifts in loving service. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."
The readings for the day (taken from the New Authorized Version/Third Millennium Bible).
Click here for the readings at the USCCB.
Sirach 50:22-24
Now therefore bless ye the God of all, who alone doeth wondrous things every where, who exalteth our days from the womb, and dealeth with us according to His mercy. May He grant us joyfulness of heart, and that peace may be in our days in Israel for ever, that He would confirm His mercy with us, and deliver us at His time!
Psalm 138 (responsorial format given at above USCCB link)
A Psalm of David
I will praise Thee with my whole heart;
before the gods will I sing praise unto Thee.
I will worship toward Thy holy temple,
and praise Thy name for Thy lovingkindness and for Thy truth,
for Thou hast magnified Thy word
above all Thy name.
In the day when I cried, Thou answered me,
and strengthened me with strength in my soul.
All the kings of the earth shall praise Thee, O LORD,
when they hear the words of Thy mouth.
Yea, they shall sing of the ways of the LORD,
for great is the glory of the LORD.
Though the LORD be high, yet hath He respect unto the lowly,
but the proud He knoweth afar off.
Though I walk in the midst of trouble,
Thou wilt revive me;
Thou shalt stretch forth Thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies,
and Thy right hand shall save me.
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me;
Thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever;
forsake not the works of Thine own hands.
I Corinthians 1:3-9
Grace be unto you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; that in every thing ye are enriched by Him, in all utterance and in all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that ye fall behind in no gift, waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Luke 1:11-19
And it came to pass as [Jesus] went to Jerusalem that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as He entered into a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. And they lifted up their voices and said, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" And when He saw them, He said unto them, "Go, show yourselves unto the priests." And it came to pass that as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them when he saw that he was healed, turned back and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, "Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? There are none found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger." And He said unto him, "Arise; go thy way. Thy faith hath made thee whole."
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
The University of Phoenix online classes...
...a stupid curriculum!
Update: The school did not stick me with a $2,000.00 bill (a concern I expressed in the e-mail near the end of this post). Indeed, they were very good at helping me not face any financial difficulties.
I signed up for classes at UoP last week, had my first class on Monday of this week (11/24), and promptly dropped the class yesterday because of UoP's idiotic ideas about one of it's two prerequisite classes. You have to take Contemporary Business Communication (COM 140), before you can take any other class†, including Effective Essay Writing (COM 150)! How can you write effectively for business, if you don't know how to write effectively? Effective Essay Writing teaches the proper use of grammar, punctuation, etc., whereas the proper use of these things accounts for only about 20% of your grade in COM 140 (at least for the final project). And you cannot take even a Math class without COM 140! Another stupid idea: you must take COM 140 before you take World Literature (LIT 210), but you don't have to take COM 150 before that same class, even though writing is (or at least should be) very important to the World Literature class. COM 140 is not even entirely about writing. You have to have at least a basic knowledge of business development and management for the final project.
Here's the e-mail I sent to the Admissions Counselor who worked with me.
[Name of Admissions Counselor],
I am rather disappointed at not having received a phone call from you at 5pm earlier today (11/25), although you said yesterday that you would call at that time. I do appreciate the call I received at 4:30pm from the Education Counselor gentleman whose name I don't remember. As I said in the voicemail I left for you at 4:43pm, the call dropped when he tried to transfer me over to you.
Certainly you know by now that I've decided not to take classes through the University of Phoenix (UoP). It wasn't until I saw the COM 140 final project guidelines and realized that COM 140 is absolutely required as a prerequisite for every single other class, GEN 105 excepted, that I knew UoP is not for me. Both COM 140 as a class and its status as an absolute required prerequisite are highly frustrating. Purportedly, COM 140 is about learning to write a paper. Based on the "final topic additional guidelines", it seems that in reality COM 140 is much more about business than about writing. Here's one quote [from those guidelines] that leads me to that conclusion: "You may want to think about how the business will work, cost, number of employees, etc." What does this have to do with learning how to write a good paper? These are considerations for business development and management.* One earns only 2 points [out of 10] for following "[r]ules of grammar, usage, and punctuation". Only 2 points for grammar, usage, and punctuation in what is supposed to be a writing class? Either the instructor is unaware that she is supposed to be teaching us how to write a good paper, or UoP is offering a business class disguised as a writing class, or UoP is unaware that the instructor has turned a writing class into a business class. One cannot even take COM 150 "Effective Essay Writing", which is apparently the real writing class, unless one goes through the silliness of COM 140 first. I don't understand why and how it is that one must take a (purportedly) business writing class before one can take a class on writing effectively. How COM 140 alone is the prerequisite for the Humanities classes instead of COM 150 is beyond me, and why COM 140 is a prerequisite for math classes.
Now that you're aware of why I'm dropping UoP from my consideration as a viable (and trustworthy, I might add) institution of study, I'd like to know how this affects my finances. [Name of Academic Advisor] indicated that because I've only "attended" class the first day, I haven't really met any attendance requirements, and therefore will owe nothing...If this is not the case, and UoP will be keeping the money and thereby sticking me with a $2,000 bill for classes never taken, I'd like to know so I can chalk this up to an expensive lesson learned and start paying...as soon as possible.
I should add that if it turns out that the instructor is abusing the purpose of COM 140, and UoP corrects it so that I would actually learn how to write well (even if it would be for business), I'd consider taking the class. It would primarily have to teach writing, of course.
I had high hopes of continuing my education through UoP, and am disappointed that it has turned out to be such an utter failure from the first day of class. I do appreciate the encouragement you gave me, and will pursue other avenues of learning. In the future, however, you may want to talk more fully with someone like me who expresses reservations about UoP before you get them to sign up for classes, and so avoid situations like this.
Sincerely,
[Woodrow]
P.S. I know many businesses are very interested in social media, so I will alert you to the fact that I'll be discussing this situation on my blog. I won't mention anyone by name, but will post this e-mail message as a warning to other people who may be considering UoP.
*And since I've never had classes to teach me how to develop and/or manage a business, how am I supposed to take these things into consideration? Are we going to learn these business skills in this, once more, purported writing class?
Reader, beware! Online classes are not as good as they sound! At least, not at the University of Phoenix.
Some other frustrations I had: the Academic Advisor was not as knowledgable as she should have been regarding my question about whether or not financial aid would pay for classes that would give me extra credits not needed toward a degree. She apparently didn't kow the answer to that question, althouh the Education Counselor did. (What the difference between an Academic Advisor and an Education Counselor is, I have no idea.) The Education Counselor kept insisting that Contemporary Business Communication is a writing class, although the final project guidelines indicated differently. There was no way to take COM 150 followed by COM 140.
I guess I'm done with my rant now.
†With the exception of a class called GEN 105 which is an introduction to learning online, among other things.
Update: The school did not stick me with a $2,000.00 bill (a concern I expressed in the e-mail near the end of this post). Indeed, they were very good at helping me not face any financial difficulties.
I signed up for classes at UoP last week, had my first class on Monday of this week (11/24), and promptly dropped the class yesterday because of UoP's idiotic ideas about one of it's two prerequisite classes. You have to take Contemporary Business Communication (COM 140), before you can take any other class†, including Effective Essay Writing (COM 150)! How can you write effectively for business, if you don't know how to write effectively? Effective Essay Writing teaches the proper use of grammar, punctuation, etc., whereas the proper use of these things accounts for only about 20% of your grade in COM 140 (at least for the final project). And you cannot take even a Math class without COM 140! Another stupid idea: you must take COM 140 before you take World Literature (LIT 210), but you don't have to take COM 150 before that same class, even though writing is (or at least should be) very important to the World Literature class. COM 140 is not even entirely about writing. You have to have at least a basic knowledge of business development and management for the final project.
Here's the e-mail I sent to the Admissions Counselor who worked with me.
[Name of Admissions Counselor],
I am rather disappointed at not having received a phone call from you at 5pm earlier today (11/25), although you said yesterday that you would call at that time. I do appreciate the call I received at 4:30pm from the Education Counselor gentleman whose name I don't remember. As I said in the voicemail I left for you at 4:43pm, the call dropped when he tried to transfer me over to you.
Certainly you know by now that I've decided not to take classes through the University of Phoenix (UoP). It wasn't until I saw the COM 140 final project guidelines and realized that COM 140 is absolutely required as a prerequisite for every single other class, GEN 105 excepted, that I knew UoP is not for me. Both COM 140 as a class and its status as an absolute required prerequisite are highly frustrating. Purportedly, COM 140 is about learning to write a paper. Based on the "final topic additional guidelines", it seems that in reality COM 140 is much more about business than about writing. Here's one quote [from those guidelines] that leads me to that conclusion: "You may want to think about how the business will work, cost, number of employees, etc." What does this have to do with learning how to write a good paper? These are considerations for business development and management.* One earns only 2 points [out of 10] for following "[r]ules of grammar, usage, and punctuation". Only 2 points for grammar, usage, and punctuation in what is supposed to be a writing class? Either the instructor is unaware that she is supposed to be teaching us how to write a good paper, or UoP is offering a business class disguised as a writing class, or UoP is unaware that the instructor has turned a writing class into a business class. One cannot even take COM 150 "Effective Essay Writing", which is apparently the real writing class, unless one goes through the silliness of COM 140 first. I don't understand why and how it is that one must take a (purportedly) business writing class before one can take a class on writing effectively. How COM 140 alone is the prerequisite for the Humanities classes instead of COM 150 is beyond me, and why COM 140 is a prerequisite for math classes.
Now that you're aware of why I'm dropping UoP from my consideration as a viable (and trustworthy, I might add) institution of study, I'd like to know how this affects my finances. [Name of Academic Advisor] indicated that because I've only "attended" class the first day, I haven't really met any attendance requirements, and therefore will owe nothing...If this is not the case, and UoP will be keeping the money and thereby sticking me with a $2,000 bill for classes never taken, I'd like to know so I can chalk this up to an expensive lesson learned and start paying...as soon as possible.
I should add that if it turns out that the instructor is abusing the purpose of COM 140, and UoP corrects it so that I would actually learn how to write well (even if it would be for business), I'd consider taking the class. It would primarily have to teach writing, of course.
I had high hopes of continuing my education through UoP, and am disappointed that it has turned out to be such an utter failure from the first day of class. I do appreciate the encouragement you gave me, and will pursue other avenues of learning. In the future, however, you may want to talk more fully with someone like me who expresses reservations about UoP before you get them to sign up for classes, and so avoid situations like this.
Sincerely,
[Woodrow]
P.S. I know many businesses are very interested in social media, so I will alert you to the fact that I'll be discussing this situation on my blog. I won't mention anyone by name, but will post this e-mail message as a warning to other people who may be considering UoP.
*And since I've never had classes to teach me how to develop and/or manage a business, how am I supposed to take these things into consideration? Are we going to learn these business skills in this, once more, purported writing class?
Reader, beware! Online classes are not as good as they sound! At least, not at the University of Phoenix.
Some other frustrations I had: the Academic Advisor was not as knowledgable as she should have been regarding my question about whether or not financial aid would pay for classes that would give me extra credits not needed toward a degree. She apparently didn't kow the answer to that question, althouh the Education Counselor did. (What the difference between an Academic Advisor and an Education Counselor is, I have no idea.) The Education Counselor kept insisting that Contemporary Business Communication is a writing class, although the final project guidelines indicated differently. There was no way to take COM 150 followed by COM 140.
I guess I'm done with my rant now.
†With the exception of a class called GEN 105 which is an introduction to learning online, among other things.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Fight FOCA!
The Freedom of Choice Act has got to be one of the most deplorable Acts ever imagined by anyone in this nation. We need to fight it with every legitmate means we have and with all our strength.
I was going to refer you to Jimmy Akin's web site for the best links, but, unfortunately, my porn filter won't allow me to access the permanent entry for the post. On his site, it's the entry of November 13. Please read about the story there.
The links provided are-
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on FOCA
An article on the Americans United for Life web site
(Main AUL web site here)
A petition sponsored by AUL Act
An article of FOCA at the National Catholic Register
the AUL blog
and other links.
Once more, visit Jimmy's site, visit the other sights, sign the petition, and consider writing your own letter to President-elect Obama, and those who represent you in government.
And don't forget:
Pray for an end to abortion
Give time and/or money to your local Crisis Pregnancy Center(s)
Help take care of the unwed and single mothers in your neighborhood, parish, city, etc.
I was going to refer you to Jimmy Akin's web site for the best links, but, unfortunately, my porn filter won't allow me to access the permanent entry for the post. On his site, it's the entry of November 13. Please read about the story there.
The links provided are-
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on FOCA
An article on the Americans United for Life web site
(Main AUL web site here)
A petition sponsored by AUL Act
An article of FOCA at the National Catholic Register
the AUL blog
and other links.
Once more, visit Jimmy's site, visit the other sights, sign the petition, and consider writing your own letter to President-elect Obama, and those who represent you in government.
And don't forget:
Pray for an end to abortion
Give time and/or money to your local Crisis Pregnancy Center(s)
Help take care of the unwed and single mothers in your neighborhood, parish, city, etc.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Book Meme! Book Meme!
Nobody ever tags me with these things, so I tag myself.
HT to JJ of Christian, Gay, and Confused (whose blog I read occassionally, but have never commented on).
The rules are as follows:
Look at the list of books and bold those we have read.
Italicize those we intend to read.
Underline the books we LOVE. (I don't know how to underline with blogger, so I'm changing the color to blue.)
Put an asterisk (*) next to those that you hated.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 1984 - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (I was at Barnes and Noble and almost bought this!)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
36 A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle (origianlly # 36 was listed as The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis, but since the whole Chronicles are listed at # 34, I took the liberty of changin this one)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (I have a crush on Dicken!)
74 Notes From a Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (I plan to buy and read this around the third Sunday of Advent)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells (originally Hamlet - William Shakespeare was listed here, but since the Complete Works of Shakespeare are listed as # 14, I took the liberty of changing it).
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Wow! I've only read 20 out of these 100 books, although I do own 10 of the other titles on this list, as well as over 1,000 others. And since March of 2004 I've read 354 books and am in the middle of reading 12 others.
I think I might read the ones I didn't italicize, too.
(As you can see, my nap is working out very well!)
HT to JJ of Christian, Gay, and Confused (whose blog I read occassionally, but have never commented on).
The rules are as follows:
Look at the list of books and bold those we have read.
Italicize those we intend to read.
Underline the books we LOVE. (I don't know how to underline with blogger, so I'm changing the color to blue.)
Put an asterisk (*) next to those that you hated.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 1984 - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (I was at Barnes and Noble and almost bought this!)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
36 A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle (origianlly # 36 was listed as The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis, but since the whole Chronicles are listed at # 34, I took the liberty of changin this one)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (I have a crush on Dicken!)
74 Notes From a Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (I plan to buy and read this around the third Sunday of Advent)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells (originally Hamlet - William Shakespeare was listed here, but since the Complete Works of Shakespeare are listed as # 14, I took the liberty of changing it).
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Wow! I've only read 20 out of these 100 books, although I do own 10 of the other titles on this list, as well as over 1,000 others. And since March of 2004 I've read 354 books and am in the middle of reading 12 others.
I think I might read the ones I didn't italicize, too.
(As you can see, my nap is working out very well!)
Hello, World!
I'm still alive!
And getting healthy again.
I got sick on Tuesday. Nothing caused by or related to the election. It was some infection I picked up from somewhere (probably one of the many hospitals I visit during my nightly delivery runs) that wiped me out! Actually, I started feeling less than healthy on Monday night/Tuesday morning (remember, I work the midnight shift). I left work an hour early because I was so tired, I didn't think I could make it for that last hour. I went home and went to sleep. I woke up a couple of hours early for work on Tuesday afternoon, and felt okay when I first got up, but after being awake for about twenty minutes, my head ached and my body was sore all over. I went to work, ran a delivery to one of the hospitals, and then, before leaving for the next one, called my boss to tell him how I felt. He told me I should probably go home, but I had some important things to address at the next hospital so I told him I'd make the next run and see how I felt.
Well, it turns out I felt pretty bad! I got back to the warehouse/service center by 1:30am, clocked out immediately, lay down on one of our clean beds, slept until 5am when the morning guy came in, cleaned the bed I had been laying on (so nobody would get sick or sicker by using it), and left. By the way, I was so tired, that I got up to go pee sometime between 2:30 and 3, and nearly fell asleep at the urinal! I almost fell asleep on the drive home, too. And then I slept until about 12:30am on Wednesday. I've never been so sick that I've slept for nearly 24 hours, or almost fallen asleep while standing at the urinal peeing! My throat was sore and I was miserable. And it took all my energy to urinate during the time I was sleeping. The bathroom is only a few steps from my bed, wait...
...I counted. My bed is near the door of the bedroom which is right next to the bathroom, so it takes 11 steps to reach the toilet. The trips I took to the bathroom drained me. I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
Well, my doctor saw me the next day (yesterday), and I have an infection of some sort. It made me lose my voice and caused my throat to swell and block my airway a little bit. She (I have a female doctor) gave me a couple of shots "in my buh'tawks" as Forest Gump would say and told me I was to go straight to the emergency room immediately if I had even the tiniest bit more difficulty in breathing. Fortunately that did not happen!
I'm feeling better today. My voice is coming and going and I'm napping off and on. But I can breathe better!
And I wanted to do a post about the election, and another one about me starting online college classes, but I'm writing this run-on sentence and then laying down for another nap.
So good-night for now.
And getting healthy again.
I got sick on Tuesday. Nothing caused by or related to the election. It was some infection I picked up from somewhere (probably one of the many hospitals I visit during my nightly delivery runs) that wiped me out! Actually, I started feeling less than healthy on Monday night/Tuesday morning (remember, I work the midnight shift). I left work an hour early because I was so tired, I didn't think I could make it for that last hour. I went home and went to sleep. I woke up a couple of hours early for work on Tuesday afternoon, and felt okay when I first got up, but after being awake for about twenty minutes, my head ached and my body was sore all over. I went to work, ran a delivery to one of the hospitals, and then, before leaving for the next one, called my boss to tell him how I felt. He told me I should probably go home, but I had some important things to address at the next hospital so I told him I'd make the next run and see how I felt.
Well, it turns out I felt pretty bad! I got back to the warehouse/service center by 1:30am, clocked out immediately, lay down on one of our clean beds, slept until 5am when the morning guy came in, cleaned the bed I had been laying on (so nobody would get sick or sicker by using it), and left. By the way, I was so tired, that I got up to go pee sometime between 2:30 and 3, and nearly fell asleep at the urinal! I almost fell asleep on the drive home, too. And then I slept until about 12:30am on Wednesday. I've never been so sick that I've slept for nearly 24 hours, or almost fallen asleep while standing at the urinal peeing! My throat was sore and I was miserable. And it took all my energy to urinate during the time I was sleeping. The bathroom is only a few steps from my bed, wait...
...I counted. My bed is near the door of the bedroom which is right next to the bathroom, so it takes 11 steps to reach the toilet. The trips I took to the bathroom drained me. I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
Well, my doctor saw me the next day (yesterday), and I have an infection of some sort. It made me lose my voice and caused my throat to swell and block my airway a little bit. She (I have a female doctor) gave me a couple of shots "in my buh'tawks" as Forest Gump would say and told me I was to go straight to the emergency room immediately if I had even the tiniest bit more difficulty in breathing. Fortunately that did not happen!
I'm feeling better today. My voice is coming and going and I'm napping off and on. But I can breathe better!
And I wanted to do a post about the election, and another one about me starting online college classes, but I'm writing this run-on sentence and then laying down for another nap.
So good-night for now.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Happy All Saints' Day!
New Advent on the Litany of the Saints.
The Litany of the Saints
V. Lord, have mercy upon us.
R. Christ, have mercy upon us.
V. Lord, have mercy upon us.
V. O Christ, hear us.
R. O Christ, graciously hear us.
V. O God the Father of heaven.
R. Have mercy upon us.
V. O God the Son, Redeemer of the world.
R. Have mercy upon us.
V. O God the Holy Ghost.
R. Have mercy upon us.
V. O Holy Trinity, one God.
R. Have mercy upon us.
V. Holy Mary.
R. Pray for us.
V. Holy Mother of God.
R. Pray for us.
V. Holy Virgin of virgins.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Michael.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Gabriel.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Raphael.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Angels and Archangels.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy orders of blessed Spirits.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint John Baptist.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Joseph.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Patriarchs and Prophets.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Peter.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Paul.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Andrew.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint James.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint John.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Thomas.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint James.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Philip.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Bartholomew.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Matthew.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Simon.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Jude.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Matthias.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Barnabas.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Luke.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Mark.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Apostles and Evangelists.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Disciples of the Lord.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye Holy Innocents.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Stephen.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Lawrence.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Vincent.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Fabian and Saint Sebastian.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint John and Saint Paul.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Gervasius and Saint Protasius..
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Martyrs.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Sylvester.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Gregory.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Ambrose.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Augustine.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Jerome.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Martin.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Nicholas.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Bishops and Confessors.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Doctors.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Anthony.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Benedict.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Bernard.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Dominic.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Francis.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Priests and Levites.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Monks and Hermits.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Mary Magdalene.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Agatha.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Lucy.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Agnes.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Cecilia.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Catherine.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Anastasia.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Virgins and Widows.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye Holy, Righteous, and Elect of God.
R. Intercede for us.
V. Be Thou merciful.
R. Spare us, good Lord.
V. Be Thou merciful.
R. Graciously hear us, good Lord.
V. From all evil.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From all deadly sin.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From Thine anger.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From sudden and unrepentant death.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From the crafts and assaults of the devil.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From anger, and hatred, and all uncharitableness.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From the spirit of fornication.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From lightning and tempest.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From the peril of earthquake, fire, and flood.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From pestilence, famine, and battle.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From everlasting damnation.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By the mystery of Thy holy Incarnation.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By Thine Advent.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By Thy Nativity.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By Thy Baptism and holy Fasting.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By Thy Cross and Passion.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By Thy precious Death and Burial.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By Thy holy Resurrection.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By Thy glorious Ascension.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By the coming of the Holy Ghost the Comforter.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. In the day of judgment.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. Even though we be sinners.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to spare us.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to pity and pardon us.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to give us true repentance.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to rule and govern Thy holy Church.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to preserve the household of the Apostles, and to keep all orders in the Church in Thy true religion.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to overthrow the enemies of Thy holy Church.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to bestow on all Christian kings and princes true peace and concord.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to give to all Christian nations both peace and unity.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to restore unity to Thy Church, and to lead all unbelievers into the light of Thy holy Gospel.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to strengthen and preserve us in true worshipping of Thee.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to endue our hearts with heavenly desires.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to bestow on all our benefactors Thine everlasting benefits.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to deliver from eternal damnation our souls, and those of our brethren, kindred, and benefactors.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to bestow upon all Thy faithful departed rest eternal.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee graciously to hear our prayer.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. O Son of God.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world.
R. Spare us, good Lord.
V. O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world.
R. Graciously hear us, good Lord.
V. O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world.
R. Have mercy upon us.
V. O Christ, hear us.
R. O Christ, graciously hear us.
V. Lord, have mercy upon us.
R. Christ, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Our Father…
Which words are said aloud, and the rest secretly to:
V. And lead us not into temptation.
R. But deliver us from evil.
Psalm 70. Deus, in adjutorium.
To the Chief Musician: A Psalm of David. To Bring to Remembrance.
O God, come to my assistance;
O Lord, make haste to help me.
Let them be ashamed and confounded
that seek after my soul;
let them be turned backward and put to confusion
that desire my hurt.
Let them be turned back
as a reward for their shame
that say, "Aha, aha!"
Let all those that seek Thee
rejoice and be glad in Thee;
and let such as love Thy salvation
say continually,
"Let God be magnified!"
But I am poor and needy;
make haste unto me, O God.
Thou art my help and my deliverer;
O Lord, make no tarrying.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen.
V. O God, save Thy servants.
R. That put their trust in Thee.
V. Be unto us, O Lord, a tower of strength.
R. From the face of the enemy.
V. Let the enemy prevail nothing against us.
R. Nor the son of wickedness approach to afflict us.
V. O Lord, deal not with us after our sins.
R. Neither reward us according to our iniquities.
V. Let us pray for our Pope N.
R. The Lord preserve him and grant him life, and make him blessed upon earth; and deliver him not unto the will of his enemies.
V. Let us pray for our benefactors.
R. Vouchsafe, O Lord, for Thy Name's sake, to reward with eternal life all them that do us good. Amen.
V. Let us pray for the faithful departed.
R. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord; and let perpetual light shine upon them.
V. May they rest in peace.
R. Amen.
V. Let us pray for our absent brethren.
R. Save Thy servants, O my God, that put their trust in Thee.
V. Send them help, O Lord, from Thy holy place.
R. And from Zion deliver them.
V. O Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come unto Thee.
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to forgive: receive our humble petitions; and though we be tied and bound by the chain of our sins, yet let the pitifulness of Thy great mercy loose us.
We beseech Thee, O Lord, mercifully to hear the prayers of Thy humble servants, and to forgive the sins of them that confess the same unto Thee: that they may obtain of Thy loving-kindness pardon and peace.
O Lord, we pray Thee, show forth upon us Thy servants the abundance of Thy unspeakable mercy: that we may be delivered from the chain of our sins, and from the punishment which for the same we have most righteously deserved.
O God, who art wroth with them that sin against Thee, and sparest them that are penitent: we beseech Thee to hear the prayers of Thy people that call upon Thee; that we, which have most justly deserved the scourges of Thine anger, may by Thy great mercy be delivered from the same.
Almighty and everlasting God, we beseech Thee to have compassion upon N., our Pope, and by Thy mercy govern him in the way of everlasting life: that, being endued with Thy grace, he may ever seek those things that are pleasing unto Thee, and with his whole strength perform the same.
O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed: give unto Thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that our hearts may be set to obey Thy commandments, and also that by Thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness.
Grant, O Lord, we pray Thee, that the fire of Thy Holy Spirit may in such wise cleanse our reins and our hearts: that we serving Thee in pureness both of body and soul may be found an acceptable people in Thy sight.
O God, the Creator and Redeemer of all them that believe: grant unto the souls of Thy servants and handmaidens the remission of all their sins; that, as they have ever desired Thy merciful pardon, so by the supplications of their brethren they may receive the same.
Prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings with Thy most gracious favor, and further us with Thy continual help: that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in Thee, we may glorify Thy holy Name, and finally by Thy mercy obtain everlasting life.
Almighty and everlasting God, who hast dominion both of the quick and the dead, who likewise hast mercy upon all men, whom by reason of their faith and works Thou hast foreknown: we commend unto Thee all those for whom we now do offer our prayers, whether in this world they still be held in the bonds of the flesh, or being delivered therefrom have passed into that which is to come; beseeching Thee that at the intercession of all Thy Saints they may of Thy bountiful goodness obtain the remission of all their sins. Through Jesus Christ Thy Son our Lord: Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.
R. Amen.
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.
V. May the Almighty and Merciful Lord graciously hear us.
R. Amen.
V. And may the souls of the faithful departed, † through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
R. Amen.
The Litany of the Saints
V. Lord, have mercy upon us.
R. Christ, have mercy upon us.
V. Lord, have mercy upon us.
V. O Christ, hear us.
R. O Christ, graciously hear us.
V. O God the Father of heaven.
R. Have mercy upon us.
V. O God the Son, Redeemer of the world.
R. Have mercy upon us.
V. O God the Holy Ghost.
R. Have mercy upon us.
V. O Holy Trinity, one God.
R. Have mercy upon us.
V. Holy Mary.
R. Pray for us.
V. Holy Mother of God.
R. Pray for us.
V. Holy Virgin of virgins.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Michael.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Gabriel.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Raphael.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Angels and Archangels.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy orders of blessed Spirits.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint John Baptist.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Joseph.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Patriarchs and Prophets.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Peter.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Paul.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Andrew.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint James.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint John.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Thomas.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint James.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Philip.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Bartholomew.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Matthew.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Simon.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Jude.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Matthias.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Barnabas.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Luke.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Mark.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Apostles and Evangelists.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Disciples of the Lord.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye Holy Innocents.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Stephen.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Lawrence.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Vincent.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Fabian and Saint Sebastian.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint John and Saint Paul.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Gervasius and Saint Protasius..
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Martyrs.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Sylvester.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Gregory.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Ambrose.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Augustine.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Jerome.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Martin.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Nicholas.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Bishops and Confessors.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Doctors.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Anthony.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Benedict.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Bernard.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Dominic.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Francis.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Priests and Levites.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Monks and Hermits.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Mary Magdalene.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Agatha.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Lucy.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Agnes.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Cecilia.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Catherine.
R. Pray for us.
V. Saint Anastasia.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye holy Virgins and Widows.
R. Pray for us.
V. All ye Holy, Righteous, and Elect of God.
R. Intercede for us.
V. Be Thou merciful.
R. Spare us, good Lord.
V. Be Thou merciful.
R. Graciously hear us, good Lord.
V. From all evil.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From all deadly sin.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From Thine anger.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From sudden and unrepentant death.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From the crafts and assaults of the devil.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From anger, and hatred, and all uncharitableness.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From the spirit of fornication.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From lightning and tempest.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From the peril of earthquake, fire, and flood.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From pestilence, famine, and battle.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. From everlasting damnation.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By the mystery of Thy holy Incarnation.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By Thine Advent.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By Thy Nativity.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By Thy Baptism and holy Fasting.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By Thy Cross and Passion.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By Thy precious Death and Burial.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By Thy holy Resurrection.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By Thy glorious Ascension.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. By the coming of the Holy Ghost the Comforter.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. In the day of judgment.
R. Good Lord, deliver us.
V. Even though we be sinners.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to spare us.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to pity and pardon us.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to give us true repentance.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to rule and govern Thy holy Church.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to preserve the household of the Apostles, and to keep all orders in the Church in Thy true religion.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to overthrow the enemies of Thy holy Church.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to bestow on all Christian kings and princes true peace and concord.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to give to all Christian nations both peace and unity.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to restore unity to Thy Church, and to lead all unbelievers into the light of Thy holy Gospel.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to strengthen and preserve us in true worshipping of Thee.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to endue our hearts with heavenly desires.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to bestow on all our benefactors Thine everlasting benefits.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to deliver from eternal damnation our souls, and those of our brethren, kindred, and benefactors.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee to bestow upon all Thy faithful departed rest eternal.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. That it may please Thee graciously to hear our prayer.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. O Son of God.
R. We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
V. O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world.
R. Spare us, good Lord.
V. O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world.
R. Graciously hear us, good Lord.
V. O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world.
R. Have mercy upon us.
V. O Christ, hear us.
R. O Christ, graciously hear us.
V. Lord, have mercy upon us.
R. Christ, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Our Father…
Which words are said aloud, and the rest secretly to:
V. And lead us not into temptation.
R. But deliver us from evil.
Psalm 70. Deus, in adjutorium.
To the Chief Musician: A Psalm of David. To Bring to Remembrance.
O God, come to my assistance;
O Lord, make haste to help me.
Let them be ashamed and confounded
that seek after my soul;
let them be turned backward and put to confusion
that desire my hurt.
Let them be turned back
as a reward for their shame
that say, "Aha, aha!"
Let all those that seek Thee
rejoice and be glad in Thee;
and let such as love Thy salvation
say continually,
"Let God be magnified!"
But I am poor and needy;
make haste unto me, O God.
Thou art my help and my deliverer;
O Lord, make no tarrying.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen.
V. O God, save Thy servants.
R. That put their trust in Thee.
V. Be unto us, O Lord, a tower of strength.
R. From the face of the enemy.
V. Let the enemy prevail nothing against us.
R. Nor the son of wickedness approach to afflict us.
V. O Lord, deal not with us after our sins.
R. Neither reward us according to our iniquities.
V. Let us pray for our Pope N.
R. The Lord preserve him and grant him life, and make him blessed upon earth; and deliver him not unto the will of his enemies.
V. Let us pray for our benefactors.
R. Vouchsafe, O Lord, for Thy Name's sake, to reward with eternal life all them that do us good. Amen.
V. Let us pray for the faithful departed.
R. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord; and let perpetual light shine upon them.
V. May they rest in peace.
R. Amen.
V. Let us pray for our absent brethren.
R. Save Thy servants, O my God, that put their trust in Thee.
V. Send them help, O Lord, from Thy holy place.
R. And from Zion deliver them.
V. O Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come unto Thee.
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray.
O God, whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to forgive: receive our humble petitions; and though we be tied and bound by the chain of our sins, yet let the pitifulness of Thy great mercy loose us.
We beseech Thee, O Lord, mercifully to hear the prayers of Thy humble servants, and to forgive the sins of them that confess the same unto Thee: that they may obtain of Thy loving-kindness pardon and peace.
O Lord, we pray Thee, show forth upon us Thy servants the abundance of Thy unspeakable mercy: that we may be delivered from the chain of our sins, and from the punishment which for the same we have most righteously deserved.
O God, who art wroth with them that sin against Thee, and sparest them that are penitent: we beseech Thee to hear the prayers of Thy people that call upon Thee; that we, which have most justly deserved the scourges of Thine anger, may by Thy great mercy be delivered from the same.
Almighty and everlasting God, we beseech Thee to have compassion upon N., our Pope, and by Thy mercy govern him in the way of everlasting life: that, being endued with Thy grace, he may ever seek those things that are pleasing unto Thee, and with his whole strength perform the same.
O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed: give unto Thy servants that peace which the world cannot give; that our hearts may be set to obey Thy commandments, and also that by Thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness.
Grant, O Lord, we pray Thee, that the fire of Thy Holy Spirit may in such wise cleanse our reins and our hearts: that we serving Thee in pureness both of body and soul may be found an acceptable people in Thy sight.
O God, the Creator and Redeemer of all them that believe: grant unto the souls of Thy servants and handmaidens the remission of all their sins; that, as they have ever desired Thy merciful pardon, so by the supplications of their brethren they may receive the same.
Prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings with Thy most gracious favor, and further us with Thy continual help: that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in Thee, we may glorify Thy holy Name, and finally by Thy mercy obtain everlasting life.
Almighty and everlasting God, who hast dominion both of the quick and the dead, who likewise hast mercy upon all men, whom by reason of their faith and works Thou hast foreknown: we commend unto Thee all those for whom we now do offer our prayers, whether in this world they still be held in the bonds of the flesh, or being delivered therefrom have passed into that which is to come; beseeching Thee that at the intercession of all Thy Saints they may of Thy bountiful goodness obtain the remission of all their sins. Through Jesus Christ Thy Son our Lord: Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.
R. Amen.
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.
V. May the Almighty and Merciful Lord graciously hear us.
R. Amen.
V. And may the souls of the faithful departed, † through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
R. Amen.
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