Halloween saintlist

     Saints Antônio de Sant’Anna Galvão, Simon and Jude, Narcissus of Jerusalem, Alphonsus Rodriguez, and Wolfgang of Regensburg, please pray for us on this Halloween eve of All Saints' Day.

Funk nite at the BL pt. XIX: Instant Funk

     Tonite, the well-named band "Instant Funk", with their hit "I Got My Mind Made Up":

     Funk it up!

October 24 saintlist

     Saints Luke, Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf and Companions, Paul of the Cross, Maria Bertilla Boscardin, John Paul II, Peter of Alcantara, Hilarion, John of Capistrano, and Anthony Claret, and Blessed Bartholomew of Vicenza, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL, pt. XVIII: Sly, Stone, mice, elves

     Tonite we have Sly and the Family Stone with their artfully spelled "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)":

     Funk it up!

Mid-October saintlist

     Saints John XXIII, Callistus I, Teresa of Avila, Margaret Mary Alacoque, and Ignatius of Antioch, and Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos and Marie-Rose Durocher, please pray for us.

Funk nite pt. XVII: silent funk

     This week, instead of offering a video, one offers the opportunity for people to contemplate their own funkiness (if any). You can shake your groove thang. Or rock the funky beat. To your own soundtrack, or without sound at all. Keeping it on the One. If you like.

     Funk it up!

10/10 saintlist

     Saints Francis of Assisi, Maria Faustina Kowalska, Bruno, Denis and Companions, and John Leonardi, and Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Marie-Rose Durocher, and John Henry Newman, around this time of the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, please pray for us.

Funk nite pt. XVI: funk for MLK

     Funk is not just mindless entertainment, but is fit to be performed in connection with great moral leaders: see and hear, for example, Systematic Funk Crew throwing down at the Martin Luther King Day Festival:

     

     Funk it up!

October 3 saintlist

     Saints Vincent de Paul, Wenceslaus, Lorenzo Ruiz and Companions, Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Jerome, Thérèse of Lisieux, Francis Borgia, Theodora Guérin, in this time of the Feast of the Guardian Angels, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL pt. XV: "Funk It Up"

     Tonite we not only have a funk song, but one which actually instantiates the tagline we always have at the end: "Funk It Up", by Houseband (whom one has not heard of before, but they ain't so bad):

     Funk it up! (With "Funk It Up"!!)