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I had to post that first because the moonrise is in progress, rlee.

Glad to see somebody else stayed up to watch God's show, and only God could have produced it. As a hopeful Astronomy Major in College in the mid 1960's I remember driving about 40 miles away from the large midwestern city I lived in to watch a total lunar eclipse from a observation tower in an adjoining county. I was a falling away Methodist at that time. Very "scientifically" oriented. And I recall that I thought it was quite spectacular.  

Needing to get employed to marry my fiance, and not able to get past college calculus (too many work hours to support myself) I abandoned that pursuit.

Fast forward almost an entire adult lifetime and in the late 1990s I converted from my state as a then confirmed agnostic to Catholicism and by the grace of God was drawn almost immediately into traditional Catholicism.

You're carrying around an excellent preparation to cope with these and similar events, rlee.  I hope you don't miss the chance to share your observations.  You have a powerful writing style that communicates well.

Along the way I had the extraordinary grace to meet the CI poster known as Cassini, who, in an enchanting evening dinner at his family's home, introduced me to heliocentrism as the Church's first brush with the spirit of masonic spirited rebellion in the form of Galileo and heliocentrism "proved" by science. A brush in which the church stumbled afterwards, which really set the stage for the development of Modernism.

It's interesting to see it in those terms.  I hope you realize you could write a book on this topic.  Maybe the world needs a book like that.  You could have just enough time to finish it before it's "too late."

So my conversion was doubly difficult as I had to really change my world view orientation much more than I ever dreamt the religious conversion was going to involve.

Yours is not the first time.  Imagine how many of the ancient Jєωs who practiced washing their hands religiously before eating, had any idea that they were doing a RELIGIOUS RITUAL that would be PERFECTED in the revelation of God in His Onlybegotten Son, Who would reveal to the world that you must confess your sins and have washed clean your soul (not your hands) before you receive Holy Communion (not in the hand!), and it would not be ordinary food but the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord.  It's pretty safe to say there was not one of the old Israelites who could have imagined that in their wildest dreams.  Therefore, when Our Lord gave his Bread of Life discourse in John vi., most of His disciples said, Forget This, and walked away -- I'm Not About To Eat Your Body and Drink Your Blood -- if they had been dreaming of it, it wouldn't have been so unbelievable.

With this history, you can imagine when I witnessed this lunar eclipse last night how much more profoundly spiritual an experience it was, compared to the 1960's one. Watching God's celestial ornaments move through the sky and knowing that it was clear, certain, and sure evidence of Him made the event something which I can never forget. A red moon hung in the sky surrounded by stars and accompanied by a bright blue star and the brilliant orange Mars, all plainly visible with the naked eye, produced a memory that is burned into my head.

You were witness to a lot more to see than I was, where I was at, due to some cloud cover that managed to obscure only the best part.  What a bummer!  But then, it has made me all the more interested in your account.  Could you please provide more detail??????  PLEASE??????

What I have to share is the following.  As the eclipse was in progress and I had to watch it on the Internet (which you can rewind and see HERE), I was able to recite the following Gregorian Chant while the Griffins and gargoyles at Griffith chanted, "Dragon be gone!" 50 times:

Christus factus est pro nobis obediens usque ad mortem, mortem factem crucis.
Propter quod et Deus exaltavit illum, et dedit illi nomen, quod est super omne nomen.  

Cristo se hizo obediente por nosotros
Cristo se hizo obediente por nosotros, hasta la muerte y muerte de cruz.
Por lo cual Dios también lo exaltó, y le dio un nombre sobre todo nombre.

Christ became obedient for us unto death, even to the death of the cross.
For which cause, God also hath exalted Him and hath given Him a Name
which is above all names.


See embedded video at the end of this post.

As it was unseasonably cold last night (but extremely dry, with crystal clear cloudless visibilities) I watched the start of the eclipse online, switching from several sites that were covering the event.  [me too]

The reason for the switching was I could only take so much of the woefully inane commentary from some of these sites which proved that these so called expert scientists were clueless, and deliberately and self inflictedly so. [ditto!]

What a shame that when God shows himself to Man, who was created and endowed to know Him by what man experiences everyday, and especially when God produces something as extraordinary as a blood moon, Man rejects his own capacity for reason and worships instead on the altar of a perverted "science". [ROGER - COPY]

It is comforting to come here tonight and see that God still has a few admirers who appreciated His show, and were annoyed by the callow commentary.    

This vid's for you:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/embed/u0bnhzbfKSw[/youtube]

Men's Schola: The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos


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