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“…multæ te litteræ ad insaniam convertunt—much learning turneth thee to madness” (Act. cap. xxvi., 24).
Such was the warning that my parents vouchsafed me as I gave myself over to reading with an unnerving and indefatigable industry even as a child. As the vicissitudes of time ran their course, more and more books found themselves into my private quarters, so that acquaintances would comment that my room was Noe’s Ark for bibliomaniacs.
The curious analogy brought up an interesting question. The Lord God blessed the inhabitants of the Ark, saying, “Ingredimini super terram: crescite et multiplicamini super eam” (Gen. cap. viii., 17; cf. supr. cap. i., 22, 28; cf. infr. cap. ix., 1, 7): how am I to do such a thing with my books?
Yet the Lord God rescued me from the plight of bookish sterility in the elegant and clement designs of His adorable Providence. A friend of mine offered to reprint some of the rarer tomes I possessed, so that now some of the tomes have somehow gone forth upon the earth and increased and multiplied thereupon.
Then CathInfo came into the picture. As I participated on this forum more and more, one of the things I readily perceived was the great need amongst traditional Catholics for books wherewith to answer their questions and address their doubts. Some of these tomes are difficult to acquire and rather expensive to purchase.
Once again, the elegance and beauty of the dispositions of Divine Providence became manifest when I realized that present day technology would enable me to have my tomes go forth unto the world and to increase and multiply therein. By scanning leaves from select tomes, and editing and uploading them unto the internet, information that would have otherwise been inaccessible and unknown to others is now within the grasp of those who would wish to avail themselves of the same.
This especially true for the woodcuts and other illustrations that have been neglected by Catholic publishers for many decades now and wherewith I am wont to embellish the more important threads and posts I publish here.
The matter of choosing the tome can be decided by a question posited by another forum member, or the occasion of a major Feastival of the ecclesiastical calendar, or something whereupon I may have stumbled in my studies and though it interesting enough to share with others, &c. When the tome has been chosen, I have to manually scan the pages directly unto a flashdrive. When all the pages have been scanned, I have to edit them so that they may be readable. This involves cropping, resizing, changing the brightness and contrast, &c.
The following are the notes for the “Sunday Packet,” as an example of the process:
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Friday evening at the latest—
The Sacramentary: crop to >>> 1230 X 2130 >>> reduce by 61% >>> 750 X 1299
Epistle Commentaries: crop to >>> 1243 X 2100 >>> reduce by 60% >>> 746 X 1260
Gospel Commentaries: crop to >>> 1278 X 2152 >>> reduce by 60% >>> 767 X 1291
St. Andrew Missal: crop to >>> 1040 X 1740 >>> reduce by 70% >>> 728 X 1218
Dominican Missal: crop to >>> 950 X 1640 >>> reduce by 75% >>> 713 X 1230
Carmelite Missal: crop to >>> 930 X 1630 >>> reduce by 80% >>> 744 X 1304
Spanish Roman Missal: crop to >>> 990 X 1730 >>> reduce by 75 % >>>743 X 1298
Spanish Dominican Missal: crop to >>> 1040 X 1650 >>> reduce by 70% >>> 728 X 1155
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More is to come in the future. Hopefully the exigencies of present circuмstance will continue to allow me to scan, edit and upload more from my library.
Note: The scans are exclusive to CathInfo. If others wish to host them on other forums or blogs or otherwise make them available publicly, they must have written permission from the moderators of CathInfo and have as an advisory notice “Courtesy of CathInfo.com” — this matter I leave to the discretion of the moderators.
So there it is: the “why” and “how” I get the scans uploaded to CathInfo, for those who asked, and the explanation of why I have had to break some of the books apart.
Ultimately, I am a pretty bad librarian when I have rare and expensive books with their covers torn off and their spines broken: but it is all for a good cause.
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It is as the Greek myth of the newborn Hermes, who made the first lyre from the tortoise he found on Mount Cyllene, having “cut off its limbs and scooped out the marrow of the mountain-tortoise with a scoop of grey iron” (Homeric Hymn IV, To Hermes): only in being gruesomely destroyed could the tortoise become the “comrade of the feast, lovely in shape, sounding at the dance,” according to what Hermes said to the poor tortoise: “if you die, then you shall make sweetest song” (ibid.).
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Thank you for the hard work and sacrifices you make every week. I certainly have benefited by it and am very grateful as I know I would not find the information elsewhere.
God bless you and reward you tremendously -
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Thank you for the hard work and sacrifices you make every week. I certainly have benefited by it and am very grateful as I know I would not find the information elsewhere.
God bless you and reward you tremendously -
Thank you very much! God bless you for the love and zeal wherewith you endeavor to attain to greater knowledge of the sacred Mysteries of the holy Faith.
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I would like to humbly ask, in the name of Christian charity, those who have benefited from the scans and uploads to pray for all the authors, editors, publishers, printers, former owners, and all others who have helped bring these pages to you and are now in eternity:
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:pray: :pray: :pray:
**ex libris**
:cheers:
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Update:
By popular demand, in addition to the usual miscellany posted for each Sunday, now there shall be added the celebrated commentaries from the pen of the great Dom Prosper Guéranger, Abbot of Solesmes, as found in the translation of The Liturgical Year by Dom Laurence Shepherd.
Only on CathInfo shall you find such treasures!
More to come in the future...
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Update:
A further addition shall be made to the usual miscellany of texts and commentaries posted for each Sunday: it is my pleasure and exceeding great honor to bring you the riches of the Ambrosian Missal by posting the Masses from the rare tome Messale Ambrosiano (Milan: Pia Società S. Paolo, 1954).
Only on CathInfo shall you find such treasures!
More to come in the future...
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Update:
By request of several persons, the usual miscellany of texts and commentaries posted for each Sunday shall be posted a bit earlier: so that "we may have more time to read the texts before Sunday morning," as a friend wrote to me recently.
Only on CathInfo shall you find such treasures!
More to come in the future...
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Be pleased, dear friends, to benignly vouchsafe me gracious pardon on account of the great delay that has retarded the publication of the Dominical texts and commentaries!
I have had very frustrating computer problems and difficulties with the scanner and flash-drives.
I feel pretty lousy, but there are just some things a man can't control, I reckon...
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A further addition shall be made to the usual miscellany of texts and commentaries posted for each Sunday: it is my pleasure and exceeding great honor to bring you the riches of the Ambrosian Missal by posting the Masses from the rare tome Messale Ambrosiano (Milan: Pia Società S. Paolo, 1954)
By popular demand, in addition to the usual miscellany posted for each Sunday, now there shall be added the celebrated commentaries from the pen of the great Dom Prosper Guéranger, Abbot of Solesmes, as found in the translation of The Liturgical Year by Dom Laurence Shepherd.
Sometimes words are not necessary :jumping2: :ready-to-eat: :applause: :dancing-banana:
Hobbledehoy, I'm exhausted from thumbs-upping all your posts! Seriously, you are a treasure and you serve Him with such reverence and love. You're an inspiration.
I'm so blessed to have found this forum.
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Amen :incense:
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I apologize for being late with the scans for the Sunday Mass!
There arose a predicament which I could not have foreseen...
Thank you so much for your patience!
Again, I'm very sorry.
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Hobbledehoy, thank you for all of the edifying scans you have posted on CatholicInfo. As you have said, this is content you won't find anywhere else. It is very valuable and I would like to thank you for taking the time to do it.
This forum is blessed to have you here.
God Bless.
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Hobbledehoy, thank you for all of the edifying scans you have posted on CatholicInfo. As you have said, this is content you won't find anywhere else. It is very valuable and I would like to thank you for taking the time to do it.
This forum is blessed to have you here.
God Bless.
You are quite welcome!
However, I ought to make it clear that of myself I am nothing (and worse), remembering what Our Lord had said, "Doth he thank that servant, for doing the things which he commanded him? I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do" (S. Luc. cap. xvii., 9-10).
As reparation for my tardiness, I have uploaded some pages from a rare work upon Our Lady: http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php?a=topic&t=22571&min=5#p1
Only on CathInfo indeed! Why anywhere else? :D
You have to visit CathInfo to gather the little I have to offer from the inexhaustible treasures of our sacred Faith.