In Review: June 2026

Writing

• Pie Pelicane
  • Syntopical Learning
  • Wild Things
  • Everyday Hymns for the Home
  • Mater Intemerata
  • Note correcting the record on Saint Francis’s death
• DestinLatinMass
  • Claretian Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
  • July 2026 Newsletter for subscribers
  • June 2026 Newsletter for everyone else
• SAMC Choir Updates
  • Weekly updates

Reading

• My Goodreads
• Completed
  • The Fairy Tales Of Charles Perrault by Charles Perrault (an Introduction by Thomas Bodkin, Translated by Robert Samber and Jean Edmond Mansion)
  • The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Angel Food Time by Rev. Gerald T. Brennan (Volume 2 from the TAN set)
• Progressed
  • The Daily Douay-Rheims
  • Meditations for Every Day in the Year by Rev. Roger Baxter, S.J.
  • The Harvard Classics in 365 Days ed. Amanda Kennedy
  • Hunolt’s Short Sermons: Vol. 1 The Bad Christian trans. Augustine Wirth, O.S.B.
  • The Chants of the Vatican Gradual by Dom Dominic Johner
  • Primer viernes de mes by Félix Sardá y Salvany
  • Conferences for Married Men and Young Men by Franz Xavier Weninger, D.D.
  • The Life of Christ: A Catholic Graphic Novel by Rev. Robert Southard, S. J.
• Additions to the home libraries
  • I, Columbus: My Journal 1492-1493 by Peter and Connie Roop
  • Pompeii… Buried Alive! by Edith Kunhardt
  • Tom Kitten: A Beatrix Potter Doorknob Book by Beatrix Potter
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit: A Story Board Book by Beatrix Potter
  • Pooh Goes Visiting and Pooh and Piglet Nearly Catch a Woozle by A. A. Milne
  • Madeline Says Merci: The-Always-Be-Polite Book by John Bemelmans Marciano
  • Bluey: 5-Minute Stories from Ludo
  • You’re My Little Honey Bunny by Nicola Edwards
  • Lots to Spot: Farm by Libby Walden
  • Biscuit’s 123 by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
  • The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, translated by Rev. William Benham
  • Put Me in the Zoo by Robert Lopshire
  • You’re My Little Bookworm by Nicola Edwards
  • Mini Bluey from Ludo
  • Unicorse from Ludo

Choir

• Old Repertoire
  • O Sacred Heart of Christ Aflame
  • Hail, Jesus, Hail
  • Cor Jesu, Caritatis Victima
  • Panis Angelicus (Franck)
  • Ubi Caritas
  • Mass XI (Orbis factor)
  • Credo I

Skillsets

• Archiving daily browsing with Obsidian Web Clipper
• Focused updates of my favorite sites and podcasts with Obsidian RSS Dashboard Community Plugin
• Replaced a broken thermostat
• Issue-to-feature for media downloads with Telegram Chat Downloader
• Raised visibility to translation issues in Lapide.org