Christian F. Casper
@cfcasper.bsky.social
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Personal account
St. Benedict and St. Francis, pray for us
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St. Benedict and St. Francis, pray for us
Claudio Monteverdi, d. November 29, 1643
I love the Vespers.
I love the Vespers.
🎥 VESPRO DELLA BEATA VERGINE, Monteverdi | Captation - Chapelle Royale du Château de Versailles
YouTube video by Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Claudio Monteverdi, d. November 29, 1643
I love the Vespers.
I love the Vespers.
I think there are three composers I could listen to literally every day: Bach, Brahms, and Claudio Monteverdi — d. November 29, 1643
The Monteverdi Choir - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo, SV 318: Act 1: "Rosa del ciel" (2023)
YouTube video by Deutsche Grammophon - DG
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I think there are three composers I could listen to literally every day: Bach, Brahms, and Claudio Monteverdi — d. November 29, 1643
Upon seeing this a friend (not on Bluesky) took all of about fifteen minutes to develop the opening of a future paper on the influence of the temporality of baseball on the theology of Pope Leo XIV:
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Upon seeing this a friend (not on Bluesky) took all of about fifteen minutes to develop the opening of a future paper on the influence of the temporality of baseball on the theology of Pope Leo XIV:
Reposted by Christian F. Casper
Today is the 45th anniversary of Dorothy Day’s death. An American Catholic, Servant of God Dorothy Day is known for co-founding the Catholic Worker Movement and for her care for the poor and most vulnerable.
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today is the 45th anniversary of Dorothy Day’s death. An American Catholic, Servant of God Dorothy Day is known for co-founding the Catholic Worker Movement and for her care for the poor and most vulnerable.
"But I am sure that God did not intend that there be so many poor. The class structure is of our making and our consent, not His. It is the way we have arranged it, and it is up to us to change it."
Dorothy Day, d. November 29, 1980
The Catholic Worker newspaper, April 1953
Dorothy Day, d. November 29, 1980
The Catholic Worker newspaper, April 1953
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"But I am sure that God did not intend that there be so many poor. The class structure is of our making and our consent, not His. It is the way we have arranged it, and it is up to us to change it."
Dorothy Day, d. November 29, 1980
The Catholic Worker newspaper, April 1953
Dorothy Day, d. November 29, 1980
The Catholic Worker newspaper, April 1953
The Caspers are decorating our Christmas tree today. I'm currently spinning this album — a recent favorite. Love those German chorales.
www.naxos.com/CatalogueDet...
www.naxos.com/CatalogueDet...
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Caspers are decorating our Christmas tree today. I'm currently spinning this album — a recent favorite. Love those German chorales.
www.naxos.com/CatalogueDet...
www.naxos.com/CatalogueDet...
Your humble servant, The Other Doctor Casper, and one of our F1s
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Your humble servant, The Other Doctor Casper, and one of our F1s
This was quite moving: an ecumenical prayer service near the archaeological excavations of the ancient Basilica of Saint Neophytos at Iznik, Türkiye — Nicaea. Ut unum sint.
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This was quite moving: an ecumenical prayer service near the archaeological excavations of the ancient Basilica of Saint Neophytos at Iznik, Türkiye — Nicaea. Ut unum sint.
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
The Other Doctor Casper was in the UMS Choral Union for this live recording of the SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE. A great event in the musical history of Ann Arbor, I think.
www.naxos.com/CatalogueDet...
www.naxos.com/CatalogueDet...
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Other Doctor Casper was in the UMS Choral Union for this live recording of the SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE. A great event in the musical history of Ann Arbor, I think.
www.naxos.com/CatalogueDet...
www.naxos.com/CatalogueDet...
America's Thanksgiving Parade is finished, the mayor of Detroit has given Santa Claus the key to the city, and the holiday season is underway!
Local 4 doesn't play "Jauchzet, frohlocket!" over the credits anymore but I'm carrying on the tradition here.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Local 4 doesn't play "Jauchzet, frohlocket!" over the credits anymore but I'm carrying on the tradition here.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, Pt. 1: No. 1, Chorus. Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf,...
YouTube video by Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge - Topic
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
America's Thanksgiving Parade is finished, the mayor of Detroit has given Santa Claus the key to the city, and the holiday season is underway!
Local 4 doesn't play "Jauchzet, frohlocket!" over the credits anymore but I'm carrying on the tradition here.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Local 4 doesn't play "Jauchzet, frohlocket!" over the credits anymore but I'm carrying on the tradition here.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
The Other Doctor Casper agrees!
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Other Doctor Casper agrees!
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
My favorite morning of the year. Coffee in the den with the parade coverage on Local 4, pecan pie baking in the kitchen, Santa receiving the key to the city, the holiday season entirely ahead of us. I love every bit of it.
Best part of the best parade.
I always look for Solanus Casey!
I always look for Solanus Casey!
Detroit Has Its Own Thanksgiving Parade. The City Gets Bigheaded About It.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
My favorite morning of the year. Coffee in the den with the parade coverage on Local 4, pecan pie baking in the kitchen, Santa receiving the key to the city, the holiday season entirely ahead of us. I love every bit of it.
Best part of the best parade.
I always look for Solanus Casey!
I always look for Solanus Casey!
Detroit Has Its Own Thanksgiving Parade. The City Gets Bigheaded About It.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Best part of the best parade.
I always look for Solanus Casey!
I always look for Solanus Casey!
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Everybody has their own theory or diagnosis about the ails of our American political ecosystem. Mine is that the past decade and a half can be characterized as the mutual drifting away of both major parties from the ideals of Christian democracy.
"All of the most admirable tenets of Christian and social democracy could be traced back to the Leonine teaching."
@sohrabahmari.bsky.social on recovering the wisdom of Christian democracy:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
@sohrabahmari.bsky.social on recovering the wisdom of Christian democracy:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
Escaping the ‘Torment Nexus’
The fate of the 21st century turns on whether we appreciate the logic of Christian democracy and of the social teaching that inspired it.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Everybody has their own theory or diagnosis about the ails of our American political ecosystem. Mine is that the past decade and a half can be characterized as the mutual drifting away of both major parties from the ideals of Christian democracy.
Today is the one-hundredth birthday of Eugene Istomin — b. November 26, 1925 (d. 2003) — the New York-born and Philadelphia-trained pianist who had the tremendous good sense to be a rabid fan of the Detroit Tigers. 🎹⚾️🐅
www.eugeneistomin.com/the-man/base...
www.eugeneistomin.com/the-man/base...
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today is the one-hundredth birthday of Eugene Istomin — b. November 26, 1925 (d. 2003) — the New York-born and Philadelphia-trained pianist who had the tremendous good sense to be a rabid fan of the Detroit Tigers. 🎹⚾️🐅
www.eugeneistomin.com/the-man/base...
www.eugeneistomin.com/the-man/base...
Wednesday of the Thirty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
"Suddenly, opposite the lampstand, the fingers of a human hand appeared, writing on the plaster of the wall in the king's palace."
bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
"Suddenly, opposite the lampstand, the fingers of a human hand appeared, writing on the plaster of the wall in the king's palace."
bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
Rembrandt's Belshazzar's Feast | How does Rembrandt capture a king’s downfall?
YouTube video by The National Gallery
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Wednesday of the Thirty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
"Suddenly, opposite the lampstand, the fingers of a human hand appeared, writing on the plaster of the wall in the king's palace."
bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
"Suddenly, opposite the lampstand, the fingers of a human hand appeared, writing on the plaster of the wall in the king's palace."
bible.usccb.org/bible/readin...
November 25, St. Catherine of Alexandria, patron of scholars
She's said to have outdebated and converted fifty pagan court philosophers who were sent to dissuade her from her Christianity. An eleventh-century church in Athens dedicated to her sits on top of a former temple to the goddess Artemis.
She's said to have outdebated and converted fifty pagan court philosophers who were sent to dissuade her from her Christianity. An eleventh-century church in Athens dedicated to her sits on top of a former temple to the goddess Artemis.
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
November 25, St. Catherine of Alexandria, patron of scholars
She's said to have outdebated and converted fifty pagan court philosophers who were sent to dissuade her from her Christianity. An eleventh-century church in Athens dedicated to her sits on top of a former temple to the goddess Artemis.
She's said to have outdebated and converted fifty pagan court philosophers who were sent to dissuade her from her Christianity. An eleventh-century church in Athens dedicated to her sits on top of a former temple to the goddess Artemis.
I made Life before I had to turn my attention to other things. I'm deeply grateful to Scouting.
Scouting was where I learned that there are forms of authority that don't rely solely on assertion of will. That there is a masculinity that doesn't involve dominance. But I'm also the kind of man Hegseth would probably find "weak."
Then again, I'm an Eagle Scout and he never held any rank, so.
Then again, I'm an Eagle Scout and he never held any rank, so.
This is the Scout Law (say it with me!): "A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent." Scouting America hasn't changed its values at all. It has simply recognized that they aren't exclusively male.
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I made Life before I had to turn my attention to other things. I'm deeply grateful to Scouting.
Reposted by Christian F. Casper
Ps 37,11
Mansuéti autem hereditábunt terram
et delectabúntur in multitúdine pacis.
en cambio, los sufridos poseen la tierra
y disfrutan de paz abundante.
But the meek shall inherit the land
and delight in fullness of peace.
Mansuéti autem hereditábunt terram
et delectabúntur in multitúdine pacis.
en cambio, los sufridos poseen la tierra
y disfrutan de paz abundante.
But the meek shall inherit the land
and delight in fullness of peace.
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Ps 37,11
Mansuéti autem hereditábunt terram
et delectabúntur in multitúdine pacis.
en cambio, los sufridos poseen la tierra
y disfrutan de paz abundante.
But the meek shall inherit the land
and delight in fullness of peace.
Mansuéti autem hereditábunt terram
et delectabúntur in multitúdine pacis.
en cambio, los sufridos poseen la tierra
y disfrutan de paz abundante.
But the meek shall inherit the land
and delight in fullness of peace.
A simple, spoken Requiem Mass was said for President John F. Kennedy on November 25, 1963.
On November 22, 1964, a new choral work by Herbert Howells was premiered, commissioned in his memory: the profoundly beautiful motet "Take him, earth, for cherishing".
On November 22, 1964, a new choral work by Herbert Howells was premiered, commissioned in his memory: the profoundly beautiful motet "Take him, earth, for cherishing".
Howells’ “Take him, earth, for cherishing”: Three Cathedral Choirs 1981 (Alan Thurlow)
YouTube video by Archive of Recorded Church Music
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A simple, spoken Requiem Mass was said for President John F. Kennedy on November 25, 1963.
On November 22, 1964, a new choral work by Herbert Howells was premiered, commissioned in his memory: the profoundly beautiful motet "Take him, earth, for cherishing".
On November 22, 1964, a new choral work by Herbert Howells was premiered, commissioned in his memory: the profoundly beautiful motet "Take him, earth, for cherishing".
November 25, St. Catherine of Alexandria
Peter Paul Rubens, THE CROWNING OF SAINT CATHERINE, Toledo Museum of Art
emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/5487...
Peter Paul Rubens, THE CROWNING OF SAINT CATHERINE, Toledo Museum of Art
emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/5487...
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
November 25, St. Catherine of Alexandria
Peter Paul Rubens, THE CROWNING OF SAINT CATHERINE, Toledo Museum of Art
emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/5487...
Peter Paul Rubens, THE CROWNING OF SAINT CATHERINE, Toledo Museum of Art
emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/5487...
In Lansing for a triannual meeting of the diocesan pastoral council
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
In Lansing for a triannual meeting of the diocesan pastoral council
Manuel Cardoso, d. November 24, 1650
Cupertinos: Kyrie by Manuel Cardoso
YouTube video by Cupertinos
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Manuel Cardoso, d. November 24, 1650