Christian F. Casper
@cfcasper.bsky.social
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Personal account
St. Benedict and St. Francis, pray for us
Personal account
St. Benedict and St. Francis, pray for us
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
Advent is less than a week away.
This is a matter of dispute in my house, but I hold that spooky season begins with Michaelmas and ends at the first note of the treble solo in "Once in Royal David's City" at King's College, Cambridge.
Clare Coffey makes the case even better than I can:
This is a matter of dispute in my house, but I hold that spooky season begins with Michaelmas and ends at the first note of the treble solo in "Once in Royal David's City" at King's College, Cambridge.
Clare Coffey makes the case even better than I can:
Waiting in the Gloom
Advent is a time of hope, writes Clare Coffey, but its days are filled with a beautiful gloom as well.
www.plough.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Advent is less than a week away.
This is a matter of dispute in my house, but I hold that spooky season begins with Michaelmas and ends at the first note of the treble solo in "Once in Royal David's City" at King's College, Cambridge.
Clare Coffey makes the case even better than I can:
This is a matter of dispute in my house, but I hold that spooky season begins with Michaelmas and ends at the first note of the treble solo in "Once in Royal David's City" at King's College, Cambridge.
Clare Coffey makes the case even better than I can:
Five years ago I was teaching a new online section of our first-year course, specializing in food science, thermodynamics, and transportation logistics. I used a detail from the east wall as the cover image on our Canvas site. 🌽🍎🍇
dia.org/collection/d...
dia.org/collection/d...
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Five years ago I was teaching a new online section of our first-year course, specializing in food science, thermodynamics, and transportation logistics. I used a detail from the east wall as the cover image on our Canvas site. 🌽🍎🍇
dia.org/collection/d...
dia.org/collection/d...
Diego Rivera, d. November 24, 1957
His great DETROIT INDUSTRY murals cover all four walls of Rivera Court at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Here's the north wall. I have a print of it in my office on campus.
dia.org/collection/d...
His great DETROIT INDUSTRY murals cover all four walls of Rivera Court at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Here's the north wall. I have a print of it in my office on campus.
dia.org/collection/d...
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Diego Rivera, d. November 24, 1957
His great DETROIT INDUSTRY murals cover all four walls of Rivera Court at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Here's the north wall. I have a print of it in my office on campus.
dia.org/collection/d...
His great DETROIT INDUSTRY murals cover all four walls of Rivera Court at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Here's the north wall. I have a print of it in my office on campus.
dia.org/collection/d...
Last week I mentioned a niche interest I have in border-crossing in the Middle Ages. (It was in the context of medieval Irish devotion to the English king and martyr St. Edmund.) I have a similar, though so far less developed, interest in American devotion to Mexican and Canadian saints.
Ningún santo llega al cielo amargado, triste o decepcionado. La alegría del cristiano es decir... “No me pueden quitar la vida porque yo ya la di, ya la entregué cómo regalo, cómo respuesta.”
P. Miguel Pro, ruega por nosotros🙏🏻
#VivaCristoRey
P. Miguel Pro, ruega por nosotros🙏🏻
#VivaCristoRey
November 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Last week I mentioned a niche interest I have in border-crossing in the Middle Ages. (It was in the context of medieval Irish devotion to the English king and martyr St. Edmund.) I have a similar, though so far less developed, interest in American devotion to Mexican and Canadian saints.
Last Sunday of the liturgical year, Christ the King
attr. Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, CHRIST, Detroit Institute of Arts
dia.org/collection/c...
attr. Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, CHRIST, Detroit Institute of Arts
dia.org/collection/c...
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Last Sunday of the liturgical year, Christ the King
attr. Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, CHRIST, Detroit Institute of Arts
dia.org/collection/c...
attr. Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, CHRIST, Detroit Institute of Arts
dia.org/collection/c...
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
November 22, St. Cecilia, martyr, patron of music
Orazio Gentileschi, YOUNG WOMAN WITH A VIOLIN (SAINT CECILIA), Detroit Institute of Arts
dia.org/collection/y...
📸 Mine, about a half-hour ago
Orazio Gentileschi, YOUNG WOMAN WITH A VIOLIN (SAINT CECILIA), Detroit Institute of Arts
dia.org/collection/y...
📸 Mine, about a half-hour ago
November 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
November 22, St. Cecilia, martyr, patron of music
Orazio Gentileschi, YOUNG WOMAN WITH A VIOLIN (SAINT CECILIA), Detroit Institute of Arts
dia.org/collection/y...
📸 Mine, about a half-hour ago
Orazio Gentileschi, YOUNG WOMAN WITH A VIOLIN (SAINT CECILIA), Detroit Institute of Arts
dia.org/collection/y...
📸 Mine, about a half-hour ago
"'Sing to him a new song.' Rid yourself of what is old and worn out, for you know a new song. A new human being, a new covenant; a new song. . . . Let us sing a new song not with our lips but with our lives."
St. Augustine, in the Office of Readings for November 22, the feast of St. Cecilia
St. Augustine, in the Office of Readings for November 22, the feast of St. Cecilia
Henry Purcell, d. November 21, 1695
Academy Baroque Soloists perform Purcell's 'O sing unto the Lord'
YouTube video by Royal Academy of Music
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"'Sing to him a new song.' Rid yourself of what is old and worn out, for you know a new song. A new human being, a new covenant; a new song. . . . Let us sing a new song not with our lips but with our lives."
St. Augustine, in the Office of Readings for November 22, the feast of St. Cecilia
St. Augustine, in the Office of Readings for November 22, the feast of St. Cecilia
Big day in the year for my musical family
Benjamin Britten — down the thread — is great. So is Henry Purcell (year's mind yesterday):
youtu.be/FcRrwIsNJbE
Benjamin Britten — down the thread — is great. So is Henry Purcell (year's mind yesterday):
youtu.be/FcRrwIsNJbE
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Big day in the year for my musical family
Benjamin Britten — down the thread — is great. So is Henry Purcell (year's mind yesterday):
youtu.be/FcRrwIsNJbE
Benjamin Britten — down the thread — is great. So is Henry Purcell (year's mind yesterday):
youtu.be/FcRrwIsNJbE