Ite Missa Est. Well, this is the end of the road for HallowedGround. I’m pretty much “blogged out”. Not a bad run, eh? Alot of real great pictures were posted, laughs were had, tears were shed (so melodramatic!). Between work (or possibly in the near future the lack thereof!), and other issues I am just really tired of blogging. Let it be said, that when I first started blogging, I was primarily concerned about the then-fabled “Motu Proprio”. We exhorted each other to pray for it, and the Good Lord being Good was propitious upon his people, and it was issued! Always pray for Pope Benedict XVI. Benedict has put “traditionalism” back into the life of the Church. When I came back to the Church about 5 years ago, it was due in no small part to the Latin Mass. He has taken the Ancient Liturgy from the fringes, and put it back into the Heart of the Church where it belongs. He has given the Church a new, lively step as of late, and things seem like they’re picking up.
If I have said anything to offend anyone, I am sorry. Please pray for this poor sinner, I have always been overly cantankerous.
Yes, the blog will be staying up in perpetuity, or at least until WordPress goes out of business. Also, I promised I would open up the “vaults” when this blogging thing wore out. Please do use them on your blogs, just because I stopped blogging doesn’t mean “Traditional Catholic Visualism” has to end. I have used about 75-80% of the pics I have stored. You can find them in these places:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q= (Search under people, and input my screen names): kjk76_88, kjk76_89, kjk76_90, kjk76_91, kking_888, and kking_88
http://photobucket.com/: Go to my accounts: kjk76_79, kjk76_80, kjk76_91, kjk76_92, kjk76_93, kjk76_94, kjk76_95, kjk76_98, kjk76_00, , kking8888, kking_8888, and kking_88888.
Oh.. A Big P.S.:
Due to repeated questions of “Ken, where do you get these great pics?”etc…left in the combox of numerous posts, I have promised that I would eventually provide some tips & hints for finding great pics. Well, here you go:
Foreign Ebay always has tons of great “Churchy” pics, go to Italian Ebay, and put in Papa Pio/Paolo/Giovanni. Or German Ebay and put in Papst Pius/Paul/Johannes. Or any of the foreign ones for that matter. And the same things go for Foreign Google picture searches: Italian Google. Great Example: French Google: type in Soutane. You get the picture!
Thank you all for coming to this blog, I hope it occasionally edified you.
He that giveth testimony of these things, saith, Surely I come quickly: Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. (Book of Revelation)
Ken … oh … sigh … I really love this site …
Will you be keeping your blog intact and online … I hope?
My prayers are with you, and I wish for you the very best this Feast of the Immaculate Conception and on …
Net: Yes, the blog will be staying up in perpetuity, or at least until WordPress goes out of business.
God bless in your endevors I really enjoyed this blog.
Dear Sir,
I came back to the Church only two years ago, at the age of 52. Thank you for all your great work. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam. Please continue if you can.
I can understand your desire to stop blogging and I respect that, but I will say I secretly hope you are just going to take a lengthy sabbatical and return rejuvenated.
Pax.
Dear Ken:
What a pity! God bless you.
I like this blog very much.
Now, in spanish…
Es una pena que dejes el blog.
Dios te bendiga.
Isaac
That’s sad news.
Yet, still, thanks for your edifying posts.
This blog is WONDERFUL.
God bless and thank you again. . .
You will be greatly missed! Your blog certainly made me smile and gave me hope. We live in an area where it will likely be 10 years before we will have the Gregorian Rite or Extraordinary Form. It will be a very long go without great visual blogs such as yours.
Please keep the Traditional Catholics in South AL in your prayers. We need them. You will have ours.
God Bless.
Thank you so much, Ken, for all you have done here! God bless you.
Ken – you’ve been one of my favorite blogs! While I respect your decision, I don’t have to like it, right?
Your doses-of-the-ethereal will be so missed. I looked forward to it.
Thanks for the tips and God bless you!
…Another returnee to the Latin Mass
Thanks so much for your work on the blog and the pictures were so inspiring. God Bless you and your family and best wishes for the future.
God Bless & Thank you all for your kind comments.
(((weeps melodramatically)))
You’ll be back. Maybe not with such grandeur, but I think you’ll be back. This blog had some great insight along with the pictures.
I find many people who get tired of blogging come back to it, even if its in a lower key sort of way. I certainly would say take some time off and then reconsider a blog which is more commentary based.
Either way, thanks for the pictures and spreading the beauty of the Church.
A wonderful blog that will be greatly missed. I will not try to persuade to continue as I am sure it takes up plenty of time and a blog like so many things cannot last forever. You have done great work for The Church and I wish you every success in the future.
Vergelt´s Gott, Ken.
Your blog always made my day.
Oh man!
And now who will help me publicize events in the NYC area, Ken?
You know that most blogs are not that friendly and a lot of those famous blogs mainly worry about things/events going on in Europe and other places where most people are not able to attend and they just have to read about them — probably, Europe is considered “classier”… who knows!
Well, I really appreciated many of the pictures you provided. A lot of them helped us figure out obscure liturgical questions on some people’s minds, especially with regard to the Papal Mass or Masses in the presence of the Pope.
Thank you and be well.
Bravo! on a job well done!
Dear Ken, I started the Mass Oct. 1985 in Hartford, CT. Have been saying it for 23 years. I have immensely enjoyed your blog. I am a great devotee of the great Pope Pacelli. I saw things I’ve never seen before about him. You have my prayerful support in your great work. Where are you located? I am in the Diocese of Albany, NY. Ave atque vale! Jeff
Ken,
Ahhh!!! Not again! But I know all good things must come to an end. I’ll not fall down on one knee again this time. I’ve often thought how onerous must be the task to ferret out such daily beauty, and throw in a worthwhile comment to boot.
My prayers are with you. A very Merry and Blessed Christmas to you.
One question though – whose blog are you going to read now with all your newfound spare time ;) ?
Thank you all, and yes, I am really done this time. Also Merry Christmas in advance to you all.
Ed: Your blog is picking up right? I’m sure enough folks see announcements there?
Father: I am in the Archdiocese of NYC
Jon: Yes, it was indeed time consuming finding, editing, and posting all these pictures, and I might need the upcoming free time to look for a job (I don’t know yet, but….).
Bravo, bravo!
Thank you for your blog – it was always my favorite part of my morning routine!
You will be missed.
Best of luck on all your future endeavors!
Your visual inspiration will be greatly missed!
Cheers, mate! A slightly more Catholic decade for you in thanks.
Job well done Ken. Hate to see you go.
Father L’Arche,
Small world. My son, Will, is the boy who served Mass for you on Assumption Day up in Haines Falls this summer. Remember, the young blond-haired fellow who serves the Traditional Mass? My friend and I harangued you outside the church during the bakesale for a few moments after Mass that day.
A wonderful and Blessed Christmas to you, too, Father – and keep up the good fight!
Goodness, how edified I have been…and thrilled and moved and blessed.
Well done!
May you find as much joy after you leave this blog as your readers–perhaps I should say “watchers”–have found here. You will be a fortunate man indeed!
May the Lord have mercy on you in your new ventures.
God bless you Ken, this blog has been a pleasure to read…okay, mostly look at :)
Bravo, Ken. Bravo.
God bless.
Thank you guys, and God Bless!
Sorry to see you go. I do understand the time involved in blogging though. I will keep your site linked on mine. Best wishes in your “retirement.”
ICXC
John
Spiffy. I just found your blog today and, you’re done. Not spiffy. Since I can I’ll bookmark and poke around. Peace be with you.
My Art
My Catholic faith
Our prayer initiative A Month for the Souls in Purgatory
Thank you. Beauty lasts forever.
Thank you for such a wonderful blog!
Sad news, your blog has been one of the more respectable blogs online, I will miss you. You have a wonderful eye, and great editing skills, so often posting just the right quotes from encyclicals and so on. I also appreciate your good comments – always polite and always marked by discretion.
I surely understand being tired of blogging – just keeping up with it. I’m the one who probably should quit. Please pray for me if it is not a bother.
Thank you for doing such a fine job. God bless you and have a blessed Advent and a happy Christmas.
Terry
Ken –
Your blog has been a city on a hill – which has shown brightly. Your work will be missed. My pride hopes that you will return to this work, my heart understands. Thank you for your willingness to bring truth into this world – it has been appreciated.
Blessings in Christ –
Mike from Sober Inebriation
http://soberinebriation.blogspot.com/
Thanks to all you guys.
Terry, thank you for the kind words, and keep up the good work. (I will still be reading blogs after all!)
Farewell Ken and God Bless. Many thanks for all you’ve shared with us via this most edifying blog.
All I just can say is THANK YOU. That says it all. You’ll probably never realize how important a good single blog as yours can be to the cause of God. May He bless you. See you, DV, in Heaven.
NATALE HILARE ET ANNUM FAUSTUM.
Kind regards from Spain,
CATHOLICVS
Next to the famous Fr. Z’s blog, yours was, in my humble opinion, the best one out there in the Catholic blogsphere. Yours was certainly the blog which was like no other. It has done a great deal for this young “Post VII” Catholic who’s only real “memories” of the Church of our glorious past have come from pictures and anecdotes, many of which have come from your blog.
A blog such as this one must take innumerable hours to maintain, so I don’t begrudge you for having to bring it to an end, but if you do change your mind, know that you can count on me to become one of your daily readers once again. I will say a rosary for you in gratitude for all that you have done. God bless.
you are still needed.
Rest and return.
Ohhh,
I went searching for soutane on the french google and some really offensive/unchaste image came up. Beware, folks.
Bye Ken!
I’ll miss “hallowed ground”!
Thanks for all the great photos and texts!
Ciao,
Leo
Thanks for all the work! I’ll still be using your many photos.
God bless you!
As a convert from Russian ORthodoxy to Catholicism, i’ve loved your site so much. Please consider a return! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Until then you’re in my prayers. Most holy Mother of God save you!
I’ve really enjoyed reading this site.
Best wishes for a merry Christmas and I hope that if you do end up needing to look for work that you are able to find employment soon.
By the way, the employment situation in the South (3.5% unemployment) is much better than in the Northeast, so don’t be afraid to move if the need arises.
God bless and good luck!
I have loved this blog, especially the photos. I hope that someone will be inspired by the work you have done and continue to find and display on the Web the great historical photographs which are part of the history of Holy Mother Church. Without such a resource, we would never know the glory of what has been, and might yet again be.
God bless you always.
Thanks a million for this blog and for opening up your pics to us. I wanted so many times to copy them for my computer wallpaper and couldn’t–good art like that which you’ve accumulated is so very edifying, and it makes keeping one’s eyes in check while online much easier, especially if a beautiful image of Our Lady sits on the desktop! God bless you for this great apostolate!
I will very much miss this blog. Thanks for the inspirations you’ve provided. Good work! God Bless you!
Thanks for the nice blogging you have done Ken. I wish you all good. May God bless you abundantly!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
i READ YOUR BLOG EVERYDAY!!!!! COME BACK!!!!
You will remain one of my favorite blogs in perpetuity.
Ken, I’m sorry to hear that you’ve signed off. Thank you for all of the great images that you compiled and shared with us!
Ack I can’t believe I’m only commenting now! :(
For what it’s worth, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed your blog the moment I first laid eyes on it two years ago. I seriously cannot count how many times I’ve been moved, inspired, and edified by the pictures you post.
Thanks for everything Ken, may God bless you and yours especially in this most blessed season. And I will continually pray that you come back! :D Thanks again for all your hard work and dedication!
Thank you for all your work well done. Your web log was a rare credit to the medium, one of the very best.
Thanks so much for a superb pictorial blog.
If you are wondering whom and in what fashion you have influenced those who read your blog…I can tell you. I swam the Tiber in great part because of you and your fellow bloggers. Well, maybe I just got lucky and found you, Fr. Zuhlsdorf, Shawn Tribe, Patrick and Mathew Archbold, “His Hermeneuticalness” and a few select others at just the right time.
In any event, you have not only been a blessing. You have been instrumental in bringing me and my children home. Thank you. We will miss you.
Doug, that is the best news I have heard in a long time. Wow, thanks for telling me that, it kind of makes the whole blog worth it.
A fine blog, bro. One of the finest ever.
Union of prayers from the Holy City,
JPSonnen
Hi Ken, I hope you might find it of interest to pray for your needs (re: job) at the shrine of OLMC in Harlem, and maybe you will find it inspiring first watching youtube video I made about the shrine:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2vYhPSti_U0
Best wishes and may God bless and and keep you safe always.
Your blog has been such a pleasure for me…I’m very visually oriented and am so often inspired and uplifted by what I take in through my eyes. Thanks for leaving us with a treasure trove of beautiful images.
God bless you,
Nadja
Don’t forget WordPress will drop the blog without activity. I don’t know how much–you ought to check with them. Meanwhile, I hardly think the struggle is over, and I do not know why you are ‘through.’
Ken, sorry to see you go; as a few people have said, seeing your site always makes my day.
Thank you for inspiring not just me, but all of us who read your blog, uh, religiously. (Sorry.) Anyway…
May God bless you and yours, especially this Christmas season.
Laetentur caeli et exsultet terra!
Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad!
Your blog has always been a bright spot in my life. Thanks for all you do. And I do pray that should an event of great magnetude happen such as the Pope saying a TLM, I do hope you would come out of retirement.
Muito obrigado por todo seu trabalho, sentirei muitas saudades desse blog,
Deus lhe abençoe!
You look this
http://www.elmundo.es/albumes/2008/12/19/division_azul/index_12.html
Will really miss your Apostolate.
Cheerio…but come back soon!
Father D
Say it ain’t so!
We’ll miss you. Thanks for all of your work!
Ken, thank you for all the amazing pictures you have posted. I will miss you. It was wonderful of you to share your links. God bless.
Thank you.
An opus magnus that I will return to pore over for as long as it remains. Can’t thank you enough Ken.
Mornac
All the best for you in the future, and thank you again for what you’ve done. Deo gratias ! Merci beaucoup,
Eric
Hello Ken!!!
This is Lili – I sit to your right at St Agnes in the first pew.
How are you ? Donald & I miss you at Mass – we are concerned.
It took me a while to figure out how to contact you – great was my joy when I discovered the “feed” and saw your timely responses.
Please let us know how you are – be well-yours in Christ
Lili
Hey Lili,
I am fine, and please do tell Donald. But, I will probably be at St. Agnes this Sunday to tell him myself. I have just been really busy at work (working on Saturdays, etc.). I have been so bushed on Sunday mornings that I have been going to my local parish’s 12:00 AM Mass, just so I can catch up on sleep.
Thank you for your concern, God Bless..
Aww… well, thank you for what has been a wonderful run!
Thank you so much for all in the past – I know you will return one day.
Hi!
I just love those pictures. Just fill my heart with joy and hope.
God bless this great apostolate! Will give much fruit!
Bye
Julie Maria
Hi Ken, I just came upon your blog yesterday (looking at Behold Thy King, 13 March 2008). I’m putting up a small art show for Lent at my church and wondered if I could reproduce that image. I’d really like to know, as we need to hang the images on 1st March 2009! Thanks, and best wishes for your job search. I’m glad your blog is staying posted.
I hate to see this happen. But you take care, my fiend and may God bless.
Ken,
Happy Easter!
Now that you’ve had between Christmas and Easter off, it’s time to come back!
You’re missed.
Hello Jon,
Thank you very much for the sentiment, but at this point I don’t see it happening, and if it ever does it most certainly would not be a daily thing.
Thanks,
Ken
Ken — I’ve forgotten your last name and wish to list it on Cathlete.net … we’re taking a break from the site until we can figure out how the heck to make some income from all the hours we put into it, but want to list your site as one to take a look-see at along with a few others as folks still are coming to our site. I’ll check back on these comments, or maybe you could send us an e-mail, or maybe, just maybe, my memory will kick in … however, that is unlikely. :)
Hello Net, it’s Mascoli
Thanks Ken … your blog is a treasure!
Dear Ken
I have just discovered your blog. I am glad to know that our Pope Benedict xv11 is going back to tradition. The church has been split because of modernism and some of us unfortunately not being aware of what was going on behind the scenes continued going to the Catholic church (modern)…..hopefully we will all be ONE again. I love the Traditions and Latin Mass but I still enjoy our Mass today….I guess it is what you put into it that counts.
Ciao
I second Antonella Oliver’s remarks – this is a truly great photographic archive of Catholic culture and practice. Good wishes to its creator and those who visit it.
It would be possible to spend hours wandering through this site – a bit like touring the National Gallery.
In caritate Xp.,
Bryan
I recently found your site and love it. I have a link to it on my homily website site. I am sorry that you had to stop. God bless you.
Thank you Father, I’m glad you have enjoyed the site. I quit because it took to much of my time, and quite honestly, I was running out of pictures!. I added your site to the links. Thx, God Bless.
Hi Ken,
I couldn’t find an email feature on your blog to refer you the a video called ‘Passion of the Catholic Church’. Thought it would be of much interest as some of the photos shown are the very ones on your site.
God bless,
Our Lady of the Rosary, Pray for us!
Excellent blog, by the grace of God, it’s a saintly one indeed!
This is the Playlist Link: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=20CB42BC5391BA98
God bless your work.
Merci pour ce site, de très belle image. Dieu vous bénisse +
I just discovered your site. Thank you.
I invite you to my gooey-eyed, cesaro-papist, schismatic little site… :-)
Is this blog still going? I would to talk about collaboration between http://www.OneBillionStories.com and this blog.
SJD
Come back!!!!!!
Hello,
would you be willing to contact me about a particular picture I saw posted that I am interested in?
Thank you in advance.