Some things are simply too tragic for words. Only images can convey our sorrow.
Disaster barely averted… but only through a self-less, chilling sacrifice.
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Some things are simply too tragic for words. Only images can convey our sorrow.
Disaster barely averted… but only through a self-less, chilling sacrifice.
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“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops.”
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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I confess that Stella Artois has long been an area where I make relaxationin the traditional Franciscan usus pauper.
Why would anyone risk themselves for muck like Stella? It’s so bad, it’s almost like American “beer”! If you want to drink something from Belgium, try the Domus brewery. Or better still Maredsous – it must be something to do with Blessed Columba’s intercession.
I am told (by friends in Poland) that several of the men in this commercial are very well known Polish actors.
Perhaps Veuve Clicquot Grande Dame would be worth the effort!
That’s just plain funny.
What I’d like to know is what is the music in this ad? Can anyone help?
Music is the Hungarian Rhapsody #2 by Franz Lizst.
The “priest” shown near the end looks surprisingly like a young Cardinal Wyszynski, late Primate of Poland!
Everything tastes better with a Lizst!
My wife, who is Polish, says that the older priest who sends the young priest for the beer is named zbigniew zamachowski, the young priest who falls through the ice is wojciech klata. Klata was in a great series of Polish movies about the ten commandments (titled “Decalogue”?)
Beveragewise, I find myself these days Lizsting to port.
Yes, I confirm it’s Zamachowski and Klata.
I think the funniest thing about this ad (besides the excellent facial expressions) is the apt, if exaggerated, characterization of male corporate social structures. Here they are clerics, but they could easily be a law firm or the Elks.
Cases of Stella are on sale this weekend at Asda for £7. Woot!
LOL!
Just too predictable!
Ahhh, makes me look forward to tonight when I imbibe for the first time since Mardi Gras.
It was a long 40 days, but on the plus side I lost 14 lbs.
I have always been endlessly amused by that commercial. I would have liked to be in the room when they came up with the idea.
Funny… It dosent look like it’s as cold there, as it is in Minn
We occasionally find Stella in restaurants around here. It was a favorite of the Chorale Crowd when we frequented a particular Raleigh restaurant. Very funny commercial! – one I’ll share.
Fr. Marie-Paul, respectfully good father I suggest its so predictable because its so true….. :)
After filing my taxes, I think I could use a beer.
Interesting choice of anti-spam words (ties with Stella Artois) Here I thought that this was Fr. Z and some priests that visited him up north! It was a beer commerical.
Fitting, although I must confess that I prefer Andech’s (Benedictine Abbey Kloster Andechs, in Bavaria Germany). Beautiful Church, our ski club went there for Mass and then a hearty meal after we went to Oktoberfest. Also well known for their bier!
Ich wünsche Ihnen frohe Ostern!
I remember that ad! They used to show it here in England.
I think the main priest (not the one who fell in) looks a little bit like Fr. Z.
Thanks, Christina :)
I recognize Zamochowski from “With Fire and Sword” which I just watched for the first time (known in Polish as “Ogniem i Mieczem”).