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Monthly Archives: August 2009
25 August 2009
Philadelphia: workshop for deacons in Latin and rubrics
From was from a friend in Philadelphia:
Re: Workshop for Deacons on Latin Chants and Pronunciation and Altar Procedures at Carmelite Monastery , Monday, Sept. 21 at 7:00 PM Dr. Lucy Carroll is pleased to announce that a workshop will be … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick
2 Comments
Tolkien’s grandson remembers JRR’s reaction to Mass in English
I saw this due to the diligence of His Hermeneuticalness, Fr. Finigan.
Over at The Lion and the Cardinal we find this about an author who exerted an important influence on my young life: J.R.R. Tolkien. This is a recollection from … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
23 Comments
Bp. D’Arcy on the Notre Dame Debacle… this is not over
I was told by an American bishop not long ago that, as far as the USCCB was concerned, the Notre Dame Debacle is not over.
Read the article by Bp. D’Arcy in America.
From CNA with my emphases and comments.
Bishop … Continue reading
grrr and again grrr
Well… bad news.
Now there is nothing but BSOD when I try to boot my main computer. This is an Nvidia driver problem, I believe. But I can’t get past the BSOD on start up. I am ready to use a … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
23 Comments
Saving Western Civilization… One Book and One Reader at a Time
I was in my native place last week and took part of the morning to visit a place I used to haunt… whose rent I used to pay.
Loome Theological Bookseller.
The used bookstore, the largest theological/Catholic used bookstore anywhere, was … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, SESSIUNCULA
5 Comments
24 August 2009
New liturgical provisions? Maybe not.
I didn’t write on this before, though I usually follow the intrepid Andrea Tornelli when he writes about liturgical things. Still… this struck me as a little odd, for one, and I was really busy.
Have a look at this from … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
25 Comments
another grrrrr update
As you know I have been having some rather serious computer problems. Last week I managed to back up some files when I had gotten it working for a while. Then it crashed again and I decided to … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
7 Comments
The end of liturgical dance
From a friend:
“If you deliver the Ammonites into my power,” he said, “whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites shall belong to the LORD. I shall offer … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
22 Comments
Taking notice of America taking notice of The Bitter Pill
Here is something in passing, just so you know what is going on.
This, from the leftist America magazine published by the Jesuits. It is a piece about the recent training conference in the Archdiocese of Westminster for priests to learn … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
6 Comments
NCReporter whines about Bp. Slattery’s choice for “ad orientem”
From the dissenting ultra-liberal National Catholic Reporter comes this whiny piece jabbing at the Bishop of Tulsa, Most Rev. Edward Slattery, over his choice to offer Holy Mass ad orientem versus when in the cathedral.
Let’s have a look with my … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
45 Comments
QUAERITUR: Sunday’s Mass on Monday
From a reader:
A local parish has a Spanish-language Mass on Monday night, but uses Sunday’s liturgy. Is this ever allowed, even with a dispensation? If so, would it fulfill one’s Sunday obligation? It seems very strange to me.
When there is … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box
6 Comments
A bishop’s second “career”
This comes from Catholic American Eyes in Korea and The Western Confucian:
The hospice movement in Korea is going strong. It is the care of the sick and the dying by people who have been trained to do this … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
2 Comments
An “ineffable” sighting
From The Four Quartets: "The Dry Salvages" by T.S. Eliot:
It seems, as one becomes older, That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence— Or even development: the latter a partial fallacy Encouraged by … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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