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Monthly Archives: September 2009
20 September 2009
“staunch Catholicism and tough-love approach” in Sauk City
This is from the Wisconsin State Journal with my emphases and comments:
Sauk City-area priests inspiring some, alienating others
By DOUG ERICKSON derickson@madison.com 608-252-6149 | Posted: Saturday, September 19, 2009 3:45 pm
SAUK CITY — At a recent Mass at St. Aloysius Catholic … Continue reading
19 September 2009
What’s for supper?
People and the friends and families are increasingly fragmented.
A myriad of social networking means are sought today, except perhaps the table.
What plans do you have for your Sunday meal?
Do you have some plans for a Sunday meal together with family … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
31 Comments
What Catholic speakers influenced your life the most?
With the help of a reader, I found an interesting entry on Fallible Blogma about Catholic speakers.
This is a poll about "what Catholic speaker has influenced your life the most? Each individual gets ten picks when they vote (because it’s … Continue reading
Posted in POLLS
58 Comments
REMINDER: 19 September
original message 15 September
Talk Like A Pirate Day!
UPDATE 17 Sept 16:32
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
39 Comments
QUAERITUR: Can a seminarian use an amice?
From a seminarian:
Just a question: Is it permissible for those candidates to be installed as acolytes during their seminary formation, in addition to the alb and cincture, allowed to wear an amice?
Of course it is. And it really must be … Continue reading
Philly: building choirs for a TLM
From a reader:
Beginning on October 25,2009, weekly sung Traditional Latin Mass will be celebrated at 12 noon at St. Paul Church in South Philadelphia on Christian Street between 9th and 10th Streets. St. Paul Parish is forming a mixed choir … Continue reading
18 September 2009
“Caritas in veritate” is now available in LATIN
The Latin text of the Holy Father’s encyclical Caritas in veritate is now available in LATIN on the Vatican website.
PROOEMIUM
1. Caritas in veritate, quam sua terrestri vita ac potissimum suam per mortem et resurrectionem testificatus est Iesus Christus, praecipua … Continue reading
Sr. Joan and the Usual Suspects
Just when you think the dissidents can’t veer farther into fantasy comes this knee slapper from Sr. Joan and the Usual Suspects.
Notice how I don’t even have to give her last name or the name of the publication?
She compares the … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
47 Comments
Just Too Cool: College kids build space camera for $148
Watching the destruction of education in the US and elsewhere should be sufficient to prove that throwing lots of money at a project doesn’t always produce results.
Here is a great story.
The $150 Edge-of-Space Camera: MIT Students Beat NASA On Beer-Money … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool
9 Comments
“She kept saying, ‘It’s the Pope. That’s the Pope’”
I really like this story from the National Catholic Register:
Emma Watson Meets Her Pope
Posted by Tim Drake
Thursday, September 17, 2009 5:24 AM
Last Wednesday, 7-year-old Emma Watson of Craigmont, Idaho, finally got her wish to meet Pope Benedict XVI. … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
11 Comments
“…led by Curiosity and good Company I strolled away to Mother Church…”
From a reader:
Good morning, Father. Reading your comments on the importance of revitalizing the liturgy put me in mind of the comments of John Adams, who later became the second president of the United States. Adams was rather a Puritan, … Continue reading
John Allen on upcoming SSPX Summit
My friend John L. Allen, the nearly ubiquitous fair-minded correspondent of the ultra-lefty dissenting National Catholic Reporter is a good analyst.
In his weekly Friday letter he drills into the upcoming talks that are soon to begin between the SSPX and … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged John Allen, John L. Allen, NCR, SSPX
17 Comments
Caption
I picked this up from the young Papist. It is a photo screaming for a good caption.
"OHHHHK-lahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain…"
Karaoke Night at the Synod.
Posted in Lighter fare
27 Comments
QUAERITUR: Gregorian Masses for the living?
From a priest reader:
I have a question for you or your readers. Do you think that the Missae Gregorianae can be offered for the living? I have found this custom here in Barcelona, amongst some of the OF people … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, SESSIUNCULA
1 Comment
Fr. Roscia of Salt+Light on “the Lifesite crowd” and “EWTN viewers”
Do you remember what Hamlet told Polonius about the players when they come to Elsinore?
Good my lord, will you see the players wellbestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used; forthey are the abstract and brief chronicles of thetime: … Continue reading
