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Monthly Archives: December 2009
31 December 2009
Spaghetti al seminario
I mentioned on Plurk/Twitter that I was going to make what I call "spaghetti al seminario". This is pretty simply stuff and you can put it together with brutal speed.
The name comes from the fact that in my seminary … Continue reading
Happy New Year of Salvation 2010!
May God bless you all abundantly for this New Year of Salvation.
Have any resolutions?
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
28 Comments
A priest “ties one on” for the New Year!
From a priest friend and reader in an e-mail entitled simply:
MANIPLE
In honor of Fr. Z, I’m tying one on tonight, and tomorrow morning!
Happy New Year!
I love it when a priest is determined to tie one on to celebrate the New … Continue reading
Blue moon eclipse revisited
One of you readers caught the partial eclipse of the blue moon!
Very cool.
As view from Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, GB at 1928 local time.
Another, a priest friend, sent this from Ascona, Switzerland at 2010 GMT!
Technorati Tags: blue moon, eclipse
1st Vespers in St. Peter’s: Pope Benedict’s exhoration to vocation
During 1st Vespers of the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, with the singing of the Te Deum for the end of the year, the Holy Father said, in my translation:
Dear brothers and sisters, Rome needs priests who will be … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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WDTPRS: Mary, Mother of God (2002MR)
A look at the prayers for tomorrow’s Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God in the 2002MR.
COLLECT (2002MR) Deus, qui salutis aeternae, beatae Mariae virginitate fecunda, humano generi praemia praestitisti, tribue, quaesumus, ut ipsam pro nobis intercedere sentiamus, per quam … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
13 Comments
Jesuits comment on the new translation, and get it right
A couple weeks ago in my column for The Wanderer I spoke of the work of Christine Mohrmann. Also, I have on various occasions opined that sometimes it is okay for something you know to be a translation to actually … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Christine Mohrmann, slavishly literal, translation, Vox Clara
24 Comments
Rush taken to hospital for chest pain
In a FOXNews story:
HONOLULU — Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was taken to a hospital with chest pains on Wednesday, a Honolulu television station reported.
Paramedics responded to a call at 2:41 p.m. from the Kahala Hotel and Resort … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
71 Comments
30 December 2009
This is too cool: BLUE MOON ECLIPSE!
Space Weather News for Dec. 31, 2009
BLUE MOON ECLIPSE: For the first time in almost 20 years, there’s going to be a "Blue Moon" on New Year’s Eve. In Europe, sky watchers will witness an even rarer event–an eclipse of … Continue reading
From First Things and Forum Letter: “Temple prostitution: a modest proposal”
Want to have a chuckle while looking at a serious issue?
Serious for the Lutherans, that is.
You remember the ELCA decision last summer about homosexual clergy and same-sex unions?
I picked up on the site of First Things their … Continue reading
The Feeder Feed
Between various bouts with the keyboard today, I took a few photos of the every busy birds at the feeder.
Lots of black and white these days.
Though other muted colors come around.
I am glad to see some House Finches back. They … Continue reading
Posted in The Feeder Feed
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Update on a parish conflict in Michigan
You might remember that there was a dust up in the Diocese of Lansing, Michigan. Some parishoners of Our Lady of Fatima were trying to get their pastor, Fr. Jeffrey Robideau, removed.
So often these stories about about a conservative-minded … Continue reading
Benedict XVI’s Anglican provisions like the razing of ecumenical Berlin Wall
In your discussions of things ecumenical, remember to refer to Pope Benedict as "the Pope of Christian Unity".
A reader alerted me to the following piece In the Canadian daily The Globe and Mail by Ian Hunter, Ian Hunter is professor … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged Anglican Provisions, Anglicanorum coetibus, Pope of Christian Unity
27 Comments
Msgr. Richard Schuler, RIP… 89th birthday
Today would have been the 89th birthday of Msgr. Richard Schuler, pastor and musician.
He labored in the dark years after the Council to keep sound liturgy alive, promote proper sacred music, foster vocations to the priesthood, and hold the … Continue reading
