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Monthly Archives: December 2009
29 December 2009
Pro-abortion Speaker Pelosi gives more public scandal
A reader alerted me to an interview in the execrable Newsweek with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), pro-abortion but self-named "Catholic". You might remember some of her scintillating theological explanations about how she justified promoting abortion.
Here is a bit … Continue reading
The Feeder Feed
I’m back and the birds are busy!
This Red-bellied Woodpecker is having a hard time with the shape of this feeder.
This Hairy Woodpecker spent some time tapping on my window next to my desk.
Chickadee.
Nuthatch, scrounging.
Posted in The Feeder Feed
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REMINDER – 1 January – Holy Day of Obligation
1 January 2010 is a Holy Day of Obligation in the United States.
It is among the Holy Days for the Latin Church.
If you are able to go to Mass on 1 January and do not go, you … Continue reading
WDTPRS POLL: attacks on the Pope and the sedia gestatoria
We all know that Pope Benedict would not want to be completely surrounded by bullet proof glass everywhere he went.
On the other hand, security around our Popes has been relatively light.
The use of the sedia gestatoria would both help people … Continue reading
Yes, liturgical abuses are still going on
I case you had stopped wondering about why we needed Summorum Pontificum, try this.
For Christmas Mass, we had a different priest by the name of Fr. ___. He started to get all the children to sit in front of the … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
60 Comments
29 December: St. David, king and prophet
Holy Church considers many Old Testament figures to be saints.
Today when you open your trusty copy of the 2005 Martyrologium Romanum you will find, just below the St. Thomas Becket, this interesting entry:
2. Commemoratio sancti David, regis et prophetae, … Continue reading
28 December 2009
QUAERITUR: odd elevation style
From a reader:
My family attended a Novus Ordo Christmas Vigil Mass with a visiting priest. During the major elevation (This Is My Body), he elevated the host with one hand (his right) while the other held on to the altar. … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box
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Card. Daly
Prayers are requested by some readers not only for the Church in Ireland, but especially right now for retired Cahal Card. Daly.
Ireland’s most senior Cardinal, Cahal Daly, has been taken Belfast City Hospital where he is said … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
2 Comments
Benedict XIV
After the time I spent in a course from the Congregation for Causes of Saints, my fingers – mainly from muscle memory I think – tend to type Benedict XIV instead of Benedict XVI.
Here is a wonderful painting of Papa … Continue reading
Where you are
Here is a small snapshot of the last few minutes of visitors to the blog. The locations are in some cases estimations.
Rome, Lazio Carnwath, South Lanarks… Waterbury, Connecticut Cheshire, Connecticut Orlando, Florida Nashville, Tennessee Louisville, Kentucky Chicago, Illinois Greenville, North … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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Card. Etchegaray
We read on VIS from yesterday that Roger Card. Etchegaray, 87, underwent an operation for the broken femur (upper leg bone) he received as a Christmas gift from the wacko who pulled Pope Benedict down.
Please remember Card. Etchegaray in your … Continue reading
A day in New York
A wonderful day in NYC.
It was warm and sunny. Here is a nice view of my favorite tall building, the Chrysler Building, with its shining hubcaps.
After lunch we caught a train to Columbus Circle and then had a stroll in … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Christological Goldfinch, Crivelli, goldfinch, gourd, Jonah
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27 December 2009
Lunch under the bridge
I met two friends after Mass for lunch at Pershing Square under the bridge at Grand Central Terminal.
Best. Corned Beef Hash. Anywhere.
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
9 Comments
Other incidents concerning the Vatican and security
The intrepid Italian journalist Andrea Tornielli has an interesting piece today. Here is my fast translation of a key bit:
A car driven by an unbalanced young man entered at high velocity into the Vatican bypassing both the check of the … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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