Monthly Archives: January 2010

Belt

Posted on 31 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Today is the anniversary of the launch of the first American satellite, which detected the Van Allen Belts.
Explorer 1… 52 years ago today… otherwise 1 February 1958 at 0348 GMT.

 

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A mystery to be solved

Posted on 31 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From APOD:

The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript  Credit: Yale University ; Digital Copyright: B. E. Schaefer (LSU)
Explanation: The ancient text has no known title, no known author, and is written in no known language: what does it say and why … Continue reading →

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Aging Hippie Paradise

Posted on 31 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

No… this is not about the offices of the NCR.
It is actually about a rap music song.
I have always thought that rap did for music what S&M did for romance… but I digress.
I came by a rap song by a … Continue reading →

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Will Card. Pell be the next Prefect of the Cong. for Bishops?

Posted on 31 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The intrepid Italian reporter Anrea Tornielli posted that His Eminence George Card. Pell of Sydney recently had an audience with Pope Benedict and that he is considered by some to be in "poll position" to become Prefect of the Congregation … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR follow up and THANKS to readers!

Posted on 31 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I has placed a question on the blog about the priests who concelebrate not consuming both species.  Because I was probably traveling and didn’t have the chance to dig, I opened things up for answers.
Well…!
Today, while sitting on another airplane … Continue reading →

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Following TEAM RUBICON in Haiti – getting rid of bodies, dead and alive

Posted on 31 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Team Rubicon is a self-financed and self-deployed group of former Marines, soldiers firefighters, Jesuits, health care professionals currently providing emergency relief in Haiti.  They provide their own security and deal with whatever they find.
UPDATE
Yesterday was the first time … Continue reading →

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Part of a day in KC MO

Posted on 31 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I had the great pleasure of visiting the WWI Memorial and museum today.

Don’t miss this museum.
It is one of the best of it’s kind I have ever seen.
The some KC BBQ!

Then a quick stop at … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Mass cancelled for bad weather

Posted on 31 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
My pastor "canceled" Sunday Mass this morning due to an icy parking lot from a recent snow/ice storm. Needless to say, I live in a part of the country where we rarely have such weather. However, … Continue reading →

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A citation concerning the use of hymns at Mass

Posted on 31 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

This citation from NLM is really useful.
Bugnini’s own Consilium in 1969 offered the following instruction, consistent with the Vatican II emphasis on chant over vernacular hymnody. As printed in 1 Notitiae, 5 (1969), p. 406
That rule [permitting vernacular hymns] has … Continue reading →

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WDTPRS: 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time – COLLECT (2002MR)

Posted on 31 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Today’s Collect was not in the post-Tridentine editions of the Missale Romanum but it does have its origin in the "Leonine Sacramentary" or, as it is better titled by its editor, the scholarly L. Cunibert Mohlberg, the Veronese Sacramentary. 
The … Continue reading →

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