Daily Archives: 10 January 2010

15-18 Jan St. Paul, MN

Posted on 10 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I must be in St. Paul this weekend for meetings.

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San Francisco, CA 12-14 Jan

Posted on 10 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I will be joining some folks at Joyent, who is my internet provider for WDTPRS!

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Do a blogging priest a favor

Posted on 10 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Go to this Orthodox priest’s blog and make his stats spike like nothing he has ever seen before!  Freak him out a little.
You can do it. 
Everyone!
It’ll just take a moment. 
CLICK HERE
o{];¬)

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How to make altar boy program grow by 500%

Posted on 10 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I enjoyed this post from Stella Borealis:
Boy altar server involvement in Mass increases 500% by making rules more demanding [Do I hear an "Amen!"?]
By returning to more demanding altar server practices, two men were able to increase participation at their … Continue reading →

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Card. Canizares interviewed

Posted on 10 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Those of you who read Italian must look at the interview by Paolo Rodari of Palazzo Apostolico with the Prefect of the CDWDS, Card. Canizares Llovera.  
I don’t have time to translate the long text, but it is here.
To be … Continue reading →

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“becoming children of God”

Posted on 10 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Something of what the Holy Father said, in Italian, during his Sunday Angelus address:
Baptism suggests very well the global meaning of the Christmas season, in which the theme of "becoming children of God" thanks to the coming of the only-begotten … Continue reading →

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Bill in House of Lords: would it make Catholic priesthood illegal?

Posted on 10 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Sure, there is little chance this will pass.  But that is not the point.  The point is what I call "creeping incrementalism". 
If this doesn’t have a chance of passing and becoming law now, it will have the effect of … Continue reading →

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Ad orientem… so needed, so right

Posted on 10 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The Holy Father once again celebrates ad orientem for the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord.
What I think is important here is not only the image, nice as it is, but also the fact that there was no negative … Continue reading →

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Sewing straight with crooked lines

Posted on 10 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

You have probably heard stories about how people hid their sacred objects in time of war.  Bells were buried, books and vessels walled up behind pictures, etc.  Or how revolutionaries covered images over which served to preserve them.
Unbelievable find!  In … Continue reading →

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Sistine Chapel Choir… how long?

Posted on 10 January 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

It seems that on 4 Jan. His Holiness confirmed Msgr. Giuseppe Liberto in the post of director of the Sistine Chapel Choir donec aliter provideatur.
Quousque tandem?

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