Click and say your “Daily Offering”
Help Monks in Wyoming, Fr. Z, and get great coffee too!
-
-
Please VOTE for this blog!
PLEASE RESPOND. Pretty pleeeease?
Loading ...WDTPRS POLL
Loading ...Buy “Say The Black Do The Red” stuff
Fr. Z likes his Kindle!
Our Lady of the Clergy, Pray for us!
Because you asked…
Monthly Archives: February 2010
18 February 2010
A great Lenten observation by Fr. Blake
Great phrase from Fr. Blake of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton:
"Lent is not an orgy of Pelagian self improvement"
Technorati Tags: LENT
“Go back to Hell. Our Church belongs to Christ.”
You’ve got to love an article that winds up with the tag:
And by changing back the flag, by taking back our Mass, we are saying: Go back to Hell. Our Church belongs to Christ.
OORAH!
An article on why more traditional … Continue reading
17 February 2010
Anglican Bishop swims
Damian Thompson has this over at his place:
Excerpt:
The former assistant Bishop of Newcastle, Paul Richardson, has been received into full communion with the Holy See, I am pleased to reveal. Richardson – also a former Anglican bishop in Papua New … Continue reading
Soooo… what did you really eat on Ash Wednesday?
Fess up. What did you eat on Ash Wednesday?
We know that certain seasoned Catholics and others were not obliged to fast or abstain… but it is laudable to do so without the obligation.
Sooo,… fess up.
After confessions and Low Mass, I … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
139 Comments
What did the Holy Father really wear?
More than one person, including a priest, wrote to me about my comment that today the Holy Father wore a taglio filipino cut of Roman vestment today.
My interlocutors beg to differ.
Here is a screencapture from today:
And from 2008:
One of my … Continue reading
Questions about keeping the ashes on out in public
Questions… questions…
From The Catholic League:
JOE BIDEN RIDICULED FOR WEARING ASHES
Fox News analyst Bob Beckel today criticized Vice President Joe Biden for wearing ashes on TV; today is Ash Wednesday and Biden is Catholic.
In the middle of a discussion on … Continue reading
My Ash Wednesday sermon
My sermon for Ash Wednesday at Mater Ecclesiae in Berlin, NJ.
Technorati Tags: Ash Wednesday, Quadragesima, sermon
“broadcast” to “narrowcast”
In the National Catholic Register (which you can distinguish from the other NCR because the Register is Catholic), there is an offering by our friend and recent recipient of a WDTPRS coffee mug Fr. Dwight Longenecker about priests and blogs… … Continue reading
Posted in The Drill
Tagged blogs, broadcast, Fr. Longenecker, internet, narrowcast, National Catholic Register
7 Comments
More curling
Yes, it is Ash Wednesday, but the the important events of life go on.
We are rooting for the US women against the Germans… which leaves me a little conflicted, but not much.
The field of battle.
… Continue reading
Benedict XVI and Ash Wednesday – live
[uc]
The Holy Father has begun his journey from Sant’Anselmo to Santa Sabina for the Ash Wednesday Roman Station Mass.
The Mass to be heard on Vatican Radio … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Ash Wednesday, ashes, Roman Station, Santa Sabina
38 Comments
Bishop Vasa ends ties with hospital performing sterilizations
More news about Bp. Vasa in Baker, Oregon.
Bishop Vasa ends diocese’s sponsorship of hospital that performs sterilizations February 16, 2010
Bishop Robert Vasa of Baker has announced that his Oregon diocese is ending its sponsorship of St. Charles … Continue reading
Almighty God really is Almighty God
On 12 Feb the Holy Father recently addressed seminarians of Rome. Sandro Magister relates that he commented on a passage from John 15 and referred to a letter to him by a professor at the University of Regensburg, contesting the … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
4 Comments
QUAERITUR: changing the blessing at the end of Mass
From a seminarian:
A priest at the seminary has been blessing saying "May almighty God bless you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit."
Another priest mentioned this was wrong and even heretical for … Continue reading
A note about registering
In order to post comments here, you need to register. After review, I approve the registrations … or not.
I impose registration here for a couple reasons. First, there are really creepy people out there and we don’t need their creepiness … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
7 Comments
WDTPRS: Ash Wednesday – Prayer over the people – (1962MR & 2002MR)
I am delighted that in the 2002 Missale the tradition of the "Prayer over the people" was revived in Lent. This is an important custom.
The origin of the Oratio super populum is quite complex and hard to … Continue reading
Posted in LENT, WDTPRS
Tagged Concilium, LENT, Oratio super populum, prayer over the people
5 Comments
