Monthly Archives: July 2010

26 July 2010

The Feeder Feed: “Wow… look at the colors” edition

I haven’t posted about the feeder recently.
Before any other shots, I caught this little Indigo Bunting on the Z-Cam today.

A very wet oriole, not content with its usual feast on grape jelly, went after the suet cage.

The mature Orioles may … Continue reading

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Seminarians of the ThIIIIIrd MillENNNNiummmmm!

Hmmmm…. wait…
I suspect we are being made game of.
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WDTPRS! HELP!

I need a favor.
Do any of you have a photo of a stained-glass window of the scene in Exodus 33 where Moses glimpses God as He passes before the cleft in the rock?
I have seen windows of the burning bush, … Continue reading

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26 July: Sts. Joachim and Anna, parents of Mary, Mother of God

Today is – in the reformed, post-Conciliar calendar – the feast of both Sts. Joachim and Anna, the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, grandparents of the Savior.  In the traditional calendar it is the feast of St. Anna.
Here is … Continue reading

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Power outage

From the blog of CNS:
Power outage at USCCB, CNS
Power is out this morning at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops after a line of severe thunderstorms rolled through Washington yesterday afternoon. And since we’re in the USCCB building, it means … Continue reading

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UK 10-13 August – TLM Training for priests and servers

From the Latin Mass Society in England:
LMS Residential Training Conference for Priests Wishing to Learn the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (Traditional Latin Mass) at Downside Abbey, Somerset.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider to attend Conference
The Latin Mass Society has announced that … Continue reading

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Archbp. Ranjith in Sri Lanka! Huzzah!

Our worthy friends at Rorate have posted a piece by His Excellency Most Rev. Malcolm Ranjith, once Secretary of the CDW and now Archbishop of Colombo in Sri Lanka.
Archbp. Ranjith demonstrates why he was the right man for the CDW … Continue reading

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25 July 2010

Justice now! Stop the discrimination!

In a homily entitled “…and Mary was welcomed,” preached at the Pax Christi National Assembly on 22 July, retired Detroit Auxiliary Bishop His Excellency Most Reverend Thomas Gumbleton opined that there are Scriptural arguments in support of the ordination of … Continue reading

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WDTPRS: Collect – 9th Sunday after Pentecost: God, absolutely distant, absolutely near

Let us move to this week’s Collect, which historically was in the 8th century Liber sacramentorum Gellonensis.  It was also the prayer over the people, Super populum, in the 1962MR for Wednesday after the 4th Sunday of Lent. 
It was … Continue reading

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SALE alert! Benedict XVI’s vol 1 of Jesus of Nazareth

When I was writing a response to an email query, I looked up a link for Pope Benedict XVI’s book Jesus of Nazareth (Vol. 1). 
I found that – at the time of this writing – it is on sale … Continue reading

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WDTPRS: Collect 17th Sunday Ordinary Time – Sin-Teflon, Demon-Kevlar

The 1962MR places today’s Collect at the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost though it is a little different from the newer version, to wit: sic transeamus per bona temporalia, ut non amittamus aeterna. 
Historically the prayer has roots in the ancient … Continue reading

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24 July 2010

24 July: Astonishing Saints and good red wine

A glance through the Martyrologium Romanum today will produce astonishment.
Among the many saints listed today you will find,
St. Charbel St. Christina, virgin and martyr Sts. Boris and Gleb St. Balduin St. Cunegunda Bl. Nicholas Garlick, Robert Ludlam, and … Continue reading

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23 July 2010

Get well soon to…

Sending bloggy get wells to Mulier Fortis!

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PODCAzT 108: The new translation of the 3rd Eucharistic Prayer; Fr. Z digresses and rants

Herein we compare the lame-duck ICEL version of the 3rd Eucharistic Prayer now still in use with the new, approved and improved translation which we will soon be able to hear in our Churches.
The new translation of the Roman … Continue reading

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23 July: St. Ezekiel, prophet

From rogueclassicism:

ante diem x kalendas sextilias

Neptunalia — an obscure festival (obscure in the sense that we really don’t know what went on) in honour of Neptune
ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 4)
64 A.D. — the Great Fire of … Continue reading

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