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Monthly Archives: July 2011
31 July 2011
Enconsed in the Perilous North
On the way to the North Shore I had the pleasure of the company of a white and read 1956 Pontiac Chieftain, if I am not mistaken. Very snazzy. And it had some giddyup, too.
The priests are gathering for our … Continue reading
Posted in On the road
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WDTPRS 7th Sunday after Pentecost – acts of faith
In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is the 7th Sunday after Pentecost.
Today’s Collect survived the cutting and pasting experts of the Consilium to live on as the Collect for the 9th Sunday of Ordinary Time.
COLLECT (1962MR):
Deus, cuius providentia … Continue reading
30 July 2011
Provision Procurement, Pasta Preparation, Priestly Provendering
Next week I will be in Northern Minnesota with a group of priests/bishops who have been, with some ebbing and flowing of members, gathering for some 26 years.
This year, to keep our expenses lower, I volunteered to do some of … Continue reading
Posted in Lighter fare, O'Brian Tags, On the road
Tagged Boeuf Bourguignon, Capt. Aubrey, Gazpacho Soup, Julia Child, Lorraine Wallace
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WDTPRS: 18th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Fr. Z rants about authentic inculturation
The Latin Collects we are given each week have a magnificent content. When the alter Christus, the priest, lifts these prayers on high in the context of the sacred mysteries of Holy Mass, the words have power to shape … Continue reading
St. Peter Chrysologus, and oldie PODCAzT
Today, in the post-Conciliar calendar, is the feast of St. Peter Chrysologus, “of the golden speech”. I made a PODCAzT about something Peter wrote some years ago for a 1 May Feast of Joseph observance and beginning of the month … Continue reading
Posted in PODCAzT, Patristiblogging, The Drill
Tagged Ravenna, Roman Martyrology, St. Peter Chrysologus
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29 July 2011
The Debt Crisis: Washington’s Kabuki Dance and “NO!” Play
The debt crisis is likened to a Washington Kabuki dance.
Oh yah?
Let’s just see if it is anything like.
In the first video below we have a kabuki presentation of the debt crisis.
President Obama appears, with aides, Daley and Carney (you have … Continue reading
Posted in Lighter fare, TEOTWAWKI
Tagged debt crisis, House of Representatives, Japan, Japanese, Kabuki theater, Noh Play, Sen. Reid, Senate, Speaker Boehner, TEOTWAWKI, Washington DC
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Something lighter: Purgatory for Catholic bloggers
I saw this at Acts of the Apostacy and it made me chuckle.
The writer muses about what penance in purgatory Catholic bloggers might have to endure.
* LarryD – transcribe every issue of the National Catholic Reporter onto strips of bark … Continue reading
Posted in Lighter fare
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Card. Sarah on the eternal consequences for priests afraid to uphold the Church’s teaching
St. Augustine, in one of his tough sermons to his flock, spoke about the heavy responsibility of teaching a message that was hard for people to hear and accept. He invoked the stern warning in Ezekiel 3 about … Continue reading
Posted in Patristiblogging, SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS KUDOS
Tagged Card. Sarah, Deposit of Faith, Ezekiel 34: 2-4, morality, s. 17.2, St. Augustine of Hippo
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Fr. Sirico in NRO: The Church as the Bride of Caesar
National Review Online a couple days ago had a great piece by Fr. Robert Sirico of Acton Institute.
My emphases and comments.
The Church as the Bride of Caesar
July 27, 2011 4:15 P.M.
By Fr. Robert A. Sirico
It is telling that the Washington … Continue reading
“Martha, Martha!”
In the National Gallery in London, you will find a painting by Velazquez entitled Christ in the House of Martha and Mary. I never fail to visit it when I visit that gallery and that painting when I … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Posts, Patristiblogging, The Drill, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged action, contemplation, Lazarus, London, mortar, National Gallery, St. Martha, St. Mary of Bethany, Velasquez
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Intimidation is the Enemy’s Tool
I have been thinking about the priest who was assaulted in Italy and the way the Catholic left treats conservatives and traditionally minded Catholic priests and lay people.
Assaults are not only physical and launched by people who are disturbed or … Continue reading
BENEDICT XVI’S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR AUGUST
BENEDICT XVI’S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR AUGUST
VATICAN CITY, 29 JUL 2011 (VIS) – Pope Benedict’s general prayer intention for August is: “That World Youth Day in Madrid may encourage young people throughout the world to have their lives rooted and built … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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28 July 2011
Smartphone obsession
I use my smartphone, an iPhone, to keep up with email, which flows in at a rate I can’t handle, and to post to or moderate this beast of a blog. I use it for some light SMS texting too. … Continue reading
Card. Canizares: the “entire Church” should receive Communion kneeling. Fr. Z rants.
The overriding reason for why we belong to Holy Church and why we receive the sacraments and why we go to Holy Mass is the fact that one day we are going to die.
The sin of our first parents, at … Continue reading
GUEST POST: “They get the Ratzinger Marshall Plan better than many Catholics.”
My friend the great Fabricius Romanus, paterfamilias, sent me a reaction to the story I shared here about a priest in Italy who was physically assaulted by someone invoking Satan, because the priest was reintroducing traditional elements of Catholic worship.
Fabrizio, … Continue reading
