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Monthly Archives: November 2011
22 November 2011
Fishwrap promotes a “sermon” by a wywymprystess
The National catholic Reporter … quousque tandem?
The Fishwrap brings us today the “sermon” of a woman who thinks she is a priest. She is a member of the big-puppet crew, the wymynpryst thingie.
Honestly, as I read this I had a … Continue reading
More Christmas shopping ideas: Angelus Press will have free shipping.
The nice people at Angelus Press wrote to let me know that:
… this upcoming Monday, November 28, Angelus Press will be offering Free Shipping on all orders to the continental United States. I’m letting you know since I think that … Continue reading
Reader challenge: craft a response
From a readerette (as is):
I am a lady of an age group that never was allowed on the alter. I
always love to see the little server girls and so wish it had been
allowed in my day. I am a Eucharistic … Continue reading
New architecture and music “team” at the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship?
From the intrepid Andrea Tornielli of Vatican Insider. Not my translation, but my emphases and comments:
New Vatican commission cracks down on church architecture
The new commission will be established shortly, as part of the Congregation for Divine Worship. It will also … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Andrea Tornielli, architecture., ars celebrandi, Card. Cañizares Llovera, CDW, Say The Black - Do The Red
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ACTION ITEM! WDTPRS POLL ALERT
On WaPo we find this tendentious poll.
I’m not suggesting how you should vote… but…
Here are the results so far.
UPDATE 22 Nov 1324 GMT:
UPDATE 22 Nov 1552 GMT:
UPDATE 22 Nov 2134 GMT:
UPDATE 23 Nov 2206 GMT:
UPDATE 30 Nov 0038 … Continue reading
21 November 2011
CH: “You cannot be an Anglican and use the Roman Missal.”
On the site of the best Catholic weekly in the UK, The Catholic Herald, there is an interesting piece about Catholic and Anglican and Anglo-Catholic and Anglicanorum coetibus Catholic identity.
The Bishop of London is right about Anglicans using the Roman … Continue reading
20 November 2011
PODCAzT 123: The Liturgical Year and a Custom
It is the Last Sunday of the liturgical year. In the older, traditional form of the Roman Rite it is the 24th and Last Sunday after Pentecost, even though numerically it is the 23rd. The Last Sunday is always the … Continue reading
Does your mobile device run out of power? Great gizmo alert!
When I travel I use my iPhone heavily, especially to keep track of and upload to the blog. I have a couple small recharge batteries I can slide into my pocket, but this looks like a better solution to what … Continue reading
When Paul VI meets Sci-Fi
A reader alerted me to this from the blog Canterbury Tales:
“In his 1969 motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis, Pope Paul VI made three changes. First, he moved the feast to its current place – the Sunday before Advent. Second, he expanded … Continue reading
Posted in Lighter fare, SESSIUNCULA
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Some notes about Vatican Radio
I have been surfing around on the site of Radio Vaticana… Vatican Radio. There have been some attempts to integrate the CTV (Centro Televisivo Vaticano … Vatican TV) together with the Radio, through a good and useful pop-up player, but … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Centro Televisivo Vaticano, CTV, podcast, Radio Vaticana, Vatican Radio
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Benedict XVI to children: “When I receive Communion, …”
I have not been paying the greatest attention to Pope Benedict’s trip to Africa, though I have been scanning the reports and the new Post-Synodal Exhortation. Yesterday, however, His Holiness spoke to children at a parish in Cotonou in Benin. … Continue reading
“Some more, some more Summorum Pontificum!”
My friend Fr. Blake in Brighton reported on this before. Here is the report from His Hermeneuticalness Fr. Finigan:
Online busking trad blogger and friend of the homeless in Brighton, Laurence England of That The Bones You Have Crushed May Thrill … Continue reading
Posted in HONORED GUESTS, Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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Benedict XVI on Bishops
As I write, Pope Benedict XVI is in Africa. For this trip his Post-Synodal Exhortation (following the Synod on Africa) has been released with the title Africae munus. It is a long, “omnibus” document. We can look at a few … Continue reading
19 November 2011
19 November 1863: The Gettysburg Address
Four and a half months after the Battle of Gettysburg, on the afternoon of Thursday 19 November 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a “few appropriate remarks” at the dedication of the cemetery for fallen soldiers.
After a 13,607 word speech by … Continue reading
