RECENT POSTS and THANKS

Here are links to recent posts which have scrolled along off the front page.

First…

Mother’s Day Gift Ideas

Also, please continue to use the “sharing” buttons at the top of posts. I know some of you don’t do this sort of thing but… using them does help.

And now…

I also want to thank readers who sent donations. I hope I have everyone’s initials of the most recent donors:

JR, PT, SS, RB, AR, JS, LH, TT, LC, MK, JB, WH, EM, DD, JV, LT, CR, ER, MT, RR, MG, KT, LB, NH, MLF, BG, AM, LG

Also, thanks to NEA who sent the copy of Aidan Nichols newest book, The Chalice of God and to the kind person who sent The Patrick O’Brian Muster Book (UK link HERE). I look forward to exploring both.

I am deeply grateful for the gestures of kindness which pick me up when I am down. Thanks. It is my pleasure and duty to pray for benefactors.

I will have my list in hand as a ready myself to say Holy Mass on Saturday.

Don’t forget to examine your consciences well so you can make a good confession on Saturday, if possible. Also, refresh your coffee supply while your at it.

Mystic Monk Coffee! It’s swell!

Elizium23 on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”

Not on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Father, it was perfect symmetry for two people. One cup handle facing one way and the other the other way.”

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “From a reader: “What are in the frames between the vestments?” Those are the priest’s vesting prayers. I’ll show more…”

Kathleen10 on WDTPRS: 4th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo) – Mighty humble Shepherd, humble mighty flock: “Fr Z you are an inspiration in your knowledge about and love for the things of God and the church.…”

Kathleen10 on ROME 24/4– Day 32 (-9): Happy Birthday Rome!: “Holy cow that pasta. I wish we had smell-o-vision and taste-o-vision.”

B on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “The German grind continues. It is in their nature.”

TonyO on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Scary about the women. What I mean is this: it would be disheartening enough just to find out that a…”

Not on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “I wonder what’s going on with these women. Don’t they know that the greatest example of womanhood is Our Blessed…”

GHP on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Fr.Z sez: It is really sad that some people still push this rock up the hill. Reminds one of Sisyphus,…”

Tina in Ashburn Whoville on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Alas, those men pushing for ordaining women. STILL trying to get women to do all the work. My mother warned…”

Imrahil on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Dear Dcn PB, I don’t see how the reality can be described differently than by saying that the one sacrament…”

David L Alexander on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Most people, whether pro or con, misunderstand the history and practice of the female diaconate. The deaconess was a separate…”

L. on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th of Easter) 2024: “I remember only the joke at the beginning of the homily: Priests get four weeks of vacation per year. Some…”

tzabiega on “you must not remember your forefathers…” Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “My children at one of the solid Chesterton Academies have been taught science and theology by an amazing young Catholic…”

Imrahil on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “What is it that changed about the Catholic Herald? Interesting interview by George Farmer. (If only the faithful could be…”