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Daily Archives: 17 August 2012
Card. George diagnosed with cancer
Perhaps in your goodness you would remember Card. George in your prayers, perhaps even offering some penances and mortifications for him.
From WGN:
WGN News
4:11 p.m. CDT, August 17, 2012
CHICAGO—
Cardinal Francis George will undergo treatment for cancer, the Chicago Archdiocese announced Friday … Continue reading
Nifty video about Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma
There is a great 5 minute video about Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma. It is well worth your time. There is a brief, though annoying, ad before the video starts.
Clear Creek Abbey Work Day from clearcreekabbey on GodTube.
Technorati … Continue reading
WDTPRS 20th Ordinary Sunday: snatched up into invisible love
The Collect for the 20th Ordinary Sunday, found also in the 8th century Gelasian Sacramentary, is in the 1962 Missale Romanum for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost.
Deus, qui diligentibus te bona invisibilia praeparasti, infunde cordibus nostris tui amoris affectum, ut, … Continue reading
Posted in WDTPRS
Tagged affectus, amor, consequor, desiderium, diligo, eros, Preface of Christmas, promissio, Richard of St. Victor, translation
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The question every Catholic must ask before casting a vote
Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review Online has a good piece wherein she looks at the GOP VP choice, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-W1) and what His Eminence Timothy Card. Dolan has to say about him, and about the “Catholicity” of … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged abortion, Archbp. Lori, Bp. Morlino, Card. Dolan, intrinsic evil, Kathryn Jean Lopez, November 2012, Pres. Obama, Rep. Paul Ryan, vote
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QUAERITUR: Is absolution in Latin encouraged?
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I went to Confession the other day before a Tridentine Mass, and the confessor said the prayers of absolution in Latin. I know this is permitted, but is it encouraged in the same way as Latin in the … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: Can a layperson expose the Blessed Sacrament?
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I have an adoration chapel nearby that presents the Blessed Sacrament in a beautiful tabernacle / monstrance with a hinged door that opens to showcase the Consecrated Host. It is behind a small altar on a raised, sanctuary-like … Continue reading
“I collect books just as others store grain….”
From the Laudator comes something with which I can sympathize:
Yuan Mei (1716–1797), Book Storage, tr. J.D.Schmidt:
I collect books just as others store grain,
And bitterly complain I don’t have enough granaries.
In order to make space for a myriad ancient men,
I end … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Just Too Cool, Poetry
Tagged bibliophiles, books, Laudator temporis acti, Yuan Mei
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More on concelebration
At NLM I saw another photo of my preferred style of concelebration.
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Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged concelebration
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