RECENT POSTS and THANKS (Mass for Benefactors)

First, help each other out:

Your Urgent Prayer Requests

And…

A suggested Twitter project for @Pontifex

Now…

• Fr. Z’s 2013 New Year’s Resolutions
• Fr. Z’s 2013 New Year’s Resolutions – ADDENDUM
• From nuns to ‘nones’: 10 ways religion shaped the news in 2012 – revised
• Fr Z’s Predictions for 2013

Then….

• @Pontifex Tuesday Project: Week 2
• Faithful Chinese Bishops dies – forgave his enemies
• QUAERITUR: Participating in wedding of sister to a married man
• Brick by Brick… Altar by Altar
• A mordant look at the wrong notion of “active participation”
• QUAERITUR: Concerning the thumb and forefinger
• What the National catholic Reporter is really doing by calling for an “assault weapons” ban. (Hint: It ain’t about guns!)
• The next frontier for homosexualists will be the legal age limit
• Is training in the Extraordinary Form forbidden at St. Mary’s College in Oscott, England?
• Bitcoin?
• QUAERITUR: What is wrong with women being lectors?
• In case you were wondering…
• Sunday Supper: More Hot Plate Adventures
• “During Pres. Obama’s third term…”
• Benedict XVI: Bishops must be courageous, expect to be repeatedly beaten
• Benedict XVI consecrates 4 new bishops… Roman vestments
• QUAERITUR: Vegetarian wonders about Friday penance
• Will 2013 bring some relief for Chinese Catholics?
• ACTION ITEM! Support “HobbyLobby” on Saturday, 5 January, against Pres. Obama’s HHS Mandate!
• Church of England to allow homosexual bishops in civil partnerships
• ACTION ITEM! Petition about the “Catholics are a hate-group” petition
• “McPenance”?
• Perhaps we should start calling him “Henry IX”?
• EWTNNews: Online petition to White House to label Catholic Church a “hate group”
• 25 Jan. – Washington DC – Mass for Nellie Gray – R.I.P.
• Bp. Paprocki on Illinois’ absurd “Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act”
• Shades of Marion Coatsworth Hay!
• The Tablet and the Elephant: the “Soho Masses”
• “Why? Because I am not a Protestant.”
• Take the Women’s Ordination Conference! Please?
• A good way to start the new year of grace would be…
• Z-SWAG “Downrange”!
• London: Soho homosexual Masses to end, parish entrusted to Ordinariate
• SSPX Bp. Fellay delivers a long “state of the question” address
• National Catholic Reporter teams up with Ford Foundation backed entity to hide the truth about the Holy See’s ‘Doctrinal Assesment’ of the LCWR
• Benedict XVI on the destructive evil of “gender” confusion

I want to thank all of you who sent me a donation or item from my wishlists (regular and Kindle) around Christmas time and the end of 2012.  You are not forgotten.  Sometimes amazon doesn’t put a packing slip in with the name of the sender, but God knows who you are and I pray for you with that confidence.  I am loaded up with lots of good things to read and I received some useful things as well.  For example, just yesterday I took apart my espresso coffee maker -and please do use my links to buy your Mystic Monk Coffee! -and cleaned it up with some descaling fluid.

I must add, however, that I think a couple items from my wishlist were clicked and purchased but they did not come to me. I suspect they went to the buyers. That is why I might from time to time repost an item. Things eventually get sorted.

Here are some of those who in the last month or so have been on my list because of money donations (with JS, KA, and DY as usual):

RB, DM, CMB, HE, JS, MJC, MH, JH, DP, MK, MF, AM, MF, ER, CO’C, PB
Jr, DN, LS, KB, JB, RMcE, BB, MG, MK, LJ, SM, Fr LT, BD, KB, SC,
WJC, LV, MH, PAP, AN, AR’sC, AR, FN, JP, DH, JEJ, Fr. RH, VW, VS,
KA, JR, MZ, KT, CG, JK, EM, JR, DM, SG, CD, WH, GJ, MCB, MG, JWM,
GMcI, PV, JR, MR, TW, CB, ALG, AD, SD, ML, SH, AR, MAD, SMcM, RR,
VD, TH, DN, KA, CL, HE, RB, MF, MJC, MR, AM, AAP, MF, LS, CO’C, ER,
JB, RMcE, RA, [UPDATES:…] DP, MH, SS, BB, MK, LV, JH, CB, CL

UPDATE: I postpones Mass for my benefactors till morning Saturday, 12 January.  It is my pleasure and duty to remember you at the altar.

Also, in the lead up to Christmas, quite a few of you, I think, used my amazon links or the search box on the side bar.  THANK YOU!  I hope you will get into the habit of using that search box all the time.  It really helps.  If you can’t see it, you might have to let your browser’s ad-blocker let it through.

In any event, thank you all from the bottom of my beady-black heart. You make it possible for me to do this. It has been a little slow since the beginning of the new year, which is understandable. Perhaps it will pick up? That’s up to you.
PS: I have also gone back to buying bird feed! I don’t need as much as I once did. I am trying to keep the Z-Cam on my little, but fairly active, feeder.