RECENT POSTS and THANKS!

First, don’t forget:

YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS

Also, I am posting daily podcasts during Advent.  HERE

Here are some links. Entries scroll off the main page pretty fast around here!

• 450 years ago today: Council of Trent closed!
• Active Participation … for WHOM?
• “If you want your Latin in the Mass, you can keep your Latin in the Mass. PERIOD!”
• Period.
• 50 years ago today: BUGNINICARE!
• QUAERITUR: Can choristers receive Communion after Mass?
• ADVENTCAzT 04: 1st Wednesday of Advent – “Advent is not a sacred liturgical play.”
• QUAERITUR: Can choristers receive Communion after Mass?
• Pope Francis: Peace which is not tranquility.
• Pope Bouncer
• ADVENT: Ideas for your season of preparation
• GUEST POST: NYC taxi driver thankful for Extraordinary Form, sad for dead baby.
• Wherein Fr. Z posts his annual rant on BLUE vestments and then sings to you. POLL!
• Gift ideas and a really swell way to get your caffeine fix! IMPORTANT!
• “If you don’t see Merry Christmas in the window”… a song about shopping. VIDEO
• Pope Francis: former bouncer
• Another evil attack on the Church and religious freedom in these USA
• Boston church vandalized
• ALERT! A “wine” that perhaps isn’t really wine!
• VIDEO: UPDATE – Abortion wymyn physically attack men praying in front of cathedral of Buenos Aires
• Pope Francis’ Prayer Intentions for December
• Reason #10 for Summorum Pontificum
• GUEST POST: “…and my wife said, ‘But that’s a good thing!’”
• Some 100 US dioceses have adopted Common Core
• A “Francis Effect” in these USA?
• REMINDER: CD of music for Advent by the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles
• VIDEO: Wymyn burn Francis in effigy in Argentina. Make popcorn.
• Evangelii gaudium: Translation issues, problems
• Evangelii gaudium 138: Sermons should be brief. How brief is “brief”? POLL
• Francis has succeeded in doing what no Pope has ever done: divide the ‘c’atholic Left
• QUAERITUR: Babies at Mass revisited. “What should we do?”
• Evangelii gaudium 54 and the attack on “trickle down” economics
• VIDEO: Fr. Sirico of Acton Institute reacts to Evangelii gaudium
• The Forbidden Rite VIDEO
• Solemn Mass ’45 style! VIDEO
• Scotland: priests attacked
• Evangelii gaudium 54 (“trickle-down economics”). Significant translation error changed meaning.
• Fewer Catholics schedule funerals for their dead
• First comment on the Pope’s new Apostolic Exhortation

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As always I am deeply grateful to all of you who have sent donations or have sent items from my wish lists.  Just today I received books from Msgr. TC and from DW.

Those of you who pitch me really keep me going.  It is encouraging when something arrives.  I remember you at the altar, too.  It is my duty and pleasure to pray for my benefactors.  I will say Mass for benefactors again Tuesday, 10 December, in the evening.