Monthly Archives: August 2006

In The Tablet article, Bishop Arthur Roche, chairman of ICEL makes excellent and thought provoking comments. Here is another excerpt: Some people assume that liturgical language should be comfortably predictable: it should not shock. That assumption was not shared by … Read More →

In the article in the Tablet Bishop Arthur Roche of Leeds, chairman of ICEL, gets into what a prayer for Easter really says.  Here is the bit from the article (my emphasis and comments): Whatever is said about Liturgiam Authenticam … Read More →

In The Tablet His Excellency Archbishop Roche, chairman of ICEL, has an interesting piece describing the status quaesitionis. It is good to pause occasionaly and make a review of where you are. There are many good bits in the article. … Read More →

Please remember in your prayers to pray for the repose of the soul of Gabriel Montalvo, the former papal Nuncio to the United States. His Excellency lived in our residence in Rome after he retired from his duties in the USA. I remember him kindly. We have many good conversations together. Read More →

We were, frankly, quite desperate for rain out here at The Sabine Farm. The crops were dying and trees stressing, etc. I began adding the prayers petitioning rain at every Mass. Rain has come. Oh my has the rain come! … Read More →

Here is today’s page from the calendar printed by the Holy See for use in the offices of the curia and other institutions. Notice that, in addition to it being the feast of the great Doctor St. Alphonsus de’ Liguori, … Read More →

Thousands of Christians Attacked by Chinese Communists By PETER SIMPSON – The Daily Telegraph August 1, 2006 BEIJING — Hundreds of Chinese police clashed with thousands of "underground" Christians over the demolition of a church that had been deemed an … Read More →