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- B on Daily Rome Shot 1181: “KKK and Nazism is growing and members are becoming bolder every day. Sadly they are seeded within conservative groups. Perhaps…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 24th & Last Sunday after Pentecost (N.O. Christ The King) 2024: “NO OLJCtK observed at the Cathedral. Gospel reading was Pilate’s interrogation of the King of Kings and was primary basis…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 24th & Last Sunday after Pentecost (N.O. Christ The King) 2024: “Some good news out of our local seminary. We have a seminarian helping out at our parish – sort of…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1181: “Like Fr. Willie Doyle, the “Trench Priest” of World War I, who had a cultus almost immediately after his death,…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1181: “White to move and mate in 3. [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t…”
- on ASK FATHER: 8 December 2024 is Immaculate Conception but also the 2nd Sunday of Advent – What to do? – UPDATED: “If it’s helpful to any readers this side of the pond, to my knowledge, Immaculate Conception is not a holy…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1180: “There are halloween costumes on Amazon.com that look more like a chasuble than that grade-school-level construction paper craft project in…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1180: “Very queerchildish. Not “childlike”; childish… as in immature… stunted… puerile…”
- on Letter of Bp. Jude Noble to the Faithful of the Diocese of Black Duck concerning 8 December 2024: “Is there any truth to the rumor that Bishop Fatty McButterpants is in Rome WALKING TOGETHER? Also heard he purchased…”
- on New book SHUTS DOWN the old chestnut objections to the Traditional Latin Mass. Get ready to respond to objections and to deepen your understanding.: “Dr K, it’s not too late for you to get an STL/STD. Unlike your prayers for Francis’ imminent death, I…”
- on ASK FATHER: 8 December 2024 is Immaculate Conception but also the 2nd Sunday of Advent – What to do? – UPDATED: “So… are those who determined only to participate in the Vetus Ordo, and do in fact participate on 8 Dec…”
- on I had a funny thought about a possible US Ambassador to the Holy See – UPDATED: “There is precedent for the Vatican to reject a proposed appointment of an ambassador. Back in 2003, it rejected the…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1180: “When my two year old son escapes out of the pew and down the hall I feel like he too…”
- on New book SHUTS DOWN the old chestnut objections to the Traditional Latin Mass. Get ready to respond to objections and to deepen your understanding.: “There is a commentator here named “samwise” who is very much out of his depth. You know, I worked on…”
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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Prayer of Thanksgiving.
Prayer for a Votive Mass of Thanksgiving from the 1962 Missale Romanum V. Dominus vobiscum.R. Et cvm spiritu tuo. Orémus. Deus, cujus misericórdiænon est númeruset bonitátis infinÃÂtus estthesáurus: piÃÂssimæ majestátituæ pro collátis donis grátiaságimus, tuam semper cleméntiamexorántes; ut, qui peténtibuspostuláta … Read More
The Children of Men
I just returned from a viewing of the new movie The Children of Men. The movie is loosely… loosely… based on the book of the same title by P.D. James. If you harbor any hope that the movie stays close … Read More
22 Nov: St. Cecilia
From the Basilica of St. Cecilia in Trastevere:
Renewal of Consecration
Here is the prayer used for the consecration of the United States of America to the to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary on Saturday, 11 November at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Prayer … Read More
Sometimes a photo is enough
This is how my day started. How about yours? We had thunderstorms during the night. This morning, as another wave of the system went through, I caught this.
Here’s a knee slapper from The Remnant
I found a rather funny comment on the site of The Remnant (emphasis mine): For traditionalist Catholics nothing is more symptomatic of the crisis in the Church than the deliberate mistranslation of pro vobis et pro multis—for you and for … Read More
The worst newpapers
The blog of Powerline has a list of the worst newspapers in the USA. Interesting. Scott recently suggested that the Minneapolis Star Tribune may be America’s worst newspaper. That produced lots of emails from readers who nominated their own newspapers, … Read More
Did John Paul II write “pro omnibus”?
I learned about something at The Undercroft, stemming from something else at Valle Adurni … something rather serious. I am obliged to add additional information to put things straight. Some folks have incorrectly speculated that the late Pope John Paul … Read More
“Tridentine” photo, light source
Some of you were asking about the photos of the Tridentine Mass I posted on Sunday. I also got e-mail about them. Many were curious about the light source. Here is a shot of the church, and you can see … Read More
House loan applications
I got something by e-mail which I found amusing. I have no idea if this epistolary duel really occured or not, but it is still pretty good. Everyone who has ever bought a house will enjoy this. A New Orleans … Read More
Not one stone upon another
The Archbishop of Vienna, His Eminence Christoph Card. Schoenborn, O.P., celebrated Holy Mass in the Vatican Basilica with a musical setting of the Ordinary provided by W.A. Mozart and the Vienna Philharmonic. The Mass was K. 317 in C Major, … Read More
Res Gestae
Near the Mausoleum of Augustus Caesar is long wall forming part of the building that houses the Ara Pacis. The entire Res Gestae Divi Augusti is on that wall in bronze letters. Here is the first panel, followed by an … Read More
Don’t try this with TSA
Over at one of my favorite blogs, Cha Xiu Bao, there is a grand photo of a fellow with a knife. At that entry you can see how he uses his little knife to make some really yummy looking soup. … Read More
If “pro multis”, then why not also…
… "consubstantialem Patri"?
Prot. n. 467/05/L
Let us remember with fondness this Protocol Number: Prot. n. 467/05/L Here is something very important in the letter His Eminence Francis Card. Arinze wrote to the bishops (conferences) through the whole world. My emphasis. Rome, 17 October 2006 Your … Read More
Tridentine images in Rome
In Rome on Sundays Holy Mass is celebrated with the 1962 Missale Romanum at the Church of Gesù e Maria on the Via del Corso. Here are a few images. Dominus vobiscum… And now for the shot of … Read More
CWN reports on the “pro multis” victory
You have read the news from CWN about the pro multis decision. I reported this a long while back, but it is nice to have additional confirmation… this time from His Eminence Card. Arinze himself. I have no words to … Read More
33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time: POST COMMUNION (2)
What Does the Prayer Really Say? 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 DW of CA writes via snail-mail: “Thank you for your weekly column which gives any would-be Latinist a brisk turn around the … Read More
33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time: SUPER OBLATA (2)
EXCERPT:
Step into the Twilight Zone for a moment and picture, if you will, someone being admitted to, say, graduate school for a Ph.D in French Literature without knowing how to read any French. Make sense? Imagine a medical school admitting someone who never studied biology. Crazy, right? This is going on everywhere in the Church’s institutions of higher learning today, and the missing indispensable key is Latin. Personal anecdote: years ago a doctoral student in theology paid me to translate sermons of a mediaeval theologian found only in a volume of the Patrologia Latina. Why? He was writing his doctoral dissertation on the fellow’s theology but couldn’t read Latin. Get it? He was writing his thesis on something he couldn’t read. How does that work? Read More
B on Daily Rome Shot 1181: “KKK and Nazism is growing and members are becoming bolder every day. Sadly they are seeded within conservative groups. Perhaps…”
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