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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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- adriennep on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Thanks Father Z, cosmology lesson as only you can impart.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Hmmm. Those kind of tassels have always reminded me of fancy curtain tiebacks so I have avoided making them but…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Fr.Z sez: …The Voyagers are destined—perhaps eternally—to wander the Milky Way and then become characters in Star Trek…. V’ger!! https://youtu.be/gxAaVqdz_Vk?t=96”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Being from Florida, I remember when both Voyagers launched – you could see them from our house. At that time,…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Too bad the Curia has drifted too far from its power source…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “I guess Voyager I gives new meaning to the poem High Flight. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Now this is very interesting. Not just looking up at some small dots of light overhead!”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “The final resting place of Plato puts me in mind of a memorable excerpt I once read about Aristotle in…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “Someone pointed out the St. George’s Day Google Doodle with its background account to me – with one of the…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: ““George Farmer, aka Candace Owen’s husband. He is a revert” If I’m reading the interview correctly, first a convert, then…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Not to detract from anything Imrahill said, but well, the papally-attested infallible ordinary magisterium about a catholic truth, not the…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Understatement of the year: they don’t make them like that anymore!”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “What happened to Voyager 2? And what sort of “science” data will Voyager 1 soon be able to resume transmitting?…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Not too shabby for a 77’ model.”
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Monthly Archives: July 2009
WDTPRS WordPress theme help needed
As I reassess all things WDTPRS… Is anyone out there savvy enough to make a WordPress theme which looks like the present theme used for WDTPRS but … well… better? Lighter? Widget enabled? Etc? Drop an e-mail.
St. Bede’s Sunday Morning
Sunday at St. Bede’s in Clapham Park, London included a Missa Cantata in the Extraordinary Form. The celebrant was Fr. Andrew Southwell and the choir, which sings monthly, provided Gregorian chant propers and the Ordinary by Victoria. Some images and … Read More
Kansas City, MO – 15 Aug – ground breaking for sisters
On 15 August His Excellency Most Rev. Robert Finn, Bishop of Kansas City, MO, will preside over the ground breaking for a new building for the wonderful community of sister, the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles. I have written … Read More
Comments OFF for unregistered readers
I have for a while turned off the "open" posting of comments. Right now you must be registered participant to post a comment. There are a few deeply creepy "green ink" people out there who have an obsessive need to … Read More
The question of Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
I think you have all seen it happen. As the time for Holy Communion approaches, a small throng of EMHCs troop up into the sanctuary. On the blog Uncommon Sense there is a proposal, worth reading and passing around. I … Read More
Southwark Cathedral
I rather like Southwark… little streets and interesting corners. I popped into the once-Catholic Cathedral for a visit.
A curious parish bulletin note
An alert reader sent me the following notice about a comment in a parish bulletin in the Diocese of Raleigh, NC, St. Mary’s in Willmington where Fr. Robert Kus. Fourth, beginning the last Sunday of August, the diocese will … Read More
Corona
I had lunch today with a Dominican from a traditional community in France. We spoke about the corona, and the communities of religious who still maintain it. A different sort of corona… APOD show the total eclipse last week, compliments … Read More
QUAERITUR: licit use of languages for Mass
From a reader (edited): I am at the [organized thing for seminarians] for the summer and each Friday Holy Mass is celebrated in Spanish. In my estimation, about 20-40 out of 173 seminarians here this summer spoke spanish as their … Read More
Some pro-life news stories you should read
A couple related stories via CNA: First, a few lines of this… Proposed abortion reduction bill a Planned Parenthood ‘stimulus package,’ bishops’ pro-life official says Washington D.C., Jul 24, 2009 / 01:13 pm (CNA).- An official with the U.S. bishops’ … Read More
N. Korea: Christian woman killed for distributing Bible?
From CNA N. Korea reportedly executes Christian woman for distributing Bible Seoul, South Korea, Jul 25, 2009 / 01:49 pm (CNA).- Last month North Korea publicly executed a Christian woman for distributing the Bible, South Korean activists said on Friday. … Read More
Covent Garden
Saturday was a beautiful day today in London… sunny and warm. I walked through the Covent Garden area. As I did I thought of a friend who, some years ago, was in My Fair Lady. Therefore, some few photos.
QUAERUNTUR: SSPX questions
From a reader: i’m a reader of your blog and i want to ask you some questions.here they are: 1. is it a sin to attend to sspx chapels?2. is it also a sin to receive the sacraments in their … Read More
A pub stop – on a suggestion
On the recommendation of a WDTPRSer who emailed me, as I got close to China Town I stopped at De Hems for a BelleVue Kriek. I don’t usually get this sort of thing, but this stuff is really good. Followed … Read More
Saturday afternoon
I am thinkin’ perhaps lunch at a pub in central London. After lunch I will probably visit the Courtauld Gallery today, on the recommendation of a blognicker from last evening. Then maybe… perhaps, back to the National Gallery? I also … Read More
Mother chooses life of child over cancer treatment
From CNA: Ricardo and Mayra Sadoval with Fr. John Gregory Denver, Colo., Jul 24, 2009 / 03:19 pm (CNA).- Though Mayra Sandoval died of cancer on July 8, her son Samuel is alive and healthy thanks to her insistence on … Read More
Westminster Abbey
Today I visited Westminster Abbey. On entering I was immediately accosted by the Warden who was so kind as to lead me to closed off places. For example, I was able to go up to the shrine of St. Edward … Read More
Total Solar Eclipse over Chongqing
From Astronomy Pic of the Day: Total Solar Eclipse over Chongqing
Mister Postman
I arrived home on Friday evening at St. Bede’s in Clapham Park to find that I had mail. “But Father! But Father!”, you are saying, thinking that I am using this word “mail” in a loose, generic sense. “From the … Read More
China and the “one child policy”
A friend sent this for everyone’s attention from Reuters via NYT: July 24, 2009Shanghai Promoting 2-Child FamiliesBy REUTERS Filed at 4:52 a.m. ET BEIJING, July 24 (Reuters) – Shanghai is urging eligible couples to have two children as worries about … Read More
adriennep on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Thanks Father Z, cosmology lesson as only you can impart.”
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