Monthly Archives: August 2009

QUAERITUR: yet another absolution formula variation

From a reader: I went to confession yesterday and the priest used the form "I absolve you of all your sins" instead of "I absolve you of your sins". I asked the priest and he said this was the approved … Read More

Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box |
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grrrr update – the Cylons have been repulsed

Well, I managed to get the mothership working again.  For the time being the Cylons have been repulsed. We shall see, but so far so good. I did this through several steps.  Unseating and reseating my video card got me … Read More

Posted in SESSIUNCULA |
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Attention Minnesotans (et al.)

The Minnesota State Fair is a huge summer event, and I do mean huge. A reader of the blog just alerted me to a Catholic initiative at the Fair.  Here is the text I was sent. It’s one of the … Read More

Posted in SESSIUNCULA |
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Archbp. Chaput on Obamacare: promoting abortion is not “common ground”

Archbp. Chaput has stepped up once again about the Obama Administrations proposals for "health care".  Here is the Archbishop’s column. REMINDER: During his speech at the Notre Dame Debacle, President Obama referred repeatedly to "common ground". My emphases and comments. … Read More

Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill |
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How about your good news?

Do you have some good news to share with everyone?

Posted in SESSIUNCULA |
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Philadelphia: workshop for deacons in Latin and rubrics

From was from a friend in Philadelphia: Re: Workshop for Deacons on Latin Chants and Pronunciation and Altar Procedures at Carmelite Monastery , Monday, Sept. 21 at 7:00 PM Dr. Lucy Carroll is pleased to announce that a workshop will … Read More

Posted in Brick by Brick |
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Tolkien’s grandson remembers JRR’s reaction to Mass in English

I saw this due to the diligence of His Hermeneuticalness, Fr. Finigan. Over at The Lion and the Cardinal we find this about an author who exerted an important influence on my young life: J.R.R. Tolkien.  This is a recollection … Read More

Posted in SESSIUNCULA |
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Bp. D’Arcy on the Notre Dame Debacle… this is not over

I was told by an American bishop not long ago that, as far as the USCCB was concerned, the Notre Dame Debacle is not over. Read the article by Bp. D’Arcy in America. From CNA with my emphases and comments. … Read More

Posted in Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill, The future and our choices |
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grrr and again grrr

Well… bad news. Now there is nothing but BSOD when I try to boot my main computer.  This is an Nvidia driver problem, I believe.  But I can’t get past the BSOD on start up.  I am ready to use … Read More

Posted in SESSIUNCULA |
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Saving Western Civilization… One Book and One Reader at a Time

I was in my native place last week and took part of the morning to visit a place I used to haunt… whose rent I used to pay. Loome Theological Bookseller. The used bookstore, the largest theological/Catholic used bookstore anywhere, … Read More

Posted in Just Too Cool, SESSIUNCULA |
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New liturgical provisions? Maybe not.

I didn’t write on this before, though I usually follow the intrepid Andrea Tornelli when he writes about liturgical things.  Still… this struck me as a little odd, for one, and I was really busy. Have a look at this … Read More

Posted in SESSIUNCULA |
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another grrrrr update

As you know I have been having some rather serious computer problems. Last week I managed to back up some files when I had gotten it working for a while. Then it crashed again and I decided to let it … Read More

Posted in SESSIUNCULA |
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The end of liturgical dance

From a friend: “If you deliver the Ammonites into my power,” he said, “whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites shall belong to the LORD. I shall … Read More

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Taking notice of America taking notice of The Bitter Pill

Here is something in passing, just so you know what is going on. This, from the leftist America magazine published by the Jesuits.  It is a piece about the recent training conference in the Archdiocese of Westminster for priests to … Read More

Posted in SESSIUNCULA |
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Chinese market

Such interesting things to try.

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NCReporter whines about Bp. Slattery’s choice for “ad orientem”

From the dissenting ultra-liberal National Catholic Reporter comes this whiny piece jabbing at the Bishop of Tulsa, Most Rev. Edward Slattery, over his choice to offer Holy Mass ad orientem versus when in the cathedral. Let’s have a look with … Read More

Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill |
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QUAERITUR: Sunday’s Mass on Monday

From a reader: A local parish has a Spanish-language Mass on Monday night, but uses Sunday’s liturgy.  Is this ever allowed, even with a dispensation?  If so, would it fulfill one’s Sunday obligation?  It seems very strange to me.   … Read More

Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box |
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A bishop’s second “career”

This comes from Catholic American Eyes in Korea and The Western Confucian: The hospice movement in Korea is going strong. It is the care of the sick and the dying by people who have been trained to do this service … Read More

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An “ineffable” sighting

From The Four Quartets: "The Dry Salvages" by T.S. Eliot:     It seems, as one becomes older, That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence— Or even development: the latter a partial fallacy Encouraged … Read More

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Supper

On the grill.

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