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Rich Leonardi on ROME 22/06 – Day 26: Indulgences and indulgences: “The Madonelle statues and placards dedicated to the Virgin that you find on countless street corners in Rome are one…”
mulieribus on It’s as if the stars aligned on 24 June: ““ It’s as if the stars aligned on 24 June”. They did indeed! “The rare sight of five bright planets…”
Semper Gumby on US SUPREME COURT issued Opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson – ROE and CASEY OVERTURNED: “Hosanna in the highest.”
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VForr on ROME 22/06 – Day 26: Indulgences and indulgences: “First, the Marian shrines are such a delight. The only country I have visited outside of the U.S.A. is Ireland…”
anthtan on ROME 22/06 – Day 26: Indulgences and indulgences: “The confessionals are indeed beautiful, witnesses in carved wood to the Mercy of God. However – maybe I’m paranoid -…”
VForr on ROME 22/06 – Day 25: Really day 26, but… hey!: “I am going to miss your daily posts about Rome. [Remember that when I start raising funds for October.]”
acardnal on ROME 22/06 – Day 26: Indulgences and indulgences: ““Gotta love a bishop.” But the Queen reigns supreme! [And, these days, sometimes they are the same.]”
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“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
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- ROME 22/06 – Day 24: “talkin’ ’bout my g-g-generation”
- It’s as if the stars aligned on 24 June
- ROME 22/06 – Day 23: Resistance is futile
- On this Feast of the Sacred Heart, when SCOTUS overturned Roe, remember that “Abortion Pill” use will be pushed hard by the Left, and that there is a SAFE REVERSAL after the first pill. @HeartbeatIntl
- US SUPREME COURT issued Opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson – ROE and CASEY OVERTURNED
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- ASK FATHER: Pork butt for the Sacred Heart
- What do we do when we synodize?
- ASK FATHER: Does the humeral veil contradict in the use of Eucharistic ministers?
- ROME 22/06 – Day 22: “Even in another church St. Rita is sad… about… you know.”
- Vatican Synod’s (“walking together”) on spirituality of synodality (“walking togetherality”) is coming: The merciful heart loves… demons.
- ASK FATHER: What if 100 priests wanted to leave a diocese because of the bishop?
- LOOK! UP IN THE SKY!
- 22 June in the Novus Ordo: St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More
- ASK FATHER: Bishop bully: You have the right to kneel, but not to a kneeler.
- ROME 22/06 – Day 21: Different kinds of pawns
- “The point of entry must always be ‘situatedness’.”
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- ROME 22/06 – Day 20: Field of flowers
- ASK FATHER: If a Pope dies or resigns before a Consistory for the creation of Cardinals, are the designated men Cardinals or not?
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Let us pray…
Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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My schola sang well yesterday despite two singers being out sick.
And, it’s a beautiful fall day here in Champaign, IL. I really should have brought my camera while walking to work.
Former employer (THE phone company) tracked me down…after 5 years…and offered me a permanent-employee slot back in the Labs heading up some projects for next-gen network security development and such. So…instead of working for a beltway bandit on the last year of a failing and contentious contract…pulled out a bump in salary and great bennies…as well as bridging previous time.
St. Anthony really outdid himself, and I am grateful to the Blessed Mother for looking after one of Her unworthy sons. Deo gratias.
It was my birthday yesterday: I am now 28.
Happy birthday, Magpie!
We will have a second Solemn High Mass at Blessed Sacrament Church in Springfield, Illinois, on Saturday, November 21. Deo Gratias!
The negotiations have started between the SSPX and the Vatican; and this could lead to a better understanding of the documents of Vatican II.
There will be a Solemn High Mass at Mission San Juan Bautista next Sunday for the Feast of Christ the King. Fr. James Fryar of the FSSP, who is leading a pilgrimage of the California Missions, will be the Celebrant and deliever the Sermon. It will be the first Solemn High Mass we have had at Mission San Juan Bautista since we started having the Traditional Latin Mass last June.
Solemn High Mass for the Feast of Christ the King
Mission San Juan Bautista, CA
2:00 PM
http://www.monterey-tlm.blogspot.com
I’ve been stressed over the number of extraneous “busy work” projects being assigned to us by our administration. I teach in a “private school in the Catholic tradition” and this year we are required to submit quarterly “course synopses. There is no time to get all the grading done, test made and copied, courses prepared, research done, phone calls and emails from parents returned, let alone all these extraneous “busy work” projects. The administration is behind in their work, too, as we didn’t even receive annual evaluations for more than two years (but I’m not complaining)! The Holy Spirit inspired me this morning as I drove to work: the next time our “Head of the Upper School” starts to quack frantically that I haven’t completed any of the aforementioned “busy work projects”, I shall tell them that I think he may have filed them with last year’s evaluations. God IS SO GOOD!
H.E. Tissier de Mallery will offer Mass in the Lower Bascilica at Lourdes on the Feast of Christ the King (EF) this coming Sunday. The Bishop of Lourdes granted the approval and the SSPX was most appreciative and expressed as much to the same Bishop and all who granted approval. That an SSPX Bishop will offer Mass is monumental in itself. But the most welcomed occurance was the civility showed on everyones part.
I just got engaged!
We are getting married at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Basilica of the Assumption in Covington, Kentucky on August 7th next year! I am very happy that the priest that I have known since I was 9 is the officiate (Father Ed Brodnick) and my husband-to-be is Catholic and we are good at helping each other in our journey of faith. He is a blessing and my life, despite the stress and frustrations, has continued to grow more Christ-centered with his presence. Thanks be to God!
A priest from my diocese (who was pastor of a nearby parish for many years), Fr. Paul Etienne, will be consecrated bishop and installed in the Diocese of Cheyenne in December. Deo Gratias!
20-week ultrasound on Oct. 9 revealed a healthy, active baby. That same week, our offer to buy our first house (right behind our church!) was accepted. God is good!
Thanks Bryan!
Congratulations to you and to Laurinda.
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Maskaggs, you wouldn’t be from New Albany would you?
Finally, at long last, the discussions between the SSPX and the Holy See begin next Monday, Oct 26th, in earnest. Frankly, I’m not looking for any sudden agreement between the parties concerned – just civil and courteous exchanges between theologians striving for the salvation of souls and the good of the Church. This could be a watershed moment in the history of the Church and my hope is that everyone will pray for the success of these discussions.
Started my final year of collage two weeks ago and from the looks of things we may finally have a weekly EF in Bristol, UK !!!!
Yesterday, World Mission Sunday, I had the opportunity to hear and meet two fascinating bishops:
Bishop Emeritus of Incheon, Korea (South) – William John McNaughton.
Bishop of Chalatenango, El Salvador – Luis Morao Andreazza.
We collected over 500 signed and addressed postcards to send to the Canadian Prime Minister regarding the proposed euthanaisa/assisted-suicide legislation. Very few people declined to sign it.
The nicest person in my department is pregnant with her second. I just started a new job as a part-time firefighter and this past weekend we had live fire training and burned a house to the ground. My kids were great at our local TLM Sunday. My wife was as bummed as I was that we fogot our missal (she has been slower than me to warm up to the TLM.) My wife took our kids on their first field trip with the homeschooling moms from our TLM. Our parish is starting a capital campaign to fix up some structural issues and this weekend we sat through a great video presentation about the project – most of the footage shot during Mass was from the TLM.
It’s just really nice outside.
Special welcome to the new babies and congrats to their parents. Congrats to the job hunter and the newly engaged too!
I was just able to purchase 2 volumes of the latin Liturgia Horarum for a very inexpensive price. To me, that is good news.
A local parish just celebrated 11 years of their perpetual adoration chapel, still going strong. And my five month old slept through the night last night from 9 at night to 7 this morning with no cries in between.
Yesterday after our EF mass I heard something very inspiring. After each mass one of the women in the choir loft leads a “prayer for vocations” which begins “Lord grant that one of my sons becomes a priest, I promise to live as a good Christian woman[man]…”. For the first time I heard my 8 year old daughter praying aloud with us that prayer. Praying that one HER sons would enter the priesthood (my grandchildren). It was pretty special. I have great hope for the restoration of the Church and we’re looking long-term!
My former parish, the fairly liberal parish where I was baptized and confirmed, has a new pastor. Magically, Fr. McBrien’s column has disappeared from the weekly bulletin.
The Fraternity of St. Peter will be celebrating a sung Mass, Missa Contota, at Sacred Heart, Chariton, IA on Sunday, November 15 at 1:00 p.m.
My 12 year old son told me last night that he would rather go to church for the prayer service and All Hallows Eve activities dressed as St. Bartholomew (his patron saint) than go “trick-or-treating” in our neighborhood on Halloween. Yippee!
I finally received Communion on the altar rail last week!
I hadn’t been able to work up the courage but thanks to my prayers and some friends who came with me I finally did it. (and it wasn’t nearly as scary as I thought it would be).
My good news is about the 40 Days for Life effort. Prayer, fasting, Eucharistic Adoration and prayer near an abortion clinic are the key elements. Oct. 7th, The Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, a group of men and women, joined by our Pastor, prayed the Rosary and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy outside near a clinic in our area. Having finished and left the site of the prayer vigil, word came to us that the power went out, right in that immediate area! No procedures could have been done the rest of that day at the clinic. Now that’s what I call good news!
More good news is that the number of positive reactions (honks, waves, thumbs up’s, smiles) far exceed the number of negative things that are said (or yelled from a speeding car). I believe the tide has really turned on the abortion issue, more minds and hearts are changing for the good, for LIFE. Thanks be to God and to Our Blessed Mother, Mary.
I finally signed a lease on a little studio apartment of my own, instead of having to sharehouse! Also, I made a good confession, my fiance has been looking after me while I’ve been really ill, and my priest gave me the number of a good Catholic doctor because the non-Catholic doctor basically gave me the options of either taking contraceptives or not being treated.
adamwelp: Yes, I am indeed.
I would like to inform you that there was a huge march against abortion in Spain last Saturday. It has had a big impact in Spain and even in other countries:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/oct/09101908.html
Even NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/world/europe/18spain.html
My baby was baptized a Catholic on Sunday; he didn’t even cry.
Terrific, faithful godparents were no trouble to find this time. And the music at the cathedral was excellent.
Good news, but prayers needed for this one.
Yesterday in front of Planned Parenthood- a young girl was trying to get into PP to get an abortion- but the front door was locked…this gave the break in her momentum neccessary to allow her to come and talk to us. She ended up agreeing to go with us to a pro-life pregnancy center where she was able to receive an ultrasound of her 7-week old baby. She is now considering keeping the baby or adoption- but abortion is still in the mix here. So if you all could pray for Arlette today- she is in dire need of prayer support!
Thank you!!!
My daughter has been accepted for entrance into the Carmel of Mary, Mother of Mercy, and of St. Joseph in South Dakota.
ladykathryn: That’s wonderful news! May she become a Bride of Christ in Carmel!
My good news is that we are somehow making it financially…bit by bit…we have a St. Joseph Spirituality…he sends us the funds when we need them!