Monthly Archives: July 2010

Thanks to readers, of manna, and Penjing Report

First and foremost, thank you to all the readers who lately have used the donation button on the Feeder Feed posts.  Your help is deeply appreciated.  I’ll probably be coming back to you for something else that is shaping up, … Read More

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Canadian Anglican Catholic group votes to unite with Rome

Benedict XVI is the Pope of Christian Unity This comes from CNA: Canadian Anglican Catholic group votes to unite with Rome Vancouver, Canada, Jul 28, 2010 / 01:10 am (CNA).- With “overwhelming support,” a recent meeting of leaders in the … Read More

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New film about Opus Dei’s founder, St. Jose Maria Escrivá

I received a press release that there is to be a major motion picture about St. Jose Maria Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei.  It will be directed by the man who made the movie The Mission.  There is a … Read More

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Bp. Baraga’s cause for beatification takes another step

From CNA: Sainthood cause of ‘snowshoe priest’ heads to Vatican Marquette, Mich., Jul 28, 2010 / 03:27 am (CNA).- Following a four-month investigation, the Diocese of Marquette has closed its inquiry into an alleged miracle attributed to its first bishop, … Read More

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“Meat cleaver” journalism – In the eye of the beholder?

I take my cue from the great blog of The Catholic Key, newspaper of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph where Bp. Robert Finn has the reins. The Catholic Key has focused our attention on the comment made by the … Read More

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A new low for NCR: hating the Church while begging for its affirmation

The NCR hits a new low. Before we begin what is going to be a brutal evisceration of a deeply confused essay, we need a few points as a preface. The literary form of this piece is "protest". The substance … Read More

Posted in Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill, Throwing a Nutty | Tagged
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The Feeder Feed: ravenous Grosbeak edition

I mentioned in yesterday’s Feeder Feed that the birds were eating like made. Many of them are starting to gear up for migration.  Some are going to nest. Here is a shot of what is going on with Red-Breasted Grosbeaks, … Read More

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Traditional Benedictine Nuns in France sign major recording contract

It is hard to resist this story in the Independent.What the story does not report is that these are the very traditional Benedictines of the Abbey of Sainte-Madeleine who are associated with the monks of Le Barroux on the next … Read More

Posted in Lighter fare, SESSIUNCULA |
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The Feeder Feed: “Wow… look at the colors” edition

I haven’t posted about the feeder recently. Before any other shots, I caught this little Indigo Bunting on the Z-Cam today. A very wet oriole, not content with its usual feast on grape jelly, went after the suet cage. The … Read More

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Seminarians of the ThIIIIIrd MillENNNNiummmmm!

Hmmmm…. wait… I suspect we are being made game of. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxzbUAo-MSQ]

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WDTPRS! HELP!

I need a favor. Do any of you have a photo of a stained-glass window of the scene in Exodus 33 where Moses glimpses God as He passes before the cleft in the rock? I have seen windows of the … Read More

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26 July: Sts. Joachim and Anna, parents of Mary, Mother of God

Today is – in the reformed, post-Conciliar calendar – the feast of both Sts. Joachim and Anna, the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, grandparents of the Savior.  In the traditional calendar it is the feast of St. Anna. Here … Read More

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Power outage

From the blog of CNS: Power outage at USCCB, CNS Power is out this morning at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops after a line of severe thunderstorms rolled through Washington yesterday afternoon. And since we’re in the USCCB building, … Read More

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UK 10-13 August – TLM Training for priests and servers

From the Latin Mass Society in England: LMS Residential Training Conference for Priests Wishing to Learn the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (Traditional Latin Mass) at Downside Abbey, Somerset. Bishop Athanasius Schneider to attend Conference The Latin Mass Society … Read More

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Archbp. Ranjith in Sri Lanka! Huzzah!

Our worthy friends at Rorate have posted a piece by His Excellency Most Rev. Malcolm Ranjith, once Secretary of the CDW and now Archbishop of Colombo in Sri Lanka. Archbp. Ranjith demonstrates why he was the right man for the … Read More

Posted in Brick by Brick, Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM | Tagged ,
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Justice now! Stop the discrimination!

In a homily entitled “…and Mary was welcomed,” preached at the Pax Christi National Assembly on 22 July, retired Detroit Auxiliary Bishop His Excellency Most Reverend Thomas Gumbleton opined that there are Scriptural arguments in support of the ordination of … Read More

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SALE alert! Benedict XVI’s vol 1 of Jesus of Nazareth

When I was writing a response to an email query, I looked up a link for Pope Benedict XVI’s book Jesus of Nazareth (Vol. 1).  I found that – at the time of this writing – it is on sale … Read More

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24 July: Astonishing Saints and good red wine

A glance through the Martyrologium Romanum today will produce astonishment. Among the many saints listed today you will find, St. Charbel St. Christina, virgin and martyr Sts. Boris and Gleb St. Balduin St. Cunegunda Bl. Nicholas Garlick, Robert Ludlam, and … Read More

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Get well soon to…

Sending bloggy get wells to Mulier Fortis!

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PODCAzT 108: The new translation of the 3rd Eucharistic Prayer; Fr. Z digresses and rants

Herein we compare the lame-duck ICEL version of the 3rd Eucharistic Prayer now still in use with the new, approved and improved translation which we will soon be able to hear in our Churches. The new translation of the Roman … Read More

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