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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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Monthly Archives: August 2010
A different take on “active participation”
I hear there was recently another attempted ordination of a wymyn in Arizona.
WDTPRS POLL: sanctuary design for Pope Benedict’s visit to England
UPDATE: 1 Sept 17:52 GMT: I see that England’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald has linked to this post. Perhaps you readers might reciprocate and contribute well-considered and respectful comments in the discussion over there as well. __________ I … Read More
Looking again at “active participation”
In Faith Magazine there is an article about active participation in the liturgy. Let’s have a look with my emphases and comments. ‘With hearts and hands and voices’full, conscious and active participation in the liturgy by Rita Thiron [Who … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Diocese of Lansing
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E-Mail issue
A note to friends who also read this blog: I have had an email problem. While on the road this weekend, my internet provider changed outgoing server settings. Result: I could not send anything out. It took a while to … Read More
It is hardly ever killing time
On domestic flights one of two things will fill my time. I either fall more or less instantly to sleep – rather in the manner of Capt. Aubrey – or I read. Todayen route I was able to devour the … Read More
Wholly Ours
In a conversation with a friend today it became clearer and clearer to me how the Second Vatican Council’s document on liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, is entirely the property of … on the side of the traditional/conversative argument. The usual narrative … Read More
Where you are
I did a quick snapshot of some of the places you are when you come to visit WDTPRS. I cut out the "unknown" and entries that were too vague, such as "Canada" or "Germany". These are approximations of locations in … Read More
What is your good news?
Have any good news for us today? I was able to spend some time with friends in KC, MO, meet with Bp. Finn, and help a priest friend by taking one of his four Sunday Masses.
REVIEW: Mystic Monk Coffee
was so impressed by the proposed plans for the new Carmelite Monastery in Wyoming, that I decided to check out Mystic Monk Coffee and help them peddle some. Pounds and Grounds and Compounds I developed a strong interest in good … Read More
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WDTPRS: 14th Sunday after Pentecost
Today’s prayer survived the snipping and pasting of the Consilium and the late Rev. Annibale Bugnini’s liturgical experts to be used on Tuesday of the 2nd week of Lent. COLLECT (1962MR): Custodi, Domine, quaesumus, Ecclesiam tuam propitiatione perpetua: et quia … Read More
Greg Hlatky on From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-09-29 – Chester pontificates: “Q: What do you call the guy who graduated at the bottom of his seminary class? A: Your Excellency”
