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Should the Bishops of the USA have us return to obligatory meatless Fridays during the whole year and not just during Lent?
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Yearly Archives: 2010
Brick by Brick in Sugar Land, TX
For your “Brick by Brick” file comes this from a reader: St Theresa’s in Sugar Land had it’s annual youth winter retreat, but with a few notable changes. Adoration included 30 minutes of silence (rare for youth gatherings.). Mass was … Read More
What does “refrigerium” mean in the Roman Canon’s Memento of the dead?
I just put together an article for The Wanderer, my usual weekly column which was the origin of this blog. In the course of the column I offered this. It is something I have written on before, since I have … Read More
WDTPRS Tuesday in the 3rd Week of Advent
Here is the Collect for Tuesday of the 3rd Week of Advent: COLLECT (2002MR): Deus, qui novam creaturam per Unigenitum tuum nos esse fecisti, in opera misericordiae tuae propitius intuere, et in adventu Filii tui ab omnibus nos maculis vetustatis … Read More
Gary Owen
Here is a man who must not go unnoticed: Basil L. Plumley was born January 1, 1920 in Shady Spring, West Virginia, the second son and fifth child of coal miner Clay Plumley (b.1879) and his wife Georgia (b.abt.1895), both … Read More
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PODCAzT 113: More winter poems
Well… I went and did it again… and then yet again. I made a yet another PODCAzT of poems having to do with winter. I was inspired by the blizzard we just had, and also by requests via e-mail. And … Read More
WDTPRS Monday 3rd Week of Advent: See ya’ later!
Here is the Collect for the Monday of the 3rd week of Advent. COLLECT: Voci nostrae, quaesumus, Domine, aures tuae pietati accomoda, et cordis nostri tenebras gratia Filii tui nos visitantis illustra. This was in the 1962MR on the 3rd … Read More
Anglican nuns at Walsingham express interest in the Ordinariate
Do you remember the post wherein I asked if you knew what people give up when they convert? This come by way of Damian Thompson: Three Anglican nuns resident at the Church of England shrine at Walsingham have left after … Read More
The perennial parish pop combo problem
I understand that if a President of the United States is reelected, all cabinet officers resign so that the President can be freer to choose new people. When the Pope dies, virtually all the offices of the Vatican dicasteries cease. … Read More
Heavenly fireworks
A reader sent: Father Z – – there were three spectacular coronal mass ejections (CMEs) today, right on cue for the anniversary of Our Lady of Guadalupe and Gaudete Sunday!! Note the symmetry!! Looks like an angel?? The heavens proclaim … Read More
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