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Yearly Archives: 2010
PODCAzT 111: 4th Eucharistic Prayer; don Camillo (Part IX)
Herein we compare the lame-duck ICEL version of the 4th Eucharistic Prayer now still in use with the new, approved and corrected translation which we will soon be able to hear in our Churches. I use the Latin original, and … Read More
WDTPRS 2nd Sunday of Advent (1962MR)
The 2nd Sunday of Advent harks to the City of David: Jerusalem. Indeed the Roman Station is at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. Jerusalem is not just the physical place we might visit, where the historical events we commemorate took place. … Read More
Secularist hypocrites against reason and free speech
I picked this up from Sancte Pater to whom a biretta tip o{]:¬) is owed. The original is at EWTN. Are you ready for this sort of thing where you are? Activists forced the Archdiocese of Madrid, Spain to cancel … Read More
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WDTPRS 2nd Sunday of Advent (200MR): nasty sticky muck
Lest any “traditional” Catholics think today’s Collect is less valuable because it isn’t old enough, or wasn’t in the 1570 Missale Romanum, it is from 8th century the Gelasian Sacramentary. COLLECT (2002MR): Omnipotens et misericors Deus, in tui occursum Filii … Read More
QUAERITUR: unbleached beeswax candles
From a reader: My wife recently completed a course on how to make yellow beeswax candles. My pastor has indicated he would love to receive them as a donation for requiem Masses, funerals, Tenebrae, All Souls, Good Friday, etc. (we … Read More
US Military Catholic Chaplains: serious concerns
The paucity of priests serving in active duty in the US Military’s Chaplain Corps is nearing disaster. I think there are three active duty priests in the Army in Iraq. The number of Navy chaplains, who serve the Marine as … Read More
Remarks of prelates concerning marriage.
Biretta tip o{]:¬) to my friend the great Fr. Blake, parish priest of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton. He picked up something from the site of John Smeaton, director of Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), which Fr. … Read More
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Brick by brick in Cincy
In Cincinnati H.E. Most Rev. Dennis Schnurr has undertaken to establish a parish for the Extraordinary Form. Keep in mind that parish priests don’t need permission to establish celebrations of the TLM in their parishes, but only a bishop can … Read More
The Feeder Feed: different bird
I believe I have a new older-comer to the feeder today. I happened to look up and spotted a less-familiar creature. But first, a glimpse at FINCH MADNESS. There are various finches feeding in a frenzy these days. House finches … Read More
PRAYERCAzT 30: 3 tones of the Christmas Preface (1962MR)
Welcome to another installment of What Does the Prayer Really Sound Like? Today we will hear the three tones of the Preface for Christmas in the 1962 Missale Romanum and the 2002MR as well. I don’t speak them this time. … Read More
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