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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Homosexual activists attack iPhone examination of conscience app for confession
No surprise here. The Guardian in the UK has an article about homosexual apologists attacking the new iPhone app to help people make a good confession. I reviewed the iPhone here with follow up entries: UPDATE REVIEW: iPhone app to … Read More
QUAERITUR: knee injury makes me choose either sitting or kneeling
From a reader: I have incurred a quite painful knee injury and am currently wearing a brace, between the pain and the brace kneeling is out of the question, Is it preferable to stand or sit during the consecration, I … Read More
A Valentine’s Day alternative to teddy bears, chocolates or naming stars
The remedy for those profoundly annoying commercialized Valentine’s Day garbage guilt commercials. From FoxNews with my emphases and comments. Name a Giant Hissing Cockroach After Your Valentine “Flowers wilt. Chocolates melt. Roaches are forever.” Ambitious Romeos looking to differentiate themselves … Read More
Prayer, silence and noise during Mass
My friend Fr. Ray Blake, P.P of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton, has posted something about silence in the Mass. Here it is with my emphases and comments. I had a discussion with a group of priests recently on silence … Read More
Archbp. Nienstedt’s letter to editor about legislation, taxes and abortion
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune on7 February printed an editorial calling for no new limits on abortion rights. My emphases and comments with editing. Reject new limits on abortion rights If ending a pregnancy is legal, income should not be a barrier. … Read More
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QUAERITUR: seminarians and earrings
From a reader: Do you think seminarians should be allowed to wear earrings? I know of two seminarians who are allowed to wear earrings or one earring in two different seminaries. Do these earrings mean something, as I have been … Read More
WDTPRS – 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time: “being on the inside what we are on the outside”
A swift look at the Collect for the 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time. This is an ancient prayer, found already in the 8th c. Liber sacramentorum Gellonensis. I don’t think it was in the 1962 Missale Romanum or its Roman … Read More
Philadelphia
It’s time for more purification. Are you ready, Philadelphia? It is time for us all to get tough and bear this Cross in the face of the mysterium iniquitatis. Get down on our knees and pray and do penance. The … Read More
Rosary for the Bishop Project
My friend Fr. John Boyle has a good project going: Rosary for the Bishop. I would like a make it my own in solidarity. Fr. Boyle says: Choose your own bishop to pray for. I have selected my diocesan Archbishop … Read More
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