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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Smartphone obsession
I use my smartphone, an iPhone, to keep up with email, which flows in at a rate I can’t handle, and to post to or moderate this beast of a blog. I use it for some light SMS texting too. … Read More
Card. Canizares: the “entire Church” should receive Communion kneeling. Fr. Z rants.
The overriding reason for why we belong to Holy Church and why we receive the sacraments and why we go to Holy Mass is the fact that one day we are going to die. The sin of our first parents, … Read More
GUEST POST: “They get the Ratzinger Marshall Plan better than many Catholics.”
My friend the great Fabricius Romanus, paterfamilias, sent me a reaction to the story I shared here about a priest in Italy who was physically assaulted by someone invoking Satan, because the priest was reintroducing traditional elements of Catholic worship. … Read More
RECENT POSTS keep scrolling
Here are easy links to some recent posts. First of all: Archbp. Sambi, Papal Nuncio to the USA – R.I.P. Thereafter: WDTPRS – The Doxology, Great Amen, and YOU: The mighty voice of the one True Priest On the priesthood … Read More
Thomas Jefferson v Alexander Hamilton
I have been avoiding the tar baby of the debt ceiling debate, but I can at least able to say this. I am pretty much fed up and disgusted by most the players involved. “A Pox!”, I cry, “on both … Read More
WDTPRS – The Doxology, Great Amen, and YOU: The mighty voice of the one True Priest
Here is my latest hecatomb for The Wanderer to which you may subscribe digitally. I worked my way through an examination of the new, corrected translation of the Order of Mass, including the Roman Canon. Then I returned to look … Read More
Posted in New Evangelization, Non Nobis and Te Deum, Our Catholic Identity, Patristiblogging, The Drill, WDTPRS
Tagged 3rd Eucharistic Prayer, Amen, apologetics, apologia, Didache, Dolbeau 26, doxology, Jerome Gassner, mediator, Roman Canon, s. 198, St. Augustine, St. Justin Martyr, The Wanderer
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7 Comments
On the priesthood by St. John Chrysostom
Today, looking for things about the Sanctus, I ran across this, which priests could incorporate into an examination of conscience: From Book VI On the priesthood by St. John Chrysostom. My emphases: 4. […] What manner of man ought [the … Read More
Oxford: a painting by Michelangelo indentified?
For your Just Too Cool file, comes this from CNS: Jesuits at Oxford find painting believed to be by Michelangelo A painting of Christ’s crucifixion believed to be the work of Michelangelo has been hanging in the residence of a small … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Camion Hall, Jesuits, Just Too Cool, Marcello Venusti, Michelangelo, Oxford
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6 Comments
QUAERITUR: Giiving a gift to the priest after a baptism
From a reader: Do you recommend giving a stipend to the priest and/or parish when an infant is baptized? If so, how much is a good amount? This is the old question of “stole fees” which I have presented on … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Linking Back, Non Nobis and Te Deum
Tagged stipends, stole fees
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22 Comments
Archbp. Sambi, Papal Nuncio to the USA – R.I.P.
CNS is reporting that the Holy See’s Nuncio to the USA, His Excellency Most Rev. Pietro Sambi, has died. He was 73 years old. Please, in charity, remember him in your prayers, asking God in His mercy to bring him … Read More
amulack on The Old Guardian Angel Prayer…: “From sinful stain Oh keep me free And at death’s hour My helper be. Amen”
