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YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
- A.S. Haley on Daily Rome Shot 1226 – “Baaaaaah!”: “Black’s Knight prevents Black’s Bishop from applying check. So move it: 1. . . . Ng4 2. g2g3 (If White…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1226 – “Baaaaaah!”: “I will not use the new name for the Gulf of Mexico. The name has historical roots and we need…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1226 – “Baaaaaah!”: “1. . . . . . . N×f3+ If 2. B×f3 . . B-d4+ 3. K-f1 . . R-h1# If…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1226 – “Baaaaaah!”: “Black to move and mate in 4. [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t…”
- on 21 January – “O glorious St. Agnes, intercede with Christ the High Priest for a return of orthodoxy, sanity and sanctity to the Roman Church!”: “With her death St. Agnes brought to an end the Roman persecution of our Holy Mother the Church. Let pray…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1225: “Can you repost your youthful image of St. Joseph please? I can’t see it. It show an exclamation point in…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany (N.O. 2nd Ordinary) 2025: “Attendance was sparser than usual at our 10:30 AM High Mass due to a pending snow storm. Normally almost every…”
- on OLDIE PODCAzT 127: The Eve of St. Agnes and a Bleak Midwinter: “? « Not Found Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help. »”
- on OLDIE PODCAzT 127: The Eve of St. Agnes and a Bleak Midwinter: “Link leads to a dead page, not an audio file.”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1225: “Note that White’s King is locked down, and has no legal move. We want to keep things that way: 1.…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1225: “Black to move and mate in 4. [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t…”
- on Motus in finem velocior – Daily Rome Shot 1224: “The Spada’s chapel in San Gerolamo della Carità. Terrific opus of the “Swiss” architect Borromini.”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1224: “In the second game, if Black takes the Queen, Qa4, Pxa4 Bxc4+, Kf8 (or Kg7) Bh6# But if Black doesn’t…”
- on WDTPRS: 2nd Sunday after Epiphany (N.O.: 2nd Ordinary): a “liturgical unicorn”: ““Ordinary meaning ordered not unexceptional.” Alas the memo never reached Indonesia, where the church bulletins etc translate the adjective as…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1223 – “Sluggish schizophrenia”: “Enough straw men from Bergoglio to stock all the corn fields in Oz.”
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Daily Archives: 17 January 2012
Another blog problem resolved
The blog was down for a couple hours again this evening. It was a different problem this time. After some changes to the server, some other adjustments had to be made. More connections were needed. So… this is what happens … Read More
St. Anthony, Abbot: Vespers with no frills
Years ago, I stood for a couple hours on this day, blessing pigs and horses. St. Anthony! Pray for us! Vespers with no frills read swiftly from the Breviarium Romanum. For my weary brethren.
RECENT POSTS and THANKS
Some posts as they scroll along: “’cause I get a … kick.. outta you” – unborn baby saves father’s life. A Defense of Marriage Minute: Minnesota Style “Ebb and Flow”… the Mooncraft Louisville, KY: 10-12 July: Conference for priests on … Read More
“’cause I get a … kick.. outta you” – unborn baby saves father’s life.
Who knows what quite bonds there are within the family? Here is a Just Too Cool story right in the face of the emanations and penumbras crowd. From Life Site: January 16, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sara McDonald is 7 ½ … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Just Too Cool, One Man & One Woman
Tagged Prayer for the Unborn, prolife
8 Comments
8 Comments
A Defense of Marriage Minute: Minnesota Style
In Minnesota an amendment to the state constitution has been proposed which would define and defend proper and true marriage. When the weather warms up again watch for St. Paul, Minnesota to become ground zero for this issue just as … Read More
“Ebb and Flow”… the Mooncraft
For your Just Too Cool file from NASA: Montana Students Pick Winning Names for Moon Craft January 17, 2012 PASADENA, Calif. — Twin NASA spacecraft that achieved orbit around the moon New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day have new … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Ebb and Flow, Moon Craft, NASA
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Louisville, KY: 10-12 July: Conference for priests on being a better confessor
I have been harping on the need for a revival of the Sacrament of Penance. This means that priests have to hear confessions and preach about confession. As a matter of fact, if Pope Benedict has a “Marshall Plan” for … Read More
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Reason #957654 for Summorum Pontificum From a reader: I was traveling with my daughter last week and, walking out of a parish where we fulfilled our Sunday obligation, she looked at me and said “I’ve never hated the tambourine more … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Lighter fare, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Ordination Tambourine, tambourine
34 Comments
34 Comments
SSPX sends the CDF a more precise response to the Doctrinal Preamble
You know about the “Doctrinal Preamble” which the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith gave to the SSPX. The SSPX issued a preliminary reaction to the Preamble. Now they have sent the CDF a more precise response, which the … Read More
When truth is stranger than fiction: a “reverse ordinariate”!
Quite a while ago I proposed that Anglican Archbp. Rowan Williams issue a document entitled Romanum coetibus with provisions for Catholics who think and behave like Anglicans. By means of Romanum coetibus, a safe haven in the very loose Anglican embrace … Read More
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Lighter fare, Linking Back, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Anglicanorum coetibus, Peru, Romanum coetibus
31 Comments
31 Comments
“Collar Hollers” and EncouragePriests.org
Thanks to a commentator here, I just learned about EncouragePriests.org You can, apparently, send “Collar Hollers” graphics to priests, to give them a boost. You can print them, send them by email, or use other social networking tools. It looks … Read More
A.S. Haley on Daily Rome Shot 1226 – “Baaaaaah!”: “Black’s Knight prevents Black’s Bishop from applying check. So move it: 1. . . . Ng4 2. g2g3 (If White…”
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