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- grayanderson on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 5th Sunday after Easter (N.O. 6th of Easter) 2024: “Attendance was about where I’m used to seeing it (100-110) at the 1330 Mass. This was actually a pleasant surprise…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 5th Sunday after Easter (N.O. 6th of Easter) 2024: “The priest who was hearing Confession preached the sermon for whatever reason rather than the priest offering the Mass. Basically…”
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- on Daily Rome Shot 10112 – Brooklyn 24/4– Day 3 – A visit to the seminary: “Thanks for this interesting revelation on the Brooklyn Seminary, Father. Another sad story of the destruction of the visible Church.…”
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Monthly Archives: January 2013
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A blogger’s conversion to altar rails and kneeling for Communion (POLL)
Deacon Greg Kandra has had a bit of a conversion about altar rails. Here is a taste. Okay. I’ve changed my mind. It’s time to bring back the altar rail. Hey, I’m as surprised as anyone else that I feel … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices, Year of Faith
Tagged altar rails, Dcn. Kandra, Holy Communion, kneeling, reverence, sense of the sacred
113 Comments
113 Comments
@Pontifex now in Latin
His Holiness now has a Twitter account also in Latin. HERE. No tweets yet. I have argued HERE that a tweet is pipatum. “I tweet” is pipio. BTW… I missed last Tuesday’s @Pontifex tweet. Let’s do it tomorrow, Friday, the other … Read More
Posted in @Pontifex Tuesday Project, Benedict XVI, Lighter fare
Tagged @Pontifex Tuesday Project, pipatum, pipio, Pontifex, Twitter
8 Comments
8 Comments
Mr. President, pleeeeease issue an executive order to outlaw the Catholic Church? Pretty please?
Stock in gun companies is going up, because of this gun-control thing. Pres. Obama has a jihad against guns… gun and ammo sales soar to record levels. In a gun shop I saw a photo of the President with the … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Lighter fare, New Evangelization
Tagged gun control, hypocrisy, Pres. Obama
10 Comments
10 Comments
Sr. Keehan! Will the CHA have a banner in the March for Life in Washington DC?
First I found Pres. Obama declaring “Religious Freedom” Day. Now I find Sr. Carol Keehan openly defending the unborn? From CNS: Sr. Carol Keehan: Sandy Hook ‘Separate Issue’ But ‘Abortion Takes the Life of an Innocent Child’ By Patrick Burke … Read More
Pres. Obama declares – no kidding – “Religious Freedom Day”
I must have walked through the wrong door and into Bearded-Spock Universe. This isn’t a joke. Here is the link to the site of the White House. Read the language carefully. It’s supposed to be “Religious Freedom Day”, but the … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged “Religious Freedom Day”, 1st Amendment, HHS mandate, Obama Administration, Pres. Obama, The First Gay President, White House
34 Comments
34 Comments
SCOTUS to hear case about Pres. Obama’s eligibility
Can you imagine the constitutional problems/crisis? From minutemennews.com Supreme Court Opens Door to Obama Eligibility Challenge on February 15th Chief Justice John Roberts Schedules A Case Regarding Obamas Forged IDs to be Heard in Conference Before the Full Supreme Court. … Read More
Posted in Religious Liberty, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Pres. Obama
48 Comments
48 Comments
Welcome to Sodom
A priest friend shared this, taken from the Pastor’s Page of Our Lady of Lourdes in Bethesda, MA: Pastor’s Letter Welcome to Sodom. Yes, that is what Maryland has now become. Sodom with its neighbor Gomorrah was a city of … Read More
Brick by Brick: a new church for a TLM community in Kansas
Jesus did not found your parish. Our Lord personally founded the Catholic Church and promised that she would prevail against the forces of Hell. He did not promise that the Enemy would not prevail where you live. He made no … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, The future and our choices, Year of Faith
Tagged Archbp. John Caroll, Archd. Kansas City, FSSP, parishes, St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, TLM
19 Comments
19 Comments
A note about registering to comment here
First, let me post a smile with my signature icon, so that you know that, even as I mean business, I am in a pleasant mood. o{]:¬) Once again, I am getting lots of registrations from spammers. I eliminated dozens … Read More
WARNING! Herein is cuteness!
Sent by a reader. This two-year-old has a bright future. Ex ore infantium… [wp_youtube]42Ud4YMmgVY[/wp_youtube]
A day with S.W.A.T.
I had a great day today with Minneapolis S.W.A.T. This was built around a Ford F550. As it happens, this here blog is known to a member of the S.W.A.T. unit of my native place. I had an invitation when … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged Minneapolis, S.W.A.T.
113 Comments
113 Comments
Monk by monk
Good news. The monks from Fontgombault (who founded Clear Creek in the Diocese of Tulsa) are going to repopulate a French monastery.
Video by Hollywood stars about guns followed by the reality check video
Don’t you wish sometimes that you never… I mean never… saw or heard Hollywood stars when they weren’t actually in a show or movie? Some of these people are getting into the gun-control issue. Strikes me as a bit hypocritical. … Read More
Posted in The Drill, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged 2nd amendment, gun control, Hollywood, hypocrisy, violence
17 Comments
17 Comments
San Buenaventura in Ventura, California
Thanks to a reader I saw this at Eponymous Flower: Pastor Determines Latin Mass “Disturbs” Tourists Edit: We just received a discouraging letter from a friend about a Latin Mass Community in the Los Angeles, California area. There has been … Read More
Things fall apart
From Sr. Mary Ann Walsh at the USCCB HQ: American Girl Catholic School Uniform Catholic schools are in vogue. Proof: You can buy a Catholic school uniform for an American Girl doll. In your favorite plaid. You can find them … Read More
Monday Supper
My literary group met yesterday. We are reading Yeats these days. I made supper for 9. Some images (sorry… no long explanations. Busy day). The Christmas Pudding! I begin the broth for Tortellini in Brodo. It isn’t quiet enough to … Read More
About.com Catholicism Readers’ Choice Awards
Nominations will be accepted from 12:00 A.M. EST on January 14, 2013, until 12:00 A.M. EST on February 11, 2013 for the About.com Catholicism Readers’ Choice Awards Best Catholic Book of 2012 Best Catholic Blog Best Catholic Website Best Catholic … Read More
“Band of Sisters” documentary about liberal women religious premiers
We start a new work week with some old fashioned dissent. And I mean old. Picture if you will the paradox of a visible but invisible group of women religious dissenters. Even as they stay in the public eye, because … Read More
Not a Platitude Cookie…
… more like a Pep Talk Cookie? Coach Cookie?
grayanderson on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 5th Sunday after Easter (N.O. 6th of Easter) 2024: “Attendance was about where I’m used to seeing it (100-110) at the 1330 Mass. This was actually a pleasant surprise…”
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