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Monthly Archives: March 2014
My View For Awhile: Heading South Edition
It isn’t gray to travel when not feeling 100% but, ceteris paribus, I’m in pretty good shape. Small aircraft today, which always leads to that cramped feeling. It is a melancholy day when on FourSquare you become “mayor” of your … Read More
WDTPRS Monday in the 1st Week of Lent (NO)
There are curiosities in this prayer, even controversial things. COLLECT Converte nos, Deus, salutaris noster, et, ut nobis opus quadragesimale proficiat, mentes nostras caelestibus instrue disciplinis. Today’s prayer comes from the Gelasian Sacramentary in the section for prayers from the … Read More
Another request for a prayer
Over the weekend I was feeling poorly, really poorly Friday night and Saturday morning, and was facing a lot of work. I’m much improved, thanks. However, I am not at 100% and I must travel today. I’d appreciate some spiritual … Read More
Lent, Alligators and You – Revisited
Once again, someone wrote to ask me if it is okay to eat alligator on Friday during Lent. Is this a put on? Is this a joke? Of course it’s okay to eat alligator! And crocodile, if you have some. … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point offered during the sermon that you heard for your Sunday Mass? Let us know. GOOD points. Thanks.
FRANCE: Dead and Not-Yet-Dead Unions!
I saw an alarmingly amusing story at Charisma News: Marriage Equality Takes Deadly Twist: Woman to Marry Deceased Fiancé President François Hollande has allowed a French woman to marry her dead fiancé, under a little-known law dating back 55 years. … Read More
URGENT: 9 March – change your clocks in these USA
It is “spring forward” time again. You get to lose an hour of sleep tonight or risk missing Mass in the morning. Reset your clocks tonight before going to bed. Most smart phones will do this automatically. I use mine … Read More
VIDEO: Sermon for Archbishop Sample’s 1st Pontifical Mass – MUST SEE
“When Summorum Pontificum came out, and the Holy Father said this is one of the forms of the Latin Rite, the Extraordinary Form, I said ‘I’m a bishop of the Church, I must know this rite!’ And I encourage my … Read More
Church to raffle off an AR-15. Predictable hysteria ensues.
I can’t see what the fuss is all about. Well, actually I do see what the fuss is all about. From FNC: New York pastor’s Sunday service assault rifle giveaway draws controversy An upstate New York Baptist pastor has stirred … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Semper Paratus, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged 2nd amendment, AR-10, AR-15, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York, raffle, SAFE Act
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A bishop’s pastoral letter on Pornography
The other day a priest acquaintance sent me a note about the new Pastoral Letter from Bp. Loverde of the Diocese of Arlington concerning Pornography, “Bought With A Price: Every Man’s Duty to Protect Himself and His Family from a … Read More
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