Setting aside all the insignificant stuff, like referenda and indissolubility of marriage, let’s keep our eyes focuse on what really matters.
Today is…
If you do nothing else, please use the exclamation “YARRRR!” (aka “ARRRR!”) at least 5 times before bedtime.
This has been a public service announcement.
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
on ASK FATHER: Is the dome of St. Peter’s in Rome turning black?: “This Barnhardt article from January 1, 2023 does not provide an answer, but does show how the dome has darkened…”
on A Roman Mystery: The Lost Tomb of St. Jerome: “I support you writing a novel. You have the imagination, wit and humor to pull it off. As demonstrated here…”
on Telling: “Look at all the chairs they put out. Time to move Holy Mass back inside and rid Bernini’s piazza of…”
on Daily Rome Shot 809: “Sent the table setting diagram to Mom; she’ll love it Not much call for direct Twitter links given all the…”
on ASK FATHER: Is the dome of St. Peter’s in Rome turning black?: “Is there a wafting odor of brimstone in the air? Or notes of excrement? THAT would start confirming things…”
on VIDEO about making a good confession with some additional notes: “MB, calm down. Remember the Priest is another Christ. Some Priest sadly, are lousy in the confessional, that doesn’t change…” on A Roman Mystery: The Lost Tomb of St. Jerome: “We had a movie about finding the lost Ark of the Covenant, why not finding St Jerome? I always wondered…”
on VIDEO about making a good confession with some additional notes: “Be BRIEF … Hmmm … What if something bad happened, and you went to your natural father to tell him,…” on VIDEO about making a good confession with some additional notes: “If you have finished your preparation, and find yourself in line, pray for the grace of a good confession for…”
on Bishop Schneider’s Prayer for the Synod on Synodality: “Athanasius contra mundi! Frustration to His enemies!”
on Daily Rome Shot 808: “1. R-d2 (threatening Qxh2#) . . . . . . . . . Bxg7+ looks promising because Kxg7 sets up…”
on VIDEO about making a good confession with some additional notes: “Very good. After almost every confession I make the priest says,”Thank God for making a good confession”. I’ve heard it…”
on Daily Rome Shot 808: “1. … Rd2 (threatening Qxh2#) and white can only stall mate, for example 2. Bxg7+ Kh7 3. Qg8+ Kxg8 4.…”
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Just to save wear-and-tear on Google:
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
We can talk about both issues if the Synod decides to address whether pirates can receive communion. I hear Card Kasper wants to allow it.
I once told my former parish Priest that he said the pirate’s Lord’s Prayer at Mass.
“What do you mean?” he said.
I replied, “Instead of ‘Our’ Father, you say ‘Arrrh’ Father.”
Pirates for Communion! Merciful God, merciful Church!
But Father, but Father . . . what would Captain Jack Aubrey say about this exercise?!
Avast ye matey’s! Talk like a pirate, ARRRRR! and remember to go to confession and Mass this weekend! Arrrrrr!
giggle! Ai! I do enjoy silly. Arrr! Arrr! Arrr!
And for you Hams, out there – tonight is the “Talk Like a Pirate QSO Party”
http://pirateqsoparty.weebly.com/rules.html
Avast ye swabs! Raise the tri-bander and point ‘er to the sou’west ……. Arrrrgh! Cut the lines and raise the jibs and the dipoles, ye scurvy dogs!
Arrrr. And don’t be fergettin yer pirate name, mateys!
http://pirate.namegeneratorfun.com/
Maria – aka:
Miranda “Fierce And Foul” Fiddick
“The Curse of Craggy Cliffs!”
This pirate be sending off the navy quaking in their boots!
As a graduate of the great Seton Hall University (and still a practicing Catholic, no less!) I must concur. Ahoy, mateys! Argh!!!
If St. Godric of Finchale was a pirate, as some evidence suggests, we can also sing like a reformed pirate! (Or, finding the manuscript notation – photographed in his Wikipedia article, for example – a bit heavy going, we can at least hear others doing so, at You Tube, for instance.)
But, o ye scholars, how can we get a good idea of how ot talk like Dr. Baldassare Cossa, who died as Cardinal-Bishop of Tusculum, but was earlier some other things, including, reputedly, a pirate?
All movie pirates are a footnote to Robert Newton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC_PR7YWQOc
How come you never come to the party? I saw you talking animatedly with a certain person at the end and really wanted to know what you were saying! Probably talking like a pirate.
EVERY day should be Talk Like A Pirate Day …
Philippa Martyr says: EVERY day should be Talk Like A Pirate Day …
Agreed, especially since it seems as if every other news item in the past week makes me say ARRRGH…
In my neck of the woods, we said GARRR! Maybe it’s a regional thing?