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Monthly Archives: November 2017
ASK FATHER: Scheduling a specific Mass for a profession: IT professionals
From a reader… QUAERITUR: How do you go about scheduling a specific Mass for a profession? I am a member of a new group called Saint Isidore’s Guild, a professional apostolate of programmers and other IT professionals under the patronage … Read More
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ASK FATHER: Firearms at Mass, laity and priests – UPDATED
In the wake of the recent horrible Texas church massacre, I now have several email conversations going on – with laity and clergy – about having a concealed firearm in church. This is an issue which needs sober assessment by … Read More
MUST READ: Carl Olsen on the #USCCB17 Pro-Life committee vote!
Today’s must fulfill assignment is to go to Catholic World Report and to read thoroughly Carl Olsen’s piece about lib aspirations for the USCCB election of the Pro-Life committee chair and their subsequent spittle-flecked nutty. Olsen brings in the analysis of several other … Read More
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YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Registered or not, will you in your charity please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. I get many requests by … Read More
QUESTION: Traditional SPANISH language sermons and catechetical sources?
A question to the readership… Do you know of sites and books which have sermons in Spanish for the traditional Roman Rite? Catechisms? Is there anything like the Baltimore Catechism in Spanish? You can find materials in abundance for English. Sources … Read More
Sour Beans!
This morning I found two interesting recipes for Sour Beans. The first involves beans and rice, garlic, ginger, onions, carrots and lean pork, and a couple of types of vinegar. I think I’ll try it this week. The second involves … Read More
#USCCB17 SHOCKER! CARD. BURKE HACKED THE ELECTION!
In what he surely thought was a serious analysis from High Atop The Thing, over at Fishwrap, Michael Sean Winters, the Wile E. Coyote of the catholic Left and one of the New catholic Red Guards, looked at the beginning of the USCCB’s … Read More
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CHICAGO 18 Nov: 1st Traditional Latin Mass at great North Side church in almost 60 years
The north side of Chicago has massive and venerable Polish churches. Some have languished and were in danger of closure, such as St. John Cantius and St. Mary of the Angels. What revived them? Traditional Catholic liturgy and teaching. I … Read More
Stir Up Sunday and Advent is coming! GET READY!
Advent is upon us soon. The Last Sunday of the Year is 26 November. That is “Stir Up Sunday“, when you should prepare your Christmas puddings. Think about getting your Christmas shopping done early. First, remember always… always… to use … Read More
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Liturgical worship… priestly vocations… Is what we are doing working or not?
I had mentioned that I was re-reading Robert Hugh Benson’s prophetic Lord of the World. I finished it yesterday. US HERE – UK HERE Just as I finished it, I found these things. First, I want to preface with this: When you are on a journey … Read More
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