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Monthly Archives: December 2017
ASK FATHER: Penance on Friday in the Octave of Christmas
I’ve been texting with a Famous Catholic Author™ about today, a Friday in the Christmas Octave, and the obligation to do penance. I’ve received email about it, too. The Octave of Christmas does not have the “weight” of the Octave … Read More
USCCB: Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders
I was alerted to something interesting on the website of the USCCB. The bishops posted a letter signed by religious leaders of various groups. HERE My emphases. Created Male and Female: An Open Letter from Religious Leaders December 15, 2017 … Read More
Warning: you might not get through it dry-eyed
I posted this under my Childermas entry, but it deserves attention on its own. Here is a reworking of Lully Lulla Lullay by Philip Stopford. It’s about the Holy Innocents. Warning: you might not get through it dry-eyed, especially when the … Read More
28 Dec – Childermas: “They were the Church’s first blossoms” – Holy Innocents
Monday was Christmas. Today is Childermas, the Feast of the Holy Innocents. The “Coventry Carol”, a lullaby of mothers to doomed children, dates to the 16th century. It was part of a Mystery Play, “The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors”, about chapter … Read More
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Benedict XVI penned a letter for Card. Müller’s 70th birthday.
Pope Benedict has written a longish letter to Card. Müller, once Prefect of the CDF and now… Card. Müller, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The German text is HERE. The letter was written for a “Festschrift”, a commemorative … Read More
Prophetic words from 1966 about the post-Conciliar state of the Church
Put aside everything else and go to First Things. They have reprinted a piece written for The Tablet in May 1966… 1966… by Christopher Derrick, a student of CS Lewis and WWII RAF pilot. He writes … in 1966… of how the … Read More
ACTION ITEM! Fr. Z calls for help for a wrongly imprisoned priest
It is possible that not all of you noticed a special feature in my “Christmas cards received” entry, which I am occasionally updating. Fr. Gordon MacRae – falsely accused, unjustly imprisoned – sent me a kind Christmas card. At his … Read More
ASK FATHER: Mary was an “unwed mother”? The Holy Family were “refugees”?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: At this time of year the inevitable ‘Mary was an unwed mother‘ and The Holy Family’s flight into Egypt makes them migrants sermons are very confusing. Can you clarify these interpretations? Or recommend a source that … Read More
Nuncio in Switzerland, “The Old Latin Mass is the future of the Church”
From Gloria.TV: “The Old Latin Mass is the future of the Church”, Archbishop Thomas Gullickson (67), the nuncio to Switzerland and former nuncio to the Ukraine, said in September during a meeting with old rite priests in Sankt Pelagiberg, Switzerland. … Read More
Father’s “shred clinic”
With a tip of the biretta to Rev. Mr. Kandra (open invitation to him to be the deacon in a Solemn Mass sometime). In answer to his question: No, I can’t do that. And he makes it look easy. Fr. … Read More
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