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- on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “Yes. Let all the poisons come out! After seeing it on TV many years ago and reading the two volumes,…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “Perhaps world events are making some nervous international travelers. Personally, I would have loved to go to Poland on a…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “The bit about Claudius thinking that a return to the republic was likely or even possible may take its inspiration…”
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- on ROME 24/4– Day 28: bad news and good news: “The BBC “radio play” of I,Claudius is also rather good. https://share.libbyapp.com/title/505092”
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- on 15 April 2019 – Notre-Dame de Paris: “Looking at the pictures, one can be grateful that the artist at least didn’t use this as an opportunity to…”
- on Faith practice declining far and wide…. except…: “@MB “When a man feels like he has something no one else can give, something essential, and no one to…”
- on Faith practice declining far and wide…. except…: “There was a time when if you wanted to know the miracles of the Church, the great teachings, the stories…”
- on Faith practice declining far and wide…. except…: “Out of my wife and my siblings & spouses, half are not RC anymore but are probably still on the…”
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Monthly Archives: June 2018
Fr. Z’s Kitchen: The South
It has been awhile since I’ve cooked something interesting for myself. After my trip a few months ago which included Sicily, I’ve had a hankering for Pasta alla Norma. Today I saw that my DVR had picked up the Met’s … Read More
Pres. Trump and the Brown Scapular
This is really interesting. HERE The Governor of Guam, gave Pres. Trump a brown scapular for the First Lady. And he talks about a statue of Our Lady of Fatima.
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of Sunday obligation? Let us know what it was.
Surprise article at Commonweal about participation in the Traditional Latin Mass
There was a surprise at Commonweal, which generally leans left and against Tradition. It is about a week old, but I missed it: I don’t real Commonweal unless I can’t avoid it. It starts out with an off-putting reference to … Read More
Speaking of Eucharistic Processions…
This is too good not to share. Corpus Christi may have passed for this year, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy the reportage, even from years ago. John XXIII on Corpus Christi 1960. Compare and contrast? Interesting details.
WDTPRS: 11th Ordinary Sunday – ‘firmness’ and ‘infirmity, ‘intention’ and ‘action’
This week’s Collect is pretty much the same as one in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary and the prayer in the 1962 Missale Romanum used during the week after Trinity Sunday. Deus, in te sperantium fortitudo, invocantibus nostris adesto propitius, et, … Read More
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QUIZ: What is this thing? – SOLVED!
UPDATE: 16 June Solution posted, below. Originally posted 15 June: ___ Here is quiz. Does anyone know what this liturgical object is? UPDATE: Some really interesting guesses are coming in! I’ll wait to post quite a few at once. UPDATE: … Read More
“The finest rosaries I have ever seen” have… returned! – UPDATES
nce upon a time I used to write about the finest rosaries I had ever seen. They were easy on the eyes, like jewelry, but they were as strong as steel cables. The woman who made them, Gayle, had started up … Read More
GREEN! Photos of green vestments for Solemn Mass in production, and a pitch
UPDATE: Thanks to those who have sent donations through PayPal. MH, J-AF _____ As you know, I am involved with a Society for the promotion of all things liturgically traditional, the Tridentine Mass Society of the Diocese of Madison. This … Read More
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READER FEEDBACK to post: Why we Say The Black and Do The Red
The other day I posted an excerpt from an offering by Peter Kwasniewski at NLM, under my title: “Why we Say The Black and Do The Red“. In a nutshell, the traditional manner of proclaiming or chanting the readings during … Read More
ASK FATHER: Validity of sacraments from a schismatic priest
From a reader… QUAERITUR: My wife and I recently discovered that Fr. Paul Wickens was schismatic priest. All we ever knew about him, we learned from our family. We attend Holy Mass at the chapel he built (now run by … Read More
A great restoration @CathedralStPaul
The Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, MN, is in my estimation a candidate for “grandest cathedral in these USA”. It is also the National Shrine of St. Paul. One of the advantages of this cathedral is that is … Read More
Terrific photos of traditional rite ordination in England!
At the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald there are lots of great photos of the recent priestly ordination of a young man in the FSSP at Warrington in England by Archbishop Malcolm McMahon of Liverpool. Really… the photos are … Read More
Concerning @JamesMartinSJ talking at Vatican @LaityFamilyLife sponsored @WMOF2018
I am astonished. And I am not astonished. At the site of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald, we learn that Jesuit homosexualist activist James Martin has been asked to speak at the upcoming World Meeting of Families. This meeting … Read More
BEER @MONKSOFNORCIA PROGRESS
We have to support our good religious orders, especially the newer communities. Today I read about a solemn profession at Norcia, in Italy, where there is a great foundation of Benedictines (including not a few Americans). You might recall that … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Note Belated
Here’s a little challenge. Instead of asking this on Sunday, let’s try for Tuesday. Was there a good point in the sermon you heard last Sunday during your Mass of obligation? Let us know!
Are you downsizing? Be careful!
I’m in a process of downsizing. You know how this goes. You have it in your head that, if you haven’t opened that box of stuff for a couple years, you don’t need it and you won’t miss it. Right? … Read More
Just to put your day into perspective
Just to put your day into perspective. Of course, that’s all well and good, but a human soul has greater worth. Christ died for souls, not stars or background radiation. It seems to me that the material cosmos is so … Read More
Why we Say The Black and Do The Red
Let us begin with an understatement. The revitalization of our Catholic identity will be an opus magnum et arduum. Most of us reading this will not see but the first fruits. We have to be smart and persistent, using all … Read More
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