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- mickeyfitz on Mass this afternoon – Unity of the Church… differently: “Thank you Father.”
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Monthly Archives: March 2023
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 1st Passion Sunday (5th Lent) 2023 and a POLL about veiled images
Let’s start with a poll, posted yesterday. What did you see in your parish? Let’s have a poll. Anyone can vote, but only registered users can comment. Please use the combox. You may also send or post photos of … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 702
Photo by The Great Roman™ Meanwhile,… Black to move. NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. The wonderful nuns of Gower Abbey, the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, have … Read More
POLL: Covering images for Passiontide, 5th Sunday of Lent – 2023
We are now in Passiontide. From this Sunday, traditionally called 1st Sunday of the Passion, it is customary to veil images in churches. In the Gospel in traditional Form of the Roman Rite we hear: Tulérunt ergo lápides, ut iácerent … Read More
WDTPRS – 5th Sunday of Lent: Liturgical death throes
Traditionally this upcoming Sunday is called First Passion Sunday or First Sunday of the Passion. “Passiontide” begins. It is also known as Iudica Sunday, from the first word of the Introit of Mass (from Ps 42/41), and sometimes Repus (from … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 701
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Zoink!
A friend reminded my of the fantastic Annunciation in the Cloisters in NYC by Robert Champin. It is the central panel of a tryptic. On the right St. Joseph is in his workshop making, among other things, mousetraps, because Augustine … Read More
MUST READ! Why do heretics remain in the Church instead of just being honest and getting out?
At Crisis there is a MUST READ piece by Jennifer Bryson Why Do Heretics Remain in the Church? The counterfactual optimism of heretics keeps them in the Church while working to destroy it. A perennial question. She breaks it down … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 700
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“Only what is true can ultimately be pastoral”.
This is it. Amen. “Only what is true can ultimately be pastoral”. Cardinal Roche please read anything Pope Benedict wrote. It will help you return to the Catholic faith. https://t.co/hZf7T57gkM — Bishop J. Strickland (@Bishopoftyler) March 24, 2023 Fr. Z … Read More
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Tagged Bp. Joseph E. Strickland, Joseph Ratzinger
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mickeyfitz on Mass this afternoon – Unity of the Church… differently: “Thank you Father.”
