Monthly Archives: July 2023

Summer 2023 etc. Why is so hot? It’s YOUR fault. Or… maybe not.

It has been a hot summer.  CLIMATE CHANGE!  WE ARE ALL GOING TO DROWN IN THE GLACIERS! This was spotted at American Thinker. What NASA and the European Space Agency are admitting but the media are failing to report about … Read More

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Question for readers: 3D printing

Is there anyone out there who knows about and does 3D printing of rather large objects? Here’s the issue. Some time ago, I shot many photos against a green background from many angles of the altar cards used on the … Read More

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31 July – St. Ignatius of Loyola – Please, O Please intercede for your spiritual sons!

Today is the Feast of the founder of the Jesuits. May I say from the onset that I have some spiffy Pope Clement XIV gear? HERE Here is the Martyrologium Romanum entry for this great saint, Ignatius of Loyola. To … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 752

White to move and mate in 2. NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. Interested in learning?  Igor has a new course. EXPLORE The new course is “Level Up Your Chess” … Read More

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 9th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 17th) 2023

Share the good stuff. It’s the 9th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo and the 17th Sunday of the Novus Ordo. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation? Tell … Read More

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Welcome registrant: top8305 White to move.  Mate in two. NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. Please remember me when shopping online. Thanks in advance. US HERE – UK HERE  These links take … Read More

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VINTAGE RECTORY BATHROOM TILES: 04

Just in.  And the floor tiles are just like those of a room I had in a rectory, except mine were dark gray. My sender wrote: “You might note with interest the four different shades of green being employed. Thanks … Read More

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Happy Birthday “Lord of the Rings”

On this day in 1954 the first part of The Lord of the Rings was published: The Fellowship of the Ring. The LotR was one of the most important influences in the topography of my life, though its influence was karstic.  Once there, … Read More

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Welcome registrant: bigmig Great wine from the traditional Benedictines of Le Barroux. White to play and mate in 2. How long did it take you? Time yourself. NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t … Read More

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WDTPRS – 17th Sunday Ordinary Time: Sin Teflon, Demon Kevlar

Shall we look at the Collect for this upcoming Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Ordinary Form?   It will the 17th Sunday of Greater Meatloaf…. Ordinary Time. COLLECT (2002MR): Protector in te sperantium, Deus, sine quo nihil est validum, nihil sanctum, multiplica super … Read More

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WDTPRS – 9th Sunday after Pentecost: O God, ever distant, ever near

This week’s Collect, which historically was in the 8th century Liber sacramentorum Gellonensis, was also the prayer over the people, or Super populum, in the 1962MR for Wednesday of the 4th Week of Lent. It was not, I believe, in the 1970MR … Read More

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Welcome registrants: ByzantineMike mcp0010 White to play and mate in 2. NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. Extra credit for naming the pattern. Interested in learning?  Igor has a … Read More

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My View For Awhile: Heading to the Shrine

I’m on my way to the wonderful Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Wisconsin. A couple days ago, the flights were ghastly, as most are these days, jammed and delayed by several hours thus resulting a a very late … Read More

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MAZZA: The Importance of the Value of Reputation, Part II

At Homiletic and Pastoral Review (yes, it still exists), find the second part of important work by civil and canon lawyer Michael Mazza (whom I’ve known for a zillion years).   He now works as a canonist especially in defense of … Read More

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How to force a new ecclesiology on the Church. It takes time.

At Rorate today there is a useful piece by Roberto de Mattei. In spite of his strange jabberings about “the jab” It is useful in that it provides a few concise paragraphs that put into perspective where we have been … Read More

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Here’s a puzzle. Black to move and win. NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. Please remember me when shopping online. Thanks in advance. US HERE – UK HERE  These links take you … Read More

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INTERVIEW: One of my profs in Rome Dr. John Rist with Ed Pentin: The Catholic Church Could Be Facing a Crisis Worse Than the Arian Controversy of the 4th Century

Ed Pentin, surely Rome’s best English language commentator on Church matters these days, has an interview with Dr. John Rist, a professor at Cambridge and also in Rome at my school, the Patristic Instititute Augustinianum.  I had several courses from … Read More

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The persecution of traditional Catholic faithful continues: TLM forbidden at St. John Vianney’s shrine in France

Remember: It’s not just the rites that they fear, because they make them uncomfortable, it’s the people who desire those rites whom they really distain. It’s the people. The TLM is effectively banned at the Shrine of Ars. How is … Read More

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  Welcome registrant: jo_c White to move. Mate in 2. NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. Your use of my Amazon affiliate link is a major part of my … Read More

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26 July: Fr. Jacques Hamel, martyred 7 years ago in France

Interrupted while saying Mass at his parish church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, the 85-year old priest struggled to repel his two 18-year old attackers with his feet. “Go away Satan!”, he repeated. Fr. Jacques Hamel was murdered, in odium fidei, a martyr to … Read More

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