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Monthly Archives: August 2023
5th Glorious Mystery: The Crowning of Our Lady, Queen of Heaven and Earth
Today is the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, in the new-fangled, Novus Ordo calendar. Here is an oldie post from 2006, the final installment of my Patristic Rosary Project. ___ We conclude our Patristic Rosary Project today with the: … Read More
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Photo by The Great Roman™ Welcome registrant: Jean K Pollock Please remember me when shopping online. Thanks in advance. US HERE – UK HERE These links take you to a generic “catholic” search in Amazon, but, once in and browsing or searching, Amazon … Read More
YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
PLEASE use the sharing buttons! Thanks! In your charity would you please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. Let’s remember all who are ill, who will … Read More
22 August: Mary’s Immaculate Heart and Queenship
On 22 August we observe, in the traditional Roman calendar, the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In the newer calendar it is the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary. When the angel Gabriel came to Mary he told … Read More
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What’s up with this? There has been an invasion of the blue crabs, the sort from North American Chesapeake Bay, into the waters between Venice and the mouth of the Po and even around the Roman coast! They are very … Read More
Laudato si’ Part II
If you were worried that, with all the talk about synodality {“walking together-ty”) the world’s real pressing matters weren’t being addressed, never fear! From ANSA: Il Papa sta scrivendo una seconda parte della Laudato si’ Io sto scrivendo una seconda … Read More
Number of Priestly Ordinations in Free Fall
A recent piece at the SSPX site deals with the “vertiginous” drop in priestly vocations in France, in particular, Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe. The figures they used are from the French bishops conference and other non-SSPX sources. The … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 12th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 20th) 2023
Share the good stuff. It’s the 12th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo and the 20th 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 registrants: beggingformercy Darby OGill Jussi Meanwhile, Magnus, is notorious for being either last minute to the board or even late. Today, in the second game of the Semifinal – Round 7 Game 2 of 2 (players switch … Read More
WDTPRS – 20th Ordinary Sunday: Live in love now to have Love Himself later
The Collect for the 20th Ordinary Sunday, found also in the 8th century Gelasian Sacramentary, is in the 1962 Missale Romanum for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost. Deus, qui diligentibus te bona invisibilia praeparasti, infunde cordibus nostris tui amoris affectum, … Read More
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