Welcome to the 9th edition of News of the Church.
It’s 12 February 2024 and it is a Monday, the the day after Quinquagesima Sunday and two days before Ash Wednesday. Some time ago, I saw a movie called News of the World in which after the Civil War a former confederate officer ekes out a living wandering from town to town reading to people articles from newspapers he has gathered. People who pay a dime a head which figures to about $2.50. In those days news was scare and many couldn’t read at all, so there was great interest and emotion over the news of the world he brought. The idea of this travelling gazetteer caught my imagination and here I am. The word Gazette came into English through French but it’s origin is Italian, gazzetta, which is the name of the Venetian coin which paid for the first first Venetian newspapers in the 16th century. Here is today’s audio “gazette” of Catholic things.
00:12 Init
01:28 Men’s Club
05:19 St. Agnes, virgin and martyr
13:00 Card. Richelieu
21:10 Swiss Guard
27:26 Exit
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Enjoyed listening.
Years ago, on TCM I believe, I saw the 1935 film, “Cardinal Richelieu”, where he was the hero. (It dealt mostly with his political role in France.) You might find it fun to watch.
I liked the idea of the men’s Mardi Gras. I may suggest that in my parish next year.
I particularly enjoyed hearing Catholic-related articles that were not about the current events in the Church.
Thank you.
Sorry, but there seems to be a lacking link at least for grubby sinners like me.
Gregg:
Try a different browser.
I had the same issue using Safari on iOS; however, I did get the player to show in Chrome on Windows. The LENTCAzT today showed in Chrome on Windows and iOS too, but News of the Church won’t load on either browser on iOS.
Thanks, Father, for sharing the news with us!
Okay, I must be a bit impatient. After writing my prior comment, I went back to my mobile browser and the player loaded for this issue on Chrome. The longer audio file may be requiring more loading time before the player shows.