Daily Archives: 29 December 2024

Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Sunday in the Octave of Christmas (N.O. Holy Family) 2023

It’s the Sunday in the Octave of Christmas and, in the Novus Ordo, Feast of the Holy Family. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation? Share the good stuff.  Quite … Read More

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St. David: Musical Poet King, Prophet, Progenitor of Christ

Holy Church considers many Old Testament figures to be saints. Today when you open your trusty copy of the 2005 Martyrologium Romanum you will find, just below the St. Thomas Becket, this interesting entry: 2. Commemoratio sancti David, regis et … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 1208 – Succisa virescit

Octave of Christmas, let’s look back to the 1st Mass of Christmas! Right click for larger. And then there’s this jackass. One notes with interest that what he attacks is traditional rather than post-Conciliar.   I wonder if he was perhaps … Read More

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CHRISTMASCAzT 2024 – 29 – Sunday in the Octave of Christmas: What does He want?

Today a 10 minutes podcast for your Christmas Octave reflections. Card. Schuster remarks on the office of bishop. Then Pius Parsch, with the help of St. John Chrysostom, remarks on the office of priest. Card. Bacci comments on what the … Read More

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