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Monthly Archives: January 2025
ROME DAY 25/01 07: A martyr
This day, the last of the Days of the Blackbird in Rome, the sun rose at 07:21 and it will set at 17:26. The Ave Maria Bell should ring at 17:45. In the older calendar it is the Feast of … Read More
Fr. Charron on Mr. Lofton
My good friend (and a good chess player) Fr. Jason Charron has issued a video response to Michael Lofton. These days I pay zero attention to Michael Lofton. I’ve seen a few clips and minutes here and there, and those … Read More
ACTION ITEM! 2-10 February – NOVENA to Immaculate Heart for FSSP for their Vatican “Visitation”
Here is a PDF of a Novena which you could pray beginning Candlemas, 2 February, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. More on this at LifeSite. The Novena and consecration to the Immaculate Heart line up with a visitation of … Read More
ROME DAY 25/01 06: INTERNET
On this Feast of St. Martina, Roman Virgin and Martyr (+228), the sun was up at 07:22 and it will set at 17:25. The Ave Maria Bell should sound at 17:45. There are 336 days left in the calendar year. … Read More
“GO TO CONFESSION!” I always say. Another thing I say is that it is CRUEL to leave penitents in doubt.
Today I was out and about in Rome doing errands. I chanced on a posted sign in the penitents’ part of the free standing confessionals that line most Roman churches, often dusty from neglect. The sign is a little blurry … Read More
ROME DAY 25/01 05: a little discrepancy
Roman sunrise was at 07:23. The sun will set at 17:24. The Ave Maria Bell is in the 17:45 cycle. In the older calendar, today is the Feast of St. Francis de Sales. He was transferred to 24 January in … Read More
Another point of Catholic identity out with the bathwater?
Occasionally we have a collision of Holy Days of Obligations and Feasts in the calendar. Feasts get transferred. Does the obligation get transferred? We had this situation recently regarding the Feast/Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception which fell on an Advent … Read More
But people who want the TLM must be suppressed…
What on earth must this jackass think of the people in that church? I’m pretty sure this is invalid. Forgive my ignorance friends but this isn’t a Eucharistic prayer that I am familiar with… pic.twitter.com/8U5IXpT9fw — ??JMT?? (@SecretFire79) January 29, … Read More
“I asked the new Chinese AI “DEEPSEEK”, about the priest’s posture during the consecration in the Traditional Latin Mass. It’s Reply….”
Some think that AI is here to stay. If that is so, then I am not convinced that we are (cf. Skynet). In the meantime, AI is bringing us bread and circuses: great memes and videos, etc. That’s what the interwebs did, … Read More
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