Daily Archives: 6 January 2025

“Let y’all know!” The “Noveritis” Epiphany chant announcement of 2025’s movable dates and feasts

At Epiphany (real Epiphany is today) we Latins have – traditionally – chanted a solemn proclamation of the key liturgical dates or movable feasts for the new year of salvation, just begun. This underscores how these dates and seasons are … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 1215 – consecrated!

The S.R.E. Cardinalis Burke consecrating my chalice and paten on (real) Epiphany 2025.  Photo from The World’s Best Sacristan™ at The Parish™. Where I will be pretty soon.  I found a relatively low-expenditure flight!  I would appreciate some donations to … Read More

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REVIEW: Gladiator II

Nope.  It thudded in eternity. Cartoon characters.  Tortured dialogue.  Acting… meh.  Nice to see old actors… okay.  Some CGI pretty good (is that it?)?  Music… there was music?… I guess so, and some of it sounded like it was from … Read More

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Playing with my new Bible

Like every little boy with a new toy, I am seriously playing with my new Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: Old and New Testaments from my wish list!  I unboxed it the other day.  HERE St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that worship … Read More

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