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Monthly Archives: August 2026
Daily Rome Shot 1678 – scorn
Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. US HERE – WHY? This helps to pay for health insurance, utilities, groceries, and now also my late mother’s place. At no extra cost, you provide help for which I am … Read More
Look! Up in the sky!
Not only is 12 August the height of the Tears of St. Lawrence… Put August 12 in your phone now. Genuinely. Before sunrise, six planets spread across the sky. Afternoon, the eclipse. After dark, the Perseids Meteor shower. Four events … Read More
The trip so far… Chicago… conference… etc.
UPDATED 10 Aug – way down at the bottom Originally Published on: Aug 8, 2026 UPDATE HERE about laptop FIRST post with travel woes – include TWO mis-landings and hours of delays and missed flight HERE After the horrible beginning, here … Read More
Daily NOT-Rome Shot 1677
From The World’s Best Sacristan™. Welcome Registrant: Neto White to move and mate in 4. NEW: Vatican CDF (Now DDF) consultation in 2016 rejected Medjugorje as supernatural — yet Pope Francis later green-lit devotion anyway. Italian journalist @DavidMurgia has published … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 11th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 19th Ordinary)
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for this 11th Sunday after Pentecost … Read More
A bishop starts a new TLM, another takes one well-settled one away
Leo signaled to the French bishops that he wants them to be good to people who desire the Traditional Latin Mass. The Bishop of San Angelo, Texas, starts a new TLM “motivated by the salvation of souls”. And now we … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1676 – good news
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REMINDER: “The Life of Little Saint Placid”
I have a precious little book, published in the 1950’s called The Life of Little Saint Placid, originally in French, by Mother Geneviève Gallois. I had long hoped that it would be republished. It was! By St. Augustine Academy Press, who also … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1675
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5 August: Feast of Our Lady of the Snows – MARY! HELP US!
In Rome on 5 August 358, there was a miraculous snow fall to indicate the location of the Basilica to be built in honor of the mother of God. On the anniversary, white rose petals fall from the ceiling of … Read More
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