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Notes on a curiosity in today’s Gospel reading from Luke 11

On this 3rd Sunday of Lent in the Vetus Ordo we have a Gospel reading from Luke 11:14-28 in which Our Lord refutes an accusation that He cast out demons because He was aligned with the Devil. It is helpful to … Read More

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday of Lent 2025

Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. It is the 3rd Sunday of Lent in the Novus Ordo and in the Vetus Ordo.   Surprisingly, the experts of the Consilium … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 1276

Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links.  US HERE – WHY?  This helps to pay for health insurance (massively hiked for this new year of surprises), utilities, groceries, etc..  At no extra cost, you provide help for which … Read More

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Daily Rome (video) 1275 – a trip to the tailor

Instead of a static photo today, here’s a video about Gammarelli in Rome (ecclesiatical tailor). You will recall several vestment projects here on the blog, which caused a great deal of joy and continue to enrich sacred worship. Before I … Read More

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A quick reminder…

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Daily Rome Shot 1274 – processions and more

Not Rome, but Norcia. A procession with a relic of St. Benedict… of Norcia, his birthplace. One day in May, years ago by now, I was hanging around outside the Paul VI audience hall (Vatican) during a plenary of the … Read More

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Sterile faith v. living faith

From the pen of Bl. Ildefonso Schuster, the great liturgist and Cardinal Archbishop of Milan. The Church, as though she feared that the very splendour of her liturgy might lead simple folk into thinking that Christianity consisted merely in holding … Read More

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Ite ad Ioseph… Go to Joseph! – UPDATED

Try to wrap your head around the paradox in the vocation of St. Joseph. Firstly, he was a relatively poor craftsman, a tekton, which in Greek is “builder” which can include “carpenter”. However, consider the implications of the genealogy at the … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 1273 – Amazing

The relics of the Holy Veil of Mary and the Holy Cloak of Joseph brought by St Jerome returning from Jerusalem. Normally these kept at St Anastasia al Palatino they are currently available to the veneration of the faithful at … Read More

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19 March – Feast of ST. JOSEPH! – Terror of demons, Hope of the sick, Patron of the dying, Protector of Holy Church!

Glorious St. Joseph. Hope of the sick, Patron of the dying, Terror of demons, Protector of Holy Church,  In Rome today you eat Bigne di San Giuseppe. Back in 2009 I made a PODCAzT – FIFTEEN YEARS AGO?!? – about the … Read More

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