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Category Archives: Four Last Things
Minneapolis church murderer and YOU
You’ve no doubt seen news by now about the shooter in S. Minneapolis (my native place) at Annunciation Church during a morning school Mass. first of the new school year. The killer – “trans” – killed children (8 and 10), … Read More
PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 53: Easter Saturday – More real than now’s real
Today’s Station is St. John Lateran. We hear about the white garments of the recently baptized. Scott Hahn reflects on the fact that Heaven is more real than the reality we experience with our senses.
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R.I.P. Giancarlo
I asked several times for prayers for a friend and archconfrere in Rome, Giancarlo. He suffered from the complications of a terrible congenital malady of the liver. Giancarlo passed away a few minutes ago. He had received the last rites. … Read More
I’ve got a Secret… from the Votive Mass for the Sick
Lately I have almost every day been adding orations from the Votive Mass “pro infirmis” during my celebration of Holy Mass. The orations from that Mass are poignant. Here is the Secret: Deus, cuius nutibus vitae nostrae momenta decurrunt: suscipe … Read More
A good piece at The Catholic Thing about the Parisian Blasphemy
I haven’t yet figured out Fr. Weinandy’s motives for the seemingly inexplicable and most odd attack on the Vetus Ordo some time ago. That said, this is a good piece at The Catholic Thing that says things that need to … Read More
R.I.P. Al Kresta
I was sorry to read today of the death of Michigan-based Catholic radio personality Al Kresta at the age of 72. He succumbed to liver cancer. Read of him at the National Catholic Register HERE. He was a good fellow. … Read More
On Divine Mercy Sunday a sobering thought from a Pope about that terrible day
“Divine Mercy! Rah, rah, rah!” Right? Right. However… We have come to Low Sunday, Dominica in albis, the Octave of Easter. I reviewed something of what Fathers of the Church had to say about our Gospel passage on this famous … Read More
You, dear reader, have an immortal soul.
You, dear reader, have an immortal soul. One of the most important things we pray in the Litany of Saints … those who know and use only the Novus Ordo perhaps have never heard this… is “A subitanea et improvisa … Read More
ROME 23/10 – Day 33: Revelation of Relics and Repetition of Requiems
The sun rose at 06:41 and it will set at 17:06. The Ave Maria will be silent when it ought to ring at 17:30. 5 full days left. It is the Commemoration of All Souls. I mentioned sunrise. Yesterday, All … Read More
Did God make the universe so huge in order to give us some idea of what “eternity” is?
It has been a long time since I’ve read St. Gregory of Nyssa, but when I saw this video in an x-tweet, something jumped to mind. If memory serves, Gregory described our experience of the Beatific Vision as a spiral. … Read More
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