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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
CH: Curry recipe found in 1793 book at Downside Abbey
This is fun. From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald. I write a column for the CH called Omnium Gatherum. It isn’t about food… though it could be, now that I think about it. Wouldn’t that be a kick? Curry recipe … Read More
PLANET X!
What should this new planet be named? From AP: Scientists: Good evidence for 9th planet in solar system CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists reported Wednesday they finally have “good evidence” for Planet X, a true ninth planet on the … Read More
ASK FATHER: What is the “Ave Maria” on Roman Curia calendars?
From a reader: A friend who was in Rome gave me a curial calendar. What does the “Ave Maria,” which usually occurs about half an hour after sundown, signify? My understanding is that a bell is wrung. Is a particular … Read More
Giving Catholic children the gift of music
Yesterday I read in the newest issue of Sacred Music an article about the Ward Method of teaching Gregorian chant to the young. Today I received a note from a priest friend in Texas, Fr. Reynolds, about the music program for the … Read More
“Unarmed women had faced down the world-conquering Nazis”
I am presently working through Mark Riebling’s Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler. I found an interesting anecdote about what happened in Bavaria when the Nazis took Crucifixes out of schools. In rural Bavaria, there were already … Read More
Football Player: “Maybe the coolest thing I’ve ever been a part of was a Latin Mass in London.”
Since I am a displaced Minnesotan, a reader thought that this bit of news might be of interest. NCReg has an interview a player on Minnesota Vikings, Kevin McDermott, both a mackeral-snapper and a long-snapper. Here is the bit that caught … Read More
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Vigil of Epiphany: Special Blessing of Water
Wonderful customs come with the Feast of the Epiphany. Epiphany is 6 January, by the way. On Epiphany we can bless gold, frankincense and myrrh. Bring all your spare, unblessed myrrh to your priest… and gold. Bring lots of spare … Read More
31 Dec: ‘Te Deum’ Indulgence
We read in the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum 26 that, under the usual conditions, people can gain a plenary indulgence by participating in a liturgical praying of the Te Deum for the end of the year. Is there one in your diocese … Read More
“This shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger.”
Here is a lovely image from a 13th c. French Psalter which I found at discarded images. During the Octave, contemplate the Infant King.
D. Madison: Tabernacles must be moved to center of sanctuaries
For your Brick By Brick file. More great news from the Extraordinary Ordinary of Madison, His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C Morlino. This comes by way of the liberal (for Madison a tautology), secular newspaper the WSJ. My emphases and comments. At area Catholic … Read More
