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Category Archives: Lighter fare
Cum pulicibus surgunt! Occupy Wall Street!
Heh heh. Gotta love this… Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders By SELIM ALGAR and BOB FREDERICKS The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday — because they’re angry about working 18-hour … Read More
“Pro fidei RE-propagatione”
I received yesterday an email stating that priests of the SSPX were today going to say votive Masses “Pro fidei propagatione“. Good idea! I am all for what the Holy Father is promoting, including a new effort in spreading the … Read More
Fun With Latin! “The makeup of the cosmos.”
In preparing an article for The Catholic Herald, the UK’s best Catholic weekly, I ran across something fun I wrote for the now concluded WDTPRS series’ look at the Third Eucharistic Prayer. Enjoy! Mundus, a, um is an adjective for … Read More
In retribution for my sins… a terrible thought to make the blood run cold! Save me, O Lord!
I just had a horrible though that made my blood run cold….. It just occurred to me what a Dantesque contrapasso it would be – for my black and horrible sins – were some bishops to engineer me being assigned … Read More
Warriors of the Night
With a tip of the biretta to CMR:
The key to pumpkin carving
A reader sent a link to a photo. Someone is having fun with punkin’s. Hint: There is a photo of it lit up, too.
My nightmarish return to the USA
I had a wonderful time in England seeing friends and meeting new people. It was also great to use the new, corrected English translation of Mass. Mind you, I would rather use the 1962 Missale Romanum, but the new translation … Read More
QUAERITUR: Things manipular. Wherein Fr. Z rants and ties on one.
From a reader: For some reason unbeknownst to me I am intrigued by the maniple. My understanding is that when the maniple comes off, the Mass is suspended, hence the reason for permitting the reading of announcements just prior to … Read More
Prayer for a procrastinator?
From a reader: Could you please say a prayer for me? I have a really bad vice of procrastination [from the Latin cras, “tomorrow”] that has gotten me into a heap of trouble at school and even frequent confession hasn’t … Read More
